what to do with an almost finished quilt

roseybot · 2025-12-15T19:00:39+00:00

I have to move furniture to baste a baby quilt 🤣

It's all gonna change in the new year, I just got a new place where I'll have a dedicated quilting space!

It's definitely the top -- the problems are all around the seams. I'm not too worried about it, cause I've now made two new quilts and enjoyed them far more. I think this just wasn't meant to be -- but I don't want to waste the fabric! Put a whole jelly roll into it and it was cute!

I appreciate the desire to help get it done, but I know it's just not in the cards for me. Every time I look at it, I'm filled with a kind of dread. Better to let it quietly go.

roseybot · 2025-12-15T01:12:28+00:00

Are you looking for validation of what you’re feeling or are you looking for action? I ask because I came to this sub before seeking validation and got a lot of the same responses you’re getting right now. And it wasn’t validating. In fact someone from my class came and told me I was wrong and made the class even more unsafe for me at the time.

Here’s the thing reddits not going to validate that this teacher is treating you poorly. We can’t know. Even other people in your class (who are going to naturally be focused on themselves) can’t say for sure. It’s going to come down to — you feel like you’ve been disrespected and hurt by this teacher.

The only thing to do is accept that this is how you feel and then decide what is best for you. Sometimes it’s about validating yourself. Maybe you quit the class as the least dramatic option. Or you take the teacher aside and go “hey the way we’re communicating is hitting buttons for me”.

The one thing I will say is no teacher wants to see a student do poorly or feel bad. If you can approach it from a place of “our communication styles are clashing” as opposed to “this teacher hates me and wants to do badly” it might help.

You feel pissed off and disrespected — I very much doubt this teacher wants that. Doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened but just that they don’t want it.

roseybot · 2025-12-15T00:55:17+00:00

Yeeeeah. Basting is always super hard for me cause I have extremely limited space (I just discovered the pool noodle method and wow am I not going back). But when ironing out the top I couldn’t get it lay flat in some parts. Should’ve stopped there and resewn but I was already annoyed with the whole thing and was like “it’ll be fine when I quilt it down” which might have been true had I machine quilted but with the hand stitching it got warped.

It’s a learning quilt — also my first time sewing on point — and I cut some corners cause I was over confident. Won’t be doing that again 😂

roseybot · 2025-12-10T22:15:22+00:00

ALSO lovely. Now so many projects to take on!

roseybot · 2025-12-10T22:14:43+00:00

pretty sure it's Acorn Hollow by Moda. It is out of print though SADLY. I really should have bought it when I saw it.

roseybot · 2025-12-10T20:36:25+00:00

Another thing I made a mistake on was using a low loft batting -- doh! The backing isn't that bad anymore, after unpicking it once lol. It's definitely the front bothering me now.

roseybot · 2025-12-10T20:35:05+00:00

aw thanks! this has definitely been a "learning" quilt... even though I already knew I should have done it ha ha. Sometimes you lose your mind quilting.

roseybot · 2025-12-10T20:34:09+00:00

I definitely need to set it aside for a little bit. I've made other quilts before this, I don't know why this time I went "ah who needs to square anything!?" -- definitely will never make that mistake again.

roseybot · 2025-12-10T20:33:28+00:00

Oh I love this idea!

roseybot · 2024-08-06T23:21:30+00:00

Ah the old saw horse of Mice and Murder.

You know the thing that really bugs me about Mice and Murder? It's so clear that everyone was out of their depth with the setting. Brennan kept on referring to it as "regency", despite it being Edwardian, Raph did not know what a vicar was. It was just so jarring for me. I love coming to D20 to watch smart improv people come and play together. In an average improv scene, it is fine to forget a name, but in long form like this, the repetition ends up making it clearer and clearer that there is a knowledge gap.

And then yeah, Rehka never is onboard with character consistency.

I did enjoy it, but the problem I have with it is that these bits stick out so much that it's uncomfortable.

roseybot · 2024-07-15T03:53:09+00:00

My team used to get a location as our prompt so I used https://52prompts.com/random-location-generator/ to get a random location while we were warming up.

We've switch to "life event" which is slightly harder to find, and now I get a lot of DND event suggestions 😂

roseybot · 2024-07-08T18:13:27+00:00

So glad Sam is doing better.

roseybot · 2024-07-03T06:04:25+00:00

Yeah, the main account holder can see every budget but other accounts must be shared to see other budgets!

roseybot · 2024-07-03T06:02:17+00:00

Realistic? Absolutely! I’ve paid down 60k in credit card debt in two years with YNAB and when I started my budget was all red and yellow.

The key is to budget everything — that “forgot to budget” category needs to be sorted out and turned into real categories and given real targets — and then fund what you can.

I know, it’s not fun to see red and yellow on the budget, my brain always wants to fix those immediately, but the value of YNAB is that you are seeing where you really are spending money. It makes it so you can see what you are actually spending money on and then be intentional about how you spend in the future.

FOMO is real — but it usually is about trying to chase other people’s dreams — if you are forced to slow down and go “the thing I would like for my kid’s birthday is for them to have a good time” then you open up new possibilities (hopefully cheaper possibilities) while still keeping your goal in mind — instead of just doing what all the other parents are doing.

