to do a scrap fabric exchange for the quilt pattern, Buggy Wheels, by The Buggy Barn. It's a beautiful scrap quilt. I love playing with "value" only with no regard to color.
We planned to make all the half square triangles using triangle paper so I figured out how many total Dark/Light HSTs and the total Dark/Dark HSTs everyone would need based on the total blocks in the quilt. I divided it by the number of HSTs we'd get from the triangle paper for each and figured out the size and number of pieces of fabric we each needed to exchange. It's simple math. It can't get much easier than that. Or, so we thought.
Everyone that was participating cut fabric like crazy, we exchanged it all and starting making HSTs, by the hundreds. I worked on these fairly steadily for awhile and thought I had most of them made. Then I threw this quilt project aside for awhile. I pulled them out again recently and started sewing them into the blocks. There's a combination of 64 total 2 1/2" squares and HSTs in each block as shown above. We are each making a king size quilt which requires 36 blocks. I didn't like the contrast in some of them so threw some out. Of course I didn't keep track so had to do a recount of the HSTs I'd made. During the recount I discovered a shortage in the neighborhood of 510 Light/Dark HSTs and 231 Dark/Dark HSTs. A bit more that a minor math error! Good grief!!!
The girls took it pretty well when I broke the bad news as they aren't anywhere near where I'm at with this project. It would have been awhile until they, too, discovered the problem. The others now seem to recall that we figured the exchange based on only enough blocks for a queen size vs. king even though we all decided later to make the larger size. That would certainly explain the deficiency and does make me feel a bit better! Needless to say though, this project has now been brought to a screeching halt. I'm back to making half square triangles again. I don't think we'll be sleeping under this quilt anytime soon!
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