Working on a SLAGI
Sunday, January 30, 2011 8 Comments »When it's doing this again:
It's time to retreat to the sewing room and pull out a SLAGI. You know, something that Seemed Like A Good Idea way back when you started it. The weekend, my SLAGI was a 9 patch project I started last summer when The 9 Patch Project was all over blogland.
The idea was to make a 9 patch a day for almost 3 months, a rather painless way to accumulate 80+ patches that could then be assembled into something magnificent. I found a jelly roll and a charm pack of something by Kansas Troubles and I was off to the races. Of course no one actually makes one 9 patch each and every day for 3 months, so I made them in batches & obediently crossed off the days on my calendar. I even got complimentary Kansas Troubles fabric for the alternating blocks and borders. This was going to be only the 2nd quilt I planned to keep for myself, and would have a home in my family room. Along about mid-July, I stopped, distracted by something else (a symptom of my ADQD).
When all of the snow started, I pulled The box with the 9ers, and started back to work. I needed to get creative with some of the blocks and pull from my stash, but eventually all were done. Last week I laid everything out and made the row-by-row sewing piles. Yesterday I started sewing them together.
I love the way blocks look set on point, but holy cow are those corner-to-corner strips a chore. Today I'll probably start at the other corner and work towards the middle because I just need a break from those long, long rows. Hopefully I'll get everything done in time to snuggle by the fireplace when next winter's storms hit!
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