more frustration

All I had left to do on my second garden quilt was add 'checkerboard' inner border and then the four outer borders...  sounds simple, right?  Ummm, nope!  The checkerboard wasn't too bad; matched up except for lower left corner ( and I don't think anyone will notice)... The outer border on the other hand has become a real PITA.  I pin one side border on only to find that it's too long... oh yeah, the Ohio star block goes on the top and bottom border ends, not the side borders.  So I take them off... pin again... still too long.   Re-read the measurements in the directions... yep, they're right.  Have no idea why the borders are too long... I must have done something wrong in the center 'block'.  Took a nap because I couldn't quit yawning and because I was getting REALLY frustrated by this point.

Three hours later, I decided I'd get out the first garden quilt top and compare measurements...yep they match and if I lay the  #2 quilt center onto the first one, it matches up  perfectly so if I did do something wrong in assembling the center of the quilt, I did it on both.

While measuring, I noticed that I must have done some cropping on the borders of the first quilt, so that's what I'll have to do on the second one, too.  Not sure if I'll get to it tonight or not... hope to have it done by tomorrow night so that I can get started on finishing up the San Antonio Star, which I HOPE won't give me problems like this second garden quilt has.

Oh, and I found enough fabric for the backing for the  Sticks and Stones quilt so I can get that loaded onto Mo'e in the next day or so, hopefully.  I may want to put some practice fabric on  first. though so that I can practice doing feathers.