The Video said 'Easy' . . .

Just a little update on my current WIP.  I am now obsessed with finishing it.... So obsessed that last night, even though I KNOW not to sew when I am tired, I continued sewing.  I had all the strips cut for the next panel, just sew them together. . . First two rows of blocks came out pretty close to perfect.  Second row. . . I finished sewing the row together, opened it up to see how I did with matching all of those seams and. . . why aren't these blocks in the right place???? UGH! I had sewed what should have been the top of the strip to the bottom of the two strips already sewn together. . . As I said, I know not to sew when I am tired.  I make really silly mistakes that in the end, cost me more time than if I had just stopped and picked it up again in the morning.  :( I'll finish the ripping this morning and be off the the races again :)

I made this next quilt for a friend that waited and tried for a long time for her precious little Olivia.  This quilt was made from a Bali Crackers Kool Aide pre-cut purchased from an LQS.  I had two weeks to complete this quilt, no problem! . . .  The quilt is made from another of Jenny Doan's videos.  It says easy in the title even!!

I put Olivia's name in each of the four corners :)

Making a fence rail quilt, easy peasy.  Making a fence rail quilt with diamonds proved to be a little challenging for this beginner! Every time I snowballed the corner it turned out wonky!  I have to admit, it took a good amount of  'creative' sewing to get this quilt to come out right.  In the end, it looked great and all those points matched up - but getting there was definitely painful.  So much so that I have not attempted snowballing corners since!  I don't have any advice as to how to do this easily as apparently it is just supposed to be easy - I watched many how to videos and I didn't see anyone having the issues I was having.

I finally got it all together and had decided I was going to do hearts in the blocks and flowers in the diamonds.... I did the top row and half of the second row of the hearts, put it on my design wall and hated it! I had stitched in the ditch before starting FMQ and I really liked the puffy look of the unquilted blocks..... I spent the next several days ripping stitches..... Note to self, sometimes simple really is better!  I did finish this quilt prior to her visit but just under the wire!

Have you ever seen a tutorial or pattern that indicates it is easy and found it challenging? 

Back to picking stitches for me!  Until next time, keep on quilting!!