Friday night I finished up the center of Ocean Waves and wanted to start on the borders. It will have 3 borders — a 1 1/2″ turquoise border, a border of 3″ pinwheels and then a 6″ turquoise border. As much as I wanted to move forward, I must have realized I was too tired to measure and cut.
So I counted and sorted my HST squares for the border.
I decided I needed 42 more pinwheels to complete the border. I made the HST over the weekend and finished up the pinwheels Monday night.
Then I measured the quilt, assured myself a 1 1/2″ inner border was all that I needed and started sewing pinwheels together.
In the end, there were 26 extra pinwheels. Good thing I didn’t try to measure and cut — apparently I can’t even count when I’m tired.
Stop back later this week and I’ll should have a picture of the complete top.
