What’s on my Design Wall – July 25, 2011
Posted By drsao on July 24, 2011
On my Design Floor this week I have THE FABRICAHOLICS SUMMER MYSTERY 2011 – CLUE #5 – designed and hosted by Marge Gordon.
I absolutely love to make mystery quilts…..it is ever so much more fun for me if I don’t know what the quilt will look like when I am finished! Anything for excitement, right!
Clue 5 Summer Mystery
This is what the quilt piece will look like after I FINISH CLUE 5…..but first……
I have to UNSEW all of CLUE 3 and CLUE 4
YES UNSEW AS IN RIP APART – DISASSEMBLE – DECONSTRUCT – SEWING GONE WRONG! Below you will see my CLUE 3 pieces all sewn INCORRECTLY…………..this picture was taken before I sewed these pieces to the flying geese pieces……..
Need to UNSEW Clue 3
Have you EVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE?
I should be sad – or frustrated…….but I can’t stop laughing. I am ONLY LAUGHING because it is such a RIDICULOUS FAUX PAS. You see, in the COLOR INSTRUCTION SHEET, Marge’s FOCUS FABRIC IS RED…..and it is sewn at the top…….and I did just that…..the only problem is that MY FOCUS FABRIC IS NOT RED.
MY FOCUS FABRIC IS THE BLUE DOTS….but I am also using RED as my COLOR B. So, that is what happened!
Confused? Apparently I was……..I very carefully sewed each and EVERY ONE OF MY 64 blocks WRONG…..and the I sewed EACH OF THESE to the next step WRONG. So…….my week will be devoted to correcting a COMEDY OF ERRORS!
What is on your design wall this week? To see what other quilters around the country are doing, go to Judy Laquidara’s blog at www.patchworktimes.com
oh no! You’ve got a good attitude even thought it is a pain to rip out. I’m not doing this mystery but I’m keeping an eye on it. I’m looking forward to the end to see what you all are making. I think I like the spread out mystery better than the one day mystery. B.
Yep, I’ve done that once……okay maybe a few times! Can’t wait to see what the mystery quilt looks like.
Funny, and then not so. I did something similar on Friday only on one block but three different times on the same block. I was really getting good at the unsewing. And I don’t like mysteries. I prefer to either design my own quilts or use the plan someone else thought of as a jumping off point. I love BOMs but never set the blocks the way the original one is done: I just skip the setting post for the BOM. I am currently doing a mystery and it has been very hard for me. I am, however, learning a lot about applique so it has been good.
I’m glad you can laugh about it. I would make the diagrams in B&W but that confuses people too. Good for you for having a good attitude, even when sewing backwards!
Marge
I love mysteries too 🙂
It’s easy to make the mixup that happened to you.
Unsewing is a relaxing TV activity!