Harriet's Journey BOM
#571
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Florida
Posts: 5,973
Thanks for posting DottyD. That's a good substitution block. We are keeping an eye on Hurricane Ida right now. I will be happily sewing once the storm shutters are up. I'm in the Florida Panhandle which right now is out of the cone but, if it gets to a Cat 3 or 4. They have a tendency to wobble a bit. Happy Sewing everyone!
#572
Harriet's Journey BOM
Thanks for posting DottyD. That's a good substitution block. We are keeping an eye on Hurricane Ida right now. I will be happily sewing once the storm shutters are up. I'm in the Florida Panhandle which right now is out of the cone but, if it gets to a Cat 3 or 4. They have a tendency to wobble a bit. Happy Sewing everyone!
Stay safe and I hope Ida blows herself out with no problems. We were on holiday in Florida once with a hurricane brewing and our flight home was just in time ! It swerved away from where we were though ( Bradenton ) Stay safe and happy sewing x
#574
Dotty, thanks for the next set of blocks. I have set aside part of the four-day Virtual Quilt Weekend, next weekend by the way, to make some of my final squares. OK, I am shooting for 4 to 6 of them on one day, other projects the other days. Hope to have all HJ blocks done by the end of September then my setting triangles and assembled by.....Fingers crossed..... Thanksgiving/November. Why do I have so many starts? Thinking it may be a serious lack of self-control and the simple joy in trying new patterns.
#575
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Ballwin, MO
Posts: 4,269
I had to get my next leader/ender project ready these last couple of days; that is done now, and I can start in on this month's blocks today. Everything else I work on seems somewhat boring next to our nifty Harriet blocks.
#578
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 2,255
I started working on this month's blocks and see that I am running out of fabric. I had started with a fat quarter bundle and variety of whites. Then I bought a few more half yards of this and that. Paper piecing uses up more fabric than I expected. I may squeak through this month's blocks and then begin to figure out how to put them all together. It is fun to look at all these sweet little blocks!
#579
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Ballwin, MO
Posts: 4,269
I am also in danger of running out of my core fabrics (a FQ bundle); the line is long out of print and no yardage is available. I should have plenty of fabric to supplement the base bundle, but I'd like to stick as much as possible to the character of the original fabrics.
I agree, these little blocks are so fun to look at and to make!
I agree, these little blocks are so fun to look at and to make!
#580
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Ballwin, MO
Posts: 4,269
Speaking of foundation piecing, the tutorials I read on FP all said it is important to fold along all the lines of the paper pattern in advance of sewing. Well, this time I forgot, and it didn't seem to make a bit of difference.