Originally Posted by
LynnVT
Wow, thank you for this thread! I am so delighted to find there are so many more people like me than I thought. Everything you read in magazines and such is all about the pattern and someone else's ideas. As my profile says, when I was a young I was the good little girl who did what she was told. Teacher's pet, Goodie Twoshoes. The older I get the farther I get from that. I very rarely follow a pattern entirely and I'm much happier putting things together to my own liking. I have lots of patterns to use in my own versions. I only bought one kit and that was for the purpose of making it differently so I can demonstrate that at guild meetings and groups. "Do your own thing" is my motto now. Dancing to my own drummer. Yes! Love all you other out-of-the-boxers! (Well, maybe not the underwear meaning of that. Teehee.)
As I have gotten older I have learned to appreciate "Goody Two Shoes" who turned over the leaf. *L* Making up for lost time I think. Bad girls, I love them.
Originally Posted by
LynnVT
Oh, by the way, I do the same thing with recipes. Read them to get ideas and put together my own dishes. Exception might be bread and cookies, especially the first time I make a recipe. After that I change things around.
As I learned from my Father, a great home baker... Do like the recipe says the first time or don't complain when it comes out like dog food. If you follow the recipe and it comes out like dog food, then you have reason to complain. I don't change recipes the first time unless they include things like cottage cheese. That's just bad I say, bad. tim in san jose