I Just Had to Fix It

This is a follow up to my previous post Progress on Cinnamon Stars.

At the end of that post I mentioned I discovered that the little quilt I pieced so far, did not match the image on the kit’s tin holder:

My pieced quilt in progress on 11/04/26:

The image on the front cover of the tin the kit came in and the instruction booklet:

I thought I could live with it but it was irritating me, so I pulled out the seam ripper and took apart a lot of the pieced quilt. The image below is the evolution of taking apart one section at a time, fixing it and then putting it back together.

And I fixed it to look much closer to the sample quilt photo.

Here is the section that I fixed – I replaced the cream triangles border the center 9-patch square with teal and gold gingham triangles. I also stitched on the first border and cornerstones.

I also prepared the second (and final) border and cornerstones, which is all I have left to sew on in order to complete the quilt top.

After 15+ years of looking at this tin (which I was using as part of my studio decor), I want to finish product to closely resemble it – ha!