Comments on: As a Patchwork husband http://blog.loosethreads.co.uk/2009/02/05/as-a-patchwork-husband/ Loose Threads are a group of seven quilters with a passion for textiles. Sun, 20 May 2012 14:23:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Kevin http://blog.loosethreads.co.uk/2009/02/05/as-a-patchwork-husband/#comment-30 Kevin Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:43:06 +0000 http://blog.loosethreads.co.uk/2009/02/05/as-a-patchwork-husband/#comment-30 Hmmm - much to my embarrassment- it was the wrong way around - I blame Anna's explanation ;o) It is now suitably corrected. Thanks to Terry who sent me the following email pointing this out. Very impressive, but he's got it back to front - in 1/4 square triangles the hypotenuse runs along the grain, but it's on the bias for half square triangles! But brownie points for taking such an active interest (or should that be a tick?!) Hmmm - much to my embarrassment- it was the wrong way around - I blame Anna’s explanation ;o) It is now suitably corrected. Thanks to Terry who sent me the following email pointing this out.

Very impressive, but he’s got it back to front - in 1/4 square triangles the hypotenuse runs along the grain, but it’s on the bias for half square triangles!

But brownie points for taking such an active interest (or should that be a tick?!)

]]> By: Kevin http://blog.loosethreads.co.uk/2009/02/05/as-a-patchwork-husband/#comment-29 Kevin Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:40:17 +0000 http://blog.loosethreads.co.uk/2009/02/05/as-a-patchwork-husband/#comment-29 I received an email from Hazel - which I have posted in here Congratulations on understanding ‘your’ City & Guilds homework! These are very subtle tests we teachers insert into our programmes to ensure the whole family take part in and understand fully what the world of patchwork is all about. I know you husbands find it to be one of life’s biggest mysteries as to why we buy perfectly good fabric, cut it up into very small pieces just to sew it back together again. To us, it makes perfect sense, especially when we can also cut it up into both half square and quarter square triangles. We also like to use equilateral triangles too, this is a good web site that describes how to rotary cut them: http://quilting.about.com/od/rotarycuttingskills/ss/cutting_shapes_5.htm , consider this your homework for this week! Anna’s enthusiasm for all things patchwork is one of the greatest joys of my teaching and knowing that she’ll cheerfully arrive in class despite whatever else is going on in her life makes all the late nights preparing teaching materials worthwhile. - Hazel I received an email from Hazel - which I have posted in here

Congratulations on understanding ‘your’ City & Guilds homework! These are very subtle tests we teachers insert into our programmes to ensure the whole family take part in and understand fully what the world of patchwork is all about. I know you husbands find it to be one of life’s biggest mysteries as to why we buy perfectly good fabric, cut it up into very small pieces just to sew it back together again. To us, it makes perfect sense, especially when we can also cut it up into both half square and quarter square triangles. We also like to use equilateral triangles too, this is a good web site that describes how to rotary cut them: http://quilting.about.com/od/rotarycuttingskills/ss/cutting_shapes_5.htm , consider this your homework for this week!

Anna’s enthusiasm for all things patchwork is one of the greatest joys of my teaching and knowing that she’ll cheerfully arrive in class despite whatever else is going on in her life makes all the late nights preparing teaching materials worthwhile. - Hazel

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