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I occasionally longarm quilts for friends. Most are exceptionally put together and I truly enjoy helping friends out with very low rates. We are all seniors on fixed incomes. One friend absolutely loves what she's doing, pretty much all needle turn applique, and often leaving open seams, raw edges showing, etc, and require somewhat custom quilting, time consuming anyway. She NEVER measures, NEVER squares up blocks, borders and sashing are ALWAYS at least an inch or more too long, creating excess fullness, and because blocks are not squared up, no seams meet, seams are all pressed in different directions that create big wads of fabric where they "meet", added to those wonky borders, the quilts never turn out well. Her quilts take at least twice as long to complete as similar quilts made by others. I've even "fixed" some parts of her quilts, but have stopped doing so, even though it creates more work for me in the end. My predicament is this: How to tell her that she needs to do much better or I don't want to do any more of her quilts. I love this woman dearly, (80 yrs old), but don't want to squash her enthusiasm in doing something she seems to love. I hate to make excuses to avoid working on her quilts, I've tried commenting on how to fix these problems but she just doesn't seem to care, and when I work on one of her quilts, I keep remembering something my seamstress mother always said. "You can't make a gold purse out of a sow's ear". lol I'm now considering doing a mini class with my applique group on how to measure, square blocks, etc, even though she seems to be the only one with this problem. Maybe I just needed to rant while taking a break from working on her latest hot mess, (thanks for listening). Suggestions are welcome!