Iceblossom

Geese are tough, Origami. Hang in there. But in general, I have lot of reasons on why I like cutting large and trimming down. The waste is tiny compared to the huge gains in accuracy (and speed). I find that if I concern myself more with the base the points will take care of themselves most of the time. Even with my over-sized pieces and that all my pieces at least fit, I have about 90% good blocks, 5% ok, and 5% are those noticeable Funky Monkeys.

As for the extra pieces? There were all sorts of ways it could have been prevented. It takes basically 6 inches more fabric to turn those single use blocks into two. Barely anything to make the four corner units out of one block instead of 4.

All this to deliberately try and make people think "oh, there are likely to be pinwheels spinning in the opposite direction in the other blocks"? I don't think much of that excuse.

Overall I was very happy with this project (minus my own Parakeet issues -- but let's just mention her paint chip is the background of that and not the predominant color of what she herself picked). But no way am I prepared to waste the time or fabric to just throw away blocks worth of effort. It isn't just a couple of pieces. Lay out those leftovers, it's basically six fully wasted blocks.

I'd rather make the efforts I'm making now and have more choice out of those I am using in the top. I understand my decision to make the extra units to make the blocks is not what most people are going to do. I think most people are going to have "more usable" fabric in those than my project.

But enough grumbling, I still have another two little pieces of fabric to find if I can to make one more set of the setting units. Would have been so easy to match if I had used prints. Again, I think the people who used yardage came out very well this time. I was actually very pleased with this project -- until the waste happened. And that can be designed out/better next time.

Edit: You can't please everyone, but this amount of waste was a bad call by Bonnie. It's a yard of fabric. Pull out 6 of your completed blocks, look at them and throw them away! That's what this wasteful setting set-up did, and it offends me deeply.