In August, I posted about a quilting challenge I had started with some friends of mine. Each month we would complete four blocks from the book "Teach Yourself Blocks from the Past" by Marie Henry. That first month, I came out swinging and finished all four blocks in the first week!
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| The August blocks. |
Not so in September. There were two pieced blocks, one applique block and one paper pieced block. I whipped out the pieced blocks pretty fast.
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| I finished the "Surely Ellen" block first. And don't call me Shirley. |
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| Next was "Sister's Choice." |
The applique block took me a little longer, but not much.
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| The applique block, called Swirl, was extra easy this month. |
But, the paper pieced block? Well, I wanted nothing to do with it! I even considered not doing it at all or doing another block instead. It was so complicated!
Well, I waited until October 1st (late!) to do it and it ended up taking almost three hours to finish. I've made entire quilts in three hours! I also sewed it together wrong the first time.
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| Wrong!!! I almost left it this way as I was very frustrated at this point and I thought it looked fine. |
But I finally got it right! Yay for me!
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| Crossed Canoes finished correctly. |
The October blocks have been announced and none of them are as complex as Crossed Canoes. Thank goodness. I should be able to finish them a lot faster.
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