Monday, July 20, 2015

ARGHHHH!!!

Night before last, I started working on MSQC ( Missouri Star Quilt Company)'s Sticks and Stones pattern using some beautiful Stonehenge precut strips.  First block  ( Blue ) went pretty easy so I started on second block - not so easy.  The GREEN strips were cut just shy of 2 1/2"... first ARGHHH!  I finally figured out that if I made the seams a wee bit smaller, it would work. I started working on it again yesterday morning, but I realized that there are a lot of blue, green and  purple strips with only two of brown and two of pink.  I got out my graph paper & colored  pencils..decided that I didn't like what I came up with so I ripped out the three blocks ( #3 was a combination of 1/2 blue and 1/2 green).  ARGHHH! again.
This morning, I started AGAIN... I finished cutting the strips to required sizes and sewing the 2 1/2" square Stonehenge blocks to white blocks of the same size ( approximately since green wasn't the only color that wasn't cut exactly 2 1/2".  That went well, so I pressed on and started stitching the same blocks to what I THOUGHT was the 8 1/2" strips... having to stop about 6 times to unstitch and restitch after I realized that I had sewn color to color instead of  white to color.  I had TWO left to stitch when I noticed that I had been attaching the 10 1/2" strips and not the 8 1/2" ones. ANOTHER ARGHHHHHH !!!  So, that's where I am right now... sitting down to unstitch about 28 strips... then back to using the correct size.

WISH ME LUCK!


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