Smoked Cheddar Confusion

I'm posting a late Friday night description of the confusion I've worked through today with Smoked Cheddar. Go to this post to read about my plans for making this quilt. As I have just now re-read this post, I chuckle about my saying "all the thinking is done for me" because all I've done for the last day or more is think about what I've done wrong on this quilt! *grumbling*

Well, after counting out and checking off, it turns out that I haven't done anything wrong except leave out an entire set of units.

 I have 64 of these HSTs, and I feared I was going to have to 'unsew' all of them. And I had begun unsewing! I suppose I took about 5 or 6 apart.

I thought I needed to have made HSTs with this combination. And I completed a block with these remakes.

What I should have done, was study the pattern a bit more closely. Or maybe check off the steps I'd completed. I DO need all 64 of these HSTs - they just don't go in the basket; they form the feet or base of the basket.

So, I checked the pattern instructions again and that is when it finally dawned on me that I'd not made any of the HSTs for the center of the flower basket. They are supposed to be of the same small print as in the outer HSTs and flying geese units. Look at this basket to see a correct basket center.

Gracious! Could it be that I'm so accustomed to making up most of my quilts using basic blocks and scraps that I have forgetten how to follow directions? Hope not. Whatever, I'm finally be back on track. I hope.

Admitting this goof is far, far more preferable than dismantling 64 HSTs. I will gladly suffer the embarrassment and take my dose of humility. I will say in my defense, though, that I had put all this away for 2 weeks while we had company staying in the guest room. A long break from the project might have had a part in my inability to pick up where I left off.

The step I omitted (and now am beginning) is turning these fabrics into 128 HSTs. I've drawn my diagonal line and I am ready to stitch. 

Full-out block construction will commence soon. Oh, and yes, I will use that first block in my quilt - my humility block, if you will.

Big news for tomorrow! I'm going to Daytona for the AQS Quilt Show! I've teamed up with Gayle, a quilter from shuffleboard, and we are going with two of her quilting buddies. I am about to expand my world of quilting friends! Yay! I am so eager for a fun day. 

We leave early and will stay till they shut the doors. I promise to take lots of pictures and notes for some upcoming posts. 

Happy Quilting, Friends!

Jayne