To continue or should I scrap and start over
06-08-2010, 08:48 AM
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Some times it's seems like I can't make a correct block to save my soul. When that happens, I know it's time to just walk away for awhile. When you come back, take a deep breath, then like most have said, tackle this one block at a time. Don't make the next block until that one is right. Double check each piece before you sew it on. It takes longer, but less time than ripping.
06-08-2010, 09:33 AM
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how are you coming along now are you making them okay, please keep us posted
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Originally Posted by quiltingfan
I am attempting to make a simple, log cabin quilt for a graduation gift for my best friends daughter. I have ripped it out 3 times already and now I am facing the 4th mistake I have made and have to rip the seems on 17 of the blocks again. I made one just find, since I kept trying to make them at the same time, and then would have to rip out 18 blocks. I decided that I would finish one block and then go from there. Did the one, decided it was not that hard so I would continue on and sure enough sewed the next seem on 17 blocks wrong. I want to scrap the whole thing and start over. I still need more fabric no matter what I decide to do. But now I have all this material cut into strips of different leanghts and will have to figure out what block I could do with them. Thanks for letting me vent. Think I will let it go for one more day and then decide what I am going to do. Will post pics later.
06-08-2010, 10:01 AM
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Obviously I can only tell you what I would do in that situation. Since this is a grad. gift quilt and therefore, time is of consequence, I would set aside your "error" and make something else for her. Later on, after the gift is completed and given to the graduate, come back to your log cabin. Again, I can only tell you that time works FOR me ... when I am stuck for an idea or a plan of action, I do nothing ... and, in time, the solution to my problem pops into my head or I get an idea from another source, or I've gotten over my frustration and I can work on the troublesome one again without bringing on a stroke.
If you are very frustrated, I think it best to make this one a UFO temporarily.
If you are very frustrated, I think it best to make this one a UFO temporarily.
06-08-2010, 12:24 PM
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I went to the store and bought enough material to finish, I always knew I did not have enough. So after thinking about it all day and making another block a different way. (which I did not care for)and since I am basically at the beginning anyway I might as well start over and do what I originally wanted to do which is the log cabin. I promise I will post pics soon. Thanks Everybody.
06-08-2010, 01:21 PM
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Take a deep breath, and keep going. I completed an auction quilt top a few years ago, hung it up so I could take a picture of it and realized that the background fabric I used was two different dye lots!!! I asked fellow staff members what they thought I should do, and they said, "Leave it as it is." There wasn't a huge difference between the dye lots, but I knew it was there! It formed almost a straight line across the bottom third of the quilt top!! I had done so much work on it already that there was no way I was going to leave it as is. So.....I took a deep breath, and had to take it all apart because I couldn't find the matching dye lot that matched the top 2/3 of the top!! I went to every JoAnn's in town!! Basically, I made that doggone quilt top twice!!! When I was finished the second time, I was glad I decided to rip it all apart and redo it. I know it's a pain in the behind, but in the long run it is worth it.
Try to figure out where you keep making your mistake(s), and perhaps make one sample block that you can use as a reference. Before sewing on the next strip, take a look at the sample.
Good luck. Be sure to post a pic when you're finished. I'm sure it will turn out to be beautiful!! :thumbup:
Try to figure out where you keep making your mistake(s), and perhaps make one sample block that you can use as a reference. Before sewing on the next strip, take a look at the sample.
Good luck. Be sure to post a pic when you're finished. I'm sure it will turn out to be beautiful!! :thumbup:
06-08-2010, 05:22 PM
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I can "feel your pain" with the mistakes, unsewing, ect, ect. The same thing happened to me with a quilt I recently got back from the quilter. I unsewed all 20 of the blocks, re-sewed and put together. What worked for me was this:
1. I figured out what was the mistake, then spent TV watching unsewing the blocks, but pinning the strips with each block. (It was strip-pieced.)
Then, I put it away for several weeks. One Rainy Day, I got it out and started putting it back together. Slowly, mixed in with other projects, I completed it. What saved my sanity was to get new projects to do with the re-sewing, after the unsewing.
This is another suggestion: Maybe do Foundation Piecing for the blocks. Here is a Website which has patterns for Foundation Piecing; [email protected]. What you would do would be to not get confused, which I wonder if that isn't what is happening. You would be sewing on the pattern piece and following the colors. I have used their patterns before, and they are good.
Good luck, and you will laugh about it when you get it re-sewed, however you choose to do it. I have made 2 Log Cabins now, and it is easy to get confused. The last one I didn't use the foundation. A friend who taught home ec. at the college here, showed me another way to do it without the foundation. Wish we lived closer and I would run over and show you!!
Mariah
1. I figured out what was the mistake, then spent TV watching unsewing the blocks, but pinning the strips with each block. (It was strip-pieced.)
Then, I put it away for several weeks. One Rainy Day, I got it out and started putting it back together. Slowly, mixed in with other projects, I completed it. What saved my sanity was to get new projects to do with the re-sewing, after the unsewing.
This is another suggestion: Maybe do Foundation Piecing for the blocks. Here is a Website which has patterns for Foundation Piecing; [email protected]. What you would do would be to not get confused, which I wonder if that isn't what is happening. You would be sewing on the pattern piece and following the colors. I have used their patterns before, and they are good.
Good luck, and you will laugh about it when you get it re-sewed, however you choose to do it. I have made 2 Log Cabins now, and it is easy to get confused. The last one I didn't use the foundation. A friend who taught home ec. at the college here, showed me another way to do it without the foundation. Wish we lived closer and I would run over and show you!!
Mariah
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