Re: Question about quilt patterns

I've had a couple of patterns that confused me with the way the copies
were printed.
They seemed to be inexpensively printed by a home machine in shades of
gray only. They would show how to put piece A over piece B to stitch,
but the A was almost the same shade of gray as the B and I, for the life
of me, couldn't figure out what color of gray represented what color of
material.

My girlfriend finally figured out that one shade of gray represented the
right side of a fabric, and the slightly darker shade of gray
represented the back of the fabric. No where in the instructions were
we told how to interpret the various shades of gray, It was really
weird.

I was at my favorite LQS, Bunkhouse Quilts, in Lyndeborough, NH. and
fell in love with a 50% off applique Nativity scene. The packaging
seemed thin, so I opened it up to find most of the patterns missing from
the kit. I asked the clerk, who then opened every similar package, and
the same pieces were missing from everyone of them.

Saturday I bought a kit for the Chicken pin cushion, which was discussed
here lately, and when I started to read the instructions, found that one
paragraph was printed upside-down. That paragraph referred to an item
"below", well, below was the top of the page because I had to read the
page upside down. The "below" to which it referred was actually above
the paragraph, because the paragraph was upside down. Confused yet??

Who the heck proof reads these things. These mistakes would be
noticeable to a first grader who never quilted in his life.

Denise
http://community.webtv.net/DeniseJG/
My QI

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