I’ve spent several days tweaking and making changes and yesterday morning I was ready to complete the final seams and be done!

However, when I measured it, it was about 40 x 44″. I need for it to finish at least 40″ and I know quilting will make it smaller so I tried adding a border to the bottom.  This gave it an almost square to vertical orientation and I had envisioned a more horizontal look.  Adding another vertical border to make it wider looked like just that .. adding a border to make it wider.  I decided what it needed was to have more fabric added from within so another day was spent ripping out and adding in. I think that achieved a much more pleasing composition and the piece is currently off the wall having all of it’s freezer paper removed so that I can layer and begin the quilting.  This has been a much longer than usual process for me. but sometimes that happens. They can’t all be like “Just Dandy”  which went from concept to completion in just one week!

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