skavanau

I have been trying, all day, to do this pattern, Spools lap quilt. And "everytime" it comes out looking like this.. I dont know how to fix this and I really want to make this quilt. Can anyone help me. Im very frustrated and Im not good with points, effidently.....

Seanette

I'm no expert, but the brown seems larger than the edge of the red that it's supposed to be meeting. Is it supposed to be like that?

marsye

Looks like you need to make the red 1/4" larger.

skavanau

no its suppose to me. Then there's a bottom piece the same way. I cant get my corners to meet no matter what I do.

cjomomma

maybe you need to take a break and a deep breath have a cup of coffee and listen to marsey.

skavanau

The only ting I do know is the red piece is the correct size. I cant get the corners to match no matter what I do.

Granna of 5

See if this will help any...http://quilting.about.com/od/quiltpa...ces_spools.htm

Seanette

Then is the brown a little large? LIS, I'm no expert, but all the spool blocks I've seen have the end and the middle portion the same size at the join point.

Pam

I just made one, with 4 spinning spools and I made mitered corners at each corner of the spool. Try that.

I know many people avoid miters, but I did not know they were supposed to be hard, so started out doing them on an atttic windows quilt. It was my second and I did not have a pattern, so I just made up the design.

Lucky Patsy's

Maybe you are sewing the pink rectangles to the wrong sides of the red rectangle?????

Or maybe the pattern isn't correct to start with!

I think Quilter's cache has the spool block.