Rachielou

Your story is sooo sad! i hope you find a different quilt shop and continue quilting. I'm a newbie too and luckily the quilt shops I have been to have been extremely helpful.

I agree with other posts that say that this board is also supportive. I am a new member on the board and the amount of info available is amazing!

Hang in there!!!

kaykwilts

I have to agree here...I think letting each other know the names of these "less than friendly" shops would help us all to know where to spend our hard-earned, and less abundant, dollars. I love this forum, as all the sharing does help you to analyze your experiences, and then can determine if someone was just "having a bad day" or if its a quilt store with a lousy attitude.

I say, bring on the names....(of the stores, that is) :thumbup:

clsurz

Now you see reading posts like this one is interesting to me as a new quilter. I did not know this and have not heard it mentioned before by experienced quilters.

I was told recently by an experienced quilter at our Wednesday sew day "for a non-quilter you sure know alot of stuff about quilting". Little did they know that I come to this board and other sites online and I read and learn stuff like this. LOL

clsurz

You know that is the very first thing I learned last fall while at a craft night in town last fall from a lady. They were asking folks to make a block of any kind for a Christmas quilt they were going to sell raffle tickets to and when some mentioned or asked about what if it doesn't come out exactly a certain size as others she told them not to worry that she would coordinating pieces of fabric and would frame each block and square them off and that is exactly what she did.

I remembered her saying this just the other week when a friend who has a couple years experience quilting invited me to come sew at her house and she was working on a quilt for a GI she and her hubby adopted who was leaving to go to Germany after having come back from Iraq or some such place.

Anyway I reminded her of what that quilter told us and taught us last fall and we placed the blocks on the wall to see what would be needed and used coordinating fabric to match up and when she showed it last week it looked even more beautiful than what she expected it to be.

clsurz

I just had to chuckle at "love the idea of breaking all the rules when I quilt". That is my attitude exactly and I'm making the quilt police really freak out.
:twisted:

My attitude is do as you please and just have fun with it. Make it your idea, your project and yours entirely.

I always tell them "different strokes for different folk" when one of them proceeds to make comments that is not the way to do it. And it makes me want more to keep annonying them with doing things outside of their box.

gramarraine

It is sad that you had a bad experience at your lqs. Maybe you should talk to the owner. Sometimes the hired help does not have much more experience than the customer they are trying to help. Do not let it keep you from trying again and from completing your project. Maybe get some help from another quilt shop if the ideas here don't help.

isabel825

So sorry about your bad experience. This is not the norm, at least not in NC! I find shop owners, and especially customers, full of ideas, ready to share, teach, lend ideas and techniques, and wonderfully willing to help. Next time you need help, come here and post questions. I am a novice too and have learned so much from reading posts from the experts who frequent this site!

Don't give up! Your next quilt will be a masterpiece! Hang in there! Every time you complete a project, you will get a little bit better!

Joyce Ann

Sorry about the experience you had. I think what ever you do should please you and not someone else. They are no rules

chairjogger

Sorry you have had a bad experience. But please chalk it up as just that.
Each quilt shop has it's own personality. Just like local stores of any kind. would I go back if what you described happened to me. No, but then, maybe it was not the owner.

Good luck.. hope you are enjoying quilting.
Ell

Marion Jean

I signed up for a BOM via the internet with a quilt shop out of state. First kit arrived, it was short on fabric. I complained, was told it was the correct amount. Apparently soon thereafter several other people also complained. Then I rec'd an apology letter and some extra fabric strips. This was not a good experience - I will not order a kit from an unknown shop again.