Starring inaccuracies!

[Sheilago]

 So here’s my latest project. As usual I’m copyingusing as inspiration a quilt I saw online, so I have no dimensions or a pattern to work to. No problem, I thought. I’ll start by making the central star 12”, with a 3” border of squares all the way round. That way I’ll need 3 sawtooth stars on each side , plus one at each corner.
All seemed well until I got round to measuring the finished star and border and instead of being a little over 18” it was it 20.5” wide on each side. Somehow my border ended up too wide, but I couldn’t cut it back to size as my outer layer of squares would then have been rectangles! However, at least it was consistently out on each side 

I thought, ‘All I have to do is make 3 stars to fit each 20.5” side’! 
It was then that I discovered that the handy sawtooth star instructions I have,  offer measurements for 6” or 8” , not the just under 7” I needed.
This fiddling around , of course, makes the whole process much slower, but it’s getting there.

The moral of the story …… measure, measure, measure !
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[Acorn]

You've done brilliantly!   

[Surest1tch]

It looks fabulous and also looks like that's how it was meant to be 

[BrendaP]

The moral of the story …… measure, measure, measure !
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Assuming  your centre block is 12" x 12" (finished) - it looks to me that the surrounding border is made of 2" x 2" (finished) squares which will make the complete square 20" x 20", or thereabouts.  Maybe the confusion came about because of the difference in cut sizes and finished sizes.  If you had cut the suaares 2" x 2" they would have finished as 1.5" x 1.5", the border would have been 3" wide and the finished square would have been 18" x 18" as expected - and would have saved a lot of maths to adjust the size of the smaller stars.

Having said that, the quilt looks lovely so you got there in the end.

[Bumblebuncher]

I genuinely read your post and couldn't understand all the measurements and what went wrong (were you saying something went wrong?).  All I can say is I don't see anything wrong, it looks lovely

[Sheilago]

Thank you for the kind comments.  Yes@BrendaP, I think that’s what’s gone wrong. I’ve got confused about finished sizes and must have cut 2.5” squares for the border, instead of 2” ones.
@Bumblebuncher , yes what went wrong was that I didn’t check measurements as I went along and the central part of the quilt : the star and the border of squares was too big for my intended 6” smaller stars, so I’ve had to scale them up a bit: time consuming for my non-mathematical brain! Luckily I hadn’t actually made any smaller stars in advance. Still another 13 stars to be made!

[Cazlyn]

I think it looks great, love your colours.

[RosyPosy]

Your quilt looks lovely  - beautiful combinations of colour.  I have nine pieced blocks and can't even get myself to put them together so I am in awe of your achievement.

[Sheilago]

PS- You do all realise that the completed quilt shown in the picture is just the one I’m copying, including the colours?   

Mine is the one that has so far only got the centre plus 3 smaller stars: here’s hoping it looks as good!

[Sheilago]

I’ve just finished starry quilt. A friend has just had a long awaited granddaughter- the first girl in the family or a long time, so I’ve rushed to get it quilted.  [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]   [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]  
I gave it a pink fleece backing as I thought my friend would love it to be girly and did some quick free motion quilting. The outdoor picture gives a better idea of colours.

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[Acorn]

It's gorgeous!  The quilting works really well against the fleece, too.   

[SewRuthieSews]

Looks lovely!

[Silver Rose]

Lovely bright colours, lucky little girl.

[Lowena]

What a gorgeous quilt 

[Celia]

Lovely