Problem quilt!
For such a simple quilt, I can’t believe the trouble I’ve had and most of it is me. It’s a scrappy Halloween quilt and the squares are snowballs with sashing. Since I didn’t have Halloween material in my stash, I bought charms. How many times have I read on this board about precuts not being cut exactly right. Did I think about that???? Oh no, not me! After I get the four corners on all the squares and pressed & trimmed, they didn’t look quite right so I measured. None of them were 5” square and these were name brand fabrics. So I found the smallest and trimmed them all of 4 ¾”. So I cut my sashing 4 ¾” – there are cornerstones between. Had all my sashing pieces cut and added the cornerstones to the bottom sashing pieces. I’m putting the sashing on the right side of the blocks first. I used my first stack and got the next stack. They were too short. I check the sashing with the cornerstones and they were too short too. I swear I measured them and they were 4 ½”. So I cut all new pieces. Luckily, I over ordered this material. So I go to sew the first sashing on the same block and it’s too short. I measure it and its right. I check the block and it was 5” square. Probably the only one I didn’t trim. Checked what I thought were too short of pieces and they are the correct length – 4 ¾”. Talk about a lot of wasted effort. Oh well, hopefully the rest of it will be easy now.