As mentioned im my previous post, I decided it was time to get my tumbler project off of my sewing room floor and across the finish line. Knowing that I had a nice quiet weekend ahead with lots of time to sew, I sat down Friday and started assembling rows. Row after row of 57 blocks each.
My little guy decided he would help with pressing...
My little guy decided he would help with pressing...
I continued sewing rows all day Saturday until I noticed that the piles of neutrals were starting to look really low. So I stopped and counted. I originally planned for this quilt to be 47 rows of 57 tumblers, or around 94" square. I had calculated exactly how many lights and darks I needed and I thought that was what I had cut back when I started this project a couple of years ago. I must have seriously mis-counted my cutting, though, as I found I was almost 300 tumbers short! I have no idea how that happened.
I scavenged a couple more lights from another Kansas Troubles project and then threw in a couple of fat quarters that worked with the KT colors well and spent Sunday morning cutting more tumblers. I then resumed row assembly. I kept at it until late in the afternoon, until I was down to this.
I counted and I have enough pieces left to make one more row. That gets me to 43 rows, 8" short of what I planned.
Luckily I have been assembling this thing in sections so I can distribute the new fabrics, but now I have to figure out how to deal with the shortage. There's no way I am cutting more tumblers! So I decided I have two options. One is to finish assembling the top, measure the length and lop off whatver I need from the side(s) to make it square (probably around 86"). The other option I am considering is to take three tumblers off of each row and build them into rows. This would decrease the width by about 5" and allow me to build 2 more rows which should get the length to around 90".
Now to decide which of these options seems less painful....
