Originally Posted by
PaperPrincess
If I'm not sure I'm going to have tons of extra, I will put a pin in the seam and flip the piece over to verify that I have enough. Usually the piece is large enough, but it needs to be moved up or down the seam to cover. I usually have this problem when I start a project, after I do a couple of blocks, I have figured out what I need to do to make it come out right.
I do this too. I have had to pick out too many pp seams because I couldn't quite picture it in my head the way it was in real life.