Super Simple Sunday -

Well, that was my plan anyway.  I was going to work on a few projects that SHOULD have been quick and easy.

First up was April's block that I received the pattern for on Saturday while at sew in.  A simple star in a star pieced block.  FIVE freakin' hours later, it was as done as it was going to get.  I couldn't believe it took me that long!!!

look how 'off' the right side of the blue star is... arghhhh!!   I had followed Colette's advice and made the seams a slight quarter inch ( like 3/16")  - that was a BIG mistake.  Took it apart and tried again, this time using 1/4" seams except for in the white/yellow seams ( I didn't want to have to do them again if I didn't have to).

Here's 'finished' block attempt #2...

OOPS!!

FINALLY got it right.... a couple of the seams don't match exactly, but close enough.

here's the scraps left after all the ripping and wrangling.... and there's probably more, but this was the pile next to my machine.

Then it was on to trying Linda G's block again since my first attempt produced a 8.5" block while others are reporting that their's are coming out 10.5".  Paper piecing - something normally pretty simple for me... not yesterday!!   I gave up on trying to keep track of how long it took me just to do the top piece.  First off, I got carried away and pieced it all using the bus fabric - didn't allow for the sky around it... rip them out... then, one of the smaller pieces didn't lay down flat and it got caught in following stitching - of course, I didn't notice it until two or three pieces later.  Then I somehow covered up  a tiny piece and had to take out almost all of the background pieces.  ( Now that it's done I've noticed that another piece didn't lay down as flat as it should have, but I'm not messing with it again).  I finally gave up and went & watched tv until bedtime - which ended up not being until almost 1 a.m. :(

Got up this morning and started working on the second piece of the bus block... no problem; on to pieces three, four, etc... without having to rip out any more seams.  I didn't have a long enough piece of fabric for the last piece so I dug through my gray stash and found a piece that works for road pavement under the bus.

AFTER I finished, I noticed two little mistakes... I'm NOT going back to correct them.  Linda might not even notice.  :)

I still haven't finished the quilt that's on Mo'e... 

quilting is done except for the borders.  I had hoped to do it yesterday, but obviously it didn't happen because of the hair pulling I was doing over those two 'simple' blocks.  It's on my to-do list for today along with some YUCK housework.  Load of laundry going... still need to finish loading dishwasher and get that going.  Have a pie to make for hubby's friend, Clarence, who mows our lawn for us.  Then on to clearing out the dining room so that we can shampoo the carpet sometime this week.  I also have a baby quilt to get started on, along with running into Gall's with Colette.

That's it for now....

TTYL