Originally Posted by MsMel
I recently made a tote bag from a magazine and the fabric requirements made it nearly impossible to cut the number of pieces in the size you needed and have enough fabric...Spent half the afternoon measuring and trying to figure out how to get enough pieces from the amount of fabric I had purchased...
I did a pattern from a magazine and had the opposite problem - three strip sets when two would have sufficed for each set = tons of fabric leftover. I am still deciding if I am going to make the quilt bigger or make another lap size from the leftovers. Sheesh, what a waste of good fabric I could have kept in my stash! Live and learn...