Originally Posted by peaceandjoy
Practicing on those utility quilts is a great thing! Keep working on them, being careful to cut accurately and be sure you are sewing a consistent scant 1/4" seam; soon your blocks will be quite square, only needing a tiny bit of trimming.
For blocks that have many pieces, like Bonnie Hunter's, I trim sub-units as I go. If there are half-square triangles, 4-patches, etc., I make sure they are the size needed before I go on to the next step. Extra work, yes, but I'm almost guaranteed to have blocks come out the needed size.
Thank you. I have been mostly using 4 or 9 patch but I had so many 2" pieces that I decided to do a 36 piece square and I think probably after reading your post that somewhere in the sewing of the 36 2" squares I probably didn't have an accurage 1/4" seam. I didn't measure as I was sewing them together, just after I had them all sewn together and pressed.