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in the middle of the night i knew i wanted to make a  "Good Enough" blanket.  I want to copy Deb G.     I went back on Bee Creative  and tried to find her first square but was using too much battery in my wandering  (reading for instance other things, like the reminder that English Muffins make good garlic bread)  so i asked.   Her first square was August 9,  2020.  She linked me.   

Before i got the link i  YouTubed  log cabin quilt for beginners and watched a little of a few,  just to get the idea,   and started sweating even more than the day gave,   ee,  all the measuring……all the going in a direction….measuring……more…..strips cut ahead of time    so i got a piece of paper and tried to see how it might actually be.    Surprised even myself at how dyslexic i am.  It's Rocket Science.

but she sent the link and i knew i wanted to try it.   I know i want to try it.   

i will try.   

and

here are some Beauty FULL numbers:     92   92   92   86   79   83    the forecast.     

 

 

 

 

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23 responses to “rocket science”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    (((Grace))) so good to see those numbers cooling down!

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  2. maria Avatar
    maria

    lovely subtil(?) color print
    grace it will be a good work for the comming time
    i look out for rain … and we had rainfall just for 3 days a little bit , today we have a drash of rainfall , or rainwater container of 1.500 l. desent in 2 hour .So i’m stay in the house and remake somme of my cloths and think of you
    i have never thought that you use a battery for …electricity

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  3. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    I don’t measure, not precisely. I will make a video and show you.

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  4. dee Avatar
    dee

    I find I can piece-as-you go with log cabin. Strips can be cut after they’re attached too. Glad it’s cooling down. Been watching the temps in and around LA because of my brother and son— gawd it’s been hot. Like it was here in July.

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  5. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    you can tear strips of cloth as you need them, width doesn’t matter unless you want everything to be “perfectly the same” … lay a strip down next to the edge you want to attach it to and cut to length … then stitch the edges together … repeat (a lot) …
    I love that Deb uses such narrow strips … I’m less patient and tend to make my strips wider

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  6. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Are you cooler today? We are here, but still muggy from the rain, yes Rain of last night.
    I made a log cabin quilt for big grandson, Trey, with the help of my friend who can make sense of these things. Now I think, don’t over think it…do like Dee, Liz and Deb have said…no need for perfection is my thought.
    Be well. xo

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  7. Faith Avatar
    Faith

    Not pre measuring everything makes it less rocket science. It’s kind of a square spiral. I sent an email with diagrams that might help.
    As if I didn’t already have enough UFOs, not I want to play with log cabin. 🙃

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  8. Faith Avatar
    Faith

    “now” not “not” Maybe my subconscious it trying to tell me something. LOL

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  9. Jude Avatar
    Jude

    I had a video somewhere, i think it was a “moon cabin”.

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  10. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    So happy you have a cooler week to look forward to. I love the log cabin … perfection is totally overrated wonky is always better.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes…o….Yes. beyond so so good

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    rain won’t come here till maybe November???? We have a
    Long Wait for rain. and then it COMES and there is nothing BUT rain…so
    i love, so much, these days, tho they are so Hard for other living things
    and i think of that.
    I wait to see your Cloth
    yes….batteries for Electricity. Little ones…that hook to USB of the phone, the little FAN.
    otherwise…there is none. Well that’s not true. There are the Marine Batteries out there, that DO turn on the hot water heater and in the Rain Season, the Heater in this Tin House. They also would keep the small refrigerater going if it worked. Which it doesn’t. Batteries. I live a Battery life.
    If Jenny can, there will be hook up through PGandE the Electric People. There will be electricity down there, at campsite A. Alyssia wants to put some kind of “shed” there that could hold many things, usefull to the Whole of the Hill. It’s so complex. i almost dont want it.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    that’s a LOT , to make a video, but honestly, i would
    love to see it.
    Your Good Enough is so so Beauty Full to me. Anything i can make will not be so…i don’t have the variety of scraps you do that are what gives your Blanket LIFE…MOTION…LIFE
    but its as close as it comes…
    i look again at the Gee’s Bend Quilts…
    don’t be held to making the video…that’s Huge…just that you thought of it. Love and Love and………….

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    the heat. week after week.
    it comforts me, that you have family here in this Place

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    her blanket Cloth Quilt is so so Beauty Full to me

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes…perfection isn’t any thing i am attracted to…at all, but there is a GIFT in the allowing of the Life of the scraps that need to follow a pattern of around and around even tho it’s not in a
    circle

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    your Email is Brilliant.
    i can follow it.
    Brilliant and Perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    a square spiral….i can GET this…a square spiral

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i got it the first time around

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Faith’s diagram will work. it’s perfect

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    wonky is Moving, is Alive and if it’s the only way
    you can, it’s forgiving.
    I love the precision but i have none.
    i love the precision of the Tina. it grounds me. Over and Over.
    because i have none.

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  21. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    I made a tiny video, it’s not much work for me to make a little one like I did. I’ve been making videos for work for training purposes and have been getting some practice. 🙂
    Yes, it’s the variety of fabric that really makes the blanket work for me, that brings me joy. And that there are stories in most of the scraps; a blanket made for someone else, an article of clothing, a gift…. I am inspired by the Gee’s Bend Quilts too.

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  22. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Love this comment Grace, I have no precision as well. It’s not in me. I also love all these comments, coming together to help realize a desire…

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  23. Faith Avatar
    Faith

    Yay!

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