I had promised a quilter to try out her new paper-pieced pattern. Pattern arrived a-okay, via email. Went to change out the printer ink, and I heard a ruckus under the hood of the printer. It sounded like someone threw in a handful of b-b's. Isn't that just perfect timing?

The printer isn't worth fixing. I'm going to buy a new one after the first of the month, but, I still have a job to do. Hmmm. I brought the pattern up onto the screen; measured to see that the 1" on the screen was 1" that I measured. Yes, it is.

I taped up a piece of tracing paper over the monitor and used a fine tipped marker to register the points. After I took it off the monitor, I connected the dots, and wrote in the piecing order.

Needed 4 copies of this and 4 copies mirror imaged. Stapled around the edges of 8 pieces of tracing paper and sewed on top of the fine lines with an old dull needle, unthreaded. I also lengthened the stitch to a baste. Voila! Flip over 4 of them and marked them correspondingly.

You can't outsmart me, you, you printer thing you! R.I.P.

:) :)

WAY TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lady McGyver!!!

Better yet, rest in pieces. I have an aggravation called a printer that someday I'll be able to replace. But I have ways around it's conniptions too. LOL

great story!!

I've dealt with it's quirks for years. This time one of the pulleys that brings the ink back into the starting position snapped. I did call a repair shop and he quoted me more money to repair it than I spent on it in the first place.

Good ONE!!!! lol lol

LOL< WTG

You rock!