Today is the fourth Saturday of March of the color yellow. Normally, I would post about my Meals on Wheels place mats but the Table Scraps linky party will be posted next Saturday which is the last Saturday of the month...the fifth one!
I decided to use this free yellow Saturday to figure out a fish block. The pattern says it finishes at 12 inches and the size I need is 8 inches. Oh, and it's set on point. My guild summer party has the theme 'Day at the Beach' and the committee is collecting 8 inch finished 'things you see at the beach' blocks. My mind went to fish.
The first one was too big and slicing it down would make it very funny. The second was too small. (my math critical thinking is lacking, lol). The third is getting closer and finally on the fourth, I think I found one. It's a little large but trimming it didn't result is extreme weirdness. :) I feel like I am on my way to sewing a whole school!
pattern: 2014 March Block - Fish Crackers
Do you want to 'know' what I finally did?!
I looked up the Square in a Square block chart. The inner blocks needs to but cut at 6 1/8 inches so I pieced my little fish at 6 inches (unfinished). The chart says to cut the setting triangles at 5 1/4 inches and cut once on the diagonal. I cut mine at 5 1/2 inches, cut once on the diagonal and then trimmed to 8 1/2 unfinished. Now you know my secret. For the fins...I scaled down the size for the bigger block to smaller.
Our program leader showed the group how to 'do' Peel Back Patchwork by Annette Ornales. It's an interesting technique but a 'little too fussy' for me. Before I could 'escape', the group decided all to make a sailboat for a comfort quilt. I was bound by peer pressure to make one. I thought I would sew a trial one before I got my 'kit'. Here is my peeled back sailboat. I don't know very much about sailboats and sailing...I picked red sails as I have a bobbin of red and I needed to sew down the peeled sails. :)
Sharing today with SoScrappy Saturday.
7 comments:
Cute fishies!!! and a lot of work!! How come march seems to go way faster than january and the have the same amount of days??????
Both of your blocks fall in the top creative file, Pat. !
Great adventures with the 'just right' fish block! Very cool block! The sail boat turned out very well!!!!
I love your fish! Glad you could figure out the size you needed. I've seen that peel back technique demonstrated, too, but never tried it. Your sailboat looks great!
Your sail boat looks great, it will be nice to see all the ones made by gour members put into a quilt.
The sailboat is absolutely gorgeous. I really like it.
And you'll be able to use all of your fish – I'm sure of it :-)))
Best wishes from Viola
One of the reasons I love EQ 8 is it does the scaling up and down of a block for you. Saves on trial and error. However, your trial and error give you multiple sizes for a school of fish to add to the interest. The sailboat looks perfect to me. I'm guessing peel it back is the technique used in the cathedral window block. What a great idea to peel some areas, while using standard units for others.
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