Love Bacon?  Me, too.  So what does bacon and sewing have in common?  Well, I love both!  But, the same principles regarding the clipping of curves in sewing collars, for instance, can be applied to bacon.  When bacon begins to curl, use your KITCHEN SHEARS to clip the "curve", and the bacon strip will flatten out.  

This quilt became what it looks like today because of a mistake I made.  Originally I was going to make an attic windows quilt.  All the squares would be facing the same way.  Take a look at the upper left hand square.  All the squares would be lined up horizontally and repeated line after line.  But, when I went to sew two squares together, I unknowingly turned one upside down.  I was not thrilled about having to rip the seam out.  The more I studied it, the more I liked the combination.  So instead of horizontal placements, I changed my thinking and began to work vertically.  The second column starts out with the upside down square which creates a "pairing", thus the name of the quilt.