Chain piecing is a great quilting technique. Line up the series of pieces and do them all at once. No cutting thread in between so it's fast and efficient.
For my Christmas quilt I needed a bunch of little triangles sewn together. No problem! I've got this! So between shuttling kids around in the car yesterday, doing laundry, and cooking dinner I made a long lovely chain of sewn triangles that looked like this:
Yay! Lots of little triangles sewn together. A good days work.
Except.
They weren't supposed to be sewn long sides together. They were supposed to have short sides sewn together. Since I chain pieced them, I managed to make the same mistake about 60 times. Go me. This nice little pile of half-square triangles got put into a bag to be used someday for something else.
Back to the cutting board today. A million more tiny triangles.
See? Short sides together with a big triangle attached. Now they're ready for trimming. I know yesterday I said I thought I was done making mistakes on this quilt. Now I'm not so sure. Obviously I need to pay better attention to what I'm doing.
My amaryllis bulbs tell me Christmas is coming. Their holiday pots are covered up because I don't like Christmas decorations to come out before Thanksgiving. The bulb on the right looks like it wants to open soon though.
We finally turned the heat on and I put both cat beds by a vent. They opted to share one though. Hestia brought along a toy.
3 people stopped folding laundry to write:
OH! I have made similar mistakes chain piecing. I'm embarrassed about how many times I have sewn things wrong sides together.....
Oh no!!! You must have been so frustrated when you went to cut the chain apart.
I think cats snuggled by the heater are one of the joys of winter.
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