Originally Posted by
sarge1
SWEET MOTHER OF PEARL!! I feel like the most foolish person in the world right now. Embarrassed X 10. So, I did another test , trying out some of the suggestions here. Still short. But I measured the center of the 3-piece test strip and it was spot on. How could this be-the center of 3 strips is spot on but the entire width is still off? It was only then that I discovered that I was measuring from the end of my ruler; well, the edge of my ruler gives an additional 1/4 inch line. So, if I measure from the edge of the ruler, it is automatically adding 1/4 inch. When I re-measured starting at the 1 inch mark, it was pretty darn close. DOH! I hope that makes sense?
Don't be too hard on yourself. Not terribly long ago, I was having some MAJOR issues, with some of my blocks. I kept cutting exactly on the mark but they kept turning out the wrong size. To make a long story short, I was measuring/cutting some, from the wrong end of the ruler. I don't think "DOH" even begins to cover that.
