Too many white triangles.
 

Well I did this carpenter star so so carefully counted cut pieces. Placed in order on wall. Put together in pairs then in rows.
As I was pressing found I had one too many white triangles. Don't you hate it when you have been soooooooo careful.
Did fix it.

Glad you found it early on and yes, I have not seen mistakes till way late in game. Sometimes taking a picture helps but not always. Can't wait to see the whole thing :-)

Great colors and you found your error early on. I didn't see the error on my last quilt until it was quilted, bound and posted on this board!

Ladies it stood out like a sore thumb as I was ironing. And I had just one dark triangle left.

Instead of working with triangles, it really is much easier to make HSTs, then it's all squares when it comes to the assembly.

I'm looking forward to seeing this Carpenter's Star flat out ... and all finished!

Tartan, you hit the nail on the head. I hate when that happens. Another thing that I hate is counting pieces when there are thousands and loosing count. That happens to me all the time. I usually buy extra to avoid the first problem.
Sue

I do hate it when that happens. At least you discovered it when ironing. I got one star quilt totally quilted before I noticed a turned point. Good ol fusible and raw edge applique, fixed that puppy.

Glad you discovered it before it was quilted. Please do share pics of this, it's great!

I place numbers on all my blocks to make sure everyone stays where they are suppose to be and I still end up making a mistake. GO FIGURE !! You caught it early enough!!

Do you live in my sewing room? I haven't decided if I can't read or can't count! Then I mis-count; cut more only to find out then I have too many!

I did do half square triangles put wrong one in. I also numbered the rows etc as I joined the squares, I had also put hole lot on the design wall.
Just don't know how it happened.

Dottymo, I love red and white quilts and am itching to start one. I wish you would post a pic of your entire quilt top. It looks beautiful from what I can see, but can't figure out what block you are using.

Nice to know I'm not the only one who puts in blocks backwards, upside down, etc. It seems I'm getting as good at "un-sewing" as I am at sewing! I empathize with you!

They are all half square triangles making a 4" block. Had to just do the centre of pattern as that was all I had in dark red . Found it on a google search and just improvised. .
Carpenters star.

Nice of you to share your boo-boo, that way I don't feel so stupid when I make what seems like a really simple mistake! It's going to be gorgeous when you are done!

Glad you fixed it. Very important for it to look like you want it to. I'm sure it will be beautiful when it is finished.

LOL, I do all you do plus when I resew I make the same mistake.

It's looking good. I, too made an red carpenters star. I used tans & reds. Please post a picture of the entire quilt when you're finished.

I hate when I find the mistake after the quilt is done!

If that's the only mistake, I would be happy, especially since you found it before quilting. I was making a Sister's Choice quilt, cut all the white background strips so that they could be sub-cut, only to find that I had cut them finished size, and I didn't have enough to make many more strips, so I found another white on white print and I seriously doubt that anyone but me noticed. Stuff happens.

i have done that and it is frustating !!

Glad you found your mistake and that is was easily fixable. Can't wait to see the finished quilt!

You are lucky there was only ONE!! I was doing Blanche Young's "Jamaica" - 37 different strip sets……all carefully labeled by number and top VS bottom………..had to un-sew at least 20 times on that one……..

So glad you found it when you did; although, the Amish intentionally quilt in an error because only God can make a perfect quilt. Love the Carpenter Star. I have one on my frame right now and am loving playing with the quilting of it.

Good job of correcting the error! I'm hoping you post the final quilt.:thumbup:

Very frustrating but happens to most of us....lol.