Friday and Saturday Gone Frogging

As many of you know Frogging  a polite term for ripping the damn sewing out that you just did to fix the f@%# mistake that Is Glaringly apparent in the piece once it is almost complete.

I was working on my third panel for a scrappy Bargello ( Another Bonnie Hunter Quilt) and well its not matching the 2 panels already sewn. After counting and matching colors in the panel I figured it out. One too many strips. Okay that shouldn't hold me up to much.  Oh I was sooooo WRONG.

I turned it around and starting frogging and it came out fairly quickly. I took out what I thought was the offending piece and sewn the tube back together. Still was not matching ... I took out the wrong piece ... back to frogging This time I marked the piece with  a quilting safety pin.  Again took out the correct piece this time and stitched it back together....  What I forgot to do was return the piece that I took out the first time by this time I was getting seriously Peeved. (again polite term). Back to Frogging

I finally got that piece together right number of strips sewn back into a tube ready for cutting into strips. Pressed and set aside while I took out the next panel It too had one to many strips. Caught it before I cut into strips yeah!.. so  I set it aside with the other panel and went and had a cup of coffee.  So I could have a fresh start  on Saturday so I would  feel better if I got the panels cut into strips and done into the panels again.
Saturday bright and early 7 am after taking the dogs out I was completely awake because it was Frigging Cold out  I decided I would put on the coffee and start back on the panels since Friday was a wash for project a day

  .   I matched up the fifth panel and was grateful that it matched. So I cut it. What I didn't count on is that I matched it to the one that I didn't take that offending strip out.  Now since there was Three panels with and extra strip same .     I matched up the colours to the panels that I already had sewn together and  What the F@%#  one extra strip but now I had cut the  panel into strips grrrrrrrr.  Did that mean that the first two panels that were already sewn were the actual wrong panels   and I forgot to put a strip in. ??? I now notice that my colours are not matching and there is a green not where it is supposed to be and a red that extra in 2 others.  I remember why I put it away in the first place. Question to all you quilters, do I just give in and sew it the way it is sewn or  rip some more.

What is going to be my project today?

Strip Twist n Stuff

What happens when you let a fabric crazed woman whos going through menopause loose in her stash ?

I ended up with this while I was cutting  the strips of 2.5 inch fabrics that I cut for my girlie Strip Twist designed by Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville.  What happened is that I got distracted and started doing something else and the next thing I know I have this pile of stuff laying on top of my strips.  I KNOW  I put them right there!.
Any way  messed got moved and I located my 9 inch strips that I had cut for my  Strip Twist that had become the Project for the day.  

Project for the Day started because of the Chaos of my projects was getting out of hand. I figured that if I work on one project a day for the next year I might have a few finishes instead of just starts and UFO's.  ( I have a short attention span.) Who am I kidding I LOVE new projects and all that yummy goodness of  crisp Best Pressed fabric waiting to be cut.  Back to the Project of the day, this isn't a resolution its just a way to keep me focused (pretty hard) on one project for a day to work on.  I have no deadlines, no pressure just some good clean sewing fun.

I had started the  Strip Twist some time in the past 2 years  and just did a few blocks here and there.  So I ended up with these blocks. Not done yet.

Because yesterday I had cut , lost found and then sewn these bits together. there are 50 pairs of strips to make 25 blocks to whip together. I think I need to make another 30 pairs for the size I want. 

Not leaving Wednesday  out but I  was working on the never ending pile of half square triangles to do the  pinwheels in my OTR . I chose to do the pinwheels in purple so they stand out a bit and my leader and enders  have no purple in them.  They have to be pressed open and then sewn into 4 patches.   The bricks in this project was cut out when Bonnie first started this in what seems like ages ago. 
Lets see what trouble I can create in my sewing today.
Be Safe and use a Klutz glove.  I gotta get me one of those.

Hugs