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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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