Elisabrat's Medallion Style Quilt Along!
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Sewnso LOVE it! not a grand fan of total black and white quilts love throwing at least one color in there and that is a perfect foil to the center.. you guys with that tool.. good for you going the extra mile and keeping at something. wow three times and still going to figure it out?? stand up and take your ovation! I get so mad I stomp off.. twice and then I just get too grumped to keep at it. Sometimes I can walk back and its like a lightbulb in my head. OH YEAH. I again get so off on how to get measurements perfect .. its a hand brain thing lol. I also am the first to figure out ok even if its more steps, and more pieces how to make that block easier in my head. I do oodles of half square triangles vs ever doing a flying geese piece. oh heck no. I wonder if trying that block with someone else so you can both see what your doing and also when cutting your pieces are you cutting to the outside of the cutting line on your ruler or are you cutting on it.. a smidgen more fabric if you cut to the outside.. and pin the heck out of something that isn't lining up is what I say pin pin and then add one more ..
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let's see if i still remember how. [ATTACH=CONFIG]455566[/ATTACH]
sorry, i was trying not to get it tooo big. black and white. black and olive green on the hour glass blocks.
if you have a regular tri angle ruler that is Not F & P. maybe make your practice size tri by cutting the 5.25 square diagonally twice. then lay it on top of your triangle ruler/cutter. mine showed to cut a 3.5 " triangle. cut once, then flip the ruler over to get the next cut. i had to learn to pay attention to which was my bottom side as i flipped. it had been several years since i had used it.
sorry, i was trying not to get it tooo big. black and white. black and olive green on the hour glass blocks.
if you have a regular tri angle ruler that is Not F & P. maybe make your practice size tri by cutting the 5.25 square diagonally twice. then lay it on top of your triangle ruler/cutter. mine showed to cut a 3.5 " triangle. cut once, then flip the ruler over to get the next cut. i had to learn to pay attention to which was my bottom side as i flipped. it had been several years since i had used it.
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my ruler is called 'easy angle', and I sewed some 1.5" strips a few minutes ago. and I still have to flip it, with this particular one. I think I saw it done this way on a u-tube ages ago, also. sorry, I don't like to buy all the extra gadgets if I have one that will work. and we were sorta snowed in. did get out and get to joann's yest, and ran a few errands with the grdsn and grandpa. can't do one without the other these days.
keep them comin ladies, because I have no idea what color I am going to use next. but am going to sew out of the scraps or stash. I'm thinking of keeping the black in each round, but just will play it by ear.
did any of you catch the elenor burns show where she had her 10 yr old granddaughter doing the sewing? I loved it. I had two grdsns sewing on two different machines over Chrms break. I told them lots of men sew, and about the man that sewed patches on all the leather jackets when grdpa & I went to motorcycle shows. their dad does all their patches on their boy scout uniforms.
keep them comin ladies, because I have no idea what color I am going to use next. but am going to sew out of the scraps or stash. I'm thinking of keeping the black in each round, but just will play it by ear.
did any of you catch the elenor burns show where she had her 10 yr old granddaughter doing the sewing? I loved it. I had two grdsns sewing on two different machines over Chrms break. I told them lots of men sew, and about the man that sewed patches on all the leather jackets when grdpa & I went to motorcycle shows. their dad does all their patches on their boy scout uniforms.
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