My dear Mother-in-law hand stitched several, but one she didn't have the little squares in and she asked me years ago if I could fix it. I couldn't. But I finally figured out you don't stitch to the end of the block. You stitch to the 1/4 seamline. She passed away and now I have to sandwich and quilt them. Oh, me. But they are beautiful.

you did a lovely job but I agree 110%. I did one with the help of an experienced quilter and it was still a nightmare!!!

John Flynn has developed a method to do this. I don't have a link but you could google him. His method makes a very precise block.

Hang in there, it sure is pretty!

Beautiful. But I agree with you. Mine took 9 months to stitch, so much longer than I have ever spent on a quilt top, two months top before the DWR.

This pattern was the most requested when I custom designed quilts and I dreaded it every time as it's slow going but I love the end result!

Same but different - I made an heirloom christening dress for a niece. Beautiful dress, beautiful batiste, incredibly fine lace and embroidery inserts. I called it the Dress From Hell. I'd work for a week or so, and put it down for over a month. Pick up and start over, put it away. If my MIL hadn't bought all the supplies, I would NEVER have finished it.... It won me a pretty blue ribbon at the county fair, and DH said I should have handed over the ribbon with the dress, and I told him, "Oh HECK no, I slaved over the dress, I earned that ribbon, they're aren't getting that ribbon!" As much as I loved my niece, I earned that ribbon, not her... My friends still laugh about that one.

Thanks for the warning! Yours is lovely though.

Colorful language is completely appropriate when working on a quilt. I often say '(*&red!', 'blue!#@$', '&)*&green' or the dreaded '*&^%purple__(*' while quilting.

It is lovely...Sorry that you are having such a hard time....Bless you...