Extra strips -

 

 

I thought I needed two extra strips - 

 

For my Northern Woods Bargello - 

 

Two sets of twenty strips will make one strata -

 

And if I added one more strip to each one -

 

I'd have an "odd" number of strips - 

 

Which would make it easier to press them - 

So I "raided" a pack of batik strips - 

Thinking I had two of each - 

 

And that it would be easy to find a couple that would work - 

 

Turned out that they were all "singles" - 

 

So I found two that are rust/green with leaves - 

 

The top two in the photo below - 

 

 

They are not identical - 

 

But I think they are close enough - 

 

And by the time I cut them into "slivers" - 

 

Hopefully it won't be that noticeable -

 

That they aren't the same print - 

 

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That was what I planned to post today - 

 

BUT THEN -

 

I thought I would double-check just to make sure - 

 

And I found THIS POST - 

 

Where I was pressing my Imperial Bargello - 

 

And - it turns out that I was WRONG - 

 

I need an EVEN number of rows - 

 

Because I pressed the odd-numbered rows up -

And the even-numbered rows down -

So that they would nest nicely when I cut the strata -

And shifted the rows up or down a notch -

 

 

 

So - all of that "raiding" was for nothing - 

 

And I can sew the sets into the two strata -  

WITHOUT any extra strips -

 

Now I have to go back and edit my previous post - 

 

To correct my mistake -

 

Oops!! - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -