Originally Posted by larkley
ok, so if my seam allowance is a bit too large, and I'm doing a fence rail, how come the sizes are different from one another? In that I mean, the two pieces after sewn together, one side lines up exactly and the other is shorter. Did I make sense. I'm very careful, but obviously not careful enough.
You also have to make sure that you're cutting the exact size to start with.
Is the line on the ruler on the fabric or off or half-on?
And, in the case of your particular block, how big did you cut the HST's for the corners? You're dealing with bias edges and something could have gone a bit wonky there.
**As an aside, for a block like that, I would have cut those HST's a bit oversized, and then trimmed the whole block down to the 6.5" final unfinished size that I need. **
By trimming the blocks down, it looks like you're going to lose a few points when you join the blocks together. It's not horrible or the end of the world. It happens.
Again, it's a combination of the cutting, sewing and pressing.
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