Today I made seven blocks for the Schoolhouse
quilt. I’m making it from an old kit my sister-in-law gave me. This
will be for my father-in-law for Father's Day.
On the half-page of extremely sparse instructions it
says, “While we have done our best to make this pattern accurate, we cannot be
responsible for mistakes or printing errors.”
Well, it’s no wonder
they wrote that, because the pattern is terrible, the instructions faulty, and
the templates completely wrong. Not knowing this, I put them all together
at the same time – and then had to take them all apart at the same time, too,
because the roof was a colossal mess. The background triangles at either
end were not only the wrong size, but also cut at the wrong angle to fit
properly. I had to redraw and recut them both.
And now that I’ve taken pictures of them, I see that
a few of the chimneys are out in left field. Bother. I’ll fix them
– tomorrow. The pattern must’ve been made back before the days of
computer-generated patterns (or testers, evidently).
Moral of the story: Put one block of unknown patterns together before doing the whole works
at once.
