Janice McC

Sewbizgirl, that's a thought. But as I recently learned, if appliqué is to be done on a piece, it'd probably be better to send 13 inch wide piece. I'm not sure if that would work for everyone though. As you can see in the gallery, some blocks are made with only a little bit of an f8 and I'd be loath to require people to send larger pieces when only a small percentage of the completed block contains their fabric. But for those of you who think most people will do appliqué, you might consider sending the larger piece.

I may have started this by saying I couldn't make the block I wanted. In my case, it's because both F8s were short by one half an inch and I needed that full 11 inches. I have other plans for those now so it's not a problem but I've recd a couple of reports that some f8s were very short, a couple of inches short because selvages were not removed. Please remember to cut the selvages off BEFORE cutting your fabric into F8s. In one case, the loss to selvage was over 1 1/2 inches along the long edge. That swapper had to work with a piece about 9 inches wide. That's a problem. Also, one piece I recd appears to have been hastily cut by scissors, and once squared up, there's also a loss of over an inch along the long edge. So next round, let's try to get as close to the 11x18 inch size as possible or possibly larger if applique is a real possibility. Thanks!