{"id":5613,"date":"2025-04-05T14:28:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=5613"},"modified":"2025-04-05T14:28:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:28:25","slug":"how-does-this-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2025\/04\/05\/how-does-this-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"How does this happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Paper-pieced<\/a>My “bird project” is supposed to be something I’ll work on during sewing days sponsored by my guild. Somehow, though, I just couldn’t resist making the third in the series at home a few days ago — and it’s a very good thing I did! The designs are paper pieced, so I printed this one out on the same kind of paper as the other two, using the same printer and the same computer to print from. And I made an adorable little robin! Did I say “little”? Somehow I ended up with a 9″ block instead of the 12″ one I’d planned! I couldn’t believe it. I printed out the foundations several more times, making sure that I had no scaling selected and that everything else was as it should be, but all of the foundations were coming out too small — including the little line that prints on the pattern for double-checking size (and which I should have checked before doing the block). I have no idea what happened, but I was both puzzled and frustrated.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/a>Then I started playing with scaling the design, printing out samples until I ended up with the right size. I had to increase it by 137%! But now I have *two* cute little robins, one of which is the right size. Thank goodness I didn’t discover this at a sewing day, as I’d have had no way to redo the printing. All’s well that ends well! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My “bird project” is supposed to be something I’ll work on during sewing days sponsored by my guild. Somehow, though, I just couldn’t resist making the third in the series at home a few days ago — and it’s a very good thing I did! The designs are paper pieced, so I printed this one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[252,228,217],"class_list":["post-5613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-piecing","tag-basket-blocks","tag-paper-piecing","tag-piecing-2","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1sx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1288,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/cruise-projects\/","url_meta":{"origin":5613,"position":0},"title":"Cruise Projects","author":"Sandy","date":"May 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"During the cruise I told you about in my last post, \u00a0I took two classes. 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