Progress Report - 4/17/13

I haven’t been blogging much lately -

I have been SEWING -

Wow - what a concept!

I kept working on the Red Christmas Embroidery Blocks -
For a couple more days -

I got the table topper - 1 x 3 all laid out -
Ornament - Tree - Gift -

Then proceeded to sew them together WRONG -

First I sewed the “Gift” block wrong side up -
The heart is supposed to be to the LEFT of the gift -
And the thread knots are supposed to be on the underneath side - ;))

Then I sewed it to the WRONG side of the Tree -

Of course I didn’t realize that it WAS wrong side up -
Until I had it all together -

So - after I fixed that -
I worked on the table topper - 3 x 3 -

And sewed THREE of them WRONG side up as well - ;))

About that time I decided to take a nap -
And when I got up -
I realized that I had only sewn TWO of them wrong side up -
So I fixed them - ;))

The next day -
I added the sashes to the rest -
Decided to worry about the borders later -
And packed up all of the blocks - ;))

The next day -
I took a break and sewed a bunch of Dresden Plate twosies -
I’ll sew them into foursies later - ;))

Then I switched to LHQSQ blocks -

Block #81 - Scrappy Trip -

Block #82 - Flagstones -

And now I’m working on -

Block #83 - Four by Three -

Because I started with the simpler blocks -

And then let them get progressively more complex -

I’m at the end now with all of the more complex blocks - ;))

And because they are more complex -

And I find it easier to Foundation Paper Piece them -

Each one is taking me a bit longer to do -

Because each one of these suckers -

Is like Foundation Paper Piecing NINE separate 2” blocks - ;))

By the way -

Speaking of Foundation Paper Piecing -

I don’t remember if I told you or not -

Last year I spent HOURS playing in EQ7 -

Working up my version of the foundation -

For Bonnie Hunter’s “Wild and Goosey” block -

Only to find out that it was a standard - public domain block -

Already INCLUDED in EQ7 -

EQ7 - 01 Classic Pieced - Five Patch - #38 - Geese in a Row -

So I chose a size -

Printed up some foundations -

And made four of them - ;))

Since then I have been waiting patiently -

For the Quiltmaker magazine to come out -

To see how close I came - ;))

When my copy arrived last week -

I checked -

And -

My foundation is RIGHT ON!! - ;))

Who knew?? - ;))

Now BOB is wondering -

If she can print out four foundations -

Of a standard - public domain block from EQ7 -

Set them together with a center strip going both ways -

And a center square -

And then have Quiltmaker publish it -

As an original block - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -