Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Close, but no cigar

There is something about assembling a quilt top that makes it seem like it should come together so much faster than it does. And its that false sense that keeps me sewing well after I should just step away from the sewing machine. I was making lots of weird mistakes, yet I persisted. Then I was putting horizontal sashing on the bottom of the top panel...and discovered I had made the sashing WAY TOO LONG. So I took out blocks until it fit.

Yup, when I took it to the wall, I cocked my head and realized the sashing had been fine. My problem was that I had sewn the top panels together along the long edge instead of the short edge. Oops. Where's my seam ripper...

Let's blame it on Buddy.

5 comments:

patty a. said...

How big are those pieces? There must be a gazillion pieces in that quilt! It is stunning!

Barbara said...

Oh my. You need some catnip after all that.

gayle said...

I think Molly put Buddy up to it, though...

Shelina (formerly known as Shasta) said...

That false sense keeps me sewing too. I don't think I would be a quilter without it. Every day I find three projects I want to start, yet there is a pileup of projects from previous days. Keep going, you can do it!

Cathy said...

Closing in on total dementia?