First thing I did was get right to sewing. My directions were to put 15 sash pieces to 15 prologue units, like thus:
Now the “oops”. You know, they have a saying for this: measure twice and cut once. I seem to have that backwards.
These are 2.5 by 4.5:
The instructions clearly say they should be 4.5 by 6.5. How did I get that wrong? If it had been the other way around, I could have cut them down. My challenge was finding enough large pieces of the dark fabric to cut the proper size pieces.
I found them, but there isn’t as much variety in the print anymore, and I wonder what is left to cut and how much fabric I’ll have. I may end up adding other fabrics if I need to. I hope I don’t need to. Now that I had the proper size dark rectangles, I could sew them to the remaining 15 sashing pieces.
After today’s cutting and sewing, this is what I have:
I peeked ahead, and I know some half-square triangles are coming up. I really want to see the overall pattern in this quilt, but part of the mystery is not seeing that until the last couple of pages.
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