Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
I stared at this block for a month, bothered by the uneven top edge. Trimmimg it would drastically reduce the border on the top left double bordered hour glass block as well as leave this unit a half inch shorter than the unit that will attach to its left. I [...]
I’m not wholly thrilled with this section. I discovered that the quarter-inch foot I have been using is more than an quarter inch. I have also discovered that this pattern requires a scant-quarter inch. A scant quarter inch is an imaginary number, and I am just supposed to magically know [...]
My beautiful, bordered flower-square in a square has five tiny squares at its base. Those squares are each a snippet of strips. I don’t like working with small pieces, which is partly why I choose to work with this pattern. It has a bazillion “out of my comfort zone” elements [...]
My seam ripper and I have been spending quality time together. Her name is “Dame It,” because that is what I yell whenever I need her. The “Puss in the Corner” block is actually the “Puss in the Center” of section #1. This part of the section was very easy [...]
No, I didn’t spell that incorrectly. There are several places in this quilt that call for partial seams. I’ve never before sewn a partial seam. I didn’t find the idea hard to grasp, but the execution was a little trickier. Do you see all the seam intersections there where the [...]