I am happily stitching-away at home…I will not be traveling for over two weeks yet…this is very nice not having to be thinking about where I am going next week…but there is Fall Market/Festival in Houston…but being home makes it much more pleasant! So here is another 2 blocks…Like I said before I love stitching these in-between the other projects…I keep looking at block 11 and thinking I stitched this one already…but it is different.
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I do have a confession about block 10…I cut and pieced it like the directions…but…I was not happy with it…those 32- 1″ triangles are too hard to cut and stitch perfectly 32 times. So I ripped my little 2″ block from the middle grabbed my 1″ triangle paper and made them in about half the time it took me to do it without them…and…if you notice this photo…I had to do it twice…because somehow I decided I should put the country red with the white bella!!!!But after I stitched them all again…it was heaven to put them together…they were perfect…If you do not have our triangle paper for any triangles less than 1″ you need to get them for your sanity…so much less fustration and a big timesaver 40 HST in about 10 min. ….and I do not cut off the 1 mini dog ear the triangles have…Look at the photo closely…see the piles of HSTs..the lowest red one have the little dog ear…the pile above are the boo boo triangles…and the ones up top and the ripped out block are the old ones…they don’t look bad from far away, but I had tucks and they were not lining up nicely…I was having to compensate way too much… 1″Triangle Paper Assorted Triangle Paper-small sizes
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I’ve also been trying to decorate our house for Fall…little by little, going through all the decorations from the old house and seeing what goes in the new house…how about you? Do you decorate for all the seasons? Which is your favorite…LB
