Thursday, October 3, 2019

I was out to the Hall first thing this morning – there was money to be collected and I hate to delay that. Since I’ve been home (and finished playing Candy Crush Saga) I’ve been up in my studio looking for small jobs to do before heading off to my afternoon sewing.

One of the things I had waiting for some attention was Deloise’s I’m a Farmer’s Daughter block. Up until this last step I’ve had no problem using the machine for the stitching; when I did my own quilt I used an English Paper Piecing technique.

On Tuesday I had my pieces all cut and ready to go – I’d been told by many of the quilters that curves are easy. I knew that wasn’t the case because Stacia and Deloise had tried it and had no luck. But I really couldn’t stand the thought of digging out all those paper templates. I didn’t even get the pieces under my needle before I knew it was going to be impossible to do it on the machine.

So this morning I tried again with another technique. I was able to stitch the two pieces together by hand but to say it looked terrible is probably a compliment. So I’ve ripped it out and will start over.

Hopefully the third time will be the charm – back to English Paper Piecing.