What Was The Worst Quilting Advice/Instruction You Ever Recieved?
02-28-2011, 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by BellaBoo
I think the worse advice was to don't waste my money buying quality supplies/tools. Cheap cotton thread and dollar store scissors will work just as good. No they do not.
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02-28-2011, 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by JanetM
Originally Posted by Pieceful Quilter
A friend and fellow quilter is always telling me I am way too OCD about choosing my fabrics. If I can't find what I have in mind, I wait to start the project until I can visit however many shops it takes to find exactly (or close to it) what I want. I'm glad I stick to my guns, because - knock on wood - I usually end up loving my colors.
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03-01-2011, 03:48 AM
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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.
03-01-2011, 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by pheasantduster
This advise I guess I gave to myself - using a dark solid backing (cranberry color) for a scrappy pinwheel quilt. I have the quilt on my bed and the backing pills up and catches the "fuzzies" from the blanket beneath. BUT I like my quilt and only I see the underside - when making the bed!
Or if it's really cold and you need the blanket put a sheet on top of the blanket, that is if the fuzzies really bother you. When something really bothers me, I do something about it. Life is too short to live with aggravations. katie
03-01-2011, 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by deanna.r
1. Keep the quilt, chuck the blanket!
2. Keep doing what you have been doing, nobody will ever know anyway! And, it does force you to make the bed.
3. Put the blanket on somebody else's bed.
2. Keep doing what you have been doing, nobody will ever know anyway! And, it does force you to make the bed.
3. Put the blanket on somebody else's bed.
03-01-2011, 10:51 AM
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Gads, so many worst advices
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My worst advices all came from the same 'experienced' quilter who teaches and is so highly looked upon around here. Unfortunately, she doesn't think the way I do. But I have learned a lot from here ... just not anything I can tell her.
At a group event she told us how to press the seams: anyway you want, but to the side works best. Wrong. With the seams to the side the ruler wobbled when squaring the block. Afterwards I looked at it and found if I had pressed the seams open then I could have been much more accurate in my squaring up.
I have learned to carefully read all the instructions and reword them for my own use. I want to know what to cut first then the how to piece. Errors happen in the printing of designs. I prefer chain piecing.
So, basically the worst advices have been the greatest learning points.
ali
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My worst advices all came from the same 'experienced' quilter who teaches and is so highly looked upon around here. Unfortunately, she doesn't think the way I do. But I have learned a lot from here ... just not anything I can tell her.
At a group event she told us how to press the seams: anyway you want, but to the side works best. Wrong. With the seams to the side the ruler wobbled when squaring the block. Afterwards I looked at it and found if I had pressed the seams open then I could have been much more accurate in my squaring up.
I have learned to carefully read all the instructions and reword them for my own use. I want to know what to cut first then the how to piece. Errors happen in the printing of designs. I prefer chain piecing.
So, basically the worst advices have been the greatest learning points.
ali
03-01-2011, 11:55 AM
#169
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Mine was from a quilt store employee who stated, "That green will not go with the other colors you've picked!"
My reply was, "And will you be paying for this, or will I." End of discussion and she did not last there very long.
delma
My reply was, "And will you be paying for this, or will I." End of discussion and she did not last there very long.
delma
03-01-2011, 01:23 PM
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While commenting on another thread, I remembered another tidbit I was fed. It wasn't really advice, just terrible counsel. About a year ago, when I was only a few months into quilting, I took a course on my machine since it's a Janome 6500 and good for quilting but I had never used it for such before. While taking the class I asked the woman, who also sold me the machine, how to do FMQ. She told me I wasn't ready to do that and do channel quilting for a while. My thought was, "If I don't practice at the FMQ, then I'll never be ready." I went home, took out my manual and practiced on any scraps of batting and muslin I could find until I felt secure enough to do it on an actual quilt and I never looked back--or called that woman for another class, for that matter.
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