Thursday, June 2, 2011

Postage Stamp Quilt

You, know how sometimes you  get so down on yourself that we need to have someone else set us straight.  Well that is what happen to me a few days ago.

Several weeks ago I was looking through my email and I came across Amy Ellis Link: http://amyscreativeside.com/2011/03/28/one-thing-one-week-challenge-link-up-7/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+amyscreativeside+%28Amy%27s+Creative+Side%29
She had done a challenge several months before and looking through all the postings I came across a posting of the Postage Stamp Quilt Pattern.  I just knew that had to be my next project; it's easy, simple and I figure fast. I had the prefect fabric.  I had just purchase fabric from the Fat Quarter Shop online the fabric from Lucien called Sugar Flowers perfect, very springing:) so here I go right.
 By the way the quilt I saw was done with jelly rolls.  However, I had purchased fat quarters so I had to cut all the strips and then start to sew the strips together, now once the strips are sewn together I started to cut the strips into smaller strips.  Okay, I'm almost finish :) when I realize that I had sewn the strips wrong:o( what have I done!For anyone that knows the pattern you sew different strips of fabric together: In other word one print fabric and one solid color fabric and then another print fabric and so on and so on.  I however, did print fabric, solid fabric and "same" print fabric.
I was beside myself, anyone that knows me knows I can be very hard on myself. I was so upset at what I had done how can I fix this without taking the small blocks apart and starting over. So I wrote to someone very special to me and explain what I had done. She send me an email today and said to me that she believes in me and she knows that I will come up with the solution and not to be so hard on myself that we all make mistake and that we just have to work through them and move on.  I decided to do my own version of the Postage Stamp quilt pattern. It's turning out better then I thought it would and I'm happy with it now: Here is a picture of the quilt so far: I'll post the progress as I go.



 Now here is a picture of the quilt done correctly:

4 comments:

  1. Congrats mom! The quilt is beautiful.

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  2. If you don't mention it, no-one will know that you didn't intend to make it just the way you have! We all interpret patterns to suit ourselves. I think your postage stamp quilt is looking beautiful.

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  3. @ Vireya. Thank you Vireya. I do like the way the quilt is turning out I will continue to post the progress until the quilt is finish :) Keep Quilting.

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