Originally Posted by ckcowl
i have done a dozen or so QFK quilts...i guess i did not know that some were considering these...pre-cut kits...i never looked at them that way and i cut each part of my quilt myself with the fabrics included. no pieces in any of the kits i received were actually the size that the pattern called for, i cut them myself. so i did not experience borders not cut right...have they changed the kits in the past couple months? i did my last one in July. anyway...
when i have ordered kits with pre-cut pieces (twice) i found that i was always 'shorted' there was always a couple pieces that were too small so i never waste my money of pre-cut kits anymore. as far as the QFK kits...they have volunteers putting kits together, some of us who make the quilts even turn around and send in another kit for them to send to someone else. i would always go by the pattern and cut your pieces as directed, don't just assume everything is done for you.
According to the instructions that came with mine all pieces are cut to the correct width. You sew the 4-patch strips together, then trim (so they are like 2 patch units at that point) and then sew the 2-patch units together to make 4-patch units. On the border strips it just says to measure the quilt top after it's assembled and cut the length but the width is cut already. So you cut the border strips even narrower than what they send? The one set of border strips I got were only about 1.5" wide (the border between the 4-patch sets and the outside border) but I had to trim them to length after assembling the top.
I don't mind that it's not right considering it was free and for a good cause, but if had known before I started it would have saved me about 3 feet of seam ripping and resewing.