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Dana Cataldi

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Sep 5, 1995, 3:00:00 AM9/5/95
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My friend, Barbara and I are having 4-5 friends over to my house to make
the "quilt in a day" Christmas Wreath this Sunday. We are getting together
tomorrow to try to sew one from start to finish so we can give everyone
an idea of how long they will be in for. Most of the group has never
sewed, much less sewn a quilt. How much time should we allow for inexperience?
We are not charging for this class, its just for fun.
TIA
Dana Calderwood Cataldi

BGroelz

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Sep 5, 1995, 3:00:00 AM9/5/95
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My experience has been that when I teach a class of experienced quitlers,
it will take them twice as long to complete a project as it takes me.

When I'm dealing with inexperienced quilters, I always allow at least
three to four times as much time. If you have to teach them how to thread
their machines and fill their bobbins, you'd better plan on a couple of
days!

What a nice thing you're doing, though! You'll probably be responsible
for starting several new quilters down this long and glorious path!

Brenda Groelz
Quilter and corn farmer
from Phillips, Nebraska!
(or is that corny quilter?)

Marilyn Root

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Sep 5, 1995, 3:00:00 AM9/5/95
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Dana Cataldi (jc...@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
: My friend, Barbara and I are having 4-5 friends over to my house to make

Dana, my first "8 hour" quilt took 3 days.

--
Marilyn in Westerville, Ohio

Nancy Dooley

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Sep 6, 1995, 3:00:00 AM9/6/95
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In article <42gh8f$k...@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> Dana Cataldi <jc...@wam.umd.edu> writes:
>From: Dana Cataldi <jc...@wam.umd.edu>
>Subject: friends and quilting
>Date: 5 Sep 1995 03:47:26 GMT

>My friend, Barbara and I are having 4-5 friends over to my house to make
>the "quilt in a day" Christmas Wreath this Sunday. We are getting together
>tomorrow to try to sew one from start to finish so we can give everyone
>an idea of how long they will be in for. Most of the group has never
>sewed, much less sewn a quilt. How much time should we allow for inexperience?
>We are not charging for this class, its just for fun.
>TIA
>Dana Calderwood Cataldi

The Quilt in a Day classes that the fabric shop (where I used to work
part-time) held could do all the cutting and piecing in a FULL (12-14 hours)
day, but couldn't manage to do the tying and binding in that time. (We're
talking about a queen-size quilt.)


Nancy Dooley

-- There is no love sincerer than the love of food. (George Bernard Shaw)

Ngener

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Sep 7, 1995, 3:00:00 AM9/7/95
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>>My friend, Barbara and I are having 4-5 friends over to my house to make
>>the "quilt in a day" Christmas Wreath this Sunday. We are getting
together
>>tomorrow to try to sew one from start to finish so we can give everyone
>>an idea of how long they will be in for. Most of the group has never
>>sewed, much less sewn a quilt. How much time should we allow for
>inexperience?
>>We are not charging for this class, its just for fun.
>>TIA
>>Dana Calderwood Cataldi

ah! Great fun! You're having a "Stitch and Bitch"

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