OK, when I was a kid, the teachers used to say, "you can't follow directions!!
> What is going to become of you??? We will have to put this in your PERMANENT
> RECORD!!"
> So, fast forward many years, I STILL can't follow directions!!
> I took my other sister shopping with me yesturday, had her pick a pattern, she
> found a magazine called Quilt Works Today, she picked "Rocky Road to Kansas",
> not a hard block, pretty quilt, so I bought the magazine, I bought fabric and
> figured I'd use some of my stash. Last night I oh, so carefully cut out all
> the blocks, even followed the paper piecing directions (SO I THOUGHT!!) I made
> the points upside down!! The solid material is supposed to be the shorter
> triangle, the stripes the longer part of the paper pieces, so that the solids
> all come together in the middle. So, my centers are all different colors, and
> the points are solid. Oh well, I guess this IS a rocky road to Kansas. Since
> I cut out 120 paper pieces, and cut a bunch of material into strips, I'm just
> going to keep going with this and see what happens. :-) Not sure if this post
> makes any sense, later I'll post a picture of a couple of the blocks, I think
> I'll stop for now and go to my brothers for a barbeque. Happy 4th weekend > everyone!
> Karen
> Queen of the Sky