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05-23-2012, 04:44 AM

#41

pmrosie

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Join Date: Feb 2012

Posts: 114

Listen! It's still an awesome quilt. I am a beginner, and I love that someone who has experience still messes up and is willing to admit it. It makes me feel like there is hope for me! LOL

05-23-2012, 05:03 AM

#42

DJinSC

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Join Date: Feb 2012

Location: South Carolina, just south of Charlotte

Posts: 425

Honey, you have jut described my quilting life! I make so many mistakes I just shake my head and keep moving on.

05-23-2012, 05:04 AM

#43

Happy Linda

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Join Date: Jan 2011

Location: Port Ludlow, WA

Posts: 1,379

Sometimes ya just have to walk away and come back later. And scream a little, talk to yourself.

05-23-2012, 05:10 AM

#44

mollybluebonnet

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Join Date: Mar 2011

Posts: 21

Oh my gosh, I've actually been there and done exactly that. I'm an upside down backward lefty so I'm always having problems like this. It's so frustrating and it doesn't get better with practice. Sometimes I have a meltdown and just give up for a while until I can face the seam ripping (yes, the seam ripper is my best friend), recutting, resewing, etc.
Thanks so much for making me feel better.

05-23-2012, 05:22 AM

#45

cpower

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Join Date: Jan 2011

Location: Canyon Lake, TX

Posts: 277

I love this tutorial, and I am sooooo glad to know that I am not the only "blonde moment" in this group. roflma!! Thank you so much for sharing this and for keeping on when you could have quit! I love this quilt!

05-23-2012, 05:26 AM

#46

cpower

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Join Date: Jan 2011

Location: Canyon Lake, TX

Posts: 277

thank you for giving me the laugh of the morning! I thought I was the only "blonde moment" in the group? I have done this more than once and never even thought of taking pictures and sharing with someone!! Some projects just start out trying to stump you, and you just refuse to give them up! You go girl!!!

05-23-2012, 05:29 AM

#47

bibi

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Join Date: Jan 2012

Posts: 3,354

All I can say this will be one beautiful quilt when it is all completed. Keep up the great attitude and job.

05-23-2012, 05:39 AM

#48

PolkaBabe

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Join Date: Dec 2010

Location: Iowa City, IA.

Posts: 1,076

Sorry you were having all those problems, look at it this way you really got to be creative. The quilt is very pretty.

05-23-2012, 05:47 AM

#49

Drue

Senior Member

Join Date: Sep 2011

Location: Grapeland, Texas

Posts: 573

Oh My Goodness! FAY, you have taken on the dragon this time, haven't you! Don't you just hate it when everything you try to do is WRONG!? Good for your tenacity to stick with it, girl! Can't wait to see the finished product. I know it will look great!
I'm afraid it it were me making this quilt top, I'd have to put it down for a while and do something else....of course by the time I might get back to it, the child I was making it for could have grandchildren! LOL,LOL

Good Luck and on plugging away!
Hugs, Drue

05-23-2012, 06:57 AM

#50

JoanneS

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Join Date: Mar 2008

Location: AZ and CT

Posts: 4,898

I really like the yellow outlining the HSTs to make the stars REALLY stand out. All-in-all, your boo-boos made a better, not worse, quilt.

I wish I had the sense to take pictures as I work my way through a quilt, mistake after mistake. LOL

I vote for the tool fabric in the border to pull everything together.