Old 11-10-2023, 11:21 AM
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Iceblossom
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Break time but here's a picture. All the triangles have been trimmed and paper peeled. They are now in halves, after break it will be time to pin/sew the halves into blocks. I am also prewashing a bunch of fat eighths and a couple of fat quarters for the "neutral" in my Bonnie Hunter project. When we moved we got one of the new generation "impeller" washing machines (no agitator stick in the middle). I was quite happy with the fat eighths not turning into knots -- they were however cut very close to grain and so I had a few threads to cut.

I made a cutting error, or I cut too soon... anyway I had a bunch of small pieces left for the ends of the triangles that were mostly 1/2" short of being usable. It was amazing how as I was dealing with different numbers of bars and different skews and such, I ended up consistently just a little shorter than I wanted. I did cut a few bigger pieces, but mostly used what I had cut as I could, so a lot of them are mostly going to be seams with just a pencil eraser sized dot showing.

Oh well, this is my first project in almost 18 months and I chose something that did not require perfection. It has felt really good to be sewing again.
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