DESIGN WALL MONDAY -
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We have some awesome stuff on our walls!
Well, THEY do - ME - not so much sometimes - ;))
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On my wall today -
Two Old Italian Blocks -
From Anita's book -
Rotary Cutting Evolution -
(c) 2010 - Anita Grossman Solomon - C&T Publishing - ;))
Last week I cut them on Sunday night and took the photo -
So that I would have something to post on Monday morning - ;))
I was hoping that they would match the Arrowhead block-
That I had already made - ;))
Some readers wished me luck and I told them -
That I would have to get back to them on the whether or not they did -
Because I had not sewn them together yet - ;))
Then Monday got away from me -
And Tuesday -
And Wednesday - ;))
On Thursday I finally got them sewn together -
But the center squares didn't measure the same in both directions -
One was 1/8" shorter than the other - ;((
I didn't have time to figure out why -
And I didn't dare trim them until they matched -
So they sat until Sunday afternoon -
While Friday and Saturday got away from me - ;))
Then I measured the center square in the Arrowhead block -
It was 1/8" short in one direction too!! - ;((
Oh, well - too late to fix that one -
It's already been trimmed -
So on to the Old Italian Blocks - ;))
This time I think I'm going to blame my "cutting" -
Because I don't think my 1/4" changed -
Between the time I sewed the side sections together -
And the time I sewed the side sections to the middle - ;))
AND the instructions say to cut a "scant" measurement -
Which I think that I am going to ignore next time - ;))
Anyway - I re-sewed them -
And re-measured them -
And put them on the wall - ;))
But the true test is whether or not the sides match -
The Arrowhead block -
And they DO - ;))
Unless I turn the Arrowhead block -
To the short side - ;))
And that - boys and girls -
Is why they are called TEST BLOCKS - heehee - ;))
Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -
4 comments:
Ha ha. I have a couple of "test" blocks of Old Italian that I think may end up in a backing. (They are not batik.)
Haha - yourself - ;)) I think that backings are PERFECT places for "test" blocks that don't work on the front. These three are going in the box with other "test" blocks that I have done in Christmas fabrics for a "someday - orphan - test block - sampler" quilt. I like the blocks and how they work together - so now I have another Squirrel - and it's all your fault - haha - ;))
and that is why you have such gorgeous quilts! you take the time to make it right ... I say "good enough" and put it together :-)
Thanks, Katie!! - ;)) I really do TRY to get it right - but I am NOT a perfectionist. Sometimes I don't bother to fix anything and say "good enough" and put it together - and then there are times when I remember the old saying - "Why is there always time to do it over - but never enough time to do it right in the first place?" - So I guess it all depends on my mood and whether or not I feel like trying to achieve perfection on any particular day - ;))
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