Worst Advice...
01-21-2013, 08:53 AM
#61
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Location: Batesville, Arkansas
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I agree with Hopeto quilt! The worst advice one will get starts with either "you must always", "the correct way to", "never do it that way", etc. The majority of quilters know that there are no quilt police, and that there is often a different way to do something, and the way that works best for each is the best for that quilter!
01-21-2013, 10:12 AM
#65
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Pe Ell, Washington
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Pat - I 100% agree!!!
I have been quilting since Oct 2005, and it this has ALWAYS been my
sewing room motto:
It is MY money
It is MY fabric
It is MY project
It is MY time
It is MY way, not YOUR way
However if YOU want to be the person to PAY for everything then YOU
can tell me what and how to do things. Until then keep you opinions to
yourself UNLESS I ask for it.
(No I am NOT a nice person when it come to someone telling me I MUST
do something a certain way).
I have been quilting since Oct 2005, and it this has ALWAYS been my
sewing room motto:
It is MY money
It is MY fabric
It is MY project
It is MY time
It is MY way, not YOUR way
However if YOU want to be the person to PAY for everything then YOU
can tell me what and how to do things. Until then keep you opinions to
yourself UNLESS I ask for it.
(No I am NOT a nice person when it come to someone telling me I MUST
do something a certain way).
01-21-2013, 10:16 AM
#66
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Orbiting
Posts: 1,448
Best advice - if you make a mistake, make another one just like it and say it's suppose to be that way - heard Liz Porter say this.
If an instructor ticks me off, I don't take a class from them again. A few years back I signed up for a quilt as you go class and bought all my supplies and precut the batting. She was extremely upset with me over the poor quality of my batting. All the supply list said was batting. I was new. Good grief, when I was a kid we bought wool blankets from the Salvation Army and that was our batting. We used old cotton sheets for foundation strip piecing.
I say, if someone gets real snooty, tell them to go to a quilt museum, like the one in Paducah, and look at the quilts made more than 50 years ago. You will find that the points don't match, some seams are crooked, mixed fabrics because they used the good pieces of worn out clothing. Yet, all these quilts are beautiful.
So, my advice is, don't stress on the small stuff and enjoy quilting. Now a days when I take a quilt class, I don't argue with the instructor, I learn new stuff, if I don't like a certain procedure, I don't do it that way, I find a way I'm comfortable with.
If an instructor ticks me off, I don't take a class from them again. A few years back I signed up for a quilt as you go class and bought all my supplies and precut the batting. She was extremely upset with me over the poor quality of my batting. All the supply list said was batting. I was new. Good grief, when I was a kid we bought wool blankets from the Salvation Army and that was our batting. We used old cotton sheets for foundation strip piecing.
I say, if someone gets real snooty, tell them to go to a quilt museum, like the one in Paducah, and look at the quilts made more than 50 years ago. You will find that the points don't match, some seams are crooked, mixed fabrics because they used the good pieces of worn out clothing. Yet, all these quilts are beautiful.
So, my advice is, don't stress on the small stuff and enjoy quilting. Now a days when I take a quilt class, I don't argue with the instructor, I learn new stuff, if I don't like a certain procedure, I don't do it that way, I find a way I'm comfortable with.
01-21-2013, 10:38 AM
#68
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"That fabric you picked is just wrong for that pattern and it won't work" an insistent and very self-assured sales lady told me at an LQS. I was new to quilting and allowed this "expert" to convince me to change course. The fabric she suggested worked but it wasn't what I had in mind and I never finished the quilt. Ended up passing the top on to community service at the guild. Now I take my DH with me when I need color advice. He has a good eye for color and he has my best interest at heart.
01-21-2013, 11:56 AM
#69
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Location: Grew up in WV but retired in Between, GA
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My Home Ec teacher I HS told me I was making a mistake taking physical science instead of another year of home ec becauses I would never see the inside doors of a nursing school. Ha----I am a retired RN.
01-21-2013, 12:02 PM
#70
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Location: Sparks, NV
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