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Old 01-13-2012, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by lakekids View Post
Well I worked on the large string blocks last night. I stitched 9 of them and then decided to get up and cut them. I merrily cut away on the first diagonal. then I start to cut the triangles. ARGHHHHHHHHH! I cut 6 of the 9 on the wrong diagonal. When I go to cut the triangle all of those triangles have the strips going horizontally across the long side of the triangle NOT vertically to the center point. @#$%$#@!

Well guess I have the start of another quilt!
I did the same thing to 6 of my blocks, but it is easily fixable. Just add another strip down the middle and sew the two sides to it.... You will have another block now that you can cut the right way. It worked perfectly for me.
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