Yesterday I titled my post “Remembering with Cherrywood”. Today’s post might be called “Cursing With Cherrywood” because…..
Now it was time to do the math!
I am a CPA by trade and I love Math, but not when a single wrong cut would ruin everything and there isn’t fabric to start over!!
Measuring showed me that the uniform took up 16.75-inches…..
….leaving 3.25 inches to play with and that 3.25 had to be divided by two…..so 1.625-inch borders were required.
AND, those 1.625-inch borders were divided into THREE strips!!
YIKES Frances….can’t you make anything easy!!!
I knew that I was going to want a little leeway in the final border so finally came to the conclusion that the first grey border and the red border would be 1/2-inch and the final grey border would be approximately 3/4-inch…..or however wide it needed to be to fit the 20-inch parameter.
Now, there was no way I was going to cut strips that would piece to 1/2-inch, so I decided to make them larger and then cut them down once they were applied!!
GOOD PLAN!!
The first border looked okay…..
Let’s add the top border. This one was going to be much wider and was greatly complicated by all of the bulk of lapels, shirts, epaulets, etc!!
I measured, re-measured,and measured again and then stabilized my ruler….said a little prayer….and made the cut…..
The top fabric was added and we were cookin-with-gas!!
If you noticed, when I was auditioning the red strip, I didn’t have enough fabric for it to meet in the center of the bottom….
I decided that I kind of liked that break, so I pieced it in…..
Now that I was happy with the red border, it was time to trim it down…..NOT TO 1/2-inch but to 3/4-inch…..
YESSSS…. I almost made that mistake!!
I added the last grey border, replaced the letters and stepped back to admire my handiwork……
But something didn’t look right!!
So what did I do……fixed lunch, sat on the deck and read for an hour and thought about it!!
Come back Saturday for the solution…..
Meanwhile, don’t miss tomorrows finish of Quilted Mandala #5. It is a favorite!!
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