Week Five: A11 Finished A7 Basted

You know it's a bad day when there is more thread on the floor than in your block. As usual it was worth all the heartache. Beautiful intricate block.

A11 Pebble's Protest

This was a paper pieced block. In the end I could not do the inset seams with such tiny pieces and rather than take apart the inner section to re-draft without the inset seams I chose to applique one side of the seam. All but one seam looks better than the re-drafted blocks I have seen.

I felt so good I tackled the easiest block for the week as well and managed to get A7's background pieced and the melons basted.

No knitting today I am wiped out.

Week Five: Block A11

I find it patently ridiculous that a 4.5" square block is made up of 17 separate paper pieced sections. That is just too much in so little space. Shame on you Jane. Shame.

Ignore the numbering I printed two but cut out the wrong one. /sigh

Seventeen! 17!

This is also the block with inset seams. I have seen the block re-drafted so there are no inset seams but I prefer the "original" block. Therefore I will just have to suck it up and get it done. I hope it doesn't go wonky on me because I can predict I will not want to re-do this one.



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