Do you usually make a test block before making your quilts?
#101
Originally Posted by craftybear
Do you usually make a test block before making your quilts?
I thought it would be a good idea that way you will see if you like the block before cutting up all of your fabric.
Your thoughts please! Thanking you in advance.
Craftybear
I thought it would be a good idea that way you will see if you like the block before cutting up all of your fabric.
Your thoughts please! Thanking you in advance.
Craftybear
#102
Normally I don't. The one time I did, however, it was a good thing. The measurements they gave for one of the pieces was wrong. It truely would have been a bummer if I had cut all my pieces and then had to recut them.
#108
Nope, I just jump right in. In my gray cells I can see the end product. Now my mother-in-law when she used to make cookies, she would make a test cookie. If it's a recipe you have been doing for years and years what is the point? But that was her.
#109
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I've only done some colored pencil on graph paper "test blocks" to get an idea of what a whole quilt (or at least 4 blocks together) would look like. It helped me eliminate a few variations that looked good in my imagination, but terrible when I drew them out. I was so glad I hadn't wasted any fabric.
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