RCTQ week activities...

Jan 23, 2007 17 Replies

well till late last night I hadn't sewn a stitch. I designed a pattern from someone special yesterday and hosted a mystery over the weekend and apart from thinking of making a new bag for me I didn't get anything done - I wanted to but just couldn't decide on the fabric to use. last night I couldn't sleep so decided to sew (my bed is less than 5 feet from my sewing machine nowadays hehehe) so I glanced at my UFO shelves and grabbed a box. it turned out to be my RCTQ 2005/2006 BOM - yes you read that right LAST years BOM! I had only gotten as far as cutting out the first 6 months and choosing the next 6 months of fabrics. well a couple of hours later I had 6 blocks made and I cannot believe how good I have gotten and matching my points! I didn't rip once - though maybe I should have as I discovered I had sewn the squares in the wrong direction for one of the blocks (lady of the lake 2)but since I had already trimmed the little corners I decided not to, after all who will ever know but me and anyone I tell?



after I have had my morning coffee and looked at the blocks in amazement (I made *those*??) I will take photo's of the blocks


in my yahoo photo's album RCTQ 2005/2006 BOM or via:

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they look gorgeous !! I think it's the spell of the annual RCTQ quilting week ... thatswhy they turned out perfect Heidi from Germany

"Jessamy" schrieb:

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Pretty! (Are you sure you were awake? Maybe the elves sewed those while you were dreaming!) Roberta in D

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WTG Jessamy.They are lovely,good colour choice too!

Jessamy they are lovely. Of course as the Hostess of that one I am a bit biased!!! :) But truly they are lovely!

Melissa in NJ

the blocks were well chosen :-D and I am glad I have finally started making them! in-between whiles I have cut and sewn 1 1/2 more so august and half of September are done :-) (September is the one with the 36 itty bitty squares to put on the corner of each block/rectangle only 18 left...

thanks :-)

darn there I was thinking *I* had gotten better at sewing LOL

thanks - yes I'm sure it was *me* and not the elves they have never yet sewn for me and I'm not even in a rush or anything

thanks Estelle :-)

I decided that the FQ's I got in the Thimbleberries yellow brick road FQ pack were better off becoming this :-)

Those are great. Maybe you will finish the other 6 now.

thanks! I have already finished 1 1/2 more .. time to switch off the computer and finished that 2nd one hehehe (which would bring me up to 8 months of BOM in 24 hours )

Have fun. It's just getting daylight here. Later today I'm hoping to work on mini blocks for a swap.

.. of what I have seen in the European block swap and the star blocks I got in last year's star swap, I don't think you have any problems with your sewing :-))

Heidi from Germany ( who cut all the squares for her first star block 1/2" too big and I only found it out, when 56 were already sewn together. Could fix that, but what a fabric waste ;-) ) "Jessamy" schrieb:

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I did :-) and have added the next two blocks to the photo's :-D I'm moving on to Octobers after dinner hehehe

It's just gone dark here but I so prefer late January daylight times to late december daylight times!

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