Quilting practice! I made another practice block using the last of the magic-but-wonky half square triangles. I have learned from the Ultimate Beginner Quilt videos several things that I am doing wrong. Regrettably one of them is that I was using the mat to measure for cutting and not my awesome ruler.
I still have not FOUND the awesome ruler since moving. I'm sure it's hanging out somewhere with my dark purple bath towels and my yoga mat, laughing at me.
I've got the idea about making blocks. I'm now at the point where I either need to move on to the next steps, or go out and buy some REAL fabric with intent to make something in particular.
Luckily I have the whole week off! I am seriously contemplating a major shopping run. (Not least to my closest Target, which is in another state, to get a laundry drying rack. Because meanwhile, I have also acquired some dumbbells and recreated some exercise routines, in the process creating a heckton of delicate laundry that needs doing.) Time to map out the optimal path, try to remember which quilt shops are open which days, and cross my fingers the sun actually comes out at some point...
Edited to add: I FOUND THE RULER! It was indeed in one of the "large" Lowes boxes... that I had already looked in... tucked safely between two very large Lego kits. Good GRIEF but I excel at putting things in safe places!
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Date: 2023-07-03 12:04 am (UTC)I still have not FOUND the awesome ruler since moving. I'm sure it's hanging out somewhere with my dark purple bath towels and my yoga mat, laughing at me.
I've got the idea about making blocks. I'm now at the point where I either need to move on to the next steps, or go out and buy some REAL fabric with intent to make something in particular.
Luckily I have the whole week off! I am seriously contemplating a major shopping run. (Not least to my closest Target, which is in another state, to get a laundry drying rack. Because meanwhile, I have also acquired some dumbbells and recreated some exercise routines, in the process creating a heckton of delicate laundry that needs doing.) Time to map out the optimal path, try to remember which quilt shops are open which days, and cross my fingers the sun actually comes out at some point...
Edited to add: I FOUND THE RULER! It was indeed in one of the "large" Lowes boxes... that I had already looked in... tucked safely between two very large Lego kits. Good GRIEF but I excel at putting things in safe places!