Do you ever just look at a pattern and just jump into it before reading the directions? Â Well that’s what I did.
I am making my Plan C Schnibble Quilt for the August Schnibble of the Year. Â I just looked at the picture and started sewing. Â How hard are some four patches and star blocks….
I laid them out on my table and WHAT….how can that be the blocks didn’t “fit” together! Â Turn, twist… Nope….it didn’t work.
Well you know the adage…”When all else fails, read the directions”. Â I did and silly me. Â The stars don’t get sewn together as a unit. Â 10 minutes of “unsewing” and I was back in business.
See…much better.
I should have figured this out when I was half way done sewing the blocks together as I ran out out of corner squares…Did I stop and read the directions….NO. Â My immediate thought was that I didn’t pay attention when I was cutting the pattern out. Â Then I thought, Â maybe there is a typo in the pattern directions. Â I just cut more squares. Â I should have stopped then and read the directions. Â Oh well…lessons learned. Â “Read the pattern directions before starting to sew!”
I am really happy that this happened on a little Schnibble pattern that is only 30 X 30 and not a big quilt. Â I would have really been complaining then!
he he he…Well, lesson learned, but as you said, at least it wasn’t a queen size quilt! :-)
I thought I was the only one who did that. It’s looking good. Good way to use the 4 patch leader/enders I have made up.
oh I’ve done that too…..and will do it again I’m sure!!
Read directions? Never, not me!! LOL. Get’s me in trouble all the time.
Did that on a Schnibbles too, just looked at the picture started and…ooops. When all else fails, read the directions.
Isn’t it funny how reading dorections changes everything. Hmm….. maybe I should start reading them first before I cut.
I’m not a directions kind of girl…I always get in trouble, but it doesn’t stop me from jumping head first into a project based on a picture alone.
I’m sensing a theme from the comments. You are in good company…LOL
funny…..well, maybe not so funny, but funny anyhow.
Jumping in can be a good thing, or cause a lot of unsewing…thankfully I am usually a pretty good reader but messups do regularly occur! Your stars look really cute.
Been there, done that — in fact, possibly on the same (or similar) pattern! 8-))) We’ve all been around the block a time or two and now can ‘fix’ most of our mis-sewing! 8-)) Looking good!
I did the same thing!!! And, I thought I had read the directions. Obviously, I did not digest them – LOL! Mine is almost finished o:)