365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Patience Corner Assembly
Day 346: Assembly of the new quilt is going MUCH faster than expected and in part I will attribute that to using a rotary cutter instead of scissors. The tool allowed much greater accuracy in the cuts and therefore running up seams can be done without a lot of fuss. The design is a simple one as well. Each block can be broken into four smaller blocks consisting of one rectangle and two squares, and with a little planning, these can be sewn together with only one critical meet per pair. The final seam of each block also has only one meet. This morning, I laid the blocks out on the floor to see how I wanted to rotate them (lower left), then stacked them carefully for "batch processing." At the machine, I completed three seven-block strips and joined them in the space of just a few hours, and then decided to call it quits for the day. "Patience Corner" certainly doesn't require a lot of patience to piece!
Labels:
assembly,
blocks,
Patience Corner,
quilting,
sewing
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