While we were waiting for our daughters to come home (we both were in the process of adoption), another mom and I decided to join this Block of the Month from the Fat Quarter Shop. I was just in the very beginning stages of learning to quilt, but I thought it would be a good way to pass the time while waiting for our girl to get all the paperwork in order to come home, and I figured one block a month would still be doable once she was home. (I would have two toddlers, so time was limited for quilting.)
Well, I tried the first block and FAILED. The pattern didn't allow for trimming down HST's to the needed size. You just had to sew them and hope they were the right size and nicely squared. I'm not sure I could make that happen now with all the years of quilting that are now behind me! Anyway, I tried to figure out how to adjust all the remaining blocks that would be coming up, but the math seemed overwhelming. Even now, I look at the blocks and while I LOVE this sampler quilt (it reminds me of the sampler in the Elk Creek Quilts first book), I don't want to work that hard to make those adjustments. I'm finally letting go of the pattern pages, and I'll use the fabric to make a simple patchwork quilt. I wanted to write about it, though, because it does bring back memories of waiting for my girl and the start of my quilting adventure. :)
