This is the 15th year of continuous daily publication for 365Caws. All things considered, it's likely it will be the last year as it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to find interesting material. However, I hope that I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world with my natural history posts, or encouraged a novice weaver or needleworker. If so, I've done what I set out to do.
Saturday, July 2, 2022
Potato Chip Quilt
Day 262: Another quilt top done, and "Potato Chip" was fun to piece. However, somewhere along the line while I was sewing blocks together, I got two in the wrong order, and didn't catch the error until I was ready to stitch the last long seam. After the air had cleared (it got pretty blue at that point), I picked the last two long seams and two short seams so that I had four sets comprised of two blocks each. I hoped that would be sufficient for a major reorganization. That said, in assembling the blocks, they are laid with the centers turned horizonal and vertical alternately, which added another layer of difficulty to finding a suitable arrangement. Luck was on my side for once, and I was able to put the quilt top back together with no two identical fabrics overlapping one another, but one print meets itself at a corner, thereby providing the first puzzle the recipient of this quilt will want to solve. Where is it? I'm not telling!
At this point in the game, I have three quilt tops completed and will probably back them with white muslin to avoid making a trip to the fabric store. Now the problem is this: I want to start another hexagon top to use up the remainder of the kitty prints, but I don't have a suitable solid for the centers. I may need to make a trip to the fabric store after all.
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