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Measure twice. . . .


I was given some old fabrics that belonged to someone's mother. Much of it had to be passed on to the animal shelter for dog beds, but there were some wonderful old cottons that were usable for my art quilts.

One red checked piece looked like it came right off the cover of an old Betty Crocker cookbook. That got me thinking and pulling reds and greens and peachy fabrics that I could use in my kitchen quilt for this prompt.

I decided to keep the quilt at our small dimensions of 15 by 20. My quilts always begin with batting, a few inches larger than the finished piece, because the quilting shrinks them. My challenge to myself was to use only these old fabrics, and I merrily cut and pinned and stitched the pieces down to the batting.

Once all the pieces were appliqued, I began hand quilting around them and in the background. At some point, I thought about measuring and finding out what would be cropped out. If you look carefully near the corners, you'll see small green corner stitches where I would have to trim.

The vertical measurement was 18" and needed to be 15"!!! I would either have to lose the top of the bottle and drapes, or a big chunk of the bottoms of my fruits. NOOOOOOooooooooo!!!! (I have boundary issues.) You would think by now, I would have learned to map out my space at the beginning of the process. Oh, no! Instead, I just dive right in, forgetting about planning ahead.

I'm showing this quilt now because I have decided NOT to drastically crop 3 inches from it, but rather, to begin again. I'm trying a new technique learned at a recent retreat, and I WILL be measuring at the start this time.

๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์— ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ ์†ํ•œ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์ง๋ฌผ์„ ์ฃผ์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์˜ ๋‹ค๋Ÿ‰์€ ๊ฐœ ์นจ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋™๋ฌผ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์†Œ์— ์œ„์— ํ†ต๊ณผ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค, ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋‚˜์˜ ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ๋ˆ„๋น„์ด๋ถˆ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์“ธ๋ชจ ์žˆ๋˜ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ๊ฒฝ์ด๋กœ์šด ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ๋ฉด์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. 1๊ฐœ์˜ ๋นจ๊ฐ•์€ ๋ฒ ํ‹ฐ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ Crocker ์š”๋ฆฌ์ฑ…์˜ ๋ฎ๊ฐœ ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋ณด์ธ ์กฐ๊ฐ์„ ์™”๋‹ค ๋ฐ”๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๊ฒ€์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ด ๊ธธ์žก์ด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋‚˜์˜ ๋ถ€์—Œ ๋ˆ„๋น„์ด๋ถˆ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋˜ ๋นจ๊ฐ• ๋ฐ ๋…น์ƒ‰ ๋ฐ ๋ณต์ˆญ์•„ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ง๋ฌผ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹น๊ฒจ ์ €๋ฅผ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” 20์— ์˜ํ•˜์—ฌ 15์˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ž‘์€ ์ฐจ์›์— ๋ˆ„๋น„์ด๋ถˆ์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜์˜ ๋ˆ„๋น„์ด๋ถˆ์€ ํƒ€๊ฒฉ, ์™„์„ฑ๋˜๋Š” ์กฐ๊ฐ ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๋” ํฐ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ์ธ์น˜๋กœ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ˆ„๋น„์งˆ์ด ๊ทธ(๊ฒƒ)๋“ค์„ ๊ธด์ถ•ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜ ์ž์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜์˜ ๋„์ „์€ ์ด ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์ง๋ฌผ๋งŒ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ๋‚˜๋Š” ํƒ€๊ฒฉ์— ๋ช…๋ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์กฐ๊ฐ์„ ์‚ญ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์•„๋ž˜๋กœ ํ•€์œผ๋กœ ๊ผฟ๊ณ  ๋ฐ”๋Š์งˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋‹จ ๋ชจ๋“  ์กฐ๊ฐ์ด ์•„ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์ผ€๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋ฉด, ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ(๊ฒƒ)๋“ค์˜ ์ฃผ์œ„์— ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ๋ˆ„๋น„์งˆํ•˜๋Š” ์†์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋Š ์‹œ์ ์—์„œ, ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ธก์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ™•๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๋ฌด์Šจ์ด ์•Œ์•„๋‚ด๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ๊ตฌ์„์˜ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด์— ๋˜‘๋˜‘ํžˆ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—, ๋‹น์‹ ์€ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ˆํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ž‘์€ ๋…น์ƒ‰ ์ฝ”๋„ˆ ์Šคํ‹ฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ณผ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์ง ์ธก๋Ÿ‰์€ 18" 15"์ผ ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค!!! ๋‚˜๋Š” ์–ด๋Š ์ชฝ์ด๋“  ๋ณ‘์˜ ์ •์ƒ์„ ์žƒ์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋˜๋Š” ๋‚˜์˜ ๊ณผ์ผ์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ ์ฃผ๋ฆ„์žก์•„ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ์šด๋‹ค. NOOOOOOooooooooo!!!! (๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค.) ๋‹น์‹ ์€, ๋‚˜ ๊ณผ์ • ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๋Š” ์‹œ์ ์— ๋‚˜์˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ์ง€๋„๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐฐ์› ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ง€๊ธˆ์ฏค์€ ์ด์ œ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„, ์•„๋‹ˆ! ๋Œ€์‹ , ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๊ธ‰๊ฐ•ํ•˜ํ•ด, ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์„ธ์šฐ๊ธฐ์— ๊ด€ํ•˜์—ฌ ์žŠ๋Š”. ๋‚˜๋Š”, ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๊ณผ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์—์„œ 3 ์ธ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ด ๋ˆ„๋น„์ด๋ถˆ์„, ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ ํ‡ด๊ฐ์— ์Šต๋“๋œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ์‹œ๋„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ์ธก์ •ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

