Easy Street, part 3

Easy Street, Part 3 is done!  I was a little squeamish when I saw that it was a shaded 4-patch because I was still reeling from the aggravation of the Flying Geese.  Angles of any kind have never been my friend when it comes to sewing.  For some reason, they just never come out right.  I tried the no-waste method with the Geese and was semi-successful but still frustrated at the amount of work and lack of satisfaction with my finished product.  I decided to try the same method with the Shaded 4-patch and BOY! Was that a joke (for me at least)!  Ended up putting 1/2 the units in the crumb bucket.

Soooo....I re-read Bonnie's tutorial again about the Easy Angle & Companion Angle and skimmed over a few more of her blogs where she mentioned that she finger-pressed her seams by scraping her thumbnail down.  These two things plus another blog (can't remember where I saw it) which showed how to chain piece the second side of the wings made it a thoroughly satisfactory Saturday, sewing wise.  I can't believe I never figured out how to chain-piece the second wing units just by flipping them upside down. What a dork I am!

I went back to the Flying Geese and employed the thumb-scrap method to them too and they worked out as well.  Yay!

Sad news though...Godzilla has had enough.  Godzilla is my vintage Elite, a Japanese Singer knock off, circa 1951,  He finished Easy Street and then said "Watashi wa dōsa shimasen" which is "I will no longer work for you, you slave-driving wretch" in Japanese.  So its off to the shop with him and my Christmas gift projects are at a standstill because I only had the one working machine and I gave my loaner back to her Momma because she (Momma) was going through withdrawal.

But I'm still on the path to Easy Street!

Easy Street, Part 1

I'm going to play quick catch up with the whole blogging/linky thing--I'm doing Christmas colors for my Easy Street (think Miracle on Easy 34th Street as the tentative name), still keeping grey and b&w for my background.  I had almost everything in my stash except the black and white, which was harder to find than you'd think...but here we are!

It has many brothers, but for some reason, I can't get the pics on my camera to load...so here's a phone shot!