Gads, so many worst advices
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My worst advices all came from the same 'experienced' quilter who teaches and is so highly looked upon around here. Unfortunately, she doesn't think the way I do. But I have learned a lot from here ... just not anything I can tell her.
At a group event she told us how to press the seams: anyway you want, but to the side works best. Wrong. With the seams to the side the ruler wobbled when squaring the block. Afterwards I looked at it and found if I had pressed the seams open then I could have been much more accurate in my squaring up.
I have learned to carefully read all the instructions and reword them for my own use. I want to know what to cut first then the how to piece. Errors happen in the printing of designs. I prefer chain piecing.
So, basically the worst advices have been the greatest learning points.
ali