Someone please tell me you've made this block!
06-26-2014, 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Kitsie
In my Jane Stickle quilt pictures folder I have a whole folder named "O crap!" Here's one:
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Judy in Phx, AZ
06-26-2014, 06:07 PM
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Thanks for all the replies. I guess we all have one of those days. I took vacation specifically to work on that quilt, but I was just not with it yesterday. I ripped almost as much as I sewed. Hopefully I can devote some evenings to the quilt and get it finished. I have enjoyed the stories and pictures. Thanks again.
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06-26-2014, 07:39 PM
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LOL! Well, of COURSE we have! I've learned to never mount a quilt on the longarm without taking a photo of it first... I'll spot an error in a picture before I will with my bare eye. And more than once I've found a block turned the wrong way. Better then, than after it's all quilted! Whew!
06-27-2014, 12:13 AM
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I can't see a lot of the mistakes on the projects on here, shows you that you should never tell anyone of your mistake and most people will never know! I did love the one with the zipper pull on the outside of the bag. I think it just shows we are all "normal" at some stage.
06-27-2014, 03:40 AM
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Anyone that knows me here knows that I write a book with my quilts that I give as gifts. I was working on a block one time that was a serious block having to do with years ago. I made it, looked at it. Colors went well, everything. Got the quilt all put together on the frame and I am tying it down. BIG MISTAKE!!!!! It was really weird. This particular block meant so much to me and the mistake (noticeable to me and anyone else that didn't know diddly about quilting wouldn't see it) and it fit. That mistake was MEANT to be there and I left it. I wrote it in the book that it was a mistake and every time the person looked at that block she would know exactly what it meant and the story behind it. That had to have been one of my most favorite blocks. We strive for perfection, and sometimes we don't even know that the mistake is the thing that made it perfect. Edie
06-27-2014, 03:59 AM
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Originally Posted by KLO
When paper piecing a block, I sewed the next piece facing the wrong way (you know, instead of right side to right side I had wrong side to right side) and when I turned it over to press, what a surprise I had! Those mistakes have made me very good at using the smallest rotary cutter as a seam ripper. Those paper piecing stitches are small and too hard for me to remove otherwise.
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