Quilting Pet Peeve
01-18-2012, 08:39 AM
#161
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01-18-2012, 09:00 AM
#162
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When my boys lived at home i had to paint all my tools bright pink to get them to leave MY things alone.
01-18-2012, 09:15 AM
#163
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I always manage to get a seam thread to peak out to the front of the quilt top. I'm not so disciplined about trimming threads as I go along, so more than once I've gotten these threads that somehow get stuck, and I can't pull it through.
My other pet peeve is after unsewing something, I pin it together so the points match up. But somehow, even with the pinning, the points still don't match up. How do the points not match up if they are pinned exactly together?! Arggh!
My other pet peeve is after unsewing something, I pin it together so the points match up. But somehow, even with the pinning, the points still don't match up. How do the points not match up if they are pinned exactly together?! Arggh!
01-18-2012, 09:17 AM
#164
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PAYING to take a class and have the instructor forget the pattern directions were wrong and telling us to follow the instructions. Then having to figure out on my own how to correct the problem because the teacher was hanging out with their Bernina customers and the three of us who had Vikings were ignored! (This was not a Bernina specific class.) I finally wound up teaching the other two ladies! When the instructor saw me turning her sample purse inside out and start measuring every thing she said, "Well, aren't you clever!"
(Our pockets were cut incorrectly, our magnetic closure was in the wrong place so it's useless, and the grommets are not properly spaced!)
AND, the Bernina ladies telling the instructor not to worry about it, it's not your fault the pattern is wrong, etc. This instructor had FOUR SAMPLE BAGS on display. She should have remembered how to make the darned thing!
UGH!
(Our pockets were cut incorrectly, our magnetic closure was in the wrong place so it's useless, and the grommets are not properly spaced!)
AND, the Bernina ladies telling the instructor not to worry about it, it's not your fault the pattern is wrong, etc. This instructor had FOUR SAMPLE BAGS on display. She should have remembered how to make the darned thing!
UGH!
01-22-2012, 09:04 PM
#170
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Location: Oklahoma City, OK
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I share most of the peeves listed by all but, have to add one that I didn't see.. specifically. I have 2 different books that have approximate times listed that you can make such and such top in, by following the instructions as listed of course. I must not be a good follower!! I have spent the last 5 hours working on something that is listed as "..can be finished in just 3 hours.", and I am still NOT done. Not even close to done actually. There are 18 square-in-a-square blocks, and 74 squares with hst's on 2 sides to make a corner triangle for the other blocks. All this for a "Quick and easy" curtain to go round my cutting table. UGH! So frustrating and a big deterrent, IMHO, to list a time it can be finished that must not include the cutting or pressing time involved in each step..? Even with chain piecing, I don't see how the 222 seams required for piecing the individual units before joining them together can equal a finished curtain ready to hang in just 3 hours!! Who writes this stuff anyways?
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