I saw a photo on Facebook of what was a beautiful (to me)
quilt and luckily had the savvy to not only save the photo but also read some
of the comments as to the name of the block and a video tutorial on how to make
it. However, when I went to the video
link and wanted to return to Facebook, I couldn’t find the post again, so I can
unfortunately not give credit but this was the photo I saw.
The next step was to find border fabric and with
procrastination comes some good luck as I found fabric that would work in my
stash. Planned the quilt in EQ, got the
fabric requirements but then my inability to do proper math stepped in. I know I had to make two blocks alternating
colours, so clever old me reckoned if I needed 6 yards and have to make 2
blocks then I need 3 yards of each of the two colours.
Big mistake, which I only realised when I
started making the blocks and saw that I have very few which would not even
cover a double bed. Too late however as
I only had 3 yards of the border fabric which I bought ages ago, so no rushing
to a shop quickly to get some more.
So this dampened my enthusiasm and the blocks stayed pinned
to the design wall with no progress at all.
When quilting friend Karin, invited us to visit them on Boxing Day,
warning me she’d be sewing, I got the strips, not yet done, out and took it
along. It turned out that this was just
the nudge I needed to get going again.
I afterwards also managed to cut 12 more of each block to at
least make the quilt for a smaller bed.
These were my blocks.
When the time came to slash through the blocks at a 45
degree angle, I changed my blade but with the sudden smooth slicing, I moved the
blade away from the ruler and basically destroyed one half of a block. No fixing this and I had to make another
full block to rectify this.
This mistake turned into two but with that fixed and all my
blocks sliced and stitched, I can now start playing around on the design wall.
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