I'm back. OK so I took this whole thing apart. My question is about the best way to make things fit. I am still an amateur at this. There're five of these rows of the little Japanese lanterns and I'm wanting to combine them with kimonos and origami blocks I made. Problem is nothing is the same size including the individual lanterns. I thought I could figure out how long I wanted the quilt, make sure one of these is 110 inches and cut a piece of sashing 110 inches and it would fit. doesn't seem to. It is hard to measure a row of blocks after it is all sewn together. Looking for your helpful suggestions. For those just tuning in I was sewing them together and then lopping the ends off and not measuring anything and ended up with this curved mess and I'm trying to start over.