A week or so ago I vowed I would start sewing again with a committment to at least one hour a day. But after a few days I figured out that I need to do some practice sewing, because I have lost all accuracy from not sewing for so long and could spend the entire hour sewing and unsewing the same block. So, on Tuesday at the Surfside Quilters Guild meeting I picked up a bag of red/white/blue fabric strips to sew together for the Wounded Warrior Quilt Project in which the guild participates. It is like sewing jelly roll strips together end to end and then joining the very long strips in pairs and then quads and then.... until one has a quilt top. Only instead of the full 2.5" x 40" strips one finds in a jelly roll these are scrap strips of many different lengths. Never one to do anything the easy way, I am joining the strips on the diagonal. And I am adding some pieces from my own scrap bags.
I haven't measured the length and won't until I have all the strips end to end. Then I will cut into 50" strips and sew those together. I hope that this project will be adequate to improve my accuracy. If not, I guess I'll have to sew another!
I haven't measured the length and won't until I have all the strips end to end. Then I will cut into 50" strips and sew those together. I hope that this project will be adequate to improve my accuracy. If not, I guess I'll have to sew another!
5 comments:
Good for you, Del! I am glad you are back to your sewing machine. I like your diagonals. They add a lot of interest.
Accuracy??? Hmm.. I have never achieved it but I do sew fast :)
Sounds like some kind of therapy sewing to me, Dell. There's nothing better to get you back in the groove.
An hour a day. That's a good idea. Once I start I go for hours and hours and then am exhausted. A happy medium would be best.
Happy sewing, quilting, creating, and having FUN!
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