็งใฏ่ชฐใ‹ใซๆฏๅฑžใ—ใŸใ‚ใ‚‹ๅคใ„็”Ÿๅœฐใ‚’ไธŽใˆใ‚‰ใ‚ŒใŸใ€‚ ใใ‚Œใฎๅคšใใฏ็Šฌใฎใƒ™ใƒƒใƒ‰ใฎใŸใ‚ใฎๅ‹•็‰ฉไฟ่ญทๆ–ฝ่จญใซ้€šใ˜ใชใ‘ใ‚Œใฐใชใ‚‰ใชใ‹ใฃใŸใŒ็งใฎ่Šธ่ก“ใฎใ‚ญใƒซใƒˆใฎใŸใ‚ใซไฝฟ็”จๅฏ่ƒฝใฎใ‚ใ‚‹ใ™ใฐใ‚‰ใ—ใๅคใ„็ถฟใŒใ‚ใฃใŸใ€‚ 1ใคใฎ่ตคใฏใƒ™ใƒ†ใ‚ฃๅคใ„Crockerใฎๆ–™็†ๆ›ธใฎใ‚ซใƒใƒผใ‹ใ‚‰ใใ‚Œใฎใ‚ˆใ†ใซ่ฆ‹ใˆใŸ้ƒจๅˆ†ใ‚’ๅ–ใ‚ŒใŸๆญฃใ—ใ็‚นๆคœใ—ใŸใ€‚ ใใ‚Œใฏ็งใŒใ“ใฎใƒ—ใƒญใƒณใƒ—ใƒˆใฎใŸใ‚ใซ็งใฎๅฐๆ‰€ใ‚ญใƒซใƒˆใงไฝฟ็”จใงใใ‚‹่ตคใŠใ‚ˆใณ็ท‘ใŠใ‚ˆใณๆกƒ่‰ฒใฎ็”Ÿๅœฐ่€ƒใˆใ€ๅผ•ใฃๅผตใฃใฆใ„ใ‚‹็งใ‚’ๅพ—ใŸใ€‚ ็งใฏ20ใซใ‚ˆใฃใฆ15ใฎ็ง้”ใฎๅฐใ•ใ„ๆฌกๅ…ƒใงใ‚ญใƒซใƒˆใ‚’ไฟใคใ“ใจใซใ—ใŸใ€‚ ็งใฎใ‚ญใƒซใƒˆใฏใƒใƒƒใƒˆใฎไฝฟ็”จใ€็ต‚ไบ†ใ™ใ‚‹้ƒจๅˆ†ใ‚ˆใ‚Šๅคงใใ„ๅฐ‘ๆ•ฐใฎใ‚คใƒณใƒใ‹ใ‚‰ใ‚ญใƒซใƒˆใซใ™ใ‚‹ใ“ใจใŒใใ‚Œใ‚‰ใ‚’็ธฎใ‚ใ‚‹ใฎใงใ€ๅธธใซๅง‹ใพใ‚‹ใ€‚ ่‡ชๅˆ†่‡ช่บซใธใฎ็งใฎๆŒ‘ๆˆฆใฏใ“ใ‚Œใ‚‰ใฎๅคใ„็”Ÿๅœฐใ ใ‘ไฝฟ็”จใ™ใ‚‹ใ“ใจใงใ‚ใ‚Š็งใฏใƒใƒƒใƒˆใฎไฝฟ็”จใซ้™ฝๆฐ—ใซ้ƒจๅˆ†ใ‚’ๅˆ‡ใ‚Šใ€ใƒ”ใƒณใงๆญขใ‚ใ€ใใ—ใฆใ‚นใƒ†ใƒƒใƒใ—ใŸใ€‚ ใ™ในใฆใฎ้ƒจๅˆ†ใŒใ‚ขใƒƒใƒ—ใƒชใ‚ฑใ‚’ใคใ‘ใ‚‰ใ‚ŒใŸใ‚‰ใ€็งใฏใใ‚Œใ‚‰ใฎใพใ‚ใ‚Šใงใใ—ใฆ่ƒŒๆ™ฏใงใ‚ญใƒซใƒˆใซใ™ใ‚‹ๆ‰‹ใ‚’ๅง‹ใ‚ใŸใ€‚ ใ‚ใ‚‹ๆ™‚็‚นใงใ€็งใฏๆธฌๅฎšใ—ใ€ๅŽ็ฉซใ•ใ‚Œใ‚‹ใ‚‚ใฎใŒ่ชฟในใ‚‹ใ“ใจใซใคใ„ใฆ่€ƒใˆใŸใ€‚ ใ‚ณใƒผใƒŠใƒผใฎ่ฟ‘ใใงๆณจๆ„ๆทฑใ่ฆ‹ใ‚Œใฐใ€็งใŒๆ•ดใ‚ใชใ‘ใ‚Œใฐใชใ‚‰ใชใ„ๅฐใ•ใ„็ท‘ใฎ่ง’ใฎใ‚นใƒ†ใƒƒใƒใ‚’่ฆ‹ใ‚‹ใ€‚ ็ธฆใฎๆธฌๅฎšใฏ18" 15"ใงใ‚ใ‚‹ๅฟ…่ฆใŒใ‚ใฃใฆ!ใงใ‚ใ‚Šใ€!! ็งใฏใฉใกใ‚‰ใ‹ใณใ‚“ใฎไธŠใ‚’ๅคฑใ‚ใชใ‘ใ‚Œใฐใชใ‚Šใ€ใพใŸใฏ็งใฎใƒ•ใƒซใƒผใƒ„ใฎๅบ•ใฎๅคงใใ„ๅ›บใพใ‚ŠใŠใŠใ†ใ€‚ NOOOOOOooooooooo!!!! ๏ผˆ็งใซๅขƒ็•Œๅ•้กŒใŒใ‚ใ‚‹ใ€‚๏ผ‰ ใ€็งใƒ—ใƒญใ‚ปใ‚นใฎๅง‹ใ‚ใซ็งใฎใ‚นใƒšใƒผใ‚นใฎๅœฐๅ›ณใ‚’ๆใใ“ใจใ‚’ๅญฆใผใ†ไปŠใงใฏ่€ƒใˆใ‚‹ใ€‚ ใ‚ใ‚ใ€ใ„ใ„ใˆ! ใใฎไปฃใ‚Šใ€็งใฏใกใ‚‡ใ†ใฉๆญฃใ—ใๆฝœใ‚Šใ€ๅ‰ๆ–นใซ่จˆ็”ปใซใคใ„ใฆๅฟ˜ใ‚Œใฆใ„ใ‚‹ใ€‚ ็งใฏๅ†ๅบฆๅง‹ใ‚ใ‚‹ใŸใ‚ใซ็งใŒๅพนๅบ•็š„ใซใใ‚Œใ‹ใ‚‰ใฎ3ใ‚คใƒณใƒใ‚’ๅŽ็ฉซใ—ใชใ„ใ“ใจใซใ—ใชใ‹ใฃใŸใ‚€ใ—ใ‚ใ€็คบใ—ใฆใ„ใ‚‹ใฎใงใ“ใฎใ‚ญใƒซใƒˆใ‚’ไปŠใ€‚ ็งใฏๆœ€่ฟ‘ใฎ้€€ๅŽปใงๅญฆใฐใ‚Œใ‚‹ๆ–ฐใ—ใ„ๆŠ€่ก“ใ‚’่ฉฆใฟใฆใ€ใ‚ขใ‚คใƒปใ‚ฆใ‚ฃใƒซใฏไปŠๅ›žใ‚’ๆœ€ๅˆใซๆธฌๅฎšใ—ใฆใ„ใ‚‹ใ€‚


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