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Fraying fabric..... and all of the above!
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Originally Posted by barri1
(Post 6102286)
I couldn't agree with you more. I am pretty upset with a neighbor. I made quilts for her sons, and I see them hanging in the laundry room in our building. I don't think anyone would walk away with them, but it hurts that she doesn't care enough to bring them up, and put them away .. The nice part of it, is that the labels are showing, and everyone can see that I made them for her kids..
As for the question - I'd get rid of the high cost of things, too. And yes, people who think they know everything better than you, or that their way is only right way. I'm also messy while creating, but have an overall plan for organization. |
Expensive fabrics that fade, shrink or bleed!
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A self cleaning sewing machine. :-)
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Oh, where to start!!!! Mostly, I agree with Jan, Linda and Wanabee. I just want to quilt, not deal with ignorant people, fabrics that run and those who expect me to be a plodder when I am creating like crazy. fortunately, I have a wonderful, understanding DH who loves my quilts.
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When I purchase fabric and ask for 1 yard and you get 34" when its squared up! :mad:
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Beliefs that you can't do this or that....Do what you want and don't stress over other people's opinons. This is YOUR hobby. Discouraging words and looks need to GO!
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My quilt police have 4 legs. They wander into my sewing room lie down roll on their backs get up, walk out and take the loose threads and sometimes llight crumb scraps with them. Their reward is a pat on the head or a treat.
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I'm with linda8450. Just leave me alone till I'm done! (Yet I don't ever get to be "done.") My son lives near me and he used to get a pretty pained expression on his face when he came to my house. Guess he was uneasy with having a mother who was not inherently neat. But I think he has finally accepted it (did he have a choice?)
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A big AMEN to that, Jan!!!
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Time, I would ask for endless hours of time. I will never live long enough to finish my bucket list of quilt projects. More time!!!! And a sewing studio that would block out the world till my project was complete!!!!
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The need to clean house! and for those who don't enjoy cooking, responsibility for putting meals on the table. Then we'd have so much more time to quilt.
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kudos to Jan -- nothing is as heartbreaking as an unappreciative recipient of quilts made with love and caring.
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12.5 blocks that are NOT 12.5 blocks......oh, wait...that would be my problem, not the quilting worlds! But still...just sayin'
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Bobbins that ran out a mile before I quit sewing.
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Oh yes!
Originally Posted by jcrow
(Post 6101426)
Not reading the cutting directions correctly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Two I would eliminate !
Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie
(Post 6101328)
If you could rid the quilting world of one problem....what would that be?
I've read several threads today and in so many of them we blast the quilt police. Wouldn't life be more pleasant without them? 1. Quilt books that take up almost half of the books giving the same "basic" information found in every other book, magazine or on-line? Give me more patterns in that expensive book. 2. Quilt patterns in magazines/books that are only one size (throw or even smaller) and no conversion chart for larger quilts. |
one use rulers
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Rising fabric prices!
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Originally Posted by abdconsultant
(Post 6103047)
When I purchase fabric and ask for 1 yard and you get 34" when its squared up! :mad:
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Originally Posted by Daffy Daphne
(Post 6103281)
The need to clean house! and for those who don't enjoy cooking, responsibility for putting meals on the table. Then we'd have so much more time to quilt.
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I'd like someone to come up with a straight pin that would penetrate the fabric and NOT MY FINGERS!!!:D
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Patterns that are priced ridiculously high, especially when the directions read like they were written by a first-grader!
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Originally Posted by Jan in VA
(Post 6101589)
Unappreciative recipients of time-spent, lovingly-made quilted gifts. (per a previous thread i just read.):(
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You said it best, I agree with you.
Originally Posted by quilttiger
(Post 6102154)
Things I would get rid of are those things called "should dos, must dos and have tos." Then there would be time to enjoy the want tos!
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Expensive fabric.
