NOT!
Don't we all wish we were. Maybe some of you are. I sure am not. Therefore, I spent the day trimming blocks.
I am prepping my Kira blocks (GE Designs) to get them laid out in a pleasing order so that I can piece this top. I borrowed my friend's (Sharon's) Stripology Squared ruler for squaring up these blocks and it works wonderfully. Here is what I ended up trimming off. I really do hate trimming up my blocks. It is so time consuming, but oh so worth it in the end.
This goes to show I am not so perfect.
I am going to lay out these blocks and pin my rows together and then set it aside for working on at a retreat that I will be attending next month.
Since I was in the mood for trimming (that is, if anyone is ever in the mood for trimming), I decided to piece together some HST that I found in a bin of French General fabric (yes....I have a whole bin). These were all paired up and I believe they were cut offs from another quilt, although I can't for the life of me remember which quilt they are from.
They were all paired up, face to face, so I just had to run them through the machine.
Then I used my handy dandy Quilt in a Day Square Up ruler.
This took even longer since there were about 179 pairs.
I have now pressed the sets open.
These will work up to be 2" finished. Now to come up with a layout for these. I, also, have plenty of fabric that I could use for a border as I am thinking that this little quilt is going to be 13 x 13 blocks (26" square center) which equals 169 blocks. I could make more, but will I?
Time will tell.
I guess I will sit in front of the TV tonight and trim off those rabbit ears. That will be another little bit of progress on these orphan blocks.
I may, also, kit this up for taking to retreat.
Ok....I think I will start laying out some blocks and see where it takes me.
Hope you are having a quilty day. Again, we are waiting for a good snowstorm (something like 3"). Will Spring ever arrive?!!
Between trimming and basting, not sure which is my least favorite part of quilting...but both are necessary as you said. I do find the revolving cutting mat handy - it is the smaller one which is nice for HST’s, etc. We got the 3” of white stuff here...not sure which direction we forwarded it on. I am with you - Spring can arrive any time now.
ReplyDeleteYou didn't have much to trim off, but you're right, it is worth it. Better to have a little to trim than to have them turn out too small. The French General sounds like it would make a perfect wall hanging in a little girl's room! Stitching, squaring up, trimming rabbit ears. All worth it in the end when you end up with such a lovely finished "something"!
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