Charm Packs -- watch out!
#31
I have a question here. What if some of the blocks in a charm pack are not square? Actually I ordered several from a respectable company and there are some squares that are not all there. It is difficult to explain, but it seems as if the cloth was not fully under the blade so that the pieces are only partially there. Should I return that set or just deal with it?
#32
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Greenwood, AR
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all I've ever bought/ordered have either shown the fabrics included or had a description of what was in the pack...the only problem I have had with precuts is that the 5" squares...weren't 5" squares...talk about a headache!
#33
When I buy charm packs on the Internet, I always look at the patterns of each and see how many there are and how many prints of each fabric. Sometimes they may have 20 charms but only 10 prints. I really enjoy having as many prints as possible in a charm pack.
#34
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: The other Milwaukie, Oregon
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Yes I learned the hard way too! The same thing is happening in all parts of our consumer world. The price is the same or higher but the packaging is smaller! I bought some jelly rolls that were very skimpy. Recent;ly I bought something at the store (can't remember what it was now!) I thought I was buying a pound and arrived home to find the package was 12 oz.
#35
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Round Rock,Texas
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I bought a jelly roll once, the strips were supposed to be 2.5" and they were 2.25". I couldn't use them for my intended project. They went into a log cabin quilt instead. I've never bought another.
#36
I did the same thing... got the little square and thought ewwwwww. then I made a mini twister and was thrilled. I have always heard charm packs usually include one of each fabric in the line... so you do have to be careful.
My lesson learned too........ordered what I thought was a great price for charm pack at MSQC......bought two....ended up with mini charms-----2 1/2" squares...my fault, brain did not register the word mini, just saw $$$$. Will add them to my leaders and enders pile........or hexie stack.
#38
This may have been posted before, but I just ran into the problem. I, personally, will take responsibility, but I had NO idea! I bought 3 charm packs from Craftsy.com. Was excited, planning 3 quilts.....price was AWESOME! yeah, you get what you pay for. Apparently a charm pack does NOT have to contain 40 pieces......these contained 14!!!!!!!!! ONE quilt. Oh well.....however, I thought all charm packs contained the same amount of blocks. Is it the same with jelly rolls, etc????????
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