Flying_V_Goddess

I'm in the final stages of prep work before I do any actual piecing for my Slipknot quilt. I finished cutting the longer strips of sashing fifteen minutes ago. I spent most of last night getting the strips for the borders measured, drawn, and cut out. Had the shorter sashing strips done a couple days ago.

I was going to mark my seam allowances on the shorter sashing strips before pinning them to the t-shirt pieces. When I put the ruler on the strip to mark I could not get the marks on my ruler to line up with the edge. I had cut my shorter pieces crooked! I think its because of the way I cut them. With the other longer pieces I cut through a single layer of fabric with scissors and with the short pieces I cut through two layers of fabric with scissors. The two layers probably shifted a little during the cutting process and that's why my strips were all wonky.

I spent the last fifteen minutes remeasuring everything to make sure everything was straight and to the right size and thank God everything else isn't messed up. But I'm a bit stressed at the moment.

I knew there was a reason for buying the small $1 box of Russel Stover chocolate when I bought my batting the other night.

leatheflea

Chocolate would solve alot of the worlds problems!

lovequilts

Yeah for Chocolate......

pab

Hang in there,things will get better.Enjoy the chocolates too pab

DawnMarie

Those kind of days are very frustrating! Good luck!

Stitchnripper

So frustrating - I'm sure the chocolate will put a new perspective on things.

Flying_V_Goddess

Can't seem to catch a break. The small box of chocolates only had two chocolates in it. The first one was divine: milk chocolate with a caramel center. The second was horrible: Dark chocolate with a slightly nutty and dark chocolate truffle center. Yuck! It was absolutely bitter. Being that I love food and cook a lot I should of known as soon as I opened the box the darker one was going to be extremely bitter, but I didn't think about it. I was thinking more about how all I wanted at the moment was chocolate and listen to Kittie...the irony being that the song I was listening to was "What I Always Wanted" and one of the lyrics goes "I thought I found what I always wanted. Bear with me." lol.

leatheflea

Good music good chocolate, now all you need is good wine!

Boopers

Why are you still cutting with scissors. Girl, give yourself a real treat and invest in a rotary cutter and mat. They are worth the investment and not that expensive at Wal-Mart.

kay carlson

Chocolate - the mental health food :-)