We are on Part 2 of Easy Street! Bonnie included a very helpful video tutorial on using the EZ Angle ruler and Companion Angle ruler to help make our flying geese--192 of them!--for this step. Visualizing the hinge (check out the video--you'll understand) is such a simple thing, but such a HUGE help. Thanks to her son, Jeff, for helping Bonnie record this for us.
So here is where I am now. All parts cut and sub-cut. 42 gray 4-patch units complete with spiraled intersections on the wrong side, and 28 flying geese. Over the next few days I plan to finish these and to get the rest of my fabrics ready to just cut and go.
I am following Bonnie's suggestion that when a new step is released to stop where you are on the last step and do the next step, so even if you have to go back later to finish the right number of units in some (all) steps, you will have a chance to try each unit out so you can ask questions if need be or get the benefit of the conversation for that step at the Yahoo QuiltvilleChat group or any other group you are participating in.
On a side note, my "new" 404 stopped performing so beautifully after a short time on the strip sets for the 4-patches last week. I set the machine aside in the interest of getting stitching done, but I REALLY want to get a hold of her and get her in good working order soon. In the meantime, my little Featherweight, Dorie, is doing her usual beautiful job.
Hope you're enjoying our stroll down Easy Street!
I love how organized you are with your pieces and units. Your fabrics are great. Hope the 404 problem can be solved.
ReplyDeleteHello there! It's another Valerie, how awesome. :) I'm loving your colors, you have such a variety of purples. So pretty! I hope your machine gets to feeling better soon.
ReplyDeleteLooking great and I agree with Jeanne above - so organized...I'm seeing LOTS of organized quilters in this mystery - hoping some of it rubs off on me! ;)
ReplyDeleteYour patches are looking fantastic. Clue 3 is here!
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