Nope - never been to Witchita
gonna rain here tomorrow - wish we had snow once in a while.... it certainly has been cold enough this winter - been in the mid to upper 20s at night a couple dozen times. It would be nice to have some 'white' to show for it! I mostly do love the weather here although the extreme heat is not for me.
Glad to see we are sewing a little more! Thx sewNso and Cindy
had our minigroup meeting last night and they helped me decide what fabrics to use for my sashing [going to use one that one of them picked out for me last year]. I was wavering between a solid high quality muslin and a reproduction era small print tone on tone off-white/goldish and we decided on the print. Also went to my LQS, Cotton & Chocolate in Thousand Oaks - if any of you ever get out this way, you've got to check it out! The store had made their own 'candy bars' [half a jelly roll - 20 WOF strips] and used Civ War for some of them - YAY - I think I may just have what I need to finish. Found a perfect fabric for this week's corner kite, BRC. I'm glad I hadn't started with the yellow I had picked out. I'm going to use pink in all four corners for continuity and use the same background for them. In fact I decided to use that background for all scallops as well [provided I remember where I got it from...no markings
... and I can get more]
I'll take a pic of the sashing fabric when I complete the kite.
Meanwhile, here is triangle RS3 [wk of Nov 25] .... if anyone is counting.... I am 13 tris and 7 blocks behind [but I have made 11 ahead of schedule ...
still behind on the average!! and still hoping to be done ahead of schedule
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I posted two pics - one to show you that you can't make the top straight using two pieces at the top like thatquilt.com without tweaking the angle a bit, or you will end up with a sad looking Christmas tree silhouette rather than a triangle. I paper pieced most of it, save for the top diamond which I appliqued, as well as the top 1/2" or so of the bottom triangle. I did carefully cut that bottom triangle out adding exactly 1/4" seam, lined it up with the 1/4" seam line of the paper-pieced triangle section and stitch from 1/2" down from top to the bottom. I then flattened the whole thing right side down on the table gently without stretching to make sure I wasn't tweaking the opposite side of my large triangle, placed in one pin, held with my thumb and finger so that I could keep everything in place to sew down the other side... it is flat
nothing like giving a tip three months + later...
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man!... back to writing long articles instead of short postings.... glad you like some of it or I will have to train my brain/hands to shut up
Gus