Friday Night Sew-In Results

Like most times I didn't get as much accomplished as I'd hoped but I do have some things to show.

 But first a story. I had had all the pieces prepared for Block Three but never got them sewn down so I decided that I has going to do that first. Not a big problem. There are a lot of pieces which meant way more chance to muddle up the background so I only sewed together what had to be and left the others off s I could trim etc as necessary. While I was sewing I started to get worried about running out of thread. As you can see that was a legitmate concern.

But I made it. Then I measured my background. It had shrunk up a touch but nothing to be concerned about, or that's what I'm telling myself. So I sewed on the sides but when I went to sew the top strip I realized I had cut the sides 1/2" too small. Oh pooh. But seeing as this is a BOM from Fat Quarter Shop I had enough fabric to cut a second set of strips. Except I cut these ones 2" too short!! Aaaagh!! Except being from FQS I had enough fabric in one of the fabrics to cut another strip which I actually got right, for the second one I just sewed on the extra fabric and I lined it up so that the seams of the ground strip and my oopsy strip matched.

So this is my brillance. But in the end this is the result.

Which I'm pretty happy with.

I also got all the pieces cut for my enlarged Roundabout. I forgot to take a pic of the 300+ white squares but you can imagine.

And I started sewing.

This is as far as I got last night before I just had to stop. Hopefully I will spend today working on them. And yes that is the disaster area I sew in, and most of the time just move to another pile so we can eat at the table. My moment of truth ;)

Happy Quilt Day Everyone!