The good, the bad and the seam ripper!

Let's start with the "good". I don't know what's wrong with me but I've been in a baking mood lately. First was this delish pineapple upside down cake. Mmmmm. I used a boxed cake mix and this recipe from good ol' Betty Crocker. I haven't used any other cake mix in probably 30 years. Gotta love that pudding in the mix.

That was Thursday night and it is now history. And then yesterday my hubby was rummaging around the kitchen and I asked him what he was looking for? He said something sweet. Well, he obviously wasn't looking MY direction! LOL So I made him a batch of chocolate chip cookies. While I was working on my projects yesterday, I kept hearing the cookie container lid being pried open. ahhh, the cookie monster was working overtime yesterday. :o)

I will now explain my "bad and oh so ugly" seam ripping story now. OH-MY-GOSH, I soooo must have A.D.D. or something because me and directions just don't seem to see eye to eye. Below is a picture I posted a while back of my Cherry Hill BOM. This was four months completed. Looks good, right? Wrong. My first mistake was on month #1. I cut the sashing wrong

You might not have noticed *but I did* and that's all that matters. :o( I noticed the large carnation print in the bottom center was next to the border of the next section I completed (not in the photo yet). I said to myself, "Self, wouldn't you know you would pick that print to go right there and the border of the next block was that same carnation fabric. Darn it anyway." Well, I got out my pattern and saw that the quilt shop had given us placement for each of the squares of fabric. And here is my favorite little graphic of all time.......

That pretty much says it all. I tore it all apart. Actually I tore out the left side of the parts shown. I detached all the little squares, ironed them and put them in the right order. Some people would've said who cares, they're all pastels and only you would know. And that right there is the problem. I would know. And I figured if the shop took all the time to put those blasted little squares in an 'eye pleasing' order, why should I be the one to mess it up. So, here is the way it should've looked originally...

I know. It looks just like the other photo. LOL But the color placement is better. At least that's what I'm going to keep telling myself. :o) And here is block #5 and the baskets, which were month #6.

I guess my machine does a fat quarter inch seam because I had to steam iron those baskets and tug and pull to make them fit. They were about 1/4" short on both sides but I had done enough ripping out and I figured I'd put those blocks in a vice if I had to, I wasn't ripping them out! So here's how it looks now.....

I've got block #7 traced so onto stitching my teapot. I WILL be reading those sewing directions before I start cutting my fabric. Whether or not I follow them will be another story.....or blog post!!! hehe