So...what's been going on down here? I finished up the first two blocks for the Skill Builder BOM.
And yes, these are iphone photos. Otherwise nothing would have ever gotten posted.
I'm not loving the fact that I used veriegated thread for the lime parts, but I committed not because I bought three spools. I think it makes random parts of the quilting design stand out way more than others. For the ruler I tried out Leah Day's Super Circuit Board design. I had fun with it, but wavy or flowing lines are definitely easier than straight lines and sharp edges.
Just recently I finished up piecing block 3 for the BOM. I am now only one block behind, almost caught up.
Okay pet peeve time here. I don't like how much we are trimming things down in this BOM. Everybody needs a good trim once in a while, but I feel like the extent we are doing it here is pretty wasteful of fabric.
Check out this guy. Is he wonky? Heck yes! But I could have squared him up with maybe 1/8" per side. Instead we shrunk a 4.5" block to a 3.5" block! In terms of total block area, that's a 40% reduction in the size of the block (20 square inches to 12 square inches). That means 40% of the fabric I used to make this block was thrown away!
Here's the other one. Needs squaring? Certainly. Needs 1/2" per side taken off? Nope.
We are supposed to be trimming down our blocks after we quilt them, but I'm going to wait. If I am clever enough with the math, maybe I can get away with not trimming them down and just having a bigger quilt.
Anyways, that's all the photos I have. I have been making baby steps on a few other projects and also meant to show you photos of my newly restored needlepoint chair, but that would require getting off my lazy butt and taking some photos. Instead, I think I will go play video games. :P
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