The winner of this giveaway is #30, Mimi, who said:
I love the combination of gray and yellow, but pale blue is a close second. Thanks for the chance!!
I mentioned a while back that I am not a mathlete. Given that information, if I really wanted to "exercise" my math skills, where would I go?? Well, here of course. Ha! A gym for my brain...
We had "Midwest" weather today. My perfect kind of day. Rain. Pure bliss. Someone (and you know who you are...) actually called me "weird" because of that. I am someone who gets bored with sunny weather here in central California, really--days and days of sun with no break. Monotonous...so I had to take pictures. Although it had been raining most of the morning, about 12:30 a gusty storm really blew through.
And then he gives me this smile and says, "Grandma, I love you more than chocolate pudding."
Here comes the tutorial. (I bet you were secretly hoping you had made it to the "racy" picture...It's coming. Don't worry. I'll warn you in plenty of time.)
So the other day I spent a good hour working on my 1/4 inch seam. I really thought it fine, there was a piece of tape on my sewing machine marking the spot and things seemed to be fitting together pretty well. Most of the time, at least. But I've been spending a lot of time with Farmer's Wife blocks, and some of those suckers have way too many little pieces. And then a new book by Judy Martin arrived in the mail and there was a tricky block in there that I really want to try. She had a paragraph on checking to make sure you have an accurate 1/4 inch seam, because "the right seam allowance makes everything fall into place." Hah, I thought. I'll follow her instructions and move on because I'm pretty confident of my 1/4 inch seam.
It turned out to be like "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." Her instructions are as follows:
Rotary cut nine 1 1/2" squares and a 1 1/2" x 9 1/2" rectangle. Join the squares end to end. Press seams to one side. Place the rectangle and squares face to face. If the rectangle turns out larger than the seamed squares, your seams are too deep.