I started this quilt Friday Jan 15 after work and while having mom and friends over for a day of sewing. The pattern is Googly by A Quilter's Dream. I think I bought the pattern a few years ago and have pulled fabric to make it a couple of times but never started. I had a package of 12 FQs that I got at Road to CA last Jan and felt it was perfect and so I began. Not sure where my head was at but I've made mistake after mistake. The blocks are cut and built with 3 FQs and luckily I only had one set going at a time. The first set I made cutting errors and had to become imaginative in getting the all the parts. There is very little wiggle room and spare fabric. I had to do major reverse sewing as I forgot to make snow balls a couple of times.
The second set was better but still made a cutting error by having the 18" and 21" sides reversed so again creativity to get all the parts. A bit less reverse sewing but still some as I got the sides with specific widths in the wrong place.
The third set I only made a mistake of adding the side in the wrong location. Will I ever get it right?
The fourth and final set I once again had to unsew a bit as I attached the wrong width to the wrong side. I feel this quilt top is a bit cursed for me.
With input from Joanne and Dale I've put on a black boarder. I will be backing in a lime green fury minkie.
April 8, 2016. Finished quilting and binding. I wanted to use the new circle quilting templates I had purchased for this but they were too small. So I marked 4 circles of increasing diameter. In the corners I quilted "L's", the border was circle in a circle. Wrapped the fuzzy backing over for the binding.
Size: 40 x 47
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