Remember this block from a few posts ago? I drew it on EQ and made plastic templates so I could start cutting out the pieces today. Well, guess what? It's not symmetrical, so the templates don't fit together to make the block.It looks symmetrical but it's not. I drew a quarter of it and then cloned the lines and flipped them, but it's not symmetrical. I've obviously made a slip of the mouse somewhere along the line - the pieces are only different by a smidge (that's a quilting measurement term I've never seen in a glossary, but you all understand - yes?) but that's enough to throw out all the piecing.
So I'm going back to the drawing board - literally. I'll redraw it from scratch in EQ and take it very slowly. I had hoped to have a block pieced to show my Slow Burners class next Saturday, but that won't happen now. This block's window of opportunity has passed this week. Too many other things I must do instead, sadly!
4 comments:
Will try again- the block is going to look super when that smidge is corrected!
cheers, Sue
Smidge - also known as smidgen. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/smidge
Very well known by me!
Love the block. Loved the book on Islamic design. We usually like the same things!
How many other ideas will you blog about and I will say "Ahhhhhh....I wish!"
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