Originally Posted by sewjoyce
I wish I did know -- maybe then my blocks, using all the newfangled stuff we now have, would be much more accurate :oops: :oops:
I think sewing and other handiwork was a task that they had to learn in the "olden days." Handicrafts were made to be utilitarian, and as such they had to fit a certain sensibility or they were made for show, and then they had to be just so.