You have got to be kidding! In one afternoon? It makes my eyes spin just looking at it. Beaut. pc. though. Are you blind yet?

I need both written directions and a diagram. If I had to give up one, I would choose to give up the written directions.LOL!

I am totally a visual person. If I want to purchase a pattern to make a quilt, I will take it out of pkg and peruse until I understand it viusally.

I've always been a visual person. Even before trying to make quilts. When ever I wanted some thing that I found in a sore or a magazine I would draft my own plans and build it. I SAVED A LOT OF MONEY OVER THE YEARS BY MAKING STUFF MYSELF.

Patterns are good for technical stuff but for the most part all I need is a picture and I'm good to go. That goes for sewing, furniture making, plumbing or electrical layouts, barns or sheds. Pretty much anything that is made, a person that learns visually can do it if they really want to.

Yes, as long as I'm wearing my glasses :lol:

Actually I like to be shown as I find patterns confusing.

Bit like maps really, I always seem to read them back to front and upside down :lol:

Cheers
Maybe1day

I like pictures but don't have to have them

Me 4

"A picture is worth a thousand words."

I am definitly a visual person. If someone shows me how to do something I get it right away but if it is just written instructions I have to reread several times.

I have no imagination AT ALL so I have to see something before I store the idea in my head. Same thing goes for supplies. I just spent a week setting up my fabric collection a la Alaskasunshine's tutorial because if I don't see the fabric, then it doesn't exist. It's people like me who keep quilting authors in business.

Give me pictures....I'm way to new to quilting to try to figure out instructions without a lot of visuals.

I am a visual learner too, but I love making mystery quilts.
As long as I follow the steps/clues in order I do fine with mystery quilts. Here are 2 mystery quilts that I made, they are Debbie Caffrey patterns. The secret to making a successful mystery quilt is contrast, you need definite light,dark and medium. I choose a busy print and then pull the other colors from that and it seems to work for me.
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...45965719KoLRNb

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...45965719MTlOov

Funny but so true. :)

"a picture is worth a thousand woords" i do not know who coined the phrase but i agree 100%

I hear you on the mystery quilt...I am ATTEMPTING one with my quilt guild. I hope I don't mess it up since there are few pictures if at all on some of the steps. I guess I must TRUST the person doing the directions. I like to see pictures of what my end result will be before I start....guess that's why I waited until I got the first 6 steps before I cut into my fabrics.

pictures all the way...that's why I can't figure out the bow tuck purse....no pictures

I do better with pictures. But if the pattern is something I really like, then I will try and figure it out. God bless. Penny

I like both pictures and instructions. My grandmother could look at a picture and reproduce it without instructions (and this was in the day of templates and scissors) but I need detailed instructions backed up with pictures.

I often get requests to make things someone describes to me and i have to visulaize it on my own. It works and i enjoy it but I also LOVE looking at pictures and get enthused over them.

am a complete mimic -----have no ideas of my own.

Quiltin mimi & mayday I am a little of both of you I think as I like to have pictures and instructions but I also like to be shown. Unless I have been shown I find that I have difficulty understanding (reading the pattern) a bit like trying to read a road map for me, I will have everything upside down and back to front.
It sure is a challenge :oops:

Maybe1day

Need the instructions, for sure . . .but a line drawing atleast does help.

Good idea! Count me amongst the visual :)

Yes, but I have to say that it does not always work with quilting. That process takes a lot of planning, mapping the design layout and such to make it all fit together well. But I can see the colors, the finished project in my mind without too much trouble.

Sewing a dress, knitting a sweater, or making a new baby layette is easy. But again, quilting is a much more precise art form.

If you do not have that ability now, it just might come after you master a few of the basic skills and create a few of your own masterpieces. And if not, well you might just be better at another aspect of creating, whether sewing, painting, working with yarns or writing. They are all works of art! Just have fun with it!!!

Iam visual.