Angie Juda

My picture today is my butterfly blocks ….that I thought were finished ….  and what you can’t see is my huge mistake.

Several of you have told me to share my mistakes …. so here it goes … the salvage side of your fabric is very important … so much so that it can really mess up a quilt if you don’t cut your fabric right!!

Some would call me hard headed …and this time I would have to agree with them.

Every time I think about the word salvage … I  try to avoid it like the plague!

The reason being ….it confuses the heck out of me. It has been explained to me many times …but for whatever reason I can’t grasp it…. I think I have it now …. think … being the key word!!

Here’s my problem …. My 8-1/2 blocks are not 8-1/2 inches. Some are …most of them are not!!  Because I didn’t place them on the die …with the salvage side facing the correct position …. grrrrrr

Don’t let this scare you off quilting …. It’s totally my fault!!

I have to say that I received excellent customer service from Accuquilt! My blocks were all different sizes and I had no clue what I had done wrong … so I called them and she explained …. more than once because my brain just shuts down when the word salvage is mentioned.

My plan to use a Layer Cake to make my butterfly quilt … gets the axe and instead I’ll use yardage.

All is not lost …. I  have a fix …. my 8-1/2 blocks are gonna be 7-1/2 blocks ….after I trim all four sides of all 80 blocks.  (I always say I learn the hard way!!)

All this means is it will take me a little more time to show any progress.

See ya!

After finishing my last quilt (Lulu Roses) I decided my next quilt would be one that required zero thinking.

Since I’ve made several Flower Quilts (and one Butterfly quilt)  … I decided it would be cool if we could make a Butterfly Quilt with 2 Layers Cakes and 8 Fat Quarters.

I will admit that buying yards of fabric is way more affordable!!!   But for me I have to think about how much I use my arms and what causes me pain.  Using a paper trimmer and a rotary cutter are two activities that I have to limit (for now).

This past weekend I cut all the butterflies using the Accuquilt Critters Die.  

It takes one minute per butterfly to stitch around each of them … 80 Blocks + 80 Butterflies … 80 minutes of sewing.   Break that down into 20 minute increments (It took me four sessions of sewing to finish).   After typing all that I’m wondering … is that info helpful?

That’s as far as I’ve gotten … I’m sad to say I haven’t touched my machine since Sunday …. I’ll share more when I’ve made some progress.

Happy Fat Tuesday!!