Bonnie Hunter started her mystery challenge Chilhowie last week and I was so pleased that she eased us into the challenge with some simple four-patches and nine patches. [Insert sound of loud record scratch].
It turns out what is easy in my theoretical brain turned into long sessions with my seam ripper. And maybe some cussing. But let's go back a step to color choices...I like teal/aqua and orange, but didn't want to revisit a purple and orange quilt. So instead of having the orange as a medium bright, I moved aqua/teal to the dark, and orange (that is, coral) to the light. The background is still white. For medium bright, I am planning on a multicolor (or a few friendly multicolors) fabric that I expect to jump out of my stash sometime along the way.
Meanwhile, let's discuss where theory and reality don't match. Essentially all I had to do for the strip sets were dark teal strips with coral on either side and coral with white on either side. When I took my strip sets to the ironing board I found all sorts of combinations...teal surrounded by white and orange surrounded by teal. And yes, one strip set was orange with a white strip sewn to a white strip. !!!
This was not one night of bad sewing...but repeated throughout the week.
And maybe my language behavior may have required a teacher-parent conference.
3 comments:
I do love your colors... and I am pretty sure that Buddy got in to your strips when you weren't looking and made the boo boos ... yep - thats the story.. haha!!
Looks good so far! Just bury the mistakes and no-one will ever know.
Let's just say you got all the mistakes out of the way at the beginning. I like the pop of the teal squares.
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