Leader-Endering and Crumb-Piecing
I've got all of the rows done (the second one from the top is sitting on the ironing board) and have pressed all of those bazillion seams open.
I don't have a current Leader-Ender project, and I knew that if I started one while working on this that (a) I'd get confused about what was what and (b) the L-E would quickly get too big for its britches and turn into a Real Project. So I decided to use scraps from this quilt to make a pot holder or two as a L-E project.
A pot holder or two? Ha! There are nine, and prolly one more to come as I put the rows together (a tedious job for me).
Bless dear Bonnie Hunter for dreaming up the L-E and crumb piecing concepts!
Comments
I, too, like the little splashes of color in your potholders.
Because of Bonnie and her L/E method, I find myself paralyzed in front of my machine when I come to the end of a seam and realize I have run out of my L/E pile. I can't finish the seam until I go find (or cut) something else to use. But it is pretty great the amount of progress you can make on two projects at one time.
Since reading Mary Ellen Hopkins' books on putting quilt blocks together in "next door neighbors (pairs), then across the street neighbors (pairs sewn into 4 patches), etc. I have never sewn my blocks into rows. MEH's idea was that you end up with only one seam going the full width OR length of your quilt so it's easier to manage as you sew it all together. Love that!
I've enjoyed the L-E method since you kindly sent me one of Bonnie Hunter's books on the subject. Thank you again!
Hugs!
Hugs... -e