So I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago, but then I guess I didn't save it, which about the way things are going these days.
I was saying how I noticed that it had been a year since I started the post about the quilt, and I haven't made much progress. Of course, I have had surgery and a granddaughter and a son's wedding and all that since then, but still not much progress.
But I was inspired to do some work on the quilt. I remember laying in bed thinking about it, and thinking I was done with the four big squares and I needed to figure out how to do the flying geese and combine them all together. Then I went and got out all my stuff, and realized that I wasn't finished with the four squares. I was finished with three squares, and I still had to finish the fourth one.
So I got all the squares matched up and sewed them together. All 123 of them. And I ironed them all out nice and flat and I was feeling awesome about it. Then I laid the new square beside the other three squares and stopped feeling awesome. They weren't the same size! My new square is a good two inches bigger each direction. OMG. How did that even happen? I didn't do 1/4" seams on the other squares? Geez louise. So I put it up and wrote a blog post and forgot to save it.
So today I decided to work on it again. I just didn't have it in me to do that big square again, so I decided to do some flying geese and do the big square later. So I figured out how to do it, and made one test one, then cut some more material and made a few more. Ironed down the first squares and started to sew them together, and the needle fell out of my machine.
I've tried to put it back and I've tried a different needle, but I can't make it work.
I'm going to read a book now. I think I still know how to do that.
