Archive for June 24th, 2008

• diagrams are useful, ay?

  Date: 2008.06.24 | Category: random | Response: 0

  
  Remind me diagrams are useful, ay? Particularly when you’re like, unfamiliar with patchwork, and, like, making the pattern up yourself? Don’t keep that in your head, do, umm, like, even a couple of scale drawings or something?

  Things I learnt from drawing my plans (kinda) to scale:

  - if I can’t be bothered drawing over 800 fish, I likely can’t be bothered handsewing them;

  - my maths needs a little more practice … 800-odd??? Why didn’t it occur to me the rows and columns would multiply out to such a big number?

  - I think my first quilt better be machine-pieced, hand-quilted, perhaps? Just so I finish it?

  - I don’t need triangles, I don’t want parallelograms, I just need the same wonky-sided diamond, over and over (ok, and a few triangles) when I cut it:

  - I likely need 2 more fabrics, so not bad guesstimating and anyway partly because I only want to use the black once, and I’m thinking of doing something fancy with numerology or something …

  -husband having done Tech. Drawing at school means he can sometimes become quite interested in the correct drawing of quilting blocks and in finding errors in my assumptions … I’ll be asking him again, I hope

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