Snowball Night is a great idea, just maybe not for me. In defence of my language, some of the following words are terms of endearment in Australia.
Please do not read any further if you have an aversion to swearing.
This is a copy of an email I sent yesterday.
Dear ........
I am going to do serious damage to myself. I hate those little bastard squares. What the hell was I thinking. I can't sew a straight line on the diagonal even with a nifty diagonal straight line sewy thingy, and get those shitty 2" squares to sit square. I have completed 20 snowballs, 3 of which are actually 5" square. The rest are any bloody shape other than square, or if they are square they are 4.97" squares give or take a 1/4 inch or two. Bloody bloody bloody snowballs. I think I might do some installation art with them, like stab them with a very sharp knife, repeatedly. Throw red paint all over them, and then burn them with lots and lots and lots of fuel. Anything that will be a very painful death for those shitty little m***** f***** squares shapes. Failing that I can probably make two placemats out of them, coz I am pretty sure there is no way on God's earth I am going to make a bloody quilt out of those bastards.
I hope you had a nice day.
Marg
Maybe you can see from that email that I have been having a little bit of a problem with my snowball blocks.
Not only am I not loving the colour of the ones I have already made, (especially as I had this absolutely fantastic vision in my head before I started), but now I can't make them properly either.
I was really looking forward to doing them, but making them small, leaves much less margin for error. And to think on the first couple of blocks I actually did the second line of sewing so that I could use the cut off corners as blocks in another quilt. HA HA HA bloody HA. At least I saw the light after the second one, when I actually opened it up and looked at the size. If I can't piece a 5" square how am I ever going to be able to sew two triangles correctly into a 1"square.
Now I am beginning to remember why I gave up quilting last time. I need a bit of patience, something that I am obviously completely and utterly lacking. Great! I am going to keep quilting, as I have about 8766 yards of fabric in my stash, double great! Not forgetting I just ordered some more on the weekend.
I think I will join all my fat quarters together, minimum cutting, that should be easy peasy. In the meantime I will let somebody else run for Quilter of the Year, as I am seriously not going to make the cut. (pun intended)
I'm off to crochet now.
Please do not read any further if you have an aversion to swearing.
This is a copy of an email I sent yesterday.
Dear ........
I am going to do serious damage to myself. I hate those little bastard squares. What the hell was I thinking. I can't sew a straight line on the diagonal even with a nifty diagonal straight line sewy thingy, and get those shitty 2" squares to sit square. I have completed 20 snowballs, 3 of which are actually 5" square. The rest are any bloody shape other than square, or if they are square they are 4.97" squares give or take a 1/4 inch or two. Bloody bloody bloody snowballs. I think I might do some installation art with them, like stab them with a very sharp knife, repeatedly. Throw red paint all over them, and then burn them with lots and lots and lots of fuel. Anything that will be a very painful death for those shitty little m***** f***** squares shapes. Failing that I can probably make two placemats out of them, coz I am pretty sure there is no way on God's earth I am going to make a bloody quilt out of those bastards.
I hope you had a nice day.
Marg
Maybe you can see from that email that I have been having a little bit of a problem with my snowball blocks.
Not only am I not loving the colour of the ones I have already made, (especially as I had this absolutely fantastic vision in my head before I started), but now I can't make them properly either.
I was really looking forward to doing them, but making them small, leaves much less margin for error. And to think on the first couple of blocks I actually did the second line of sewing so that I could use the cut off corners as blocks in another quilt. HA HA HA bloody HA. At least I saw the light after the second one, when I actually opened it up and looked at the size. If I can't piece a 5" square how am I ever going to be able to sew two triangles correctly into a 1"square.
Now I am beginning to remember why I gave up quilting last time. I need a bit of patience, something that I am obviously completely and utterly lacking. Great! I am going to keep quilting, as I have about 8766 yards of fabric in my stash, double great! Not forgetting I just ordered some more on the weekend.
I think I will join all my fat quarters together, minimum cutting, that should be easy peasy. In the meantime I will let somebody else run for Quilter of the Year, as I am seriously not going to make the cut. (pun intended)
I'm off to crochet now.
