Misc Things
I’ve been making leader/ender 9 patches for a while…..here’s a pile.
I read about fanning or twirling the seams on a couple of blogs. Doing this helps your blocks lay flat but I haven’t given it too much thought. Judy Laquidara from Patchwork Times has a good post about it here and since these are small blocks, 3 inches finished, the lumps at the intersection of the seams does make them un-flat so I thought I’d try it. Last night while watching the Biggest Loser I picked the threads and this morning I gave a couple of these blocks a press. Look at this:
Don’t they look nice and neat? They certainly lay much nicer now. I’m thinking I need to do this to all the 4 patches I’ve made…..nothing like a block that’s nice and flat 
Every once in a while I grab a couple of fabrics from my scrap salad bag and sew them together as a leader/ender when I don’t have nine patch pieces all lined up. I really do like the freedom of the crumb blocks!
It’s kind of like the cloud game where you look at the clouds and try to spot shapes, like a dog or an elephant. In this one I see a house and a crooked fence 
