Thread: Please help newbie salvage quilt top. Thanks!!

I'm a newbie, I've been quilting since May. I designed this quilt top but messed up on my cutting. All of the horizontal sashing pieces were supposed to be 2 1/2" high. After I assembled this I realized a few are bigger, looks like I cut them 3" high. Ack - where was my mind?

I don't have the heart to rip this apart and start over but I'm very disappointed in myself. Can I possibly cut it down into squares and reassemble it so my mistakes either don't show or aren't as obvious?

This one was supposed to be a Christmas gift but now I doubt that it will. I'll probably just give it as an everyday gift where the expectations are lower.

Any and all ideas will be appreciated. Really really disappointed today. Thanks.

Well, you know what, I would just quilt it as it is. Call it a design element. I like it. There will, however, probably bee some better answers coming.

Dina

Originally Posted by Homespun

This looks as if it was designed to be staggered. Just go with it!

I agree, it looks like it was designed to be that way. I like it!! Better than I could hope to do

looks like one of my quilts �� you hardly notice the mistakes, in yours that is.....finish it and when quilted will look fine

Oh, you folks are making me feel so much better!!

OK, so if I tell people "I made it this way" and it's a staggered quilt, can you give me ideas how to make the bottom straight? If I just cut it off the way it is now, I will have a 2" beige sashing on one side with the other ones getting progressively smaller until the last one is about 1/2". Should I try to add a bit of something to that 1/2" one? The same beige? Do you think the bottom should be kept the way it will be - staggered??

Originally Posted by KenmoreGal2

Oh, you folks are making me feel so much better!!

OK, so if I tell people "I made it this way" and it's a staggered quilt, can you give me ideas how to make the bottom straight? If I just cut it off the way it is now, I will have a 2" beige sashing on one side with the other ones getting progressively smaller until the last one is about 1/2". Should I try to add a bit of something to that 1/2" one? The same beige? Do you think the bottom should be kept the way it will be - staggered??

I would skip the blue border that was planned and just cut the outside to all be the same width. Then quilt and wash. If a newbie I would not attempt to fmq but just do one inch squares on the diagonal. Then wash it and you will be very pleased. I would love this for a gift. And, it would be a gift I would use, too instead of stowing it away in a closet. Good job! Oh, personally I think it would not look very nice with thinner borders around each box.

Once you get it quilted , the mistakes won't show as much. Quilting does add a lot to a top. Leave it and go on to the next one. You will do better with every quilt. My advice is to stick with patterns for awhile. They will teach you how to cut and piece better. That's how it went for me anyway. Good luck

KenmoreGal2, can't begin to tell you how many "mistakes" I've covered up with applique.