Some more musings :lol:
Have Fun, this craft of ours is for enjoyment and relaxation. If things really turn to custard, it’s only fabric, you can put it in your scrap bin and make another.
Know when to walk away. If something is going badly and stressing you out, take a break, do something else, take a walk, read a book, anything. I promise things will go much better when you get back to it. Unless of course you’ve got a deadline. I really don’t have anything helpful to say about that. I am the worlds worst at the last minute panicked deadline :oops: :lol:
Simple doesn't mean boring. I have tried to use the 9 patch and variants to show that you can make some really wonderful quilts out of some quite simple shapes. Some of the most awesome quilts I’ve seen are those that are based on simple shapes with clear clean lines. So even with beginning skills, we can make a stunning quilt.
I hope this all has been of some use to you. I had a lot of fun playing around with the different settings and searching out some different uses. Please let me know if there is something you’d like covered, I’m open to suggestions. Perhaps there may be a particular block you’d like to do. We must be careful there though, block must already be in the public domain, as we don’t want to run into any difficulties re copyrights.
I’ve decide to use the sample blocks I make for any of these tutorials in a quilt for the ST Vincent DePaul's, they do Christmas Packages for needy families (among other things) and were very helpful to me when my kids were little and we didn’t have much. In Techno Speak that’s maximizing your returns :lol: or what I like to call killing two birds with one stone, Hopefully help someone on here, get to play with all sorts of patterns and shapes, that I'd never have the time to actually make, practice my computer and tutoring skills and someone gets something nice for Christmas, win win really. So I hope Y’all don’t mind being guinea pigs :D . Hope you have as much fun as I did
Cheers
One other thing: I was wondering if it might be better to put all the instructions in a single PDF File that can be downloaded to your computer. the pictures in this post seem to load on in a random order no matter in which order I post them. Would a single downloadable file be easier for you to use? What is your oppinion?
Next Month
The Split 9 Patch and a couple of ways of putting triangles in our blocks