Hmmmm . . . that’s interesting.
See how that purple hexagon is a wee bit smaller than the green one? The picture’s from a bit of an angle, but the margin is the same on all six sides. When I started piecing The Life Altering Hexie Quilt, I came upon a couple of greens that were just a smidge smaller than the others. I just assumed I must have pulled them a bit tight and bent the foundation templates (it could happen, I guess!) I even warped a couple into the piecing after not paying close enough attention when I started setting them in.
And then I started paying close attention and realized that a good number of the purples (um, around 95% of the 150 or so that I had made) were smaller than the greens.
What the bleep happened? I had used different printers to print the paper templates I used from Cia’s Palette throughout the process, but when I dug through the greens, there weren’t too many of the smaller ones. The purples were made more recently than the greens–mostly in the past few months, so I know that I used our home printer for the templates. My husband says that printing remotely on our home network could cause the print-out to scale just enough differently to cause this problem. $#@%^&*$!!!!! Now I have to go back to cutting and basting more purples.
On the positive side, I have made progress this week, and I’m going to have enough smaller hexies to make a little quilt. And all of the 300 or so paper foundations I have already cut are the correct size. Gotta go wash my mouth out with soap & dig through the pile of purples!
Have a great weekend!
Tags: english paper piecing, hexagon quilt, hexies, quilting
August 20, 2010 at 7:15 pm |
BLEEP! That sucks.
September 8, 2010 at 12:14 am |
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaame!