nightmare border

Innocently I had a vision of triangles  on either side of plain border. After consulting a book on borders and with my math specialist (husband with Jeffrey putting his 2 cents in). I started cutting. I gave myself a week. I figured I'd be done in 2 days, top. It's taken hours and the whole week to get it to this point; it still needs corners.

I sewed 120 triangles together and they were 1/8 to big at every point...that adds up really fast so it didn't fit. I kept the vision; although I argued with myself repeatedly about how lovely the quilt was with just the plain border... I redid the math; the sizes were right. I examined the seams; obviously larger than the triangle seams. So I ripped apart every other triangle and then just resewed the remaining seam. Last night I marked the lines to make sure the points lined up and pinned the new and improved border on. Oh, my, there were 6 triangles that were clearly to large to ease in. The plain border was looking even better to me.  I went to bed.

At midnight the solution came to me.It involved a lot of ripping-remember half of the seams had been sewn twice. At 2 a.m. I went back to bed with 2 borders fixed and a plan for the other 2. It involved paper piecing the 8 sections that had to be redone. I'm NOT going to do a border like this again for a LONG time.

Stash busting for week 14

I bought no fabric this week;

I used no fabric up this week. 

year to date;

in 13.43 yards

out 64.4 yards

used 50.97 yards MORE than I purchased this year.

It's looking like I'll have 2 projects finished next week.