lesson learned!
 

Always reread pattern before cutting. Doing Anitas Arrowhead. You make 8' squares of contrasting colors leave 2'' openinv on 2 corners, cut on diagnal on SEWN corners!!! I did open corners!!!!! I hpe i can just sew the corners and open bottom? AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGĞHHHHHHHHHH! Feel like big oldummy!!
Hopping your all having safe and fun 4th!!

Been there this last week I am doing fractures and have cut them the same way,double aaaarrrggghhh.

I always have to learn by doing it wrong the first time! That's a fun and beautiful pattern.....Be sure and post photos as you go:)

Things will go better tomorrow, I just know it.

Dina

Anita has a fix for that right in her book... Obviously, she learned the hard way too. LOL!

So glad I read your post - I've been planning on doing this pattern and will be on the lookout for this.

If you're taking her Craftsy class, she shows how to work around that.

I just finished this quilt top recently. What helped me was looking at the pictures. I'd move the pattern from my sewing table to my cutting table and back again so I could constantly be looking to make sure I was doing it correctly. It's such a pretty pattern, but it would be easy to make a wrong move and potentially ruin a whole square.

I'm taking that class, too. She actually does discuss that exact error and how to fix it.

After many years of quilting, my #1 rule is that good old carpenters motto. "Measure twice, cut once." Making one sample block before jumping into an entire pattern has saved me a lot of disappointment over the years. Read and re- read the instructions, then do a sample block with scraps. Makes me happy:D peace