Cindy, you're moving the little 4 patch in the middle. You don't move that one at all, move it the way it is in your first pic and you should be okay. The only pieces you move are the 4 "thin" strips and just turn them. Maybe go to the older thread and look at the pics.

Here's an example and just notice how the colors go and you'll see the difference[ATTACH=CONFIG]453844[/ATTACH]See how the dk. and the lights stay together on the same side and the darks do too

I was following the tutorial....i just went back and looked at it again, her whole block in the pictures are rotated, so it does get confusing.

Ok I am glad I hadn't sewn it together yet. I put the center back in the starting position. Now I will sew them and try again.

Thanks jaba

You're welcome, hope it helped you.

Yes now it makes more sense.

Glad you were on line when she was Jaba. I was in my room finishing up mine.

Oops - looks like I have some ripping and resewing to do! Arrrrh

Sorry.......You really did make me smile and giggle though, just couldn't help it. I hate ripping those seams so bad...it's my worst nightmare from h---!! But you did give me the laugh I needed today so thank you even if it will be a nightmare for you too! Happy Happy New Year

I don't know if I would rip them out if I had enough fabric to remake them. i would use them for another quilt or add to what you get back.

That is what I am going to do with the first one I made.

Welcome to the club! I think I was one of the first to have to redo. I tried to make it have all the fabrics in each row. 😃

to be honest, I laughed too. Can't believe I didn't see it before I posted the picture.

To be real honest Paula, I can stare at a quilt or probably anything forever and never see the error, but if I take a pic of it and upload to the computer and look at it, OMG it stick's out like a sore thumb! Had a lady tell me that one time and didn't quite believe her, tried it and low and behold.....you know the rest of the story :)

Got my six sets done! Hope to make it to post office with them today.

Paula - - -

Your blocks are fine. No ripping or re-doing necessary. Hope you read this in time.

Jane

:thumbup: :thumbup:

Jane

Mom-6, those are gorgeous. Great job

Thanks Jane, but they are backward for the way the request is for this swap.!

Jaba-I have also learned to take a picture. My problem was I did not look at the pic before I posted it - Duh!

Mom-6 nice blocks and naturally I love the purple ones:thumbup: Paula I know that DUH feeling very well thank you. Happy New Year everyone! No big party night for us, had my heyday years ago and still remember it all to well. I'll be lucky to last until 10 p.m., that's what you get for waking up every morning at 4:30 or 5:00

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!
Now to get busy sewing. . .

Good morning & Happy New Year!

The February swap is posted and it has a fun 'twist' to the quilt block. I hope everyone likes it.

Jane

Here's our update:

Boop56 – 2 sets
Creatfourpaws – 6 sets
Deenatoo – 6 sets
Dottie Dodge – 6 sets
Dragonflynana – 4 sets
groovy pieces – 6 sets
happylab – 6 sets
jaba – 6 sets REC’d
lauriejo - ??
Letsquilt - 2 sets
MaryMo - 4-6 sets
mom-6 – 6 sets
Muse&Sew – 2-3 sets
Nelco – 6 sets
Nurse bonnie – 6 sets
Pattia – 4 sets
Stitch124 – 2 sets
Tubsfam – 3 sets
Wannabquilter – 4 sets

We have 19 in this swap! Wow! If I need to make any corrections (or if I missed anything) please let me know. Please label your quilt blocks. Due Jan 20th.

Thanks!

Jane

Starting on my sets today.

Will start sewing my 4-patches tomorrow. Then next break will start the cutting of the blocks and re-sewing of the blocks. Bye happy sewing.

I have my 4 patches sewn together, now to cut them apart and sew them back together. 1st set is cut apart and ready to be sewn. Now the other 5 sets to cut apart

I have a general question (it's a multi-part question): would you prefer the quilt blocks stay the same size from month to month? Would you rather the February/Valentines block be 8 1/2"?

Thanks!

Jane

I like the idea of varying the size - it will add another "difference" to the finished quilts.

l also like varying sizes. Say for the valentine blocks one could make a wall hanging or a nice table cover.

wanted to say that I have the same black/ white (Left corner) and I will also be using it. (How funny)
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ack, after getting out my "brights" I realized that a trip to the not so LQS will be in order. 2 of my brights I thought I could use are a touch too pastel bright. And one is too dark I feel. and one is almost a duplicate lime green.
oh well, it could be worse, any excuse to go to the fabric store. lol

Hi Nelda, if you look at the ones posted on the first page, they are arranged differently than yours. all the colour should be in the same quadrant. I don't know how you switched them. but it looks to me very different than the ones posted. Maybe a more experienced quilter can help. You started out ok and cut ok, Just the arrangement looks different. hope someone can help

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Nelda your middle strips need to be changed, the black and red to the bottom and the blue and white to the top. Think when you cut you just put them it the wrong place but the cutting is right, just wrong placement.

Jaba; My post about the me having the same fabric was to 'createfourpaws' Thank you anyway for the comment. I am sure she will have some awesome blocks

Thanks, Jaba. I could see that it needs to be tweaked but couldn't quite put my finger on it.

Hope her answer helps you, Nelda.

Jane

Darn! A trip to the quilt shop. Grumble, grumble. . . .

Jane
:)

Looks like we are all getting out blocks finished. Here are my sets - made correctly this time.
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The previous sets I made will now serve as a border round for top made from a previous swap that was also Black/White/Bright, though all different blocks.

Perfect Paula, they look awesome, like your colors!! Especially those purple ones, imagine that??

Ok! while watching Downton Abby last night I made the two sets of 4 patch blocks for the D4P swap for December. I chain-pieced the squares which made the blocks come together so fast. Now I have to make the cuts and sew up the blocks to finish. I guess this is the slow part of the process.

Does anyone have any suggestions that would speed up this part of the block-making process? If there's no way to speed it up then, I'll just plug along. Only making 2 sets so it's not a huge amount of time, but I timed myself and including sewing the 4 patches together, it took about 15 mins to cut/sew/press each D4P block.

Has anyone timed yourself to see how long it takes to make one block? Thinking I'm just a slow block maker....

Any advice for a faster process would be appreciated.

Julie

Also, I on the 1930's Swap, I followed a D4P tutorial by MSQC. Does following that tutorial produce the same block as the tutorial on this swap? On the MSQC tutorial, the larger outer blocks are flip-flopped across, and the small middle square is rotated by one turn to the left. The narrow strips are never moved.
This is different than the tutorial for this swap which says to just flip the narrow strips.

Just curious.