Question about Dessert Time pattern by Eleanor Burns
Okay, I am a new quilter, so I am trying to understand the why and reasoning behind a pattern I just purchased. This pattern claims it is for the beginner, and you can use 10 inch precuts. But then you must trim down 40 10 inch squares to 9 inch squares. Yikes!
Now what would be the reasoning for this? If I left my 10 inch squares as is, would it make this quilt look strange? I am really trying to understand this, and i understand that I will need more fabric for the borders, etc, but that sure seems to make more sense to me than cutting down all of these squares.
I am going to make it as instructed, (After I purchase a 9 1/2 inch square ruler! ) but I am trying to understand the logic behind it. Why wouldn't the person who made this have left the precuts as is so it would have truly been an easy quilt for a beginner? Do triangles from 10 inch squares look bad compared to triangles from 9 inch squares?