Christmas QAL–post 3

I made some blocks earlier this week, and Mr Fixit stopped dead when he was passing and saw this block laid out. 

I sat, smugly waiting for the compliment that I just knew he was about to utter.  What did he say?  "Have you done it wrong?  It's all wonky, and doesn't match up at the edges."  I had to explain that the pattern actually says these blocks won't line up, and that you have to trim them all when you've finished.  I don't think he was convinced.



This is the pattern I am using.  Whatever was I thinking?  It calls for 10 red, 10 green and 10 beigey-creamy FQ’s.  That’s 30 different fabrics.  In one quilt.  I must have been mad.

It was made a bit easier when I saw a FQ bundle which I loved.  It was very expensive way to but the fabric though, by the time I’d added on postage and taxes and duties, so I decided to google and see if I could find it cheaper.  I did.  I found it at CrazyQuiltGirl Fabric Shop.  I was absolutely amazed at their prices, and the customer service.  I asked if they would undo the bundle and lay the FQs as flat as they could so it would all fit in one envelope that would go through my letterbox.  That way, I sometimes don’t get charged the duties that almost double the cost.  They did that for me, and what’s more, I had the fabrics in my hands 4 days later.  Usually post seems to take 10 days from the US to me, so I don’t know what they bribed the postal service with, but it worked.