I'm new and need some help with a French braid quilt
 

Hi! I'm a long time lurker and I finally am posting because I need some help. I'm making a French braid quilt from a Moda jelly roll and its torqued. It's seriously twisted and I can't figure out how to make it square. I've already ripped apart the strips and put them in a different order and the quilt has spent a month in time out, but nothing has helped! I want to finish this! Any advice?

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Can you wet it and block it to make it square, then let it dry and add the borders???

Why don't you try sewing in the opposite direction every other row?

This is a difficult one with the edges being bias. I know it is too late to ask but did you starch your strips? That sometimes helps with keeping the bias from stretching. Do you have a LQS you can drop by and show them? It is a lot easier to see your seams and where and how to fix it in person. If it were me, I would probably take out the seams between the braid. Then carefully spray baste the stripes and sliver trim the edges to line up for being sewing together. Have you thought of doing a sashing between the stripes so that the seams don't match you are not forcing them??

As Tiggersmom said wet it and square it up. I would most it real good and lay it as straight as possible on the iron board and press into submission. In the future if you have not done so on this on, see your strip in opposing directions. See up one seam and down the next starting at opposite ends. This will help in the curve you end up with

I have made one French Braid quilt but don't remember if it finished up square or not. I remember cutting the points off to make it have straight edges. If it was skewed it didn't bother me enough to remember. The quilt looked great after quilting and I gave it to my neighbor who keeps it on her reading chair.

I would go with what Tiggersmom said. It's worth a try.

When something isn't the right shape I usually start measuring everything to determine where the problem is. That should give you a clue as to what went wrong and how to fix it.

I was thinking same. Is your cutting mat large enough to square up that way? I have couple checked flannel back tablecloths I use for my design board. This helps me a lot.

i've seen a lot of french braids with a sashing between the columns. now i think your issue is why. can you try to cut even strips for between and fit each column to the strip?