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[Scrambled Egg]

A little birdie told me Crumples bought herself a new sewing machine at lunch today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Acre of Blessings]

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She's gotta keep up with the big dogs somehow.....right?

for Crumples

Did you get your block yet?

 

[Scrambled Egg]

The machine she got IS a big dog, we are the puppies!!! She got a 7470 Singer, 173 stictches and a 20 name memory for the computer in it that monograms...its the next one up from what we have. SHe was looking for the one we have and Joanns had sold out so they sold her this one for the same price, lucky duck!!!!!! She's very excited and I am so happy for her, although we might not see her for weeks!!!!!!!!!!!

I think she was going to practice her monogramming on her hubby's underwear to see if he would notice, lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[leepsy]

I think my dh would notice but that would probably be because I used the brightest thread I could find. My bad....Some of us never grow up.

Thanks for the link, Ginger. I hadn't seen that one. With the links and NanaKat for backup, we've got it made, CW.

 

[ginbart]

leepsy, and your on your way.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

I think my dh would notice but that would probably be because I used the brightest thread I could find. My bad....Some of us never grow up.

I was thinking hot pink myself and maybe embroider "Stud Muffin" over the left cheek!!!!!!!!!!!!!​

 

[Acre of Blessings]

I wouldn't monogram nothing on my hubbys underwear.......

I would sew up the front

 

[leepsy]

to both of you.

 

[NanaKat]

CW wants a demo of my technique with freezer paper

First the website from Leepsy
http://dquilts.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-i-freezer-paper-piece.html

Then
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What I do is very simple and is less wasteful of fabric.
Often times I see a pattern in a magazine that I really like, but it is for a 9 inch block instead of 12, and all the directions for cutting the pieces is for that 9 inch block.

So I draw off the pattern onto a 12 inch piece of freezer paper (you can cut it easily with a rotary cutter on you matt. This is cake plate from the Fall colors swap. I number the pieces for the colors I will use

Then I cut up the pieces and gather together the same color pieces. I then position these onto white fabric. (For this example I'm using a colored fabric so the white paper shows up.) I position them with the seams between and use a ruler to line them up. I iron these to the fabric. What I'm looking for is the most condensed arrangement that yields the pieces with the added seams

Here I was able to combine three pieces from the corner into one larger triangle.

Next I arrange all the same color pieces together on the matt board and make notes of the sizes of the fabric pieces on the original pattern. Now I know how wide to cut my strips for cutting out the component pieces. Here a 7 inch strip will yield the triangle corner and the two rectangles.

There were four triangles and a 3 inch square for color 1. By playing with the triangle pieces, I could cut a 5 5/8 inch square to cut on the diagonal twice.
The three inch square with seams would be cut from a 3.5 inch strip. The color 2 I decided to make from a rectangle since I wanted to use two different swatches for those pieces. The two together for each swatch could also be cut from a 3.5 inch strip at 4.5 inch.

The hour I might spend in the drafting process is worth it. I use old cotton pillow cases or an old sheet for the drafting process so I'm not cutting up my good quilting fabric. I can stitch these pieces together to make a practice blick and tweek the pieces before I ever cut into my good fabrics. I make notes on the original pattern and can use it to sight measure my block as I work with it.

I hope this helps.

 

[NanaKat]

Acres your block you sent me is more gorgeous in person!!! Thank you soooooo much