Comments on: Q-Buds: Mathematically Challenged http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/2011/08/q-buds-mathematically-challenged/ Quilt. Sew. Live. Breathe. Tue, 06 Jan 2015 22:01:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: <img class="identicon" src="http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/wp-content/plugins/wp-identicon/identicon/ffa7530c1eecd32.png" alt="pauline chapman Identicon Icon" height="35" width="35" /> pauline chapman http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/2011/08/q-buds-mathematically-challenged/#comment-641 pauline chapman Identicon Icon pauline chapman Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:00:44 +0000 http://generationqmagazine.com/?p=421#comment-641 Well I guess I'm another bitchy stitcher but don't have the same loving sense of humour (canadian spelling.) Wanted to see the hilarity that everyone else did. What's wrong with me? Wait. I don't think my feelings could take the slings and arrows. Well I guess I’m another bitchy stitcher but don’t have the same loving sense of humour (canadian spelling.) Wanted to see the hilarity that everyone else did. What’s wrong with me? Wait. I don’t think my feelings could take the slings and arrows.

]]> By: <img class="identicon" src="http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/wp-content/plugins/wp-identicon/identicon/7e97c342b869082.png" alt="Katie Identicon Icon" height="35" width="35" /> Katie http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/2011/08/q-buds-mathematically-challenged/#comment-638 Katie Identicon Icon Katie Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:13:07 +0000 http://generationqmagazine.com/?p=421#comment-638 Hahaha, this sums up how I do my quilts (all three of them) and I liked math. Hahaha, this sums up how I do my quilts (all three of them) and I liked math.

]]> By: <img class="identicon" src="http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/wp-content/plugins/wp-identicon/identicon/6178fc3140ce818.png" alt="Tsigeyusv Identicon Icon" height="35" width="35" /> Tsigeyusv http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/2011/08/q-buds-mathematically-challenged/#comment-632 Tsigeyusv Identicon Icon Tsigeyusv Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:11:41 +0000 http://generationqmagazine.com/?p=421#comment-632 hah! I actually kinda like doing the maths... that is, until I forget that each seam, at 1/4 inch, actually reduces the total size by 1/2 inch. Oh, to ever design a quilt without a mistake in it somewhere! hah! I actually kinda like doing the maths… that is, until I forget that each seam, at 1/4 inch, actually reduces the total size by 1/2 inch. Oh, to ever design a quilt without a mistake in it somewhere!

]]> By: <img class="identicon" src="http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/wp-content/plugins/wp-identicon/identicon/8802d3048899b6d.png" alt="LindaK Identicon Icon" height="35" width="35" /> LindaK http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/2011/08/q-buds-mathematically-challenged/#comment-558 LindaK Identicon Icon LindaK Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:32:53 +0000 http://generationqmagazine.com/?p=421#comment-558 They went well with her hairy legs...Just sayin... They went well with her hairy legs…Just sayin…

]]> By: <img class="identicon" src="http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/wp-content/plugins/wp-identicon/identicon/c07fe76c6669455.png" alt="mojo Identicon Icon" height="35" width="35" /> mojo http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/2011/08/q-buds-mathematically-challenged/#comment-551 mojo Identicon Icon mojo Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:32:53 +0000 http://generationqmagazine.com/?p=421#comment-551 Me, too! Me, too!

]]> By: <img class="identicon" src="http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/wp-content/plugins/wp-identicon/identicon/c07fe76c6669455.png" alt="mojo Identicon Icon" height="35" width="35" /> mojo http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/2011/08/q-buds-mathematically-challenged/#comment-550 mojo Identicon Icon mojo Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:32:06 +0000 http://generationqmagazine.com/?p=421#comment-550 Oh, crud! My oldest daughter just earned her degree as a math teacher. Will she develop hooves? She laughs at my math-challengedness. Oh, crud! My oldest daughter just earned her degree as a math teacher. Will she develop hooves? She laughs at my math-challengedness.

]]> By: <img class="identicon" src="http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/wp-content/plugins/wp-identicon/identicon/c07fe76c6669455.png" alt="mojo Identicon Icon" height="35" width="35" /> mojo http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/2011/08/q-buds-mathematically-challenged/#comment-549 mojo Identicon Icon mojo Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:28:46 +0000 http://generationqmagazine.com/?p=421#comment-549 Hahaha! I love your last sentence! Hahaha! I love your last sentence!

