quilting.addict

I'll try to explain my predicament, hoping some of you can help out. I am working on my first doll quilt. Thought I would experiment with an idea I had for a big quilt. I strip pieced 2 " strips (9 of them). Then I cut them on a 60 degree cut (I think I should have done 45, but too late for that!!) I staggered the new strips, like you would Trip around the World. Pretty pattern, but all the bottoms of the strips are tapered. How am I going to get a straight edge at the bottom and top????? Now that I think about it, I worked on a group quilt at guild and this method made a big star in the center of a quilt...duh!!