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Old 10-01-2019, 11:55 AM
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Iceblossom
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I like the way you did that block, Joe's Mom, but if you aren't happy no one is going to make you work on something you don't want to do but you!

One of the ladies in my Tuesday quilt group is making a top for her grandson's steady gal (they don't live together but have been a couple for years) and had about half her blocks made and decided she just didn't like one of her fabrics. She bought a new piece she liked better, redid some pieces and some she recut and just finished all the blocks. Personally, one of the fabrics I thought was fine before I don't think works now -- but that doesn't matter because she is happy with the project. Ultimately, we are our own ultimate judges.

I'm glad I came to my senses and didn't search for the "perfect" fabrics for my current project. The ones I'm using are just fine and the goal wasn't to buy or even cut fabric, but to use those pre-cut squares and that is getting done. Today at small group I took out the part of the binding on the Here Kitty Kitty quilt that wasn't quite enough seam, that flannel slipped. Just have to resew about 3 inches and then re-hand sew about 6 inches I opened up to get to the seam.

My other project was the first round of attaching the sashing to the Confetti quilt. Feels good to be done counting and cutting and back to sewing. Yesterday I sewed together all the sashing rectangles into groups of two, connected at the narrow end. Putting the sashing on the left vertical side of each block to start, this round is over-sized and will need to be trimmed down. I made the decision to try and vary the placement of the seam instead of being dead-set in the middle of the block. I can see in my mind though how you could get a woven effect that would be better if you were precise, but I'm doing this because it is not precise. It's part of my attempts to loosen up that I make kicking and screaming and up-tight all the way.

I didn't have quite enough exactly right block connections to put the horizontal sashing to the blocks instead of block row to sashing row. I could have planned it that way... but I'm planning on off-setting the seams anyway so it will be fine. If I did it over again though, I'd be doing it with all 6.5" blocks, but most of my blocks I was given were actually 6".

Should be able to have some pictures to explain a thousand words in a day or two.
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