Originally Posted by
just_the_scraps_m'am
seems to me, if you sewed them together, you would only have 19.5" to work with [1/4" X 2]....just sayin'...
And it would be a rectangle, not a square. So it would measure 9.5" x 19.5". In order to get a 12.5" square nine patch, each square would have to be 4.5". You cannot get nine 4.5" squares from a rectangle of that size, you can only get eight.