A little experimenting -

With a fuzzy head probably wasn't the best idea -

But I did it anyway -

And called it PLAYTIME - LOL - ;))

I got out the fabric that I had set aside the other day -

That I had originally intended to use for borders because of the wonderful stripes -

And counted the lengthwise repeats in the far right column - 8 and a half -

And I wanted/needed 8 - so I ripped off a strip -

That will leave me four stripes to use for borders some other day -

Now - where to cut it for the repeat? -

This seemed like a logical spot -

So I did - to make 8 repeats -
Actually I snipped it - and tore it - but the effect is the same -

Stacked them - and did the "pin" thing again -

But this time I "stapled" them together instead of using fabric glue -
I think that the fabric glue works better than the staples -
But that's what experiments are for - right? -
To find out what works and what doesn't -

Smoothed them out - used a "flower pin" under the plastic sheet -

And ran them through the die cutter -

Don't tell the guys at AQ - but I figured that if it would take 8-10 layers of fabric - it should be able to take 8 layers and a flat pin - as long as I made sure to keep the pin AWAY from the die blades - and UNDER the plastic - and it worked -

But using a HST die for a 45-degree triangle - didn't work exactly the way I thought it would -

I have a hole in the middle -

And the tips need to be trimmed off to make an octagon -
Or I could sew a strip to every other triangle - and then square it off -

Here I spun it the other direction -

Then - just because - I put them in HST formation -

Interesting -

But not spinning because I don't have mirror images -
All of the fabrics were right side UP on the die -

So - I cut three more -

For a total of 4 - to play with -

Because - why not? -

I'm just playing -

Thought I might as well sew one together to see if the "sewn" piece still had the hole in the middle - and my fuzzy brain must have shorted out for a second or two or ten because that bottom one ain't right - LOL - ;))

I stitched it all together - and since I'm not a fan of pressing seams "open" - I pressed them in a circle and then tried to spin the seam - it's a little bulky - but not that bad considering how many seams are coming together at the same spot - so maybe that hole in the middle eliminated some of the bulk -

And from the front -

Up close -

The more I looked at it -

The more it gave me a headache - and I already had one - LOL -

So I laid out the last three in a QST configuration - figured they would have the dog-ear notches on the outside corners - but they would be a whole lot easier to put together -

Then I thought -

Why bother using HST to make QST -

When I did that with 4 repeats using the BLUE??? -

So I repeat -

A little experimenting -

With a fuzzy head probably wasn't the best idea -

But I did it anyway -

And called it PLAYTIME - LOL - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -