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02-05-2017, 08:53 AM
#561
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Hesperia, California
Posts: 179
Originally Posted by All2Pieces
Bootsy - Here's one for you. another "housewife" block. I'm not entirely happy with it so I may try to make another type of block in a different colorway. Hope you can use it.
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Thank you for asking
02-05-2017, 11:48 AM
#562
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Alabama/Georgia line
Posts: 439
Thanks bootsy.
JLT37869 - This Flower Basket is my second block for you. Your fabric and directions just called out for this pattern. I love this block, but it doesn't love me. This pattern fights me all the way. I hope you enjoy it. Maybe you can use the white space under the basket as part of a label or embroider the year or something.
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JLT37869 - This Flower Basket is my second block for you. Your fabric and directions just called out for this pattern. I love this block, but it doesn't love me. This pattern fights me all the way. I hope you enjoy it. Maybe you can use the white space under the basket as part of a label or embroider the year or something.
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02-05-2017, 01:04 PM
#563
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Mississippi
Posts: 26,061
Originally Posted by All2Pieces
Jinny Beyer may be a good site for ideas, but be very careful to verify the scale/test square when printing off the designs for paper pieced. Actually, all things I've printed from the web have been a little off. Her site is the one that throws me the most, though.
It's the McCall's site that gives me the most trouble. I just don't like their construction methods, such as cutting weird size squares so you can slice them once or twice diagonally to get the pieces you need. I'd rather know the dimensions of the finished pieces and use a triangle ruler to get them. It's much more accurate. So I make my own construction techniques of their blocks.
Usually working backwards from a picture is the best method for me.
02-05-2017, 01:42 PM
#564
Super Member
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Rural Oklahoma
Posts: 5,374
The current block I am working on I am working backwards from a picture, plus adding fussy cutting sections into previously whole pieces, w/ odd shapes and sizes. It is giving me a headache but in the words of Mr. Tim Gunn, I am making it work! lol
02-05-2017, 03:17 PM
#568
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 3,304
Originally Posted by All2Pieces
Thanks bootsy.
JLT37869 - This Flower Basket is my second block for you. Your fabric and directions just called out for this pattern. I love this block, but it doesn't love me. This pattern fights me all the way. I hope you enjoy it. Maybe you can use the white space under the basket as part of a label or embroider the year or something.
JLT37869 - This Flower Basket is my second block for you. Your fabric and directions just called out for this pattern. I love this block, but it doesn't love me. This pattern fights me all the way. I hope you enjoy it. Maybe you can use the white space under the basket as part of a label or embroider the year or something.
Still need to figure out what I'm doing with your Capricorn fabric ,,, decisions, decisions.
02-05-2017, 04:45 PM
#569
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: WNC
Posts: 9,064
Joanelizbay, whose block is the first one, the pink?
Originally Posted by joanelizbay
After working with a McCall pattern today I agree about them giving me trouble!! Ugh...here are 4 more blocks done. Got 4 more to go.
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