On Saturday I met up with some quilting friends, and ran my maths past one to see if she came to the same figure as I did. She confirmed that to fit with my first pieces, this week's would have to finish at 10.666667 cms (and be cut at 12.1666666 etc). Well that wasn't going to happen!
One option was to go back to using inch-equivalents (ie 2.5cm for an inch) and cut down last week's pieces to suit. But this would mean cutting at quarter centimetre measurements, which is what I was trying to avoid in the first place. The second option was to use a different measurement which would be easy to cut for both last week and this week, and re-make last week's pieces. Re-making is not such a big deal, as I am only making a quarter of the specified numbers at this stage. But larger pieces might result in a chunkier-looking quilt, which might not be good. After lots of thinking I decided on the second option, using 3cm per inch. This will make my pieces 20% larger than Bonnie's. I think I can live with that.
Much easier to line up my strip with the 12cm mark than the non-existent ten-and-two-thirds line!
This is my metric equivalent of the Companion Angle ruler Bonnie uses. It's the first time I've used it to make a shape like this. Unless you have red-green colour-blindness, you will notice that I am using green where Bonnie has red.
Feeding the bits through the machine:
Once they were all done, I remade the half-square triangles from last week:
and cut the extra squares in brown (my constant) and grey (for Bonnie's black). Now I'm ready for the next clue!
When this week's link-up goes live, I will add the link to this post so that you can easily go and check out everyone else's progress.
Here's the link-up. Although I can't add my link to it for some reason. I've tried about 10 times, but it never loads. I'll try again tomorrow some time.
Added later: Hooray! It worked this morning.
18 comments:
I am so impressed of you changing colors. This will be good.
I like your color choices for the mystery. They really make me think of AU...green fields in winter and brown in summer. I also understand the math challenge of converting from one system to another. I had the reverse issue for several years while I lived in AU.
I like your color choices and what you've done, but the math - ai ai yi - it boggles my brain!
I'm useless at maths, so well done on working it all out. I like your new colours, sometimes a change is needed after seeing everyone doing the same colour way as Bonnie.
I never thought about rulers being made in metric. I just assumed quilters all used inches. I learn something new everyday. Love your colors.
Beautiful units Vireya...don't give me any math questions either!
I love your colors, this is going to be one very nice quilt.
The proportions of green and brown look really good. Let's hope the next clue is friendly for your size decision.
ACK--MATH! Your units look great. :)
I like your potential block layout! Looks great in the colors you chose. I hope all that math works out ok!
I love your color choise, maybe I'll copy You for my second one!
You are right, it's fun to make a quilt named Allietare and know it's a american quilt :)
Fun to see different color ways and arrangements of the units. We'll all be guessing right up to the Reveal!
Oh, I love the potential layout!! Have to put that in the back of my mind!! ;0)
beautiful arrangement!
Like your choice of green, and your layout.
love your color ways,,,,,,also, i make the half squares like you do also,,, your colors pop,,,,,,loved your gorgeous red bird also,,,,,
Love your colors. The layout is a mystery, but I like yours. It is like a puzzle. To day we will get more pieces.
Playing with the units and making guesses about the block design is part of the fun, I like your 'block'
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