Done Not Paper Pieced!

 What I did NOT show you yesterday was how "not paying attention" messed up the bottom border. I don't know WHAT I was thinking, except I clearly wasn't. I knew, but apparently "forgot" that the last border would have to be finessed.  Having screwed it up, I knew I had to just step away and go do something else.

It didn't take me long to figure out how to fix it. I would need to take the bottom border apart and respace the fill-ins. Not hard, but fussy and time consuming. As for the space after NEVER, unless I wanted to re-do the spacing of the right border (and I did NOT want to do that), I had think about how to fill in the space.

An ellipsis (...) would work. Twelve hours later I went back into the studio and fixed that corner. I think it adds to the sentiment, so I am happy. After that, it was just ripping and sewing and pressing and being careful and doing what needed to be done.

And it is done. I've taken the picture this way so you can really see how big it is compared to the things around it. I have also uploaded a large photo so you can click it, and then click it again to check out all the details.

To the reader from California who visited Quilted Threads yesterday on my recommendation, I certainly hope you liked the shop. They were very excited and told me all about it when I visited yesterday afternoon. Sorry I missed you!



NOTHING in this quilt is paper pieced (duh!) and if you want to make your own letters, you can get my tutorial here, at my Etsy shop. It's an instant download so you can get started right away. I also have a tutorial for the birds too, and you can find that here.