A while ago I decided that my original piecing for Perkiomen Daydreams was not good enough to continue with for a large quilt: I sewed up completed blocks into a cot size.I may try one of these in a different colour set in the future.
So, I needed work on my piecing accuracy. It's not bad generally, but with 1" finished pieces the 1/16" and 1/23" errors quickly add up. I had cut lots of 1 1/2" strips from all the ugly fabric I came across, but was not using it. I spent several hours running strip sets through the machine this week and have cut and stitched the strip sets in batches.
The pieced strips are 105" long. I have played with the assembly, four, eight, six and random patches so it doesn't look too uniform.
I am keeping back two of each symmetrical four patch I make for future projects, as I would never cut this much variety for one or two quilts.
I am working on 25 patches now to use up part Perkiomen rejects.
All of the uglies have gone in here!
Just about had enough of this fix now, it will go away for a bit as I have two large tops to quilt. My accuracy has definitely improved in the last week working on this.
3,465 of 11,025 1" finished squares in the completed strips so far, with partials done as well. Almost 1/3 done!
2 comments:
Such tiny pieces! But you are making great progress. Thanks for sharing with Oh Scrap!
Great use of the uglies. Love this scrappy quilt.
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