had mentioned in a previous post that I'll be making a Star quilt for the St. Anthony's Raffle Quilt. I have a deadline of Sept 23rd to finish the quilt. My plan is to have all 128 stars done by Sept 4th. That's less than two weeks away. I have been working all week on the planning the size, pulling/auditioning fabrics, cutting star parts.
I started making some geese blocks on Monday and I've trimmed up some of them. Today, I have lots of star parts cut and ready to assemble an actual star.
Just before supper, I finished block ONE! Now I have 127 to go. I did a measurement to see if my quilt math is spot on, and guess what. The block is 5.75 inches, not 6 inches. That's why I much prefer to work with a commercial pattern..... uggg......I'm continuing anyway... I'll adjust the size of my borders...
And so, how's your quilt math been lately?
4 comments:
Fabulous colours, Gail -that's going to be an awesome quilt (no matter what size it turns out :)
Oh I can feel your frustration. Once I used a quilt photo as inspiration and calculated the math backward from the finished quilt size. Later when I gave up my method and purchased the pattern, the instructions were quite different and I nded up with two differing sizes of quilt blocks. Lesson learned as I couldn't quite fix it with wider borders.
I love the colours, and stars are my favorite. Looking forward to watching your progress.
Love the colours Gail. It will be beautiful. You have at least two Quilt friends, that I know of, that love quilt math and would always be glad to lend a second set of eyes. Linda G
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