Snooty cat revived

Ages - and I mean AGES - ago, I started a quilt that went awry. The Snooty Cat Quilt. Last posted about over 4 years ago (when I described my dilemma in detail).

The other day, I got out the pieces and thought, what the heck. They're cut wrong and don't fit and don't make exactly the patter I planned back then, BUT, they'll make some kind of pattern, and who cares anyway!

So I started sewing them together. So what if the diagonals in the rectangles don't meet the corners of the center square...

The basic pattern is still there, I get to use up this line of fabric, and best of all, I'm quilting :)

Besides this project on the go, I am hand-quilting the first of those 2 baby quilts (the dark one) and making a little iCover for one of those Apple products :)

Happy quilting!

Utter Disaster

I was on a bit of a quilting hiatus because of a week-long visitor, but as soon as said visitor was gone, I got going on a *new* project :)

I had this idea that this pattern would be really easy...


So I started cutting fabric - very exciting!


And then I started sewing, and things just didn't fit right... Those half-rectangle-triangles gave me a real headache...

I thought they'd be just like triangles, but to match the corners, the angle has to be slightly different than just drawing a diagonal across. I realized this after I had sewn the first few sets together. I sewed the rest anyway, it'll be another quilt...

This evening, I tried a different size rectangle to start with, but it still doesn't work, I guess I can't shortcut past the paper-pieced templates the pattern asked for, darn it!

Then I looked at my pieces a bit more, and realized I cut them all wrong. I looked at the finished size instead of the cut-size that includes the seam. Argh!

Now I have 90 four patches that are 3" square incl seam allowence, but they should be 3" final size.

I have center squares that are 6" square or 6.5"x6" (???) when they should have been 6.5" square.

And I have a huge stash of incorrect rectangles, BIG SIGH!


I'm going to leave the pieces for now. The rectangle-triangles will be a babyquilt or something, and I'll either do the paper piecing some day to finish this quilt with slightly smaller blocks, or I'll make something else out of the pieces.


My first really big quilting mishap :) Maybe I'll go back to the hiatus for a while???