Any products you are reluctant to use - ?
05-18-2018, 08:49 AM
#22
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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I prefer to have the exact ruler with markings for the pattern I'm making. That saves me time and many times a lot of frustration. I use Terial Magic instead of starch before cutting. Even bias does't stretch. The things I refuse to use or do is pin basting, a rotary blade that skips, a marked up cutting mat, or a machine that gives me any trouble. I am not a make do type person. I don't see the rewards of it at my age.
05-18-2018, 05:50 PM
#26
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Location: Philomath, Oregon
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I prefer to have the exact ruler with markings for the pattern I'm making. That saves me time and many times a lot of frustration. I use Terial Magic instead of starch before cutting. Even bias does't stretch. The things I refuse to use or do is pin basting, a rotary blade that skips, a marked up cutting mat, or a machine that gives me any trouble. I am not a make do type person. I don't see the rewards of it at my age.
05-19-2018, 12:16 AM
#30
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Southeast Georgia, USA
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the good news is that none of us have to justify anything to each other. 
some of my friends think i'm nuts to have bought some of the stuff i have.
i think they are nuts to have some of the gadgets they have.
we all agreed to disagree.
since they don't spend my money and i don't spend theirs neither of us sees the need for the other to justify a durned thing. lol
sometimes, when i'm kicking myself for having spent new-floor-money on equipment instead, one of my bestest friends reminds me that i worked hard for the money, am having a blast with my toys, donate virtually every quilt i make to charity, and that the floors might be hideous to look at but they still function as floors. she encourages me to stop thinking i need to justify the purchases to anybody - including myself. (now that's a gooood friend.)
some of my friends think i'm nuts to have bought some of the stuff i have.
i think they are nuts to have some of the gadgets they have.
we all agreed to disagree.
since they don't spend my money and i don't spend theirs neither of us sees the need for the other to justify a durned thing. lol
sometimes, when i'm kicking myself for having spent new-floor-money on equipment instead, one of my bestest friends reminds me that i worked hard for the money, am having a blast with my toys, donate virtually every quilt i make to charity, and that the floors might be hideous to look at but they still function as floors. she encourages me to stop thinking i need to justify the purchases to anybody - including myself. (now that's a gooood friend.)
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