Please, No More Half Square Triangles!

Since the beginning of the month

I have done nothing but work

on the Oh, Say Can You Sew, 

mystery quilt along

from Lisa Bongean.

Holy Moley

HST's !!!

 
This months clue was to make 

1152 - 1 inch half square triangle (finished)

and sewing them into 128 

nine patch blocks

I've been working on them pretty much exclusively,

nonstop.

Thankfully, I had some Triangles on a Roll

and Thangles papers in the correct size.

I hadn't used either of these for a long time.

But having to:

 make so many,

make them scrappy and

make them accurately,

it was the best solution.

There seems to be so many steps.

Cutting fabrics,

pinning fabrics and paper,

sewing on the lines,

cutting apart

and finally tearing away all of the paper.

The good part is that each hst is the correct size.

No trimming after each one was pressed.

Time wise, it probably all comes out the same.

There were just so many to make!!!!

A quilt friend asked if I were going to cut off 

the dog ears on each piece.

"No, way!" I said.

But then....

Despite my hand cramping up,

I cut off each and every one.

This is as far as I have gotten.

I've sewn 3 blocks,

125 - 3" blocks to go.

I needed to see if they would all turn out right.

I think they're going to look good

with the wide variety of fabrics.

Of course, being a mystery...

I have no idea if they'll look good!

So, as I sit at my machine

feeding it 

these little individual triangular nibblets,

I was wondering how differently

each of us might approach a 

repetitive process like this.

Do you do each step to completion?

Or 

do you do small batches from start to finish?

As you can tell,

I push myself to finish each step,

even if it means sacrificing the

function of my hands.

Until Next Time-

Kyle