Brain Cell Depletion

I don't know if it's from my recent additional responsibilities at church or my husband's particularly awful work schedule, but I've been so tired lately and as a consequence I keep doing really dumb things.  Now that I think about it, being 7 months pregnant is a pretty good excuse as well.  I used to think "pregnancy brain" was a joke, but I tell ya - I feel like this baby is sucking away my IQ.  I'm getting dumber by the day.  My car keys will be sitting right in front of me and I'll be frantically searching everywhere for them (with absolutely no memory of the last time I used them even if it was only 5 minutes earlier).  I am a constant source of amusement for my husband.

Anyway, I say this because the quality of my sewing seems to be sliding as well.  My seam ripper and I have recently become rather good friends.  Last night I was piecing together the April Modern Sister's blocks and I had the weirdest thing happen:  my tiny triangles didn't even remotely line up with the larger triangle.  If you take into account both sides - I was at least a full inch off.

I went back and checked my cutting measurements and they were all correct.  I guess my scant 1/4" was a little too scant.  I probably should have double checked the size of my triangles, but I've never had any issues with this before, so I was completely dumbfounded.  I sat there a minute and thought of the 20 triangles I needed to seam rip and then a thought entered in my head, "I wonder what it would end up looking like if I didn't fix it.  How bad would it be?"  The more I thought about it the more curious I became, and I decided to just center it and if it was totally hideous I'd redo the whole block.  What did I have to lose?

Does everything line up? Absolutely not.  Is it hideous?  Not at all.  Am I ok with it?  Yep.  The only thing that I wasn't taking into account though was that I still had to make a corresponding second block.  I was going to make sure all the triangles were the right size for that one, but then I thought it would probably be better to match the blocks since it's going on the same quilt.  So I give you 2 dysfunctional blocks for the price of one!

Now if only I could find a way to raise my IQ back up...