Worst Quilting advice?
Never pin. *Always* make bias binding. I have never, not once, done this in 30 years!) Piece half-square-triangles by using two triangles. Join your border strips on the diagonal. (??? I have never understood the reason for this! Diagonal is bias/bias stretches. Period) Jan in VA |
I rarely pin - and most of the time I can get away with it. Can't really remember any bad advice, just some out dated methods.
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The worst was from a LQS owner... she said ... No batiks never run! WOW was she sooo wrong.
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"This is too difficult for you."
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I was advised to tear fabric to straighten. Not true ladies
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I can't say that I have ever really been given bad advice, but one time I attended a sewing seminar given by my Viking dealer. Several of the sales ladies were the helpers. I was hooping my fabric all set to embroider and the lady came to me and started telling me how to hoop and that I was doing it all wrong. Well, I threw a hissy fit; that I had been sewing longer than she was old, and was not a novice at machine embroidery; and thank you I will continue to do it the way I have been. A while later she pulled me in a corner and apologized. She didn't realize "who I was" and that I had more experience than any of the sales ladies. She evidently had been overheard chastising me by someone who knew of my knowledge of machine embroidery.
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Originally Posted by pkary
Not to waste my money by buying more material than I need for the intended project. A) I almost never actually make what I bought the material for in the first place and B) it turns out I love to make scrappy quilts! What would I do without all those left over pieces!
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Originally Posted by jaciqltznok
Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
One of the worst ones I've ever heard is to sew the border on with the border next to the feed dogs. That's almost a guarantee for wavy borders.
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Originally Posted by cctx.
Originally Posted by dakotamaid
Originally Posted by MadQuilter
Mine was from a quiltstore owner who disagreed with my fabric choice. She told me it was going to be ugly and I allowed her to pick a different fabric. I ended up giving the top away because it was not what I had in mind at all. It taught me to follow my instinct even when "the experts" disagree. Colors and patterns are very personal in today's quilting and we do not always need to follow cookie-cutter samples.
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Originally Posted by sherrill
I was advised to tear fabric to straighten. Not true ladies
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