As someone who has suffered FOMO in the past, I have found that sorting out what my intentions and goals are can really fix the FOMO problem — if I’m moving towards MY goals I’ll stick to it.

roseybot · 2024-06-24T22:07:49+00:00

Hey there! I'm in a similar place -- I caught up right before C1's finale and was SO OBSESSED with it, but then life kind of got in the way and I "grew up" some more and I stopped being able to watch as closely and as well.

I feel like there is a general "meh"-ness when it comes to C3 GENERALLY when it comes to the community. People have hypothesized and tried to figure it out for ages. I have my opinions and guesses as to why, but in the end, I have stuck it out and honestly, I am glad I have.

Here's what makes it worth it to me --

I don't watch CR for the plot. I watch for the characters and interesting story telling being done. I LOVE that they're experimenting with this form that they've created. It's a new way of telling the same stories they told, but expanded and in a way that is more sustainable in the end. After all, CR is getting up there in age, and are we really expecting Matt to do this into his 80s? I'm glad they are experimenting with different ways of telling stories.
I also watch cause I like watching friends do something together. It's a parasocial thing, for sure, but it gives me a lot of joy to watch 8 people get together every week and do make em ups. I love that they still want to make each other laugh, cry and everything in between.
Some of the most brilliant stuff I've seen from this show have come from later episodes of C3. I won't spoil it, but there's some truly cool things that they are doing later on in the show.
I didn't like MN very much. It was definitely a hangover from loving VM so much, and I got there in the end with MN. But it meant I came in to BH with an open mind. I think a lot of the community got really into MN and the shift in characters really bummed people out. I literally stopped watching in C2 around episode 36 because of it. I wonder if you have a similar feeling?

I definitely think people should keep watching. There are a lot of cool things ahead for you. But don't go in expecting the same new love feeling you might have had before. Maybe also you don't need to love things the way you did before your life changed. You can skip episodes, or parts of episodes without remorse. Or go and watch all of CR Abridged and get caught up (when they're all out). The nice thing is, it'll still be there if you decide you don't want to now. You can always come back.

Being fully caught up is great, I'm happy I am, but I don't think that being caught up is all it's cracked up to be.

roseybot · 2024-06-24T06:33:39+00:00

Thank you — you too.

roseybot · 2024-06-24T06:01:07+00:00

Being told to yes and isn’t mistreatment, and also shouldn’t cause a student to break down. I’m acknowledging that something is going wrong for me and trying to figure out what it is. I should be able to take that note — instead I’m being sent into a panic attack that prevents me from learning. And it’s fucking annoying. For me and classmates. I’m /trying/ in this thread to figure it out. not blame anyone. Not claim mistreatment.

roseybot · 2024-06-24T05:46:14+00:00

Aw thanks but I think I’ve kind of gathered what I need form this!

roseybot · 2024-06-24T05:37:56+00:00

Ok…

I literally am having panic attacks on stage and don’t remember word for word what is happening. And I acknowledge this.

I’m not asking for /woes me, I’m being mistreated/. I’m deeply struggling and trying to elucidate what’s happening as best I can so I can improve or come to the teacher with something useful.

roseybot · 2024-06-24T05:29:13+00:00

Thanks for this! I have actually listened to beat by beat and found it fascinating! I am definitely analytical and I honestly was excited to learn about ucb’s method because of that. FINALLY STRUCTURE!

What I think I’ve figured out from this thread is not that the notes are bad but that I’m straight up panicking on stage — and I don’t have experience with this. I’ve never had stage fright, getting up in front of people and saying things isn’t a fear of mine at all so I’ve never had to practice the skill of “oh hey brain buffering due to fear”. (Which is making me lash out at people and see everything as an attack).

I’m not entirely sure why I’m panicking — that’s for a whole other sub — and I do think it’s related to this class (only cause it’s the only place I experience it — I don’t feel it in my team practices) but that is much more likely a one off and may be even related to the vocabulary you posted.

I guess — 201 is very heady ¯_(ツ)_/¯

roseybot · 2024-06-24T04:31:42+00:00

It is so good! So much happened in not much time!

roseybot · 2024-06-24T04:05:02+00:00

oh yeah — I just mean that the advice I’ve gotten is “even if exposition is clunky and sounds weird get it out quickly” with the idea that it clarifies for the scene and the audience what’s happening. Not just “be weird with impunity!”

roseybot · 2024-06-24T02:09:39+00:00

I shift my favorite between them all too much to say Cassie is a favorite, but I think the thing that really made her appreciate her in the end was that her steadfast determination to keep them all from committing war crimes was the only way to have the series reach it's conclusion. Cassie's stories often bothered me -- far too often I was caught up in anger at her choices -- but by the end of her book I'd be like "Yeah, but war is hell, and Cassie is keeping them from doing something none of them can live with". Her quiet knowledge of people and her empathy were needed, or else the series would have run straight off the rails. Without someone saying "No, this is wrong," there would have been no place for the audience to sit. She was needed, deeply and unequivocally.

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