Patience

Perhaps that should read Patience and Trigonometry. And this is not a new card game with triangular cards.

I am creating patchwork squares for a new quilt top. These squares are made up in part of triangles. These I overcut. This is far better than undercutting, but a pain in the proverbial I’d rather do without. It will mean unpicking, re-cutting and re-stitching all the affected fabrics.

This only came to light when I had completed the squares and was about to join them them all up.

I am also aware of the old adage – Measure Twice & Cut Once.

So, either I was too impatient when drawing out the designs and calculating the angles to give me all my measurements or else I need to revise Pythagoras and his cunning plans. But I know it’ll work out fine in the end ….

Which leads me to my new favourite comic strip of the day which seems to sum up this quilt.

Patience - from Mimi & Eunice

Patience – from Mimi & Eunice – by Nina Paley (with grateful Thanks)