I am soooo excited.
I bought this little charm pack on sale from our local quilt shop at
their going out of business sale (right after I just found them, bwaaa). I simply LOVE it, had no idea what I was
going to do with that one charm packet, but the colors just popped and I had to
have it. After all, it was on SALE! So I took it home to my little growing stash
of charms and fat quarters.
While scouting my favorite ‘go to’
site, come on, you know it, YOUTUBE!!
Can I just say I love Jenny from Missouri Star Quilt Company (I’m going to do a YouTube video soon on all the cool projects I have done from
Jenny’s tutorials, just my way of saying ‘Thank You Jenny’). Well one day while going through the list,
there it was. The perfect quilt for my
little charm packet. I couldn’t wait to
try it. This would be the first time I’d
be making big blocks like this and I was a bit worried (although each block consists
of five 4-patches and 4-half square triangle units, which I’ve made plenty of
before). I had to make many, many
trips to the store to find the perfect green and brown to make my 4-patch
units. Finally I settle on a fat quarter
each at the local Wally’s World. To add
even more pressure they (the individual units) had to be laid out in a certain order
or there would be no ladder to follow.
Ask me how quickly I came to realize that…
As I made the blocks I laid them out in my portable
UFO tote that I made, super cute (pictures
and details to come next week, using supplies on hand or from the local fabric
store bargain bin). I did not
consider how to put them together. I was
just so excited to be starting another project.
Not to mention having blocks to count for the 365 Day Block Project
. So the first time I laid them out on the
design wall DS (darling son) and I only saw 4-patches turn into 16 squares. L, After feeling
a bit let down, thankfully I realized that I had not lined them up in the
correct directions. I was simply going
by which design I wanted on the top on each block. Ah, amateurs, you gotta love us (because once you were us J).
Once all the blocks were turned in the appropriate directions. There it
was my very own little Jacob’s Ladder.
o_O , ummmm, yes I see the ladder, but… something
still is not right. Oh for pete’s
sake. I only have half of it. I could only see 2 diamonds in the center,
there were 4 in the example. YIKES! Quilt store officially closed and Wally of
course does not carry these wonderful lines of charm packets. OH NO, panic sets in. What am I going to do, I need another charm
packet? Okay, went to Moda site, nothing, gone, no longer, I think they discontinued
it. [Thump!! Head hitting desk in
pool of tears.] Okay, breath, hit Amazon, ugh,
nothing. Okay, Ebay, nothing. 2 days later I refuse to believe I can’t find
this on Ebay, so I go back. No [sniff
sniff] I did not find the charm packet but
I did find someone selling the whole line in fat quarters. Um, is it worth it to me to pay $40.00 plus
s/h? Let me think on that one for a bit (yes, I’m cheap, so what of it! Rather frugal!!)
I have the blocks on the wall in our bedroom behind
the door (you just gotta love those
little cheap 3 for $10.00 lap blankets.
I tape them to the walls and hang my quilt pattern on them, and until I made
my UFO totes I’d rolled those up with quilt pattern laid out) because I already
had a quilt laid out on the one in my sewing/craft room for another project I
was working on. So sitting with DH at
our desk, he looks over and says, “I marvel at you (tee-hee J),
you have to find the fabric and finish that.”
To which I look over and fall in love (with the quilt layout that is,
you know I LOVE
DH already). He is right I have to
finish it. Hey I had to buy more green
fat quarters and yardage of brown for the 4-patches so what’s a few more fat
quarters of the whole line of fabric.
Besides, if had more of the fabric design I could go ahead and make it
big enough to fit out bed or family couch cover while watching movies together,
yeah… Looks like it’s off to Ebay I go.
For the Month of March my little Jacob’s Ladder has
helped me in my 350 block project count with 10 blocks plus 2 blocks from another
project equals 12 blocks for the month. Not a lot, but it is progress and it means I worked
on some blocks last month. So, that
would be February’s 20 plus March’s 12 equals 32 for the year so far. Yeah Me!! Of course the count was for 28 in February
which is when I found the project and started.
For March the goal was 31 and for this month, April it’s 30. I have to play catch up, not to mention the
17 for January (which I was not a participant in the project at that time). WOW, I’d better get busy.
Jacob’s Ladder inside one of the new portable UFO
totes I just made.
My finished yet unfinished Jacob’s Ladder on the
design wall!
Love and Shimmies, Steph!!
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