Originally Posted by My time
Why don't you post the fabric on this board. Maybe some of us have your fabric in our stash?
Ah, I'm in the Netherlands, so getting the fabric here is quite a hassle, and then it still might be a different color - as seen by the two pieces of exactly the same fabric I have at home. But thanks for the suggestion.
I must admit that I am not much of a gambler, and the book also says the yardage (sp?) is an approximation, not to mention that I changed the color choices for the blocks and therefore will probably need a little more of the background fabric in some of the blocks. The blocks are all different, some use paper piecing, others simple piecing, and yet others use templates; I think there's even a applique block in there. So calculating exactly how much I would need is a lost cause (I'm not great at math to begin with). Not to mention that several of the blocks are more difficult than anthing I've tried before, so I'm also taking mistakes into account when looking at the fabric.
Basically, I'm too afraid that if I gamble on the 7 meters being enough (which I agree it should be), then I will make like 139 blocks and won't have enough fabric for that final block...and that certainly wouldn't look like a design descision! So next weekend there's a quilting exhibit with vendors near where I live and I will go there and buy about 2 meters of coordinating fabric to the 7 meters I have, and then I'll make 2 blocks with my original fabric and 1 block with the new fabric, so I get a 2:1 ratio of blocks, give or take a few, random over the entire sampler. That should look like a design decision, even though it started out as an 'emergency solution'.