Originally Posted by
Tartan
If your strips are 5 and 1/2 long, they will still be that length when finished. The total block probably should be 5 and 1/2 square so that when sewn together all the blocks are 5 inches in the top.
That's exactly what I was going for, but for some reason the width is not the same as the lenght. The length keeps turning out longer than the width. I still haven't figured out what I am doing wrong. I just trimmed my squares down to 4 inches.