LQS class

We have a really new LQS here in town and they are making a mighty effort to get their footing and even my DH is encouraging to buy from them rather than buy cheaper things online. So, when we decided to paint and do new curtains, DH and I went there to buy all the fabric to make the curtains. (Was so much they had to order it, basically a bolt of two different fabrics) While I was there, I was watching one of the owners cut out pieces for the BOM starting up and admired it and next thing I new I was signed up for the class ... once a month come in and get the fabric for $5 and get instructions and such for this fairly attractive sampler. Not a pattern I would normally do but I supposed it would be pretty fun working with others.

So went Saturday for first class and we all sat down and for many it was a first quilting class ever. I was probably the youngest person there (sad, sad, sad) except for the two instructors, both of whom I know from guild (although not well). So the first instructor showed the fabrics and talked about how it would work and then turned it over to the second instructor who started off by standing, looking at all of us sitting there fingering our little strips of fabric and said, "Ok, now do any of you NOT know who I am?"

A few hands went up. Several others sort of gave each other those sidewise looks.

"I'm a publishsed author, I have written and published quilt patterns and books and now I'm a published illustrator."

It was a spiel I've heard this lady give every time I've ever heard her talk. She is very talented and definitely successful and I envy her all that talent and success for sure. But it sort of sets a strange tone to start off that way, and then she told us that she had rewritten and redrawn the entire pattern because it was wrong and that now the new pattern (no longer the one that we paid $15 for) was copyrighted in her name and no, we could absolutely not copy it or share it with anybody. Whew.

There we go. Now I remember why I've dropped out of the last two BOM type classes I've started. But I'm going to work like crazy to stay in this one. If I can stay healthy and keep up, I will have a massive, finished queen sized quilt in 18 months and one finishing session. Yikes.

Wish me luck and send me whatever patience you have to spare. Oh yeah, can somebody please tell me what product is good for helping me bite my tongue and keep my mouth shut for two hours twice a month for 19 months?

Sunny

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Sunny
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WV Quilter

What a pain.

I'd call the $5 a loss and do something else with my time.

Well, I'd also go to the shop owner and let her/him/them know that this teacher had violated copyright by rewriting the copywritten pattern of someone else. Yikes. Not good business for the shop.

marcella

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Marcella Peek

Sunny, if I knew how to bite my tongue and keep my mouth shut for even one day, I wouldn't get into so much hot water at work! That teacher sounds like a real pill. Good luck with the BOM project, I am sure you can not only do it but turn out a superb quilt at the end.

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Carolyn McCarty

That instructor is so overwhelmed with self-importance she reminds me of the fellow who was dressed in a tuxedo to go have a vasectomy. He said, "If I'm going to be impo'tant, I want to Look impo'tant." I am having a difficult time trying to think of any quilt instructor (or anybody else) that I would want to be around if they said "Ok, now do any of you NOT know who I am?". Maybe you should rent her a tuxedo. Polly

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Polly Esther

Luckily I had just set down my water glass before reading that! *snicker snort!*

I'm with the group that is suggesting you let the shop owner know she has a teacher who is driving away students. It's never fun to tell a shop owner when something is wrong, but if you do it in a positive, helpful way, you're doing her a huge favor. I certainly want to know when employees are treating customers badly, and I'm very grateful to customers who point out a problem I hadn't known about (or suspected but didn't have much evidence for).

Whether you stay or quit the class is completely your choice -- are you getting enough out of the class to make up for the high blood pressure medication and the stitches in your tongue you'll need because of this teacher?

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Kathy Applebaum

Howdy!

Was Mz Super Ego's 2nd question: Does anybody care?

There are hundreds, at least hundreds, of published authors, pattern creators, artists, illustrators; reckon this poor woman is so insecure or so unknown that she has to tell who she is before getting off the starting line?

Good luck, Sunny. Hang in there. Maybe some chewing gum would help, or some bubble gum so you could blow great big bubbles during the class, or at least crack & snap that gum! Better than biting your tongue.

Btw, thanks for supporting the LQS!

R/Sandy

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Sandy Ellison

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Taria

wow, nicely picked up, marcella. sounds right to me too. i wonder can Sunny or anyone else in her class now rewrite and redraw her 'copyright' pattern and then share it with ''your new copyright' on it. the issue could easily compound over and over ad infinitum now couldnt it. silly woman she must be to think that is legal or kosher. how would she feel if others did that to her 'copyright' patterns. i'd be the one to 'open my big mouth' at the next meeting and ask her in front of the shop owner and the rest of the class. is the shop owner now an accomplice? i reckon she needs a right good wedgie. :) sorry, must be the heat/humidity in the air here that has me in this mood. i still gotta agree with what you noticed tho. cheers, jeanne

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nzlstar*

ok, i'll ask, who is she? just in case she ever comes downunder to teach so i can miss her class. geez, talk about someone being 'up themselves'. that might be downunder lingo or not, oh well. cheers, jeanne

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nzlstar*

roflmao. thanks, Sandy, jeanne

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nzlstar*

snorfle, good one, Taria. cheers, jeanne

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nzlstar*

Ms P, you crack me up, trust you!! :)) jeanne

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nzlstar*

A humongous bag of blow-pops, or tootsie rolls. And just think, you'll get to know your dentist really well too...

liz young in cold california

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Elizabeth Young

heehee, you're not alone there, Carolyn. seems i live in a somewhat constant state of hot water by all accounts. i'd have to say something. that 'teacher' is just plain up herself. geez, jeanne

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nzlstar*

Hilarious. This followed by jeanne's wedgie suggestion should fix her right up. Might move her brains up higher too.

marcella

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Marcella Peek

I hesitate to tell you her name, although I'll email anybody privately who wants to know. She is talented and knows a lot more than I do. Her quilts have points that match (a sore point for me many times, no pun intended). She's been in Quiltmaker and on Simply Quilts. She is something of a local celebrity just because she is "a published author". She has great hair.

I'm going to stick with the class because I feel a need to make myself make a quilt with blocks that I would never otherwise attempt. But I will say this: several of the blocks now apparently require 15/16th cuts. OMG! I don't even have a ruler with 16th marks. If it becomes too grueling I will stop. But several of the ladies seem funny and nice and people I might like to get to know. And I suddenly feel like I might, just might, write again. Something funny and sarcastic. Something about the amazing world of quilting. I will never stop being a reporter. Now maybe I just have to find a new place to "report" and a new genre for my little observations, LOL. Oh, I know! I'll become a published author! ;) '

biting my tongue, Sunny

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Sunny

I'm confused. Does she expect you to buy 'her' pattern for this BOM? What about the pattern you already bought?

It seems to me that if you think you have to ask people if they know who you are, then you should think again. Life is not an American Express commercial.

It sounds like a rather negative way to start a class, especially one where you'll be seeing her again every month. Perhaps you should genuflect when she enters the room. If I was the shop owner, I would want to know immediately about this. Actually, if I was the shop owner, I would have been sitting in the class or at least within earshot.

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Valerie in FL

Suggestion! Next time, you point out that while the group heard the teacher's introduction, you have not introduced yourselves. Then you proceed to announce your name, an accomplishment or two, including that bit about being a published reporter. Turn to next person, an outgoing person, and ask her to introduce herself! ;) PAT PS: I agree with others who say you need to inform LQS owner of this pushy person. I'd like the e-mail version! TIA!

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Pat in Virginia

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:41:00 -0600, Sunny wrote (in article ):

15/16th cuts? And there are beginners in this class? What is this woman thinking?

Maureen

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Maureen Wozniak

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