Worst Advice...
#42
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: England Alton Towers
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All advice I take with a large pinch of salt. Do I need to do it or not. I make my own mind up about comments and pick those that help me. The worst advice I have heard is teachers telling ladies how to cut or pin fabric and the ladies trying to say but my hands want do that. Arthritis is a problem as we get older and younger quilters fail to understand and give bad advice.
#44
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Brooksville, FL
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#45
I was thinking we hear lots of advice from teacher, friends etc..regarding quilting. When I first started I watched a tutorial on the internet that said never iron seams or pieces. I tried that once...never again. Yes you can make a quilt...but it does not look as nice. It really makes a huge difference to take the time and iron the seams. What poor advice have you heard and tried?
I still cringe at some poor advice I gave to students in a beginning garment construction class. One astute student, followed my advice literally and could have ruined her garment. But the garment was much too big, so the seams had to be redone. In my inexperience of teaching others, I told them to "trim all INSIDE seams"
to 1/4 inch. Well that was the wrong choice of words. (After all, ALL seams are inside the garment.) We were attaching a facing to a neckline. The word I should have used was to "trim all ENCLOSED seams to 1/4 inch."
The person who advised not ironing may have just not elaborated and said that pressing was a better choice.
Last edited by GailG; 01-21-2013 at 04:19 AM.
#46
To me, the worst advise is what I see in magazines for "skill level". I've never taken a class...only done reading and researching and a LOT of trial and error. Some projects I've done were set for skill level of intermediate to advanced, but the project wasn't that hard. Here's one example that I made after only quilting for a few months.
The only time something is done 'wrong' is if you do it and you don't like what you created.
The only time something is done 'wrong' is if you do it and you don't like what you created.
#47
Finish one project before you start another. If I did this, I might still be stuck on that first bad project. New advise: if you don't like something, get bored or stuck, put it away and move on. If you will NEVER like it, pass it on to someone else.
#48
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Owensboro, KY
Posts: 1,420
When I first began quilting, I went to a workshop at my local quilt shop that was being conducted by a Janome consultant. When I said I was working on my first quilt and it was a queen size, she laughed and then told the entire group that was something a beginner should never do: begin with a gigantic quilt. I was mortified. That quilt turned out just fine and I've made queen and king sized quilts over and over again since that day without having any problems. I didn't like her at all, and if she hadn't embarrassed and ticked me off, I probably wouldn't have continued quilting. She just made me that much more determined to do it and do it well.
#49
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Colorado
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Pat - I 100% agree!!!
I have been quilting since Oct 2005, and it this has ALWAYS been my
sewing room motto:
It is MY money
It is MY fabric
It is MY project
It is MY time
It is MY way, not YOUR way
However if YOU want to be the person to PAY for everything then YOU
can tell me what and how to do things. Until then keep you opinions to
yourself UNLESS I ask for it.
(No I am NOT a nice person when it come to someone telling me I MUST
do something a certain way).
I have been quilting since Oct 2005, and it this has ALWAYS been my
sewing room motto:
It is MY money
It is MY fabric
It is MY project
It is MY time
It is MY way, not YOUR way
However if YOU want to be the person to PAY for everything then YOU
can tell me what and how to do things. Until then keep you opinions to
yourself UNLESS I ask for it.
(No I am NOT a nice person when it come to someone telling me I MUST
do something a certain way).
#50
Worst advice ever was "It doesn't matter if you prewash or not....just use a color catcher"....my quilt had bright red, white and black....the red ran and the color catcher didn't catch it all ...now all the white is a real pale pink....now I always prewash/dry and use retayne for bright colors....if you take out the fabrics before completely dry, you won't have many wrinkles
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