thank YOU!

oh – how frustrating – so sorry!

I will readily admit that I think my later patterns are better than my earlier ones (I keep improving, I hope). he tough part about being really shaggy with your early stuff is that you don’t get too many chances to make a first impression. If you really make a mess of it, you are likely to destroy your customers’ trust, and that never comes back easily.

Sounds like a very special quilt!

Next time I’m looking for testers I’ll post a request!

Oh, the panic on getting a “you have an error” email never leaves! I thinks it’s always going to upset you when you care 🙂

I hear you. Sometimes I thing their review is about how the product looks, not how the pattern functions.

the quilt market deadlines are a HUGE challenge. I sew for fabric companies, and we often don’t have the fabric until just before market (I’ve had some fabric arrive with a week to spare) and their preference is to have brand new design with the brand new fabric. Sometimes I can work out the structure of a pattern before I see fabric, but sometimes the fabric drives the ideas, and doing that in a hurry is really hard. I often need to plaster my design wall with the fabrics and just stare at them for a couple of days – days that I don’t have in that cycle. The twice yearly peaks of panic for market are something I wish we could really smooth out!