Rhonda

My weakest area is figuring yardage. I am working on writing free patterns and I am having a hard time figuring out how to do the yardage. For me I'm a miniaturist and don't need to figure out yardage for myself. but I was told most quilters want to cut strips and then subcut. this is not how I do things. so I am trying to figure out a way to do the math without taking 4 or 5 days to work through it all. LOL

I understand cutting the strips and then subcutting. But where I have a problem is how do I figure a strip if it has 2 diff size cuts in one strip. say I need 4 cuts that are 3" and then I have this long strip left. so I need to cut the rest at 4" how do I present that on paper?

Is there an easy way to figure the overall yardage needed?
Any tips that would make this easier to figure?

I'm always afraid I am going to leave the yardage short and people will complain!!!
I hate figuring yardage!!! It is the bane of my life rt now LOL but if I want to write patterns then it is a necessary evil LOL I have several I wrote in the past but this strip thing just came up recently. I am having a hard time wrapping my head around how to write it up.

Thanks to anyone who has any tips