On my design surface today is the result of an Ugly Fabric challenge block from my local Modern Quilt Guild. Boy, was that fabric ugly. I did play with the Quick Curve Ruler a little first before cutting into the 12.5 piece of ugly fabric.
My practice pieces didn't square up perfectly, but with more practice I'm sure they will. I did watch the videos, which appeared completely unrehearsed, but adequate :) Of course, then I decided to use a different shape and set to work by cutting the 12.5 block down to 10". My sewing was off, probably because I pulled the convex piece too much, therefore the squaring up meant my oval piece ended up smaller.
I added back the excess cutoffs of ugly fabric to make the block the required 12.5" square. I thought it looked like an Omega sign. You don't notice the ugliness of the fabric now, do you. It will be interesting to see what the other ladies made of their ugly fabric. See more design walls on
Judy's Patchwork Times.
I spent a great deal of the weekend moving stuff from here to there in the sewing room to get my new desk constructed and moved into place. All went together fine, although I did develop a lovely blister from hand turning all the screws.
Unfortunately, the desk was too low to fit the storage pieces under it as I desired. Things on paper so often don't match reality, no? I MacGivered a setup with some ramekins to see if the carts fit, then set out on an odyssey to find bed risers. None worked and I ended up with some bun feet and paint. I had to unscrewed the threaded bolts in the feet and paint them, but it all worked out. Total cost for desk, feet, and paint was about $150.
The desk gives me a lot more surface area to
junk up work with. The remainder of Sunday afternoon involved a lot of sorting, tossing, and rearranging items for the bins. They still need some labels.