A project that had sat too long and needed to be met head on is a kit that I bought (rarely ever buy kits, but the price was so cheap for Hoffman digital fabric) for the Big Chevron Star. The pattern was confusing and I needed to make freezer paper pattern pieces in order to get the star points to sew and work properly. I can't just measure with rulers and get pieces to come out on diagonals reliably, but hey, that is probably just me.
The part where I got stuck and the whole thing ended up in bag was when I started to add the background. It was floppy and not meeting up and it looked like a disaster.
Recently, one of my good and knowledgeable friends and I met up and I brought the offending bag and asked for help. When we laid it out, it became apparent that I had not goofed, but the layout was goofy and needed some unusual trimming to work out. I got my head wrapped around that and worked on the background for each blade and assembled the whole thing into kind of a awkward looking top, but then was able to carefully trim and the top emerged. I added the top and bottom borders and now it looks great. Nice size comfort quilt.
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| See the wonky looking sections trying to come together? |
7 comments:
WOW! - from horribly wonky to wonderfully straight - GOOD JOB!! - ;))
amazing how it all worked out...xo
I am glad to see you got it worked out. I rarely buy a kit to make the kit quilt. I think I did that one time. But sometimes kits are a great way to get fabric at a better price.
I'm glad you stuck with it - it turned out very pretty!
Well it turned out really pretty so that is a success story. Someone is going to love it.
What a lovely mix of fabrics - sorry about the issues with the making of the star but the end result is amazing.
Bad patterns are so annoying but you saved it! The borders are perfect and this will be a wonderful comfort quilt.
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