Quilt class dilemma

AliceW · 2008-03-02T15:32:59+00:00

I went to the NJ Quilt Fest yesterday as I do every year. Last year I bought a needle punch kit complete with fabric, pattern, and threads. Then of course I needed the special needle and a hoop. A pretty hefty investment for a craft I had not done before. The pattern I purchased was a Goose in the Pond block and only uses two colors so I thought it would make a good travel project since the finished size is a 7 inch block. I didn't start the project due to other priorities and basically forgot about it until I saw the brochure for this years show. I looked at the classes and saw a needle punch class - just what I needed, I thought. It was 3 hours and all I needed to bring was a pen or pencil to take notes and snippers. The class description clearly indicated "Everything else is supplied". Can you see where I'm going with this?There were about 20 students at the class when the instructor started to explain what payment types were accepted for the "class kit". The kit was $25 and contained the "special needle" I already had, a small square of weaver's cloth, a small square of iron on interfacing and a pattern of a small heart about 1.5 x 1.5 inches. The kits could be paid for with cash or check. I don't carry lots of cash to shows since I generally use a debit or credit card and I very rarely carry a check book with me anymore. Luckily, I had just enough to cover the cost of the kit.Everyone made it very clear that the class description said nothing about a kit that was required to be purchased for the class. Some even had the printed page from the website. The instructor had an email that she had sent to the show organizers indicating the contents of the kit but that information never made it into the class description. The organizer said it was her responsibility to proofread the class description and the instructor said it was their responsibility to put into the class description. She got paid and so did the show organizer. The students were the...

Mar 02, 2008 41 Replies

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Julia Altshuler 18 years ago

I agree. But it's in my nature to look at everything from at least 2 points of view. It's in yours as well, or you wouldn't have asked rctq for our opinion. If you only looked at it one way, you would have fired off your letter instead of considering what might have gone wrong in communications between Mancuso and Pierson.

--Lia

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grammykathy 18 years ago

Yes Alice I would send it. Sorry about the instructor, but if this is her sourse of income she should have been more careful and known better. That is a lot of money to spend, expecially when you already had the materials.

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