I’m sooooo much happier with my second try at this block! The points and matches are all a lot better. After writing out my last post about how this felt more like piecing a corset, I thought “Well Jennie, why don’t you just treat it like one?” So I did. I gave myself extra match points on the pattern, and pinned the way I would when making clothing, rather than how I pin when quilting.
I got my wedges sewn together in pairs, and checked them carefully. There was only one that needed to be adjusted, so I unpicked part of the seam that was off, and readjusted. The paper wasn’t happy about it, but also didn’t totally fall apart either. Then when I pieced the wedges into quadrants, that happened once more, so I took that seam partway apart again and fixed it. And I pressed all my wedge seams open, rather than to one side.
Here’s the first one (12") on the left, with the new one (14") on the right. This pic is also a better color match. Not sure why the top photo looks so electric blue. They are more shades of wedgewood and cerulean. There are totally still a few imperfections, but I’m overall very happy with how it came out.
Now to figure out what to turn it into…