Miscounting, UGH!

July 07, 2012

Don’t you just hate it when you miscount blocks?? The night before last, I finished what I thought was 80+ string blocks. I put them in stacks like in this picture. I went to the computer, opened EQ7, and tried out different designs using up to 80 blocks. I had some small pieces of fabric left, but not much.

Yesterday evening when I started sewing again, I decided to recount those stacks, making sure I only needed a few more blocks for my design. I only counted 71. How could I have miscounted that much? I checked the other stacks, looked around on the table, on the cutting table, and then decided to just start making more.

I had enough foundations cut to make another 9 blocks, to bring it up to the 80 I needed, so I started in. I finished up the cut foundations, doing a lot of joining of small crumbs to make up the blocks. I added a few pieces of fabric from another 20-30’s UFO, but the last block I made had 27 pieces.These are the last 4 I made. You can see how much piecing was needed to make enough fabric for these blocks.

I counted, I had 80, then I looked up and this is what I saw! Now I have 91 blocks to play with. When I was taking down the blocks to count them the first time, I hadn’t moved the table enough to reach these last blocks, but had counted them. Obviously I missed counting them the second time through the stacks.