bias! aaaargh!
this quilt and i are a lesson in forest for the trees.
i did starch the white, but not as heavily as some of the fabrics in the star. i wonder if it would be better to gently remove the triangles and recut new ones? this quilt is a gift and the person i am making it for bought the fabric without me and as a result i have quite an excess of everything.
i used kaye woods pivot method to fit the y seams and i was so nervous about that point i didn't think one bit about the bias.
i matched the blue to the white as you suspected. i don't have any more of that fabric, but it has been properly starched and handled very gently, so i imagine it will be more than fine once affixed to less stretchy triangles
thank you so much for your help! it was like a light switch in my head
aileen