Good advice from others about getting the blocks signed. A customer brought me squares from her daughter's wedding reception and they were a disaster as to the area in which folks signed. She didn't quite think it through because she's not a quilter. Wasn't enough clean "border" around the writing to actually sew the blocks together without cutting off the words. We figured out a work around, but it would have been better if someone had monitored the signing or if they had used a template. Good luck!