Originally Posted by
Cogito
And now to be the devils advocate....this woman who so willingly helped the OP may be a perfectionist and may be OCD ( I should know, I'm both) but y'all have sliced her up one way, down the next and sideways. Jeesh, some of it has been down right nasty. We don't know this poor quilter and while she may be making some mistakes in her tutoring, hasn't everyone who posted admitted they've made mistakes while quilting? Let's be a little more charitable and compassionate for someone who helped another learn to quilt...no matter what the "quality" of her teaching, lest ye be called the quilt teacher police!
Many of us told her to thank her teacher and move on. I alwys felt sorry for the people who signed up for my beginning photography class at the night school in Harvard Square. I pushed so much down their throats that 2/3s of the class would be gone by the time the class was over. And that wasn't the idea.My job was not to cram two years of photography school down these people's throats, but to instill a love of taking photographs in common every day people. I did fail but I learned. Such is with a mentor from your guild. She is trying to impart so much knowledge to you, she loses sight of the objective. Learn to quilt and LOVE it. Some of her advice was sketchy, like about the sewing machine. It takes simple basic tools to make our art spectacular. We all get into gadgets, new stuff and even new machines but you can never get lost in AQES (Aquire Quilting Equipment Syndrome). Just quilt until you hit a problem that can be solved with technology. And then think about it very hard at first before purchasing something new. Do you have the tools required to get the result you desire? tim in san jose