My plan is to move Mary Graves (the last row) to beneath the verse and disregard the other three rows. This will be a drum, the finish will be short and wide. Seeing the photo, I may start over on a larger piece of linen for the full chart, use the charted colors. Another hornbook to cut!
Sorry I didn't post it before.
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Thanks for the help with Frosty. But I'm still baffled. My numerate brain needs to have definitive answers! I get that the top would be somewhat puffed, but the template for the flat bottom is 4.5" without foldover allowance. The fabric to go around the drum (14.5" less .5" seam allowance) is over 4" when sewn into a circle. The interior of the 4" box is 3.5".
Cutting Frosty's linen too short was my fault entirely. If I hadn't, could have finished into a fabric drum of my chosen proportions. So why does this bug me now? Numbers need to be exact for me, always have, and I wanted an explanation as to why I can't understand this!
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4 comments:
Mary Graves is definitely my cup of tea.... Wish there were sources, though, to get the hornbooks. I have come across so many I would like to do and yet they don't quite look the same with out the finishing piece. Wish I had Frosty's pattern to take a look at. Usually Brenda's directions are exact and perfect. I suspect it is similar to my Uncle Sam piece...which was finished as a drum and then a papier mache box and base for the tophat. If I get down there, I will try to find that pattern and see if I can draw any similarities. ~Robin~
I really like this Hornbook design, I also wish as The CrankyCrow does that there were places to get the hornbooks from.
Happy New Year my friend.
Catherine
Like the idea to make Mary into a pindrum.
You will finish Mary soon and then there will be another chart already to start with?
Did you use the same fabric count as charted with Frosty?
Take care, Truus from Holland
That hornbook truly makes the piece. I'm sure with yours and Mark's talents, you will have no trouble replicating it.
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