Tuesday 3 July 2012

"I'm going slightly mad" AKA Red and Blue makes Purple

Life is getting really manic at the moment - I thought I was picking up the school secretary job quite well, but the end of school year procedures have left me stunned - exporting children (!) and importing the new starters, plus parents of 4 year olds wanting to look around the school, other parents who don't plan on accepting their child's place, but have no intention of actually telling us, added to sports day, end of year production and the normal day to day sick children, missing lunches and blocked toilets - by 20th July I will certainly have earned my six week holiday!!!!

I've been working on the Purple Present quilt, but today my language turned blue, and my face was red.  I  was using a design that I think of as Vanishing Orphan Patches: the initial 9 patches are made with random (or orphan) blocks in the corners, and plain squares in the middles.  I was actually making my 'orphan' blocks but the principle is the same.  Once the large 9 patch blocks are made they get cut into 1/4s and trimmed and then reassembled in a pleasing arrangement

I know that if I use 2.5 inch strips to make small 9 patches for the orphan blocks they come out at 6.5 inches, so I cut my plain blocks to that size too, and calculated back to make pinwheels the same size - except the pinwheel calcs went wrong and they were 1/4 inch too blinking small grrrrr!

So lots of waste purple on the work bench, but I have completed the blocks and pinned them ready for sewing into strips tomorrow


Now off for Baileys :-) (Thank you Jackie!)

9 comments:

  1. Oh bugger! Definitely time for booze...

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  2. Wow, you really have been busy and you still have time to work too! I really like your purple quilt, though with all the different blocks i can see why wanted the drink. It will all look better tomorrow.

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  3. I did not understand everything you were doing/calculating (probably too tired) but your end result looks great! And you definitely deserve your vacation!

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  4. I love the colors. I'm especially drawn to the diagonal blocks.

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  5. Great quilt flimsie! Can't wait to see it quilted.

    I was a first school secretary for 8 years, it definitely has it's ups and downs!! I just wished they had made Fitflops back then.

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  6. Love the blocks, Baileys most definitely deserved, let me know if you are running low and I'll pop over with another bottle!! LOL

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  7. Hi Benta! Your days sound the same grazy like mine these days! How great your shall have long holidays! I'm just waiting two months to pass quickly - no quilting before that. Your blue quilt is going to be really beautiful! With the size of the blocks - has happened here, too. x Teje

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  8. You quilt has turned out looking lovely but it's so annoying when calcs go wrong! It happens to me all the time - I'm nearly being driven mad trying to work out the angles for a bed sized union jack :(

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