Fall Block Swap/So a new adventure begins.
They give him a ton of character.
06-15-2017, 05:14 PM
#224
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Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: SF Bay Area
Posts: 531
Hi everybody again!
Fell off the radar vacationing in FL - and now after upload snafu, here's my blocks for the 2 sets I've done so far. I am making at least one more set. I've been sewing as fast as I can.
I still feel as if I'm on "beach and cocktail time."
You'll be able to see I was practicing half-square triangles - the first block is "fall campfire" and recall that fire is wonky...in my defense...
...fire is really, really wonky.
The second one is "half-hexes with gingko leaf" (not realistic b/c their autumn colors in real life are gold). Too bad I had to add the smallest of strips to this one block to center the design.
Fell off the radar vacationing in FL - and now after upload snafu, here's my blocks for the 2 sets I've done so far. I am making at least one more set. I've been sewing as fast as I can.
I still feel as if I'm on "beach and cocktail time."
You'll be able to see I was practicing half-square triangles - the first block is "fall campfire" and recall that fire is wonky...in my defense...
...fire is really, really wonky.The second one is "half-hexes with gingko leaf" (not realistic b/c their autumn colors in real life are gold). Too bad I had to add the smallest of strips to this one block to center the design.
06-15-2017, 10:09 PM
#226
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Victoria, Australia
Posts: 3,724
GracefulAnn and K-Roll - great blocks from both of you. Glad you had a good vacation K-Roll.
I have been unsewing. Chain pieced the side border on all five blocks of set 3 and then decided I didn't like the colour. Shame I didn't just do a test one first but I was trying to hurry myself along.
I have been unsewing. Chain pieced the side border on all five blocks of set 3 and then decided I didn't like the colour. Shame I didn't just do a test one first but I was trying to hurry myself along.
06-16-2017, 01:37 PM
#229
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Kansas
Posts: 4,433
Here's my fourth set. I didn't give him and eye because for mine I want to put a button eye on. I thought I'd leave that up to you too.
FYI, ladies, I use tear-away stabilizer behind my appliqués and I can never quite tear away everything in between the tiny zigzag stitches. I believe it washes away. I hope you don't mind?
FYI, ladies, I use tear-away stabilizer behind my appliqués and I can never quite tear away everything in between the tiny zigzag stitches. I believe it washes away. I hope you don't mind?
Last edited by NZquilter; 06-16-2017 at 01:44 PM.
06-16-2017, 03:29 PM
#230
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: *where the sun almost always shines*
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Originally Posted by NZquilter
Here's my fourth set. I didn't give him and eye because for mine I want to put a button eye on. I thought I'd leave that up to you too.
FYI, ladies, I use tear-away stabilizer behind my appliqués and I can never quite tear away everything in between the tiny zigzag stitches. I believe it washes away. I hope you don't mind?
FYI, ladies, I use tear-away stabilizer behind my appliqués and I can never quite tear away everything in between the tiny zigzag stitches. I believe it washes away. I hope you don't mind?
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