Can't measure today!
09-19-2020, 12:42 PM
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Location: Tavistock, Ontario, Canada
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Can't measure today!
Trying to assemble block packages for my 4-H members to make a block for a sampler quilt as their Achievement (where they show off what they have learned during the project). And FOUR times I have measured 10" squares short! If I wasn't under a deadline I'd stop....
Hoping it will go better if I take a break for supper.
Our quilting project has been based on squares. Members make anything as long as they start with squares. So far we've seen the start of table mats, runners, organizers and even some lap quilts. All done virtually with emails and ZOOM meetings. This Saturday we will actually do a sewing meeting to learn about binding. They are to have their items backed and quilted and ready to bind. They get these block kits with pattern instructions and batting. They need to be returned to me quilted and ready to be assembled (using the Cotton Theory method). Hoping to get a quilt worthy to be auctioned off at the 4-H Conference and Annual meeting fundraiser next spring. Or we might just donate it to a women's shelter or something. Depends on the pandemic situation.... The blocks will all be disappearing blocks into a sampler. Wish us luck!
And that I don't lose my mind...
Hoping it will go better if I take a break for supper.
Our quilting project has been based on squares. Members make anything as long as they start with squares. So far we've seen the start of table mats, runners, organizers and even some lap quilts. All done virtually with emails and ZOOM meetings. This Saturday we will actually do a sewing meeting to learn about binding. They are to have their items backed and quilted and ready to bind. They get these block kits with pattern instructions and batting. They need to be returned to me quilted and ready to be assembled (using the Cotton Theory method). Hoping to get a quilt worthy to be auctioned off at the 4-H Conference and Annual meeting fundraiser next spring. Or we might just donate it to a women's shelter or something. Depends on the pandemic situation.... The blocks will all be disappearing blocks into a sampler. Wish us luck!
And that I don't lose my mind...
09-19-2020, 12:51 PM
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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Yea for you Miss Merry Bright!
Lucky 4-H'ers to have you to help them keep quilting despite COVID!
Definitely, time for some nourishment to help re-charge your batteries.
.... maybe even an overnight sleep!!
Sleep is usually what works best for me when I am having a mess-up day.
Then get up and at'em "bright" and early and all will go well, I bet!
Good Luck!
Lucky 4-H'ers to have you to help them keep quilting despite COVID!
Definitely, time for some nourishment to help re-charge your batteries.
.... maybe even an overnight sleep!!
Sleep is usually what works best for me when I am having a mess-up day.
Then get up and at'em "bright" and early and all will go well, I bet!
Good Luck!
09-19-2020, 02:07 PM
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Location: Flagstaff, Arizona
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Good for you teaching new up and coming quilters hopefully. Usually when I just can't accomplish something that should be easy for me like understanding a pattern or sewing a block correctly I just have to walk away and do something else for a couple of hours and go back to my troubled issue and everything clears up in my head. Glad you are there for these 4Hers
