At long last! I'm not sure why this project threw up one challenge after another, a project that was supposed to be "quick and easy" (a sure way to jinx myself). I thought surely this very old block would be happy to become something and be out in the light of day. Perhaps it was just as happy between the folds of fabrics in the darkness of a drawer. Regardless, out in the open it now is, and you see it in the chair in which it will reside. A very nice match.
I was following directions saved from a quilting magazine and with penciled adjustment cutting dimensions for a 16" finish in the margins. Very faint as I've had this for quite awhile. I decided to ink over the pencil marks and must have read one number wrong because when it came time to add the quilted bound block to the pillow base, I suddenly realized the top to bottom measurement must not be right. Instead of being 16 plus seam allowance inches when folded in half, it was 17 plus seam allowance inches. How could that be? Was I accounting for the fullness of the pillow form with the extra inch? I mulled this over for several days, believe it or not, such is the brain fog I often have to deal with, before I shook myself and said, "That's not right - just trim off the excess and amend the notation in the margin." Yeah, stop pretending I meant to do that!
The one thing that did not catch me out, caused me no issues was making the pillow form. It only required about one third of the bag of fiberfill and is still quite puffy - and yet fit right into the adjusted 16 inch outer pillow case. What will I do with the remainder? More pillows? (I hardly need more. . .) Try my had at stuffed animals again? (Not feeling it . . .) Into the closet for now. Needless to say, I'm glad to have this project behind me, pleased with how it looks.
