The New Math

Have you seen the crazy way they teach math these days?  Not only does it NOT make sense, but it takes soooo loooonng to get the answer.  (Thanks to the pandemic and g-ma school, my g-sons know the right way!)  

Quilters come up with new ways of doing things all the time, i.e.,

Joining the ends of your quilt binding

No-waste flying geese

Make 12 half-square triangles at once, perfectly

Paperless foundation paper piecing (it's true)

Sometimes it's an improvement....sometimes not.

Well, I have to say my new way of assembling on-point rows was NOT a winner! 
I guess I can't charge $27 to take my class to learn this new technique, darn.

 

After reading my post from May 4, 2021, the tens-and-tens of people reading my blog probably figured out, way before I did, "ahhhhhhh....sounds good Charlotte, if you like A LOT of partial seams!"  

 

Needless to say, like the New Math, it didn't work out so well. Ho Hum!

 

Sometimes the good-ol-fashion way is the best way.

 

.... nothing ventured,
no tedious partial seams,
no frustration,
no cussing thus no wine drinking!

So this little adventure was good for something.

Cheers.

 

But, perseverance has paid off and it's done.  I've learned from my mistake and from now on I'll stick to the tried-and-true.

Carolina Chain - 55" X 67"

I've decided to keep this lap quilt.  Every fabric in this quilt has a story, going all the way back to when my 14-year-old g-son was just a baby....his name is Cash. Can you spy with your little eye a fabric I used in Carolina Chain that
I also used in Cash's I Spy quilt?

I Spy - 2007