I hit the halfway point, after I had abandoned the panto and just drew chalk lines for guides for rows when it hit me----I was making the dragon scales upside down. I had to walk away. It is coming off the frame and going in the naughty bucket for a time of cooling off. Enough said.
I did cut out the rest of the pieces for this clamshell top. I widened it by one row and also lengthened it, too.
Then I set about using a jelly roll to cut out pieces for a quilt that has been percolating in my head for a long time! I cut up some of the white on white I had in the stash-I had to use more than one print to have enough but it will work.
After piecing a 9-patch, I put some fusible on the back...
...and put it through my 5" circle die to trim it for the center of an Ohio Star or Sawtooth Star block (it has several names!)
And after an enjoyable hour, I had two happy blocks
and they are not upside down! lol
Boo on the badly-behaved quilting…the new blocks are a fun recovery, though! Also love the intensely-bright colors of the clamshell quilt.
ReplyDeleteSometimes you just have to walk away. The new projects look great. Life's too short to waste time on naughty projects when there are so many fun things to be done.
ReplyDeleteUh-oh! It happens to the best of us doesn't it? Sometimes just a little time away is all that it needs to be right again.
ReplyDeleteThose two blocks are so pretty. They look so difficult to me, but then I'm an awful quilter. I've done three queen size quilts and that's it for me!
Blessings,
Betsy