Do you want to see what I did? It's not much I'm afraid. I decided to carry on working on the placemats for my friend and set to work piecing the final two. Unfortunately, after laying out all the pieces for one, I realised I hadn't cut enough grey strips for both mats! Not wanted to get bogged down in cutting, I decided to sew up one.
I put them in piles and chain pieced. I thought it was going really well until I'd finished and laid them out.
Oh no, that's the wrong picture!! I must have deleted the one where I'd sewn some of the strips in the wrong order. Ah well, imagine it's all wrong! I had to unpick various parts of 5 different rows and resew to get to what you see there.
And here it is with the rows all sewn together. What do you think? I think I like it...
I usually iron my seams open as it then lays flat, but this would have been a nightmare so I sewed them all the one side. It took me 2 and a half hours to do this! How slow am I??
After that, it was downstairs to watch Big Love and do a bit of cross stitch.
She will be an elephant ballerina with a wand with the number 3 in it. It's supposed to be a birthday card for my god-daughter but she's turning out quite big so I might make it into something else.
I have a free day ahead of me. I should probably cut and piece the remaining placemat, but I think I'm going to catch up on my blog reading - I'm days behind, maybe some emails - I'm weeks behind! Then I think my day will see pinwheels...
beautiful patchwork! it will be a great placemat.
ReplyDeleteGreat job on the placemats. They look great! Lots of work I can tell! :)
ReplyDeleteLovely placemats. The colour grey works so great with these solids. I hope you enjoy(ed) your free day.
ReplyDeleteWow, it must have broken your heart to have to unpick. I would love to attend a local sew in, how cool?
ReplyDeleteKandi x
Love the colors, great job!!!
ReplyDeleteTHis is my first FNSI so I was really happy to get some thing finished.
Take care.
Really like the bright placemats and isn't unpicking a PITA? Had to do a bit of that on my FNSI too!
ReplyDeleteThat is coming along beautifully - sorry you had to un-pick, I hate that part, lol. Love your little cross-stitch!
ReplyDeleteI love how the grey sets off the brighter colors. These will be lovely!
ReplyDeleteI think it looks lovely, and will make a lovely gift :)
ReplyDeleteYour partner-in-crime Nancy also had to do a lot of froggy stitching during FNSI, and even MORE the next day - I fortunately managed, for once, to avoid that fate. I'm sure my luck will change shortly, and I'll be back in the Froggy Stitching Olympics, taking home gold :D