Tashana

I started working on a quilt today that requires two layer cakes, one print, and one solid. I have a few print layer cakes in my stash. Since I have a lot of solids I decided to cut the solid layer cake myself. What a mistake! I measured, and cut and checked every single square, all 42 of them and everything was fine until I went to sew the print to the solids. nothing lined up. My pieces were ever so slightly smaller than the purchased ones. I rechecked my squares and then it hit me - the pinking edges of the store bought layer cake are throwing the whole thing off. So I measured the layer cake and sure enough, it was larger than 10" because of the pinked edges. Live and learn!