Originally Posted by Overlander

K3n - I'm not sure why the fabric wouldn't be just as accurate on the "far" side of the bolt as on the "near" side. We tested this out on some of our fabrics and she was right. We were not able to get an accurate layering of the 6 cuts of fabric. When we pinned them together they were off by small amounts. Now, that could be just the choice of fabrics, but we all had very different stuff. She said if we needed extra blocks we could fussy cut them instead of using the layering method. This technique does use an enormous amount of fabric, but it can always be used in another project.