Design process

 Changing the quilt pattern can be a bit like opening Pandora's Box... You never quite know what the outcome is going to be.

I eventually chose this soft grey and white print for the sashing for Amsterdam Stars... It is a wide back so a great choice for those long lengths of sashing and inner borders. 

Initially I was going to do patterned cornerstones...

But the final choice of the grey setting triangles meant that grey cornerstones fitted better with the overall picture.

Even now I am still not 100% positive about the mix of white and cream backgrounds.

As I put together the last few sections I realized that I had rotated one of the sections incorrectly so will need to correct this before I go any further.

Today I have been working on quilt maths to work out the length of the outer edge of the half triangle blocks and the setting triangles to be able to cut the first border pieces.  Google makes this maths a relatively easy process but getting very precise decimal figures does not help with the conversion into fractions for the inches measurement.  I have got a pretty close match to the measuring tape backup measurements, so tomorrow I fix my incorrect block and can start the inner borders.  Guess I was wrong when I announced at school that we would never have to use this maths in real life 🤣.