another day, another unstitch

It was a good, late afternoon...
I'd been stitching away on my Ides of March quilt blocks...
aka Good Night Irene  (from Terry's Sew Along).
I had all 31 of the 16-patch blocks done
plus all 31 of the X-blocks done!
So, I started on my border pieces and

made 36 of these:

See how nice they look?  Ready to sew into pairs!

Hold your horses, or whatever you hold when something just doesn't look right...

Maybe I was working too long, or too late...

because after they were

all made,

and trimmed,

and pressed,

I realized that I really needed
36 pieces with
ONLY ONE CORNER OF GREEN 

so I could make 18 of these:

And because of limited fabric
 (I was using the 'found' stack of ten inch squares)

I had to unstitch all of these half-square triangles:

so I could re-stitch them.
And re-stitch them I did! 
Right then!
Before I called it a night.

Here they are - re-done, ready to trim and press:

But wait, OK, now I know it's time for bed!
Notice the block on the right compared to the blocks on the left:

What you don't want is the one on the right!

What would be left if you trimmed off that flip-y corner?

Not a square!!

Glad I only sewed ONE of those 36 triangles

back on the wrong way.

 

Tomorrow afternoon,

after I check and double-check all of my late-night-sewn blocks,

I plan on sewing all the blocks together.

Hopefully there are no more problem blocks, as 

I want to get this quilt finished for the Ides of March

so it can live up to it's name!

 

Good Night (Irene)!