I was hoping to see you post a picture of this when it was finished! I love how it turned out :D :D :D

I think it's beautiful!
I'm sure you can hide the wonky parts and no one will ever know. :)

Well, I think after it is quilted it will look better. You did a great job on it too!

Put it on a feather-tick mattress where it doesn't have to lie flat. It looks lovely.

Wow love the pattern and colors.....seems like no matter what you do there is always quilts that do that.....

I too measure from the center and that is how long the strip is regardless....cut two the same wideth....fold in half and mark the center and mark the center of the quilt....I pin the centers together......and then match the ends....sometimes it behaves and lays flat and other times I halve to fudge the fabric in or pull.....a little to get it to sew right .......then repeat and do the length ....measure from the center side to side......cut two.....find the center and mark....mark the center of the quilt ...pin centers together and then ends...sew ......This is one of the things I have learned in a quilting class....."How to square a Quilt"........

Don't mean to sound like a know it all ....but you asked....I hope it helps......and it has worked really great for me......but I still once in a blue moon have some problems......Good luck and hope you try this idea......:-)....

Really a great quilt! I love the pattern and I know you will work out your problem.

ahhh didn't mean to sound bossy.......:-(

I had to go back and search for your post, couldn't remember you sounding bossy, and I was right, you didn't. :-)

It's something special about this place, the advice given is always helpful and friendly, never pushy or bossy.

Gee .. I would like to say something too .. to help, not sound bossy either.

I certainly am not a know it all, and I have never taken a class. But... I read everthing I can get my hands on.

I do it the same as gcathie does. Measure across the center, cut the strips that size, pin the center and the ends and then in between. Then if one side is a little more fabric than the other of the pinned seamline I make the adjustment needed by putting the side with the extra fabric (baggy pants) to the feed dogs. It will bring it in to the shorter side and this way I avoid pulling. Oh, I use a stelleto to help guide the top fabric too.

If all else fails, I just say oh it is terrible fabric. Yeah, that's it .. I blame the fabric! :twisted:

Beautiful pattern and colors.
My quilts did the same,untill I was learned the gcathie way.
When paper-piecing, I always use freezer paper and I don´t take the paper away before the quilt is framed all way round. I think paper piecing is easily growing because you not always use thred direction (my poor english). If you use freezer paper it will stick to the fabric, and you will have no stretch in it. When framed, there is no problem.