Merricks Nth, Month One, Post Three

 

So, there were three elements to Month One of Merricks: the applique circles, the large diamonds, and the small diamonds. I'd dreaded the circles and felt pretty confident about the diamonds.

Boy was I wrong!

The large diamonds were easy and I did them by machine. They were featured in my last post.

The applique circles were no trouble at all! I got to feeling pretty good about my applique by the time they were finished. It's a good thing because Month Two (yes, I did finish Month One before opening!) has a large applique component and I've already cut 32 orange peels and marked their background squares. Stay tuned.

But, oh! those small diamonds! I struggled and struggled with them as I hand pieced, having just a terrible time getting my 1/4" right and the sides even and the tops and bottoms with the points not truncated. They're done. They're not perfect; they're not gorgeous. But they're done!