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I was lazy this morning, and as I was gearing myself up to unlazify myself, I happened across a quilting program on television. I've never quilted, though somewhere down about project number #2721 on my list is a quilting-related geeky project. You know, once I get the rest done.
This woman was talking about using curved templates to make "wedding ring" patterned quilts, which is fine, and I can understand the difficulties inherent in sewing two pieces of cloth together to form a curved seam - they, by necessity, won't lay flat as you're sewing, so it's tricky.
The thing that irked me, though, was that she was using a template shaped like this:
and kept referring to it as a "melon" shape. I'm not a food scientist, but I'm pretty sure melons look like this:
note how it's round. Sometimes they're not circular, but they don't have those right angles that the quilting template has. Perhaps she was thinking of this:
It's tricky, I know, but that thing with the points at the end, that's a LEMON. You can tell, because during the summer, when you go to the Olive Garden, the waitress doesn't say "Can I start you off with a glass of melonade?".
Oh, nuts, I'm too late. The quilter went and wrote a book with this mistake: http://www.kayewood.com/onlinecat/melon_block.html
You'd think someone would have caught that somewhere during the editing process.
This woman was talking about using curved templates to make "wedding ring" patterned quilts, which is fine, and I can understand the difficulties inherent in sewing two pieces of cloth together to form a curved seam - they, by necessity, won't lay flat as you're sewing, so it's tricky.
The thing that irked me, though, was that she was using a template shaped like this:
and kept referring to it as a "melon" shape. I'm not a food scientist, but I'm pretty sure melons look like this:
note how it's round. Sometimes they're not circular, but they don't have those right angles that the quilting template has. Perhaps she was thinking of this:
It's tricky, I know, but that thing with the points at the end, that's a LEMON. You can tell, because during the summer, when you go to the Olive Garden, the waitress doesn't say "Can I start you off with a glass of melonade?".
Oh, nuts, I'm too late. The quilter went and wrote a book with this mistake: http://www.kayewood.com/onlinecat/melon_block.html
You'd think someone would have caught that somewhere during the editing process.
