omak

I just finished cutting out section one ... MAN!
These people did NOT do anyone any favors with their instructions .... wahhhhhh .... I HATE having to think every step of the way! Even if I AM having fun! LOL
So, now for the viewing public (which may or may not exist <g>) I will upload a picture of section 1 ... <wave>

omak

Pretty hard to do when I hadn't even transferred it from the camera, eh?
(May I just comment on how impressed I am with the color selection? It actually looks like I knew what I was doing! What a surprise! LOL)
I am looking at that angled border ... I think we ought to learn how to use our rulers to cut that puppy! What say you, crafty?

omak

the triangles on the very outside border (thinking ahead <g>)
that is what I was referencing with that last question. <wave>

many craft person

okay - I'm a gonna try it. If this works I'll send you some chocolate :oops:

omak

If it works, because it will - - I PROVED it <g>
forget the chocolate, just call me MASTER!!! HAH!
that won't work, cuz you ain't "little grasshopper"
bet you don't know Kung Fu, do you? LOL (I am trying to think if that was the name of that program ... David Carradine ... Oriental Kung Fu training ... traveling all over the West in the old days ... was that the name??? I didn't like the program, but I know some lines - - <g> go figure! LOL)
I am sooooo old :cry:
ah, well ... I have a good humor, and that counts for something, right??? LOL

omak

AHHHHHHH>>>>>>>> *screaming*
what the pattern NEGLECTED to say or show ... but, which my husband lovingly pointed out ....
Section 7 is two images MIRRORED ...
Will show you in seven hours, when I get done feeding cattle, hubby, changing laundry to dryer AND finish ripping out two whole block ...
Bummer!

many craft person

Ah MASTER just like you say - it worked. I never would have gotten it without your pictures. I kept trying to get the dark bar in the center of the thingy.

omak

Yes! I have noticed that their drawings are not to scale, either.
Here is my section 1 ... thankfully, hubby had discovered that mirror image thing before I had gotten THAT together, too! <whew!>

omak

You DID get my message about the mirror image thing, right?
I guess you can drop the MASTER thing, since you have been struggling with that all along!
Now, I am working on Section 2 ... I have multiplied all of the cuts as they said, and I have run out of pieces! GRRRR ...
I am forming a letter to that company ... now, I am wondering if I have EVER actually opened up those patterns I have purchased from them YEARS ago! (I do that alot! :oops: )
Bless your heart! You have done so well, and gotten so far WITHOUT any help from me! ... you need to give yourself some HUGS! LOL <wave>

omak

So, now I am working on Section 4 ... should be straight forward, except for this little thing where they want us to use a template they have provided ... well, golly gee!
They want me to cut FOUR x 2 ... so, I see a square on the drawing ... didn't understand they were referring to a template when the instructions said: Four - C
I looked at the little drawing, looked at the picture, figured out that I needed a HST on the end of a couple of pieces, so I cut some more squares because it looks to me like they want me to do that technique ... well, they didn't!
So, I look at the template and think ... bummer! Why, in this day and age did they have me do a template, when they could have done the x-measurement, draw diagonal line, sew .25" from drawn line, both sides???
and, I just want to tell my young partner in crime here ...
You have done GOOD!
As everyone can see by the pictures of the sections I am taking the pattern is pretty straight forward ... but the instructions were created somewhere WAAAYYY south of where I intend to be headed ...
ah, well ... back to the machines for section 4.
Partner! SALUTE !