Originally Posted by
GingerK
I use the rule: "Finished means FINISHED!!" but I know that many pattern writers expect the user to somehow intuit when they mean block size (before being sewn into a quilt) and finished size (the final outcome after the blocks have been assembled).
In which case it IS rather ambiguous? From what you say, Ginger, it depends on the designer and how he or she writes the directions. That would lead me back to square one. Oh well... shrug.