Just like Lucy on Peanuts say, "It should all be 5 cents". |
Originally Posted by linda8450
(Post 6101638)
Neatnicks that want me to be one! I sew with abandon...I drop pins, I have threads wound in my chair wheels, I sew til late late late at nite, I don't pick up my project ingredients when I am finished and I don't put the cap back on the spray adhesive right when I am done! I do clean up when I get to the point that I can't step over it any more, I am very very organized (drawers and bins all have labels) and I can put my hands on anything I need...even when it is strewn all over the room...but I don't want to have to think about clean up while I am creating! Leave me alone...let me create...I can clean later (any fool can clean, it takes a genius to create art!).
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Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie
(Post 6103430)
I don't mind cooking, I don't mind laundry. I don't mind dishes. I HATE SWEEPING, MOPING, DUSTING..............
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I teach quilting, and one common thing is hear is "I can't do math," or "I don't know fractions on a ruler," or "how much fabric should I get if I need 1/2 yard and 3/8 yard?" I would get rid of the thought in women's brains that says boys are good at math and science and girls are not. We women would NEVER say, "oh, I'm no good at speaking English," or "I'm not able to write a grocery list," yet I hear negative math comments all the time. I also hear things like, "my mother was no good at math either," as if math is genetic! Let's empower women to be smart and teach each other the things we might have missed in school. Okay, I'll get off my soapbox now!
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My sometimes inaccurate cutting, my problem sewing consistent 1/4" seams, my ironing and stretching the fabric instead of pressing, my working too fast without thinking first. If I could conquer all of this my quilts would be easier to piece and look fabulous!!
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Jan hit the nail right on the head!!!
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Originally Posted by DonnaC
(Post 6103517)
Patterns that are priced ridiculously high, especially when the directions read like they were written by a first-grader!
That's the great advantage of being able to draw most patterns myself. I bought "Home of the Brave" a year or so ago. Can't remember when I bought a pattern before that. Doesn't include the magazines I buy, but I don't use those patterns anyway |
Quilt Store personnel who are rude and condescending.
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Originally Posted by Gabrielle's Mimi
(Post 6103681)
I teach quilting, and one common thing is hear is "I can't do math," or "I don't know fractions on a ruler," or "how much fabric should I get if I need 1/2 yard and 3/8 yard?" I would get rid of the thought in women's brains that says boys are good at math and science and girls are not. We women would NEVER say, "oh, I'm no good at speaking English," or "I'm not able to write a grocery list," yet I hear negative math comments all the time. I also hear things like, "my mother was no good at math either," as if math is genetic! Let's empower women to be smart and teach each other the things we might have missed in school. Okay, I'll get off my soapbox now!
I was always good with math. At age 66, I had never heard girls were supposed to be bad at math until maybe 20 years ago. The math needed for quilting is soooooooooooo easy, so elementary that all those "I can't do math" people could be cutting their own templates and drawing their own sketches and enlarging/shrinking their own patterns is they'd just sit for a while and let someone show them. Well, wait, I know at least one who couldnt' |
Originally Posted by jcrow
(Post 6101426)
Not reading the cutting directions correctly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm with you Linda. Anyone can clean. I would rather create a work of art with my sewing machine.
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Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie
(Post 6103917)
I was always good with math. At age 66, I had never heard girls were supposed to be bad at math until maybe 20 years ago.
The math needed for quilting is soooooooooooo easy, so elementary that all those "I can't do math" people could be cutting their own templates and drawing their own sketches and enlarging/shrinking their own patterns is they'd just sit for a while and let someone show them. Well, wait, I know at least one who couldnt' The other thing I would really like to change are the Know-It-Alls who say everything is wrong although they have never made a quilt (or some even sewn anything) in their life. :( |
Dull rotary blades !!!
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Originally Posted by Jan in VA
(Post 6101589)
Unappreciative recipients of time-spent, lovingly-made quilted gifts. (per a previous thread i just read.):(
Jan in VA Yes, this is a troublesome one. I read the same thread. |
Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie
(Post 6103430)
I don't mind cooking, I don't mind laundry. I don't mind dishes. I HATE SWEEPING, MOPING, DUSTING..............
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