I designed his quilt, bought the material, and then cut all 600 pieces. Everything good you say? That's what I thought but then two things went wrong. First I didn't buy enough material of one colour and so after I started cutting I decided to make the quilt pattern smaller. I was going to just take out a row and a column because the original was quite large. Some how I switched the size of the block as well, changing how everything fit together. Second error, I started putting it together but soon realized that half of the pieces that required the most material (same colour) was supposed to be cut on the reverse side of the fabric (similar to stars). Ahhhhhhhhh.
So I changed the quilt to a LeMoyne star and am using what material I can and adding to it. It will be a similar size and similar colours. So then, I have never done a Lemoyne star before....you see where this is going? I cut parallelograms rather than breaking the shapes into squares and triangles and had a terrible time with the first five stars until I watched a Craftsy class and figured it out. So now I have nice neat and clean points (not all perfect but getting there) and they even lie flat!
So lessons started but obviously not learned...did I tell you I was trying to use as much of the cut pieces from the original start?
Well here's what I have so far. I need 30 stars of three colour combos.
On the plus side I am getting better at bringing the points together and ending up with flat stars...now I have to see if I can piece in the dark green background from the original or if I have to change it to another colour...white? But that doesn't suit his life style. So it might be off to the fabric store..a 200km drive. Black? Mmmmm...I have enough white, black, or burgundy brown.
What do you think?
I think he's going a lucky guy to have you making this for him.
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