Day 9, Done For Now

Today was day 9, block 9 of the Winter Wonderland FPP-along. Teena and I went rogue again (so did Karen!) picking something we liked better (and was theoretically easier) than the “planned” block. 

It’s wonky but I still like it

I say theoretically because Teena will be working on hers again tomorrow and Ms. Stubborn (that’s meeeeee) finished up after well over 5 hours of sewing, ripping, stitching, taping, and ripping AGAIN.

It’s not that the pattern is difficult - I’d call it intermediate beginner only because you need to match up a few seams - it’s that if you make a mistake you have (not good) choices - decide you meant to do that (designer’s choice); rip allllll the way back to where you goofed (each green section is half the entire pattern - no seaming little sections together here!); throw it out, reprint the paper piece and start over. 

And we did make a variety of mistakes. I fixed all the little ones I found but my biggest goof was in the very. first. piece. of a long green section, attaching a white rather than green fabric. And when did I spot it? As I was trying to figure out why the very last piece wasn’t fitting where it belonged. Designer’s choice it is - I meant to do that. 🙄 

Note to self: the original WW patterns are 8.5” unfinished, 8” finished. Today’s was 8” unfinished, 7.5” finished. Either enlarge them .5” (1.06%) or add bigger borders.