Just think, all that bending over to pick up threads or bits of material helps to keep the waist trimmed. Just yesterday I made a table topper from just a picture of 4 inch squares in two colors coming to tips at the ends. When I made my half squares I should of cut them with extra seam allowance. Then decided to put a 2 inch border on not realizing that I had already cut the backing, lucky I had extra material to re-cut another backing. Then when I was ready to put the binding on discovered by add that 2 inch border made it too long for my table, so had to cut those tips off along with half inch of border. So it took me all day to make a table topper. Considering I had no pattern to go by it could of been worse.
Note: One of the things I learned on making a quilt is to buy extra material with each fabric used in the quilt, as this allows for error in cutting and etc. Learned this the hard way.