I love Anna Wednesdays. Those are the days, every other week, when Anna comes to clean for me. Her visits give me a good excuse to retreat to my sewing room to stay out of her way. That's the only room she never cleans (she isn't allowed to). But yesterday, Anna Wednesday turned into a pure nightmare.
I was to the point in my Bonnie Hunter "Talking Turkey" quilt where I needed to finish making a bunch of flying geese units. Bonnie gave instructions for a technique I had never used before. I found it to be an easy way to produce great looking flying geese. So I spent the morning adding to my pile of already-made units for my nine-block version of Bonnie's quilt.
Then I was ready to attach them to the blocks. But they didn't fit. They were too big. I looked back at the instructions to see if I had got the correct measurements for my geese. Yep. I measured my geese to see if I had cut the pieces the correct size. I had. I measured and measured and measured and measured. I couldn't figure out what I had done wrong.
This, my quilting friends, is why you should read ALL the instructions before starting--not just the part that relates to the section you're working on. After much hair pulling and moaning, I read on past the part of the instructions I was working on--and I discovered, much to my chagrin, a small misprint or error or, anyway, what I was doing wrong. In the text I was working from, the instructions tell you to cut 4 1/2" squares for your geese. BUT, just a inch or so down the page, you are told to sew your smaller sky squares to your 4 1/4' geese squares--not 4 1/2". That's why my geese were turning out too big. I had cut my geese squares 1/4" too large.
So I put my finished goose units into a pile for "future use" and started over. The new geese with the new measurement fit perfectly.
So if you're making Bonnie Hunter's "Talking Turkey" quilt from her String Fling book, be aware that there's a tiny problem when you start making your flying geese.
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On 11/17/2016, Sue, a Florida Farm Girl said ...
Oh, don't you hate that!! Sometimes they're just plain wrong all the way through and who always goes online to see if there's been a correction to a pattern before using it? Don't folks test patterns before publication? Sorry you had to redo the geese.
On 11/17/2016, Linda Vollz said ...
Oh NO! I would have been spitting nails at that point! It's a good thing you had extra fabric that you could re-make them.
On 11/17/2016, Judy P.l said ...
I usually make my geese too big and trim them down. Couldn't you just make them smaller? Just wondering.
On 11/17/2016, Edwina A Wagner said ...
Thank you so very much. I printed out your "notice of error" and have inserted it in my Spring Fling book. So glad you were feeling well enough to be able to make more geese!! You'll find something to use the extras in... one NEVER has enough geese. :>) Hugs... -e
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