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Lucky mistake
I was setting my blocks on point. I thought I knew what size to cut my side triangles. Of course I cut them about 2.5 inches too small. I tried to find more fabric, no luck. My friend suggested I just sew a 2.5 inch strips of a dark fabric onto my off white triangles. When I tried this I had a built in birder with the corners of my blocks jutting out into my borders. It looks like I spent a lot of time & effort into doing this. I will surly will be doing this again. Sorry I gifted the quilt before I remembered to take a picture.
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sounds great!!!
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As Bob Ross used to say, there are no mistakes, only happy accidents. I can just picture it from your description!
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Hey, without mistakes or breaking the rules, we'd never discover anything new! :thumbup:
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lucky indeed, would love to see the quilt. maybe someone else will take your idea and show us what it looks like
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On what side of triangle did you add the strip, please?
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We often do not make mistakes - we add design elements! And, some of us, more often than we want to!!
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Originally Posted by patinpoconos
(Post 7771162)
On what side of triangle did you add the strip, please?
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That is correct. When you are looking at the triangle right side up, corner pointing to bottom right add strip to long side of triangle. On the corner it took a bit of re-sewing to get the right size dark point ( real pro here, grin). I just worked it till it matched. That took the longest.
[QUOTE=Peckish;7771442]From her description, it sounds like she put the strip on the long side of the triangle, which would put a dark border on the outer edge of the quilt. It sounds really neat, I applaud you, True, for doing some creative problem |
Peckish, that is correct. When looking at the triangle right side up the corner is at the bottom right. It took me longer to make the corner point match. Quite a bit of un-sewing took place. Math not being my strong point.
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