Serenity Quilts is having an appeal for quilt blocks. She wants to make a charity quilt and auction it in aid of Cancer Research. The request was for 8 inch blocks on cream on cream or white on white fabric with some form of heart.
I'm hoping my blocks have been recieved by now as I kept forgetting to put them in the post box! Is anyone interesting in seeing how my rainbow placemats are coming along? And how I've messed up every step of the way?
Here they are all basted.
Cock up number one - the pins I bought weren't curved as I thought when I ordered them.
Cock up number two - I didn't iron my seams properly, even though I ironed them to one side, I didn't pull them enough and there are little folds on the front.
Cock up number three - I cut my backing fabric to the exact size of the finished placemats.
I'm quilting squares inside this placemat. I've done the five middle rows so far, but only one on this photo.
Cock up number four - I've done the blue ones wrong, I used the wrong side of my presser foot to measure the distance to sew at.
Cock up number five - I sewed all around and over my first few stitches to secure them. When I cut off the threads, quite a few of these have come undone and will need unpicking and re quilting.
Cock up number 6 - I've caught some folds of fabric on the back because I didn't baste properly.
Cock up number 7 - It just doesn't look like I expected!
The two stripy placemats are being quilted with lines. Irregular lines. Not by design, though it is now!
Cock up number 8 - I've stitched in the ditch on the wrong side of some of the stripes.
Cock up number 9 - I've stitched in the ditch. As in my stitching in the ditch is rubbish.
And a rear view with only the green quilting done.
Cock up number 10 - see cock up number 6.
Well, I've still got 8 more colours to quilt, then the binding to do, so I reckon I can get this list to at least 20 cock ups!
10 comments:
these are great and i wouldnt have seen the cock ups at all looking forward to the next 20 cock ups ;)
I think you are the only one who will ever notice the cock ups. I think the rainbow placemats look awesome. So much better than the placemats that I haven't managed to get further than just think about! :)
your patchwork is all quite beautiful! best of luck with the quilting...
Pretty heart quilts. :D
For all your cock-ups, I couldn't do 1/10th as good as you've been doing!! They look pretty darn good to me. :D
Your hearts look fabby! Love your placemats too and your cock ups list made me smile. I do stuff like that all the time then get mad at myself afterwards. They look fab anyway. Absolutely love all the different colours! x
Girlfriend if you're reaching double digits of mistakes (and really, I don't see most of yours, but YOU do!) you need to take a break from those placemats! Also - patterned backs on projects hide a multitude of sins. Just sayin! ;)
Oh my goodness Wendy - I laughed all through this post - you crack me up girl! I think it looks fine and I LOVE that square quilting...brilliant.
Love the rainbow placemats! The hearts are so sweet.
Lol, think of all the things you wouldn't have learnt if you didn't have all those cock ups! They are a necessary part of learning to sew/quilt :).
Oh bless you. I never make something with put there being a cock up. PArt way through recifiying my cock up I'll remember that I made the same mistake last time and it wasn't that I didn't learn from it I just forgot. grrrrr.
It all looks pretty fab to me, as long as you are enjoying it then it's all good.
Thank you for my spam!!;oD
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