As promised -

 

 

I was going to show you what I decided to do with these - ;))

 

 

 I chose the Missouri Star Quilt Co. block -

 

 Happy Trails - HERE - that uses charm packs - LOL - ;))

 

 And made two of them - 

 

 

Neither one of them is my most accurate block - 

 

They are supposed to come out to 8-1/2" square - 

 

And they're close - but not that great - 

And - 

After I took the photo - 

 

I thought that the one on the LEFT was "twirling" the wrong way - 

 

And that the center 4-patch should look like the one on the RIGHT - 

 

So I took it apart and re-sewed it  - ;))

 

Part of the accuracy problem - 

 

To me - 

 

Is that I sewed the blocks with the triangle on top -

 

As shown in the video - 

 

But that doesn't let me see the seams underneath - 

 

And this one got twisted - 

 

 

And then there is the issue of the first round of triangles being QST - 

Instead of HST - like I think they should be - 

 

We all know that a QST has the STRAIGHT OF GRAIN on the diagonal - 

And that sounds great - because that gets sewn to the 4-patch - 

 

BUT - that leaves the short sides of the triangle on the BIAS - 

So when you sew the HST to those sides - 

You are sewing the BIAS edge of the HST to the BIAS edges of the QST -

 

And sewing BIAS edges to BIAS edges makes for "stretchy" seams -

 

I think that at least ONE of the edges should be on the STRAIGHT OF GRAIN - 

 

To control any "stretch" - 

 

But then again - it's probably just me - LOL - ;))

 

 

 

Anyway -

 

I sewed this one from the front side, too - 

 

And missed the point that I could have seen - 

 

If I had sewn it with the triangle on the bottom - 

 

So - here are both blocks - 

 

And now I realize that they are BOTH wrong -

 

They don't "twirl" like they should - LOL - ;))

 

It turns out that the LEFT one in the second photo up top was correct -

 

And the RIGHT one was wrong - 

 

So I "fixed" the wrong one - LOL - ;))

 

I guess I'll be doing a little "un-sewing" tomorrow - 

 

After my "chores" - to "fix" my "fix" - LOL - ;))

 

I have decided to cut the rest of these according to the video - 

 

To use up this charm pack - 

 

And to sew them with the triangles on the bottom so that I can see my "points" -

 

But the next "Snail's Trail" or "Happy Trail" blocks that I  make - 

 

Will be cut with ALL of the triangles as HST -

 

I think that should help my accuracy considerably - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -