Never saw this before, and wow, thanks for sharing. I've been saving Blue Jeans for several years wanting to make a quilt and I absolutely love it. After reading the instructions 2x's. Yes you are thinking correctly. Your block should finish 5 inches, however think about it, when you sew on the line you will loose probably 2 threads width due to the thickness of the fabric. She mentions you can cut the squares a scant or two shorter to allow for that. I would probably go with 4 7/8's or even 4 3/4. do a test block first. So to figure how many squares you need Take your width and length and multiply together to get your square inches of the total quilt. Say 70x90= 6300, divide by 25 ( since a 5x5 block is 25 square inches) You will need 252 5 inch squares for a 70x90 quilt. I've bookmarked the page to do one ( 1 of these days). Good luck.
Last edited by Gannyrosie; 05-16-2014 at 09:05 AM.