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#41
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Poconos, PA
Posts: 125
I am almost embarrassed to mention this, but if I read any kind of 1/8. 7/8 or any kind of 8 for cutting - I am out of there. I have trouble getting that on my rulers and my husband thinks it is funny and laughs at his math challenged wife trying to figure out how many lines back or forward I need. Rulers, as a rule, do not indicate any 8ths and it drives me nuts when i find a great pattern and when I look at the instructions, I will not attempt it. Does anyone else have this problem, and if so, how do you dealwith it?
#42
I don't! I am just like you. I will find something else. My husband tried to explain. No luck! So I gave him a ruler and some fabric. Later........" this is alot harder than working with wood." And he can build anything out of wood!
#43
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Poconos, PA
Posts: 125
Your husband sounds like mine - he also can do anything in wood so he really cannot understand how dumb I can be with numbers as it comes quite easy for him. I get so confused - I even tried putting on that skinny colored tape they use for rulers, but I still made mistakes. Good thing it was just practice cuts and not for real. I am glad that I am not alone out there.
I also change the patterns and just eliminate those troublesome eights.
I also change the patterns and just eliminate those troublesome eights.
#47
Originally Posted by 978gray
Bindings!!!! I hate bindings and that phobia keeps me from finishing quilts or if one wants to put it in other terms creating more UFOs. :lol:
#48
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Johns Creek, GA
Posts: 321
Love your tip re cutting lengthwise for Log Cabin pattern. That's one of those patterns I just run from. My squares always ended up almost looking like a triangle. Now I at least know what might be wrong.
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