When You Think You’re Ahead

I was working in my Rainbow quilt, excites to start sewing some rows in the first small section  together. They just were not going together correctly, pulled up the pattern again from Pat Sloan’s webpage. As I reread the easy instructions I realized I had missed a step. I had forgotten to trim my blocks down to 4-1/2”. As I told my kids, learn from my mistakes, you don’t have to make the same ones.
  


Today, I took time to take the two rows apart, and then rip the stitches out to separate the blocks of each row. Went in to trim. As I sat there trimming blocks today, I thought to myself, ‘I know why I forgot to trim those, I don’t like this part.’  Oh well we each have a step we don’t enjoy, but the process as a whole or maybe it’s only the end result that makes it enjoyable. As for me I enjoy the time I work I’m on these projects, it is a quiet time. I usually have music, today I was listening to Los Lobos, and Mariachi music. As I sewed I thought about my youth in the Los Angeles area.



I finished the trimming. I used a Bloc_Loc which I purchased at Hannah Johnson Fabrics. I really like
this as a trim tool. It has a groove diagonally across the ruler that really does lock that seam in place while I trim my blocks.
It stays in place until you are ready to rotate the block. 

After trimming I did sew my blocks back into rows, and you know what? The rows went together so much better this time. I am back to where I thought I was going to be yesterday.

I’m am a bit a head of where we planned to be, but that’s ok, I might fall behind on another day. It’s all good,  we don’t race in quilting, since it’s not a competition. Let’s just keep cheering each other on.

Pat’s challenge today was asking about our pins. She had really cute pin cushions. I usually just keep
mine in the tin, or stick them in nearby spots like these.







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