Arghhhh. . .

So my mom calls me tonight, and says that she cut the pieces for the quilt that I said I would help her with, and wanted to know if I can I help her figure out the rest. Let me give you some background. My mom doesn't have a rotary cutter or a cutting mat or a cutting ruler. She has never, ever, ever pieced a quilt in her entire life. So I ask if she borrowed a mat and cutter from someone, she says no I cut them with scissors.....
Have you ever tried to cut out pieces for a quilt with scissors? Thats like going back in time a hundred years. . . .grrrr the frustration.
I told her when I helped her pick out the fabric that I would help her strip piece it. much faster and easier that way. especially for her first pieced quilt. Now we are going to have trim each of the pieces that she cut so that they are the same, so that the seams with match up and then we can't really strip piece it because now she has squares instead of strips. I could have saved her a lot of time and energy if she had just listened.
Is this what parents feel like when their kids do stupid crap and don't listen, and have to learn the hard way?
Oh well I s'pose that we'll just muddle through it.
Someday she will perhaps listen to me. I really doubt it though. She is stubborn, hard headed and just a little nutty. :)
Good thing she is so loveable.