{"id":5932,"date":"2026-05-18T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=5932"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:56:13","slug":"class-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/18\/class-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Class project"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"9-patch<\/a>I’ve been AWOL for a time as I worked on an online class. I have a\u00a0terrible<\/em> time deciding how I want to do the quilting on my quilts, so I’ve just finished a design class that may help me overcome that. It was a class from Lisa Calle, from whom I’ve had other classes in the past (usually in person), and it was really good. For our class project I was supposed to make a 9-patch block from scraps in my stash, but my stash also had a preprinted 9-patch block (about 16″ square-ish), so I decided to use that. After all, if I messed up this printed block, no harm done, right? Now, though, I sort of wish I’d gone ahead and made the block, since the printed one wasn’t really square, but it’s too late now.<\/p>\n

We spent most of the class designing what we wanted to do, drawing on layers of tracing paper over a printed photo of our blocks or, alternatively, using Procreate on the iPad. I do need to get more practice in Procreate, but it certainly has a lot of possibilities.<\/p>\n

Today, though, I put the last stitches into my block! My Bernina had a major tension problem in the three outer corners, as you can probably tell from the thread color. But the tension setting is something that I’ll fiddle with another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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