I've wanted to make a patriotic quilt for a while so I followed Jenny's Stars and Stripes like she made in her video. I don't know what happened, I thought I did everything right...I would say even most of my points lined up pretty good but the last strip was shorter than the add on stars to the left. So, I just cut that strip in half...looks slightly weird, but not too bad (error 1). I took it to a long armer that taught a class I took a while back and she suggested variegated red, white and blue thread (error 2). I thought it might look okay. It doesn't. And to top it off, she didn't do the best job on the quilting (error 4). Okay, so I get it home and do the binding (error 5)...I had a little gathering in the quilt when I finished the connecting the binding. I agonized but decided to keep it. My last error is that I intentionally sewed the binding on the back so that I could machine sew on the front (error 6). OMG...I have to take the entire binding off and sew it onto the front and hand sew the back.
I'm just whining here. This was to be a gift for friends, retired police officers, and it's just falling apart step by step. I feel like just going back to doing jelly roll quilts, I can do those much better.
I'm just whining here. This was to be a gift for friends, retired police officers, and it's just falling apart step by step. I feel like just going back to doing jelly roll quilts, I can do those much better.
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