worst instructions ever
#32
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Corpus Christi, Tx.
Posts: 16,105
I am perfectly imperfect and love leftovers. When I purchase fabric, I buy an extra half yard or just an extra yard. I bought a piece of fabric that was suppose to be 45 inches wide. Actually, had the clerk measure it and it was only 40, so I bought double. It can always be put to good use in another project.
#33
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 6,430
Just because you can quilt doesn't mean you can write directions that are clear and easily understood! If I were writing directions, I would have someone write them for me and then try to follow my directions. I have been disappointed so many times with poorly written directions!
#34
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: NE Wisconsin
Posts: 218
Just because you can quilt doesn't mean you can write directions that are clear and easily understood! If I were writing directions, I would have someone write them for me and then try to follow my directions. I have been disappointed so many times with poorly written directions!
#35
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Indiana
Posts: 449
I bought a tablerunner kit about 3 years ago, I've pulled it out a couple times and tried to make it, but the instructions are so confusing I end up putting it away again. I'm seriously considering using the fabric for another project, and tossing out the screwy instructions. I'm not dumb, the instructions are just a mess! My SIL who makes beautiful quilts even looked at it, and she couldn't figure it out!
#36
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Kansas
Posts: 140
Sorry if I have answered the same as others; I haven't read all the answers. If the quilt shop is still there, contact them
and see if they still have the pattern and get the missing pages. I got a pattern and pages were missing; it wasn't 6 years later, but I went back to the shop and they gave me the missing pages. Or if they don't have them, see if the pattern maker has them. I have gotten them from the designer too. You paid for the pattern, you should get all of it.
Some patterns need a little tweaking anyway.....but if you are a beginner, that is hard to do. Good luck getting all
of the pattern.
and see if they still have the pattern and get the missing pages. I got a pattern and pages were missing; it wasn't 6 years later, but I went back to the shop and they gave me the missing pages. Or if they don't have them, see if the pattern maker has them. I have gotten them from the designer too. You paid for the pattern, you should get all of it.
Some patterns need a little tweaking anyway.....but if you are a beginner, that is hard to do. Good luck getting all
of the pattern.
#37
The problem is a lot of times that these patterns are made by designers not quilters or even sewers!! I won't name any names but some "big" name designers patterns are just very poorly done. Also I agree about the black & white pictures!! I want to be able to see it in color. JMHO
#38
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: at the foot of the Ouichita Mountains, SE Oklahoma
Posts: 273
Would it be breaking a board rule if we all would give each other a 'heads up' when we run across patterns that aren't accurate? I am a subscriber to some quilt mags and they will usually post on their website corrections for the mistakes made in the magazine patterns. However, I don't always remember to go to the website to check for them before I start the quilt. Very upsetting when I discover that I should have checked first.
I think it would be soooo great to have a sticky link or somesuch that has lists of patterns with mistakes and their corrections along side.
But like I said...maybe it's a no-no...???
just wondering.
I think it would be soooo great to have a sticky link or somesuch that has lists of patterns with mistakes and their corrections along side.
But like I said...maybe it's a no-no...???
just wondering.
#39
Just because you can quilt doesn't mean you can write directions that are clear and easily understood! If I were writing directions, I would have someone write them for me and then try to follow my directions. I have been disappointed so many times with poorly written directions!
#40
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: The Colony, TX
Posts: 3,364
I agree that some pattern creators are just not all there! However that being said when it is somthing put together by a shop like on a shop hop - it is wise to look through it carefully immediately! these are not patterns that are being sold, and the person writing the instructions is not normally a pattern creator so quite often things are a little vague or left out. Ask me how I know- yep ran into the same problems you are having, turned out in the end with some creativity but now if I have to have one of those I check it out right away!
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