30 May 2012

A Slight Little Problem

I was sewing along at an awesome rate.  Just busting through these Sylvia's blocks..no house cleaning, no cooking...nothing because I was on a roll...and then this happened.

Here is the block in all of its glory...its beautiful...well ignore the spare strings... and then the brain started working....

These blocks are 6.5 unfinished.
Can you see the problem?...that ruler is 6.5 and it is sure as heck not the same size as the block.  I have no clue what I did or how I did it but I will most definitely need to redo this block.  Honestly the only thing I can think of is I cut way wrong but I redrafted the block in EQ and the measurements matched the book so that was all good.


I guess I will have to put this example in the orphan block bucket and label this experience as the quilting fairies were messing with my head.

Off to work and sew have a great day.

Michelle


8 comments:

  1. oops! Even if its not the right size, its beautiful!

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  2. thank you. I love the block..just not really lookin forward to doing it again...

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  3. Oh no! It is a beautiful block such a shame, just a suggestion but it would make a cute little mug rug or mini...

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  4. Great colors! Make a pillow or a mug rug with it. - would love to see what you do with it next week?

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  5. I think the block is beautiful. I agree with someone else here who said to turn it into a mug rug or a mini quilt.

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  6. I thought about a mug rug but I might just save it and put it in the back of the quilt. I am sure with 140 blocks I will have a few more with errors...if not off to a mug rug it will go.

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  7. And you did such a lovely job piecing it! Bummer!

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  8. Oh yes bummer - make a big label out of it for the next quilt. However, you DO need to figure what went wrong! (I'm laughing quietly here -- we've all "been there, done that."

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