I Had an Idea

I have been mulling something over in my brain lately, an idea. Today I rewarded myself for hanging onto my sanity and for services rendered to mothering - and let myself try my idea out.

You see, I have kind of had a hankering after doing a chubby dresden as Lynne does them. Only I started thinking what ifs. What if the pieces were not all the same width? What if the centre was not in the centre?

So I got those handy dandy kitchen tools - a plate and some freezer paper - and experimented.

I drew a circle on the freezer paper, and then a smaller circle (with the invisible bowl) off centre. Then I used my ruler to chop the loop into fifteen different sized pieces. I numbered them, because I actually thought that this might be useful before I cut them all out and couldn't figure out what went where. (I'm really proud of remembering to number them!)

 Then I cut them out, chose my fabrics, ironed the freezer paper to said fabrics, and trimmed. Next I used the handy dandy tips I learned from Kerry at the Retreat in her class on freezer paper piecing, and got my first two pieces pinned ever so precisely together using the marks I had made on the freezer paper templates to help me line them up.

And I sewed those pieces together. When I got to fifteen I sewed it to number one, completing the circle. Next I snipped the inside curve to help when I pressed it under. And then I pressed the heck out of it. And that is where I am at. Come back tomorrow to see if I manage to remove the freezer paper and pin this to its background without losing the plot.

Susan