I am hoping this is a thing of past, but many of these have not been cut accurately. I am told that Anthropology cuts them in their own facility here, not in another country! And that they are true measurements. BaliPops and some others have varied in width by an eighth of an inch which can really throw total quilt measurements off. and can not be cut in half to get true inch and a half strips. Just an FYI. Good luck and happpy quilting.