Originally Posted by
bearisgray
when I get a pattern, I prefer that it says to "cut 200 4inch squares of color A"
to instructions that say "cut 20 strips width of fabric, then subcut each strip into 4inch squares."
Do you have preferences to how things are written? Or that are easier for you to understand?
Oh no, please don't say this! I've always written my patterns from a "strip piecing" point of view, because I learned quilting from Mary Ellen Hopkins, one of the forerunners of the strip piecing/speed piecing teachers way back in the late '70s/early '80s.
How do you cut a single square at a time from yardage without making a mess of the yardage? Gosh, it seems SO much easier to me to cut a strip, selvage to selvage, then fold in half and cut that into squares!
Ah, well, you say potAtoes, I say potOtoes.
Jan in VA