It started with all the half square triangles. Those took me two days just to sew and press after work. Thankfully they all turned out almost perfect so there was minimal trimming afterwards.
And then there were the half chevron blocks, those were the most tedious. Because it involved marking the line corner to corner on the back of squares, but also the line for the bonus triangles.
All of those are trimmed and ready to go, but wow. A) they are tiny and B) I realized how much I hate drawing lines to see on. I'd much rather use the masking tape I have on my machine to sew corner to corner.
So because I'm impatient, I skipped ahead and put together four blocks to I could see how my colors will play together. And I'm really happy with the result, but before I sew any more blocks together, I need to sew all the half square triangles together. Which brings me to my last thing for this week, because this is all I managed to get done. If you do a lot of chain piecing, you really should get yourself one of these.
This one has a regular blade in it, but they make them that you can put old rotary blades in. That kind was sold out when I purchased this one and it makes chain piecing so much better. No more clipping each unit apart, this gadget makes it so much faster. The blade, which you can't cut your finger on, cuts apart all the little chaining threads between your units.
This week I hope to get the rest of the half square triangle pairs together and if I'm lucky, I'll finish the other block. After the blocks are together, I'll go back and make the last unit I need for the border. And maybe on Saturday, I'll have the borders on Old Town as well. I might have to show up for jury duty on Tuesday (yippee), and if I do, I'll be taking my doodle notebook and maybe coming up with more quilt designs. Or write the patterns for some that I've already doodled out.
Happy sewing!
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