Ok, I bought this cute little book on Amazon and I love the patterns! The quilt store where I work did a whole year of classes and meetings to sew on this cute little book, which I attended for all of about three months till it was obvious to me my brain was lacking in a few departments. I had bought a boat load of fabrics to sew this quilt and have indeed made about 16 of the cute little 6 inch squares. But, oh..my...goodness...has it tested my patience and brain cells!! First the book only has template patterns in it and of course I just had to learn to paper piece to do it "right" like everyone else was doing it. That meant buying the companion CD that only works through EQ6. After getting it set up and actually sewing a few it was clear to me that I did not have a brain wired to paper piece the traditional way. Just can not do it...my brain can not translate the triangles and which way to cut them to make them lay in the right direction and cover that teeny tiny little shaded in paper piece going the "right" way! Ugh!!! Frustration set in and I simply put it in a drawer where I couldn't see it and tried to forget the cute little book...
Almost two years later my sister decides to start hanging with the girls on Pizza N Patchwork night at the store. Wow, she says ...that was great but what was that lady working on with the cute little book and squares? I just love that she says... and I want to learn it ....over and over...and I was forced to deal with the cute little book stuffed deep into that drawer, way in the back. So, here I am all set up again and fortunately the lady at Pizza N Patchwork has a new revised method of paper piecing which I CAN do. I am feeling accomplished after having done a couple of blocks that look "right" for the most part. Well, now it is time to deal with the printer on my own in EQ6 printing the cute little paper piecing patterns myself. I have been told to do it right you must mirror image the pattern. Ok, that can't be that hard right? I pecked around at a million buttons and found the mirror button....Print....out comes the pattern all perfectly in mirror image! And for the life of me it is like De Ja Vu or how ever you spell it, but my brain does the "can not compute" thing on me again!! Grrrr.... So, I have just made the not so "right" decision that I do not give a monkey's butt about whether my cute little squares from the cute little book are mirror image or not!!! Ahhaahaahaa....mirror or not to mirror....I just put the cute little book and it's cute little printed images in the back of the drawer again...
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