Marion's Miscellaneous Musings

...that Marion, who has been quilting for 20 years, is a complete imbecile when it comes to beginning patterns.

First of all, she forgets about something as simple as contrast. The original blocks had a medium turqoise print where the might turquoise is, and, as a result, there was no discernable pattern. At all. So she bought more fabric (At Full Price!) and remade all the blocks with the little squares in them.

In the meantime, she had made clothes for the daughter, and, since there was zigzagging, switched the presser foot. She neglected to switch it back. The difference is 1/16 inch. So the light turquosie blocks, which have 7 seams in them, are now short by half an inch. This means that all the other blocks have to be trimmed. She almost made the mistake of switching feet in midstream, but SomeOne Was Watching Out For Her and she didn't.

Third, when designing the quilt, she decided not to buy such a simple pattern and got some graph paper and drafted it herself. She finally decided the one square on the graph paper equals 1 1/2 inch finished. This entailed a little math to figure out the size of fabric to cut. Here we discover than Marion, who sailed through high school and college with straight A's in math through Differential Equations, cannot multiply or add.

Fourth, she cannot even count. There is one extra block.

But the cat approves, so the quilt will be finished.

So far, it is going together with minor adjustments and hopefully there will be no further problems.

Like forgetting to put the right presser foot back on when done with this one.

On the plus side, it is a day when the back hurts. On those days, it is bad news to sit in one chair for an extended length of time; it gets stiff and I walk bent over. So the best thing to do is move. The pattern: pick a block, iron out the fold, sit down and sew the seam, trim, iron, trim, and go get another one. I'm moving all the time. So my back got better.

In other news, people have been putting stupid comments on these posts that take you to strange websites. Since no one ever makes a legitimate comment, I might turn comments off.