Originally Posted by virtualbernie
The striped square equals 6 inches also, so if you are using charm blocks, your striped square will have to be 5 inches also.
I think she was looking for actual cutting instructions.
@kim
The inch that is lost in size by using the smaller charm squares doesn't divide nicely without dealing with crazy fractions, so you can cut the fabric for the strips as follows:
The top and bottom strips CUT 1.75"" wide by WOF
The wider middle strip CUT 2.5" wide by WOF
When you sew the three strips together, the strip set should measure 5" = (1.5", 2", 1.5" )
You then cross cut the strip set into 5" squares,
which will FINISH at 4.5" = (1.25",2",1.25" ).
The original 6" pattern had the cuts at 3" and 2", which created a slightly wider middle = FINISHING in the 5.5" block at 1.5",2.5",1.5"
The other options is to cut the middle strip 2.75" wide, and the other two strips 1 5/8" wide. That would give you a wider middle (wider than the original pattern), with FINISHED measurements of 1 1/8", 2.25",1 1/8" =4.5"
Either choice will have a slightly different look to it, but I doubt it will be really noticeable.
Your choice.