I made the second Bunny block and it went faster and the mouth didn't need any "fixing up" with a Pigma pen. That is a black thread on the pink Bunny's left cheek. When I saw it on the photo I thought it was a mark on the fabric. I'm happy to know I don't have to replace that strip.
This is how I spent most of the day yesterday. I took a long sanity break in the afternoon. I started on the leaf section (on the right) about 8 AM. For starters I had cut the the background pieces a quarter inch short. I was looking at the section with the instructions for cutting the Colorful fabric for the leaves and stem,my fault, not the pattern.I unsewed the seams and recut the background, marked the diagonal lines for the connector corners and sewed again. Most were OK but I had strayed from the marked line and I had to fix some of the sections (more than once). When I measure each of the 6 leaf sections, they were not all the same size. So I fixed that, unsew, resew, stitch another line to take up a seam, whatever it took; this pattern requires accuracy.
When I sewed the leaf sections on either side of the stem they didn't line up, unsew, resew, repeat. I settled for not perfect.
I adjusted the width of the horizontal section at the bottom of the flower section to allow for some discrepancy in the length of the flower and leaf sections and sewed it together.
OH NO!! The six leaf sections were wrong. I unsewed the leaf section and I went shopping for 3 hours and we stopped for dinner on the way home. Once home and back to work, I took out the leaf pieces for the second thistle block, of course the background pieces had to be re cut because background fabric was cut wrong for 2 blocks at the same time. The block, on the left, from there on was easy. I will use a different green when I cut the left leaf section for the second block again. I really don't like the green I initially chose for the block.
So I guess after all I would have discarded that block section anyway. I just wish I had not spent the whole day leading up to that decision.
1 comment:
Oh my, Ruthie! What a time of it you are having. I feel that all the same problems would be happening to me. I feel like I'm reading about me! LoL. Your are a saint to keep at this adorable little quilt. I might have moved on long ago. Your discrepancies are so slight they can't even be noticed. I love it so far.
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