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Caroline: I don't know whether this will help, maybe your already doing this, but I blunt the corners. This seems to help me line the triangles up and the result is almost always (LOL) the correct measurement.
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Originally Posted by JeanieG
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That is just gorgeous! I'm sewing mine together right now, may be a few days until I'm done. It is in the same colors as yours.
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Originally Posted by lakekids
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Well I worked on the large string blocks last night. I stitched 9 of them and then decided to get up and cut them. I merrily cut away on the first diagonal. then I start to cut the triangles. ARGHHHHHHHHH! I cut 6 of the 9 on the wrong diagonal. When I go to cut the triangle all of those triangles have the strips going horizontally across the long side of the triangle NOT vertically to the center point. @#$%$#@!
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wholeheartmom -- youre a genius! What fabulous advice.
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Originally Posted by Emma S
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Caroline: I don't know whether this will help, maybe your already doing this, but I blunt the corners. This seems to help me line the triangles up and the result is almost always (LOL) the correct measurement.
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Ok. More progress for me today. I trimmed all my red strings and cut 150 squares for step 5 as well as all my blacks and reds for step 6. Overall a productive day. Hopefully I can get some more done tomorrow. I am worried as I am using Alot of a few fabrics as I didn't really have many scraps to begin with. Hopefully it looks good when put together as this is a beautiful quilt. I am trying to listen to Bonnie and not reply look at the fabrics as individual and the quilt as a whole when it's done lol. This is a totally new concept to me.
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Speaking of frustration, lol, I worked on making some Ohio Stars and flying geese units today. The sizes are coming out OK, but please tell me that it is OK if not every single point matches, lol. Because some of mine aren't matching, although what I have laid out looks pretty good from a distance,lol. Will work on it some more tomorrow, and maybe I'll have something to show.
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Originally Posted by candi
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Speaking of frustration, lol, I worked on making some Ohio Stars and flying geese units today. The sizes are coming out OK, but please tell me that it is OK if not every single point matches, lol. Because some of mine aren't matching, although what I have laid out looks pretty good from a distance,lol. Will work on it some more tomorrow, and maybe I'll have something to show.
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Sadie, you are right of course, I haven't been good with triangles and points, but practice makes perfect, right? :D:D:D Actually, I could get many points to match nicely, but some just won't, so to them I said 'oh well". I actually made some progress today and have a few blocks started. I changed the center square in my light Ohio Stars because I wanted more red in my quilt, I think it gives it a nice pop, and boy are there many seams in this quilt! Pressing takes time to get every seam to lay flat!!!! I have my Ohio Stars partially sewed, just need to sew the rows and then finish my flying geese and then the fun of joining it all together. I think I will make four big units and join those together instead of row by row, as it seems to stay squarer (lol) for me this way.
After working on this for the past week, I need a break :D:D [ATTACH=CONFIG]303185[/ATTACH] |
Looking good Candi,I am still working on part 7
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