A NEW SKILL

My journey to learn how to patchwork has led me along a path I vowed I would not take.

I vowed I would never attempt to work with triangles.

Too hard !

But as usual I was tempted by a lovely item.

This is it - a lovely tablerunner.

To say that I didn't know what I was taking on is a HUGE understatement.

Not only did it involve

 Half Square Triangles

 but

Quarter Square Triangles

too !!

I decided to make it a Christmas table runner and with guidance from some super talented  patchworkers with enormous amounts of patience I began. 

The cutting out left me with lots of triangles in three different materials which had to be sewn together in different combinations then recut to size ( and that's another story !!!).

Once all the bits were resized to 3 and a half inches the puzzle had to be put together

but that's not all !!

The bits had to line up !!!

The points had to match !!!

Intricate , multi-coloured bits ....

... slowly came together into   this ..



masterpiece of perfection.....,

... this triumph of sewing mastery !

How good is that ?

Of course along the way there was quite a bit of unpicking,

a fair bit of complaining

and just a little colourful language.

but
I'm thrilled with it so far.

I'll be back to show you the finished object.
I'll expect lots of praise as I absolutely amaze you with how clever I am.

Cheers.

PS. Huge thanks to my patient instructors