I love how the sashing comes together! Beautiful.
I tried set-in circles for the first time and had to rip out the same circle 4 whole times and then only partial segments of it again a few more times. I didn't think my fabric was going to hold up to that much ripping!

Hahaha ... only twice? My bargello has been ripped so many times I've lost count. That's why it remains a UFO. I'm like Osewme ... when I rip twice, I walk away too and it's usually because I'm also too tired.

Don, your work is always so nice it's encouraging to know that even a quilter as good as you has an off day. But I'm sorry you had to do it.

My ripper and I are well acquainted! Love your quilt and lucky you to get that amazing bargain!

I'm ripping one out right now. My top went together swimmingly. But this piece border is a nightmare. It just doesn't fit. It's the Bonnie Hunter Smith Mountain Morning, little three inch blocks, I should be able to do this. It's got to be a migrating seam allowance. When I measure it, there are numerous places it is off. Pics to follow.

When I was making my Storm at Sea quilt some 20 years ago I was using old style cutting and piecing techniques. I believe in doing all of one step at a time for consistency purposes, and so I sewed the long skinny triangles onto the large diamonds wrong on every single bias-edged piece. I carefully took them apart and did it again. And when I say again, I mean, I sewed them on wrong again!

It was bad enough the first time but the second time all I could do was mutter to myself that if I didn't like doing this I should be aware that it was all in my control and I could prevent it from happening again. And so far that mistake hasn't happened again. At least not twice in a row :p

I don't quite have the words down, but my aunt has a saying about "if all you can say is that it was a learning experience, that isn't saying much!" Not that learning things isn't a good thing, but how we get those experiences can really be awful.

Here is my problem. Top measures 63 5/8 and the number of blocks in these two strips is 22. When I got them all trimmed and sewn together I come out one inch over. Do I go back and snug some up? Try to ease it in? Hack off the extra?
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Both times I get the same result. The plain strip is a 2 inch cut finishing at 1 1/2 inches which adds 3 inches to the top. On paper it come out. Not in reality.

I call these pieces "Peaky" and "Spiky". Mine were cut on the Accuquilt. I already take Parkinsons medication and have cut a much-missed-slice off my left index finger.

To get the design to match up at the corners you pretty much have to ease what you have in. Yes, it would fit better if you took off one of the half triangles. If you've made the other side units and have similar issues, I'd consider extending the floating border as being simpler to alter. You could take it off, or maybe a narrow really dark additional inner border.

If you can make the corners so you can end at the valleys instead of at the halves of the triangles, you can just trim down that floating border slightly.

I know you are quite the detective in figuring out the problem, I think double check the seam allowance on the bottom, especially where the triangles meet. Sometimes when you are doing the seam allowance correctly it looks funky as you do it, so you adjust but it's not what you want. When we sew, small differences become huge when repeated because each mistake can be doubled by the two sides of the pieces.

Everyone has ripped out on a quilt top once or twice...seems to be the normal. It's when you are actually quilting the darn thing and have to rip out that bothers me.

Me ripping out was a minor thing compared to what Ive read Everyone take care and will post again later on when I get my quilt top done, maybe