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Old 10-15-2012, 11:14 PM
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I don't even want to tell you the words I had to teach my dictionary on my phone...
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Old 10-16-2012, 03:53 AM
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Another example of humans being smarter than machines. We must teach the machine what is correct: longarm! Aha! I just had to correct my spell-check!
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Old 10-16-2012, 08:08 AM
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Great post. I am always interested in things like this - I want to "do it right".
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Old 10-16-2012, 08:13 AM
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Originally Posted by AndiR View Post
I call myself a "longarm" quilter. I'm afraid if I used "long arm" quilter, people might think my hands hung down around my ankles!!
This reminded me of a comment overheard at a quilt show once - there were 2 women standing in front of the quilt admiring it, and one said to the other; "This was quilted by a longarm quilter. I could never make a quilt; my arms are too short."
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