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09-01-2010, 03:26 PM
#911
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Michigan
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Ok Odessa, I am not usually not the kind of Nana that tells the parents all the bad things that the kids do while they are in my care, BUT!!, that naughty block of yours is in time out for the 2nd time tonight. She has been stubburn, naughty, loud and opinionated since she got here. I was ok with the companion fabrics she choose but I told her that I wasn't a very experienced quilter and that I thought that the block she had decided to grow up into might be a bit above my comfort level (because of all the points coming together) and she threw a hissy fit and pouted for a while, so quess what, I gave in and let her have her way. You would have thought that this would have meant that she would cooperate and but NO Way, she gave me a hard time from the start. So into time out she went, after a little cool down time for me I got her out and back to work I went and low and behold she started giving me fits again. So right now she is back in time out and I am sitting down with a piece of pizza and a glass of wine. Maybe I will let her out tonight and maybe I will just make her stay there all night. I told her if she keeps this kind of behavior up when she gets home maybe you will put her in a corner of the quilt for good. I'm hoping this changes her attitude.
09-01-2010, 05:02 PM
#912
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: in my studio up to my chin in fabric
Posts: 864
I received my first two blocks, and they are WONDERFUL !!!!
I am posting a photo which has the block I made for myself, as well as the ones from Moonrise and Wendsy. Thank you both for making such nice blocks for my quilt.
hugs, Jupiter
I am posting a photo which has the block I made for myself, as well as the ones from Moonrise and Wendsy. Thank you both for making such nice blocks for my quilt.
hugs, Jupiter
My first incoming blocks! PRETTY
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09-01-2010, 05:41 PM
#914
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: California
Posts: 1,325
F8 Alert! I got Nurse Bonnie's today.
By the way, I've been choosing the pattern, then searching through the envelopes for whose fabric would work nicely with that pattern, then finding coordinating fabrics. That's the easiest part, actually... the fabrics. I guess I'm just confident in that area. Does anybody else do things in that order or am I just creatively different?
By the way, I've been choosing the pattern, then searching through the envelopes for whose fabric would work nicely with that pattern, then finding coordinating fabrics. That's the easiest part, actually... the fabrics. I guess I'm just confident in that area. Does anybody else do things in that order or am I just creatively different?
09-01-2010, 05:50 PM
#915
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 3,601
Megsann that seems to be the easiet method for me also, I have a whole list of blocks I want to make and at the top of the pattern I write how many fabrics I need and I just keep going thru the envelopes till I find one I think will look great and then find fabrics to coordinate.
09-01-2010, 05:53 PM
#916
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Margate, FL
Posts: 955
Originally Posted by wendsy
Leakus-I think I know where the house number may have gotten switched-when I addressed your envelope I used the address label you sent to me on the fabric-I read it as 5711 not 7511-but it could be my dyslexia-it really comes on when I'm tired.
The disappearing 4 patch is like a D9P-only you start a 4 patch then cut it into 9 equal pieces and reassemble them into an eye pleasing arrangement. After I had 2 rejects-didn't like them at all, looked like I just sewed 2 half blocks together, very bad there was a clear division of color and pattern I realized what I had done wrong. Had to redo 2 blocks. But It's a fairly quick block to do once you get the hang of it, I made 11 today. I found I really like the way it comes out. I found the idea on the site awhile back and decided to try it out.
The disappearing 4 patch is like a D9P-only you start a 4 patch then cut it into 9 equal pieces and reassemble them into an eye pleasing arrangement. After I had 2 rejects-didn't like them at all, looked like I just sewed 2 half blocks together, very bad there was a clear division of color and pattern I realized what I had done wrong. Had to redo 2 blocks. But It's a fairly quick block to do once you get the hang of it, I made 11 today. I found I really like the way it comes out. I found the idea on the site awhile back and decided to try it out.
Thanks for the explanation, I read some comments about the block, I guess I have to just try it.
09-01-2010, 06:38 PM
#917
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Reading, PA
Posts: 503
Originally Posted by ksea
Ok Odessa, I am not usually not the kind of Nana that tells the parents all the bad things that the kids do while they are in my care, BUT!!, that naughty block of yours is in time out for the 2nd time tonight. She has been stubburn, naughty, loud and opinionated since she got here. I was ok with the companion fabrics she choose but I told her that I wasn't a very experienced quilter and that I thought that the block she had decided to grow up into might be a bit above my comfort level (because of all the points coming together) and she threw a hissy fit and pouted for a while, so quess what, I gave in and let her have her way. You would have thought that this would have meant that she would cooperate and but NO Way, she gave me a hard time from the start. So into time out she went, after a little cool down time for me I got her out and back to work I went and low and behold she started giving me fits again. So right now she is back in time out and I am sitting down with a piece of pizza and a glass of wine. Maybe I will let her out tonight and maybe I will just make her stay there all night. I told her if she keeps this kind of behavior up when she gets home maybe you will put her in a corner of the quilt for good. I'm hoping this changes her attitude.
09-01-2010, 06:41 PM
#919
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Reading, PA
Posts: 503
Originally Posted by MegsAnn
F8 Alert! I got Nurse Bonnie's today.
By the way, I've been choosing the pattern, then searching through the envelopes for whose fabric would work nicely with that pattern, then finding coordinating fabrics. That's the easiest part, actually... the fabrics. I guess I'm just confident in that area. Does anybody else do things in that order or am I just creatively different?
By the way, I've been choosing the pattern, then searching through the envelopes for whose fabric would work nicely with that pattern, then finding coordinating fabrics. That's the easiest part, actually... the fabrics. I guess I'm just confident in that area. Does anybody else do things in that order or am I just creatively different?
09-01-2010, 06:45 PM
#920
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Reading, PA
Posts: 503
I have ten blocks still to make, but have to stay up all night to keep my daughter awake. [She has an EEG in the morning - no worries, just to rule out seizures as a reason for her 'day dreaming'] I am hoping to get a lot of them done, if I don't get too crazy with them!
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