And a Fix.
If I square up the edges according to the current placement, as indicated by the horizontal line on the wall at the top and the plumb line at the right, I'll lose most of the dark fabrics in the corners and the quilt will be much smaller than anticipated.
The solution is to add to the light sections and build it out further. I pulled all the previously rejected light colored fabric pieces to see if I could use any of them. Yes, in my frustration I was less picky and decided many of them are good enough. I still had to find more options in my stash, but I found fabrics that work. Above, you can see the additional pieces laid out in the bottom quadrant to fill in. Below, three sections are laid out.
DJ is built like a giant quarter log cabin block, starting at the middle of the edge and adding bands (logs) to build it up. That means I have to carefully take this partially apart, rebuild the light sections, and insert them. Much seam ripper activity is required.
The center X out to the dark corners is fine. The light sections will have to be taken apart and rebuilt. Everything needs to be kept in order, hence the labels, batches of pieces to insert, and the Post-it with notes.
The triangular units at the far left above are the new, additional edge segments. The larger triangular units need to be taken apart, replacement segments added to the bands, and added onto the units at left.
Below, one replacement segment is reassembled and ready to be inserted.
One down, three to go. Carefully taking apart and reassembling the first section took about half a day, so it'll be a few days until I get the whole top back together.
This will work. When the top is rebuilt and the edges are squared up it will be about 54" square before borders.
Surprisingly, this second Diabolical Jane has been much more challenging to design and construct than the first one.
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