Having completed six blocks as per my 8/18/22 post, I forged on ahead intending to sew up six more. I sewed four instead of six because of the time I needed to recover from two goofs. Can you spot the first mistake? For each block I carefully lay out all the pieces in the correct orientation yet all it takes is one slight flick of my wrist to rotate a unit the wrong way just before it slides under the pressure foot and the needle chomps it in place. I noticed this on the final seam of the block when the seam allowances were not facing the routine way I had come to expect with my consistent pressing direction. I ripped out three short seams, spun that black sheep unit 90°counterclockwise (middle of the left side), and stitched it back in place.
For my second goof, I messed up and cut squares instead of rectangles out of one of the fat quarters in the kit. There was a time delay to go out and buy a replacement fat quarter from the same Hallow's Eve fabric line. I could not get the same exact orange print, but I got a half yard of something that I can substitute easily. The zigzag fabric will fill in for the mini-dots I cut wrong. There very well may be some orange mini-dot checkerboards in my future.
Oof! Mistakes are no fun. But keep chugging, I can't wait to see the finished result.
ReplyDeleteAlso, that block on the far right in the bottom photo reads brown to me, even though on a close-up I can see that it's actually black and white Xs on an orange background. It's pretty cool that the quits design at large incorporates the shape of that print!