Working My Way Through Clue 8 Indigo Way--Post Five

Partial layout of the blocks

January was the last time that I posted about this project and also the last month that I worked on it!  I had considered going rogue and coming up with my own layout; but, I decided to follow Bonnie's lead instead. I could spend many more hours playing with designs and still not have a finish. Since this may become a Quilt of Valor, finishing it sooner rather than later is important.

Sewing blocks together into a row

Last Friday, I laid out the blocks to check if I had any misaligned. I didn't; but, I did find one block that I had turned one of the half square triangles in a different orientation from the instructions. I found I had made three corners. Four are needed. I had sewn one extra side triangle. With a little unstitching, it didn't take long to convert the side triangle into a corner.

Center complete

I began stitching the blocks into rows. To ensure I didn't turn a block during this part of the process, I pinned the blocks before I picked them up for stitching. I found that I had either pressed the A or the B blocks incorrectly because the seams didn't nest. 

I tried repressing the block; but that didn't work as well as I thought it would. In the end, I found pinning the seam intersection with an anchor pin before it gave me the best results. 

Of course, I didn't learn this until I was stitching the second half of the rows together! Over the three days that I worked on this project, I did a lot of unstitching! When I stitched the two halves together, however, all the seams matched. It was the first seam that I did no unstitching. That was a good way to end that part of the process! 

Piecing the blocks together was goal number seven on my June list. Next up are the borders. There are two skinny borders and one pieced border. I need to determine if I'll make those borders scrappy or use the same fabric. I'll also need to think about what fabric I'm going to use for the binding; but, that is for another day!

I'm linking to Gail at To Do Tuesday,  to Susan at Midweek Makers.and Alycia at Finished or Not Friday.