I made some leaves today. Our project was to make 1/4 of the necessary leaves for your project. Mine may be a pillow before the end of all this.
I made three leaves while Frank watched the LSU game Saturday night. Not bad considering it was very small and fiddly pieces. I hate small and fiddly pieces. So I struggled through. And this is not the half of it.
There are three leaves, basically. A full leaf, the top half of a leaf and the bottom half of a leaf. I thought they would all have the same alpha lettering for the various sizes, but no. Each leaf part had its own lettering. So there are three different size A blocks, three different size B blocks, etc on down to T blocks. Well, somewhere in there the half blocks stop having as many pieces as the full blocks do, but you get the picture.
But the reward was these three blocks. And I posted the three
blocks to Instagram to put myself proudly in the group of wonderful people making these blocks.
Melanie, the coordinator of the Sew Along, asked if I had done it on purpose, or was she the bearer of bad news. There were no stems on my leaves.
Hmmmm.
I was pretty sure I followed directions.
When I was making the blocks, I was pretty sure there were no instructions for the stems in my booklet.
But the next morning when I perused the booklet, sure enough, there were the elusive stems.
So I spent several hours yesterday unsewing, adding and trimming blocks to include stems.
They tell me I am better for the trial.
