I love all of the tutes you are sharing. I enlarged my squares to 5 1/2" finished. I am going to have to do some math to use these ideas but I really like the results.
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Originally Posted by Jates
(Post 5343998)
I'm still plugging along on my Barkertown Jane. I'm trying to add a photo but I don't know if I'll manage to do it with this new site....still struggling with it. Anyways I love seeing everyone's pictures of your blocks. They are all beautiful and truly inspiring!
Gus |
Cut & pasted from post #698 - found where Nancy had told me how to reset your general setting to find that 'filmstrip tree!'
Take note - everyone who has no tree or world, filmstrip, font choices bold italic underline or size options available to them - this is awesome!! just what I need, something else to occupy my time:rolleyes: What you need to do is to reset your "general settings" : 1. click on "settings" at the top of any page ...waaay up top to the right 2. scroll down the far left column and click on "general settings" - under my account - which is under my settings 3. scroll waaay down to the last section on your right to "miscellaneous options" and click here: <label>Message Editor Interface:</label> <input name="showvbcode" id="rb_vbcode2" value="2" tabindex="1" checked="checked" type="radio">Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing 4. last - click "save changes" at the bottom and you too will have all these wonderful options. Hope that makes transferring pictures to this site easier :) Gus Losie - is your AOTH finished??? |
Gus, thanks for posting the icons directions. When we first set up this new site, PatriceJ and I found this 'trick'. I'm just so surprised that there are so many folks who do not have the icons as a default. :(
I'm glad that your surgery went well enough. PT is the answer. I've known several knee surgeries that went well the first time and not so well the second. When I had my shoulder surgery, I didn't get my full range of motion back for almost a year. |
Originally Posted by Cre8tvlwyr
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Losie - is your AOTH finished???
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Here are Weeks 25 and 26. Both E4's are so crooked I think I'll square them up and add narrow borders in the style of Jane Stickle.
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I hate UFOs too, Losie.... can't figure out why I have over 20 of them!!!
ahem.... ok ...OOH! katybob awesome blocks and E4 = very skewed. The drawing in the book is a rectangle & very incomplete - your blocks are perfectly fine! oops gotta get dinner on first then to post pics. |
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So I am official caught up... for the next 24 hr anyway! I make no guarantees about tomorrow...
Here are my E4 and RS11. I used the EPP method to construct E4. The dark fabric I used was one 5" Civ War Repro charm square. First I thought you weren't supposed to have those background 'trapezoids' below each of those four print tris, but Brenda's sketch is a rectangle & when you look at the block in the original quilt you can see that some of the background does show. I think if you wanted to make it 'exact' you would probably need to stretch the inner large diamond to the very corners, but close enough! I did NOT use PPing to construct RS11. I found it very straight forward and EZ to make without messing with paper. The seminole style rows are made out of 1 1/4" strips. I noticed there were three sets of white-print-white in the three rows and 3 of the white-print segments set on point. I started by cutting 2 strips of print 1 1/4" x 4 and 3 strips of background 1 1/4" x 4" ....[ATTACH=CONFIG]347397[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]347399[/ATTACH] After cutting these strips I sewed together the following sets, long sides together: background-print-background and print-background. I cut each into 1 1/4" widths, making three of each. Then I staggered the way I sewed them together so they would be on point when I trimmed down the background.[ATTACH=CONFIG]347401[/ATTACH] I cut 3 additional pcs of background 1 1/2" x 1 1/4." For the bottom longest section, I sewed two of the B-P-B sections and one B-P section and finished by adding the 1 1/2" side of the B even with the bottom edge of the P[print]. The middle section was - B-P-B to B-P to B, smallest section was B-P to B. |
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Next, I added a 1 1/4" strip of BG to each of the section ends - these will be trimmed down later to become those side triangles.
I then turned these sections so the print squares were on point and trimmed them down 1/4" beyond the points for a seamline. I cut a long 1 1/4" section of print which I attached to the TOP of all three sections. Join the bottom of each section to the top of the one below it, while taking care to match the center line [this is actually easier than it sounds because they are all center print square on point.][ATTACH=CONFIG]347402[/ATTACH]How do you determine which end is the top??? There are more BG squares at the bottom.[ATTACH=CONFIG]347404[/ATTACH]Next I used my DJ triangle ruler/template to trim the sides so the final pieces could be added. I lined up the bottom of the top print square with the "3" line. Next I added a 1 1/2" square of BG to the top, trimmed it down again, added 7/8" BG strips to each side and finally a 6 1/2" x 1 1/4" strip of print to the bottom. I did end up wasting a little, but really an insignificant amount. I had slivers left [sometimes I get too close to exact for comfort and end up having to reverse sew and take a smaller seam.][ATTACH=CONFIG]347406[/ATTACH] For those of you curious as to where in the general scheme of things we are... I have finished 64 blocks. There are 11 more blocks scheduled for the next 4 weeks, til the next break August 5. At this point we will have completed 75 blocks!!! ONE-THIRD away from completing 225!! |
Should have said one third of the way TO completing 225! [if I edit to correct I will get rid of those pics I think!]
Enjoy Gus |
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