Monday, March 16, 2009

"No, The Wine Bottles Cannot Be Sideways!"

Into every quilter's life, a little rain must fall, I guess. Yesterday, I cut out fabric for the companion quilt for "The Grapes of Rhone" (see below). When I started sewing, I realized that I had cut the wine bottle motif fabric so all the bottles were on their side.  EEK!  What's the lesson here, folks?  Pay attention to directional fabric.  Ah duh!  Do I feel stupid?  Oh yeah. When I showed this to my patient, supportive-of-my-quilting husband, he observed that, "No, the wine bottles cannot be sideways." He's right.  All the wine will spill on the carpet (yes, bad joke, I know).  

I spent an hour this morning with my color wheel and fabric trying to figure out how to save the wine bottle fabric (I think I've come up with a potential solution) and make a beautiful quilt. Husband said, "Just buy some new fabric" but I'm determined to correct this mistake. But then there is another slight glitch . . .

In addition to the bottles-on-their-side problem, I decided I really didn't like the fabric I had chosen for the quilt.  Too many small scale prints, just too much going on. This is certainly a time when one's stash comes in handy.  I pulled out fabric I have and now I will only have to purchase a little additional fabric.  

The whole thing is pretty funny actually because I knew when I was cutting the wine bottle fabric that I should have cut it lengthwise of the fabric.  Why I didn't do that I will never know!  Onward.  

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for your confidence. I did cut the wine bottle fabric yesterday and managed to do it correctly this time. I purchased 4 more yards, as I was so paranoid I'd do something wrong again and not have enough fabric. Started sewing yesterday. Think it's going to work out. Looking forward to a fun workshop tomorrow at Cabin Fever. You should really get into quilting. I think you would LOVE it.

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