In my haste to finish this quilt I didn't pay close attention to the directions. After all I have already just made one. So this should be no problem, right. I know what I am doing. There are 48 blocks in this quilt, so the lay out should be 6 x 8, right? Wrong! The blocks are rectangles not square. The lay out is 8 x 6.
I was making pretty good progress, I managed to sew all but one day this week and finished the center of the quilt. It looked a little wrong but I dismissed it. I measured for the inner border and it seemed wrong but again I dismissed it. I got the inner border sewn on and pressed and still it bothered me but again I would have dismissed it. Then I was showing the pattern to one of my kids' friends and I noticed the measurements listed for the finished size. I immediately knew what I had done wrong.
Now I am in the process of tearing out the stitching for the inner border. Then I need to take off the bottom two rows. Once I have the rows removed I need to take them apart. I will then make two columns of six and sew them onto the end of the rows. It is not an ideal fix but it will work.
I just hate that now I am even farther behind in completing the quilt. I will have to mail it at a later date and hope it makes it in time for Christmas. This is so frustrating for me. I hate that it will be rushed. I also hate that I made such a stupid mistake. Quilting under pressure is proving to be a bad idea.
Hopefully this week I will be able to work on it every night. But I still need to purchase some gifts to mail this week as well as finish shopping for those ones who live here. It will be a busy week. But it is that time of year.
I hope you all are having better luck at finishing your projects in time for Christmas.
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