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Old 01-12-2012, 11:13 AM
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Originally Posted by janceejan View Post
Sorry Brain will not engage today. I am going to make a carpenters square for my brother in laws retirement. The pattern calls for 6 1/2" unfinished squares. What size will I need to cut my squares for to do HST? I am thinking 7 and 3/8 , but am not sure. I am going to use this pattern http://www.quiltfrog.com/fourhour.html

Has anyone else made this one?

The pattern calls for 6.5 unfinished. So your finished size is 6 inches. You add 7/8ths to the finished size not the unfinished size. So for the HST I would cut 7 inches and square up to 6.5.
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