Originally Posted by
Annie Pearl
I just finished cutting out my FQ throw.....thank God! I had so much trouble with the FQs. So many of them didn't have a selvedge and that made me question the grain of fabric. They where poorly cut and after squaring off there wasn't enough left for the layout. I used a pattern by Lynette Jensen and it looked so easy. Did I do something wrong? Should I quit and take up knitting? LOL.
It is really difficult to cut 18 x 22 inces of pieces out of a 17 x 21 inch area.
The only thing " wrong " you may have done was thinking that all fat quarters will have 18 x 22 inch usable fabric. A very few do. Most do not.