Not-so-Frivolous, but SCARY nonetheless!

Hoo-boy, I can't compete with Robbie's posts today, but in the SPIRIT of learning from one another's mistakes, I just have to share this morning's SCARY occurrence.

After I happily chain-pieced many, many, many little-bitty 4-patch blocks and then attached many, many, many little triangles to set those patches on point late last night, I went to bed, humming contentedly. I dreamt about a beautiful, colorful quilt. Little did I suspect what HORROR awaited me when I entered my quiet sewing room this morning.

Placing my new blocks onto my design wall, eagerly anticipating the effect of strings of on-point 4-patches, I suddenly went COLD with DREAD. They WERE NOT ON POINT! S-H-R-E-I-K!!! (which wasn't what I actually said)

So the moral of this SPOOKY tale is: BE very, very careful when making these little buggers.

I will now try to demonstrate this lesson in photos. Since I seem to be challenged in getting my photos where I want them to actually be, I will simply say that one of the photos (who knows where it will end up in this post) shows a correctly constructed on-point 4-patch row of blocks connected with setting triangles. Pretty, huh?

Another photo (somewhere in here) shows a row of 4-patch blocks with the setting triangle sewn onto the WRONG sides of the 4-patches (BAD!). Not nearly the same effect, right? They don't end up on point at all. Huh. They just look like rows of squares. Yet another (random) photo shows these two rows juxtaposed (I love that word).

Trying to maintain a plucky SPIRIT, I gathered my disappointment and my stitch ripper, and thought, oh well, a good excuse to sit by the fire for a while while I disassemble these WRETCHED little blocks.

Before I ripped apart the first one (though, alas, not before taking many photos, editing them, and composing this DISMAL tale of a blog post), I decided to just check one more time to make sure I hadn't misread what I had seen. Well, I'll be a. . . Eureka! When I turned the 4-patches the right way (diamond! Duh!) and then placed the triangles in the right places, VOILA! (See final photo, which is not necessarily the last photo in this post.) I hadn't done it wrong last night after all! But, right now, I sure feel stupid! Not as stupid as I would have felt if I had ripped them all apart this morning and then had done the same thing all over again! Then, I really would have been a ZOMBIE brain!