Sunday, May 29, 2022

Chookshed Stitchers

 Yesterday Chooky hosted a Chookshed Bithday Zoom  to celebrate having her shed for 10 years Ladies from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Norway, USA & England all popped in.

The other day i had  one of my ufo's out to stitch together. I already knew there was a slight problem with the sizes. Stuff up number one - i didn't cut the blocks larger than what the size said. I should've remembered that this designer doesn't give larger cutting size to cut back. The blocks weren't to badly out or so i thought. Well they didn't play nice when sewn together. I tried cutting back a little to see if that would help. A big fat NO. So i pondered a while & decided to cut them an 1" shorter all round. The finished hanging would be smaller but all the blocks would still fit the layout.

Thursday saw me trimming back. All was going fine or so i thought when i had about 3 or 4 blocks left of 23. Stuff up number 2-  there are 2 blocks each in rows 2 & 4 are cut on a 3/4" line & i merrily cut them all that way when i suddenly realised the rest blocks should measure 7" by 9" not 7" x 8-3/4". Damn

Friday saw me tracing out the 10 incorrect cut blocks & start to restitch them.

Saturday on Zoom i finished the first one

& the next started

as each one is done i'm going to make sure i cut them to the right size.

Happy Stitching,



8 comments:

Anorina @SameliasMum said...

It was lots of fun catching up yesterday and you got lots done. Seems zoom days are good luck for your rabbits too!

Maria said...

Some days nothing goes right but pleased you could work it out.
Nice to catch up on Zoom…

loulee said...

We've all been there, measure twice cut once. Or read the instructions twice and cut one. LOL
Good to see you zooming and you made good progress.

Hanne said...

Lovely stitcheries!
I am sorry you cut your stitcheries to small. It happens here too, sometimes.

Joy from Days Filled With Joy said...

They are such cute stitcheries! They will make a beautiful quilt! xx

Chookyblue...... said...

cute stitcheries but what a pain in the butt.........
hopefully you can make the buggered ones up into another project or several........

Chookyblue...... said...

oh and I forgot great to see you on zoom....

Susan said...

Lou & Maria said it all - we have all done something similar and some days nothing goes right

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