Thursday, April 23, 2015

Late Night Quilting Casualty

Since I work full time during the day at my job that finances my quilting addiction, I find myself quilting late at night.  These sewing sessions can lead to big time mistakes that call for the seam ripper or sometimes they are just funny.

I recently caught up on a few projects and decided to work on some of my bitty blocks for Quiltmaker's Bitty Block BOM .  I have been working on these little fellows using scraps for a few months now.

They are too stinking cute!!  And a great way to use all those tiny little pieces you just hate to throw away...wink wink.

Last night I found myself needing to make six flying geese units and used a technique that produces four at once.  So I marked my blocks lined them up and...


sewed straight down the line on all of them.  I realized when I went to cut on the line to make two separate units what I had done.  No biggie.  I thought I would just stop for the night, get up this morning and...

 sew 1/4" away from the line on each side then cut on the line.  This worked perfect until I picked up this little square.  Something didn't feel right when I picked it up.  I flipped it over...


I managed to sew a random bitty square to the back!  If that's the worst mistake I make today, I think it's gonna be a good day!  Late night quilting...you never know what can happen.

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