]]> By: <img class="identicon" src="http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/wp-content/plugins/wp-identicon/identicon/e91743343ef71ed.png" alt="Paul Identicon Icon" height="35" width="35" /> Paul http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/2011/08/q-buds-mathematically-challenged/#comment-546 Paul Identicon Icon Paul Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:45:05 +0000 http://generationqmagazine.com/?p=421#comment-546 This made me laugh... Just last week my 10 year old daughter threw a fit over how "I'll never use this stuff anyway! Why do I have to learn it?" (We were studying math with Fractions...) Later that night I was sitting converting a quilt design I had drawn into cut pieces required, and fabric required to make it a reality. My daughter walked into the room, saw a sheet of paper on which I had performed several calculations and she declared, "Daddy, why are you re-doing my math homework?" Seizing the perfect moment to explain a good reason she needed to learn her math, I told her that I use that math on every quilt I do. She stood there for a second and then said, "Oh, Well. I really don't want to quilt anyway." Paul This made me laugh… Just last week my 10 year old daughter threw a fit over how “I’ll never use this stuff anyway! Why do I have to learn it?” (We were studying math with Fractions…)

Later that night I was sitting converting a quilt design I had drawn into cut pieces required, and fabric required to make it a reality. My daughter walked into the room, saw a sheet of paper on which I had performed several calculations and she declared, “Daddy, why are you re-doing my math homework?”

Seizing the perfect moment to explain a good reason she needed to learn her math, I told her that I use that math on every quilt I do. She stood there for a second and then said, “Oh, Well. I really don’t want to quilt anyway.”

Paul

]]> By: <img class="identicon" src="http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/wp-content/plugins/wp-identicon/identicon/8386f4b3b5aa0d6.png" alt="Nurseli Identicon Icon" height="35" width="35" /> Nurseli http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/2011/08/q-buds-mathematically-challenged/#comment-516 Nurseli Identicon Icon Nurseli Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:12:39 +0000 http://generationqmagazine.com/?p=421#comment-516 A toast to you, me, and other mathematically challenged quilters everywhere! And to our off kilter quilts. I love it! A toast to you, me, and other mathematically challenged quilters everywhere! And to our off kilter quilts. I love it!

]]> By: <img class="identicon" src="http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/wp-content/plugins/wp-identicon/identicon/05c500ad1a1cef6.png" alt="Rosanne Derrett Identicon Icon" height="35" width="35" /> Rosanne Derrett http://generationqmagazine.com/genq2014/2011/08/q-buds-mathematically-challenged/#comment-503 Rosanne Derrett Identicon Icon Rosanne Derrett Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:43:48 +0000 http://generationqmagazine.com/?p=421#comment-503 OK, so i am right up there with the mathematically challenged aspect, but with one difference. I am brilliant at maths so long as it has a point. I kept failing maths at school until I worked out that abstract maths ie algebra is really not my thing. Maths where I can apply it is fine geometry, basic maths, fractions, decimals all fab even down to simple and compound interest. What baffles me is the term 'applied mathematics' which you see in so many academic situations. It's no different to any other form of maths when you realise maths is a language. We all apply maths in every day life - it's just how high brow we want to make it. What would you want to read - a gossip mag or the Classics? Oh, yes - I'm English so our maths has an 's' before anyone says anything! OK, so i am right up there with the mathematically challenged aspect, but with one difference. I am brilliant at maths so long as it has a point. I kept failing maths at school until I worked out that abstract maths ie algebra is really not my thing. Maths where I can apply it is fine geometry, basic maths, fractions, decimals all fab even down to simple and compound interest.

What baffles me is the term ‘applied mathematics’ which you see in so many academic situations. It’s no different to any other form of maths when you realise maths is a language. We all apply maths in every day life – it’s just how high brow we want to make it. What would you want to read – a gossip mag or the Classics?

Oh, yes – I’m English so our maths has an ‘s’ before anyone says anything!

]]>