Having seen the commercial, which was ridiculous looking to anyone who knew about quilting, I was amused to read a news story about the furor it aroused. If I recall, the people who devised the commercial actually knew what quilting looked like, but they decided to use the large knitting needle things because they thought that it was a better graphic, ie. you could see that the women were working, as opposed to using a tiny, almost invisible needle, which was harder to cartoon. When they were deluged with complaints and made the change, they remarked that some people were very adament about their hobby, or words to that effect. It was clear that they felt that although quilters knew how to quilt, they didn't properly realize that making an effective commercial required some tweaking along the lines of a minor (to them) departure from a faithful depiction of the quilting process. Devon
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