Lap Quilt not long enough, any suggestions would help?
 

So most of you know that I started my rose lap quilt and I'm on my fourth row but because this is the first one like this I thought it would be long enough after getting them together but after laying it down I noticed nope still two short. But whats bad is I already have three of them sewed together I know I'm going to have to rip them out and put something between them. Could this have been avoided? Is this something that has happened to you? because know its going to take me even longer to get it done.

You could take it apart and add strips or just make a border to the size you want, you could even do a double or triple border, I've done that when I want to make a quilt bigger and don't have enough blocks.

What I would do.

Definitely think you could make it up in the borders!

Thank you so much, I think I will add strips between the panels and one boarder then see how it looks.

To answer that question { could this have been avoided?}
In the future, before sewing rows together, measure the width of your rows, then count how many rows there are.... 6 1/2" wide rows, 5 rows is going to be 30" of quilt.... 12 1/2" wide rows, 5 rows = 60".
Decide ahead of time how long you want your quilt to be, then you can decide if you need sashing between rows or borders around the whole quilt. Taking the time to do the math can save lots of ( deconstruction/ reconstruction)

I ended up with a square quilt but I wanted to add some length to the quilt so I just added a piano border. You could just added an inside border to the top and bottom of your quilt top.

Great idea for the top and bottom border. It adds interest to the quilt too. Nice work!

That ended up looking " intentional" nice looking quilt!

To the original poster - experience is usually a great teacher - and, yes, I have had to rethink and redo things.

Oh wow, I didn't even think about this thank you so much this makes me glad we have this message board and glad I am able to ask questions like this to get other options.

Half of quilting is taking apart. Everyone gets to know their seam ripper very well. It is a given!!

For kids' quilts I had the same problem, just not long enough to suit me as children don't seem to stay small for long. So since I had extra scraps, I added little square blocks between white for added length and width. On the scrappy quilt I just stitched a bunch of extra scraps together and added them to the top and bottom for length.

I often sketch my quilt on graph paper once l know the width of the rows/blocks. This gives me an idea of the finished size and where l want to add length and/or width. Borders, piano keys, 4P, etc are all great ways to go.

I like to do a border of applique to dress it up and get the extra length.

I almost always add another border to just the top and bottom before I put the final border on. It makes it longer and as others said it looks intentional

Those are some great ideas.

So many patterns produce a square quilt! I don't know anyone with a square bed!! We need to become adept at enlarging quilt tops, either by enlarging the squares, adding more rows, or getting creative with our borders.

Or you could make the part that's together like the center and design a border around them to get the length you need. It's so hard when going by patterns or getting measurements for something. I have 5 kids, a standard throw that most patterns say buy 2 yrds of fleece for wouldn't work. I had to buy 3 for each of them because I think a throw should cover all of you. It was quite expensive because the fronts were NFL fleece and then I did the solid on the back so that it was cheaper. Good luck and I hope you come up with a great solution that doesn't cost you too much time.