Please help me understand pattern
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Please help me understand pattern
The first picture is of the block assembly instructions for the Brothers and Sisters quilt.
The book says that if I sew together four 9" blocks it will create an 18 1/2" square block. Using a 1/4" seam allowance, it seems to me that sewing four 9" blocks together would create a 17 1/2" square block.
Is the pattern wrong or is there something I am not understanding?
Next the book says that sewing nine 6" blocks together will create an 18 1/2" square block. I would think it would make a 17" block.
The second picture shows the quilt blocks sewn together. How do I make the 6" and 9" blocks into squares that are the same size?
I am so confused.
Elise
The book says that if I sew together four 9" blocks it will create an 18 1/2" square block. Using a 1/4" seam allowance, it seems to me that sewing four 9" blocks together would create a 17 1/2" square block.
Is the pattern wrong or is there something I am not understanding?
Next the book says that sewing nine 6" blocks together will create an 18 1/2" square block. I would think it would make a 17" block.
The second picture shows the quilt blocks sewn together. How do I make the 6" and 9" blocks into squares that are the same size?
I am so confused.
Elise
#3
The first picture is of the block assembly instructions for the Brothers and Sisters quilt.
The book says that if I sew together four 9" blocks it will create an 18 1/2" square block. Using a 1/4" seam allowance, it seems to me that sewing four 9" blocks together would create a 17 1/2" square block.
Is the pattern wrong or is there something I am not understanding?
The book says that if I sew together four 9" blocks it will create an 18 1/2" square block. Using a 1/4" seam allowance, it seems to me that sewing four 9" blocks together would create a 17 1/2" square block.
Is the pattern wrong or is there something I am not understanding?
HTH
#5
I'd check on the book publisher's web page to see if there are corrections posted. If 2 blocks start out at 9 inches each, sewing them together with a 1/4" seam is going to make them measure 17.5" across.
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When you receive lots of block from different people, always, a few don't have a true 1/4" seam.......so the easiest way to fix that is to frame your offending blocks out with a strip of fabric that goes with your other fabrics. You have the ability to turn your blocks into larger blocks without destroying the design. This book should have made it clear they were talking about finished sizes vs unfinished sizes. My best guess is they did not have a good proof reader.
#8
I don't see the cutting directions for each block but looking at the pictures, and splitting each block into it's individual pieces it looks like the blocks should come out at 9.5 unfinished and 6.5 unfinished, then they would go together as shown and both groups would be 18.5 unfinished. Check the cutting directions again.
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How some pattern insturctions are written is often confusing to me. When this happens, I individually draw the blocks out to size, cut them out, fold the seam allowance under, tape the blocks together and then measure. This gives me a clear picture of the block before I cut out my fabric.
#10
Any time I try a new pattern, I use some specially set-aside inexpensive kid's fabric. I make a few squares, then measure them to see where I am. I sew them together to see if there are any tricky bits (that's a technical term--"tricky bits"), then when I feel I've a handle on it, I use the fabric I have planned for the quilt. The trial blocks then become a kid's donation quilt, and I feel I understand the pattern much better having actually put it together.
Oh and by the way, I love the look of that pattern!
Oh and by the way, I love the look of that pattern!
Last edited by AngeliaNR; 10-30-2013 at 08:48 PM.
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