Good Morning Quilters!
It was a very productive week here. Last Monday, I reported that the indigo/shirting Jane Stickle quilt had 15 more pieces left to make. Thirteen triangles and two corner kites.
I got my paper-piecing brain in gear……meaning I stood backward and upside down. In that state of mind, with three seam rippers nearby, at the ready……I tackled all the thirteen remaining triangles and one of the two remaining kites. While paper piecing, I make every mistake you can make.
Mistakes I made this week:
1) adding a piece too small to cover the intended piece of paper, my favorite mistake.
2) sewing two pieces of fabric to the paper, but then discover they weren’t both “right sides together”
3) Sewing a shirting fabric to the paper when it was supposed to be an Indigo piece….se picture #1 below.
4) sewing a group of paper-pieced fabrics (a unit) to the top of another unit when I was supposed to sew it to the bottom on that unit. Or to one side instead of the other side.
5) cutting (trimming) the seam allowance off of a paper-pieced unit by mistake. Usually at bedtime……a signal that I’m done for the night.
But by concentrating very hard while thinking backwards and upside down, I persevered.
Here are pictures of the one corner kite made this week.. I only made one mistake early in the block, and decided to leave it. The seam rippers were tired.
Here is a picture of the very center part:…five paper-pieced units:
My mistake was the very center unit should have been Indigo center with four Shirting corner triangles. Mine was the opposite. I decided it was a “small” mistake.
Next picture: This first five units are now the very center unit of this next group of five units.:
Here is a picture of the completed corner kite: the last corner kite that I have yet to make is mostly appliqué, so it won’t give me any trouble. Or, I should say…. it better not!
What is on your design wall this Monday? My Jane Stickle blocks will be on my design wall as I sew the blocks together into a quilt top. Hopefully I will have them assembled by next Monday. I so enjoy seeing all of your pictures and reading your blogs. Thank you for joining our Design Wall Monday Linky Party. I appreciate your participation so much.
