Originally Posted by Sugarpumpkin
Definitely check you fabric. I bought 5 differnt fabrics for a fur baby quilt, from 5 different mfgs. they were all 42" wide. I thought I could get tow 21" strips across thinking they were going to be 45", boy was I surprised. Just glad I had bought extra fabic. It is kind of like when you buy things in the grocery store the pkg looks the same but when you look at the label instead of 16 oz, you now usually get 14.5 oz.