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Old 02-07-2017, 10:44 AM
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Originally Posted by joanelizbay View Post
Sorry to hear that Sea is not feeling well. Hope shes back soon! It amazes me how some of you can just look at a pattern and enlarge it or draw it out etc...I see a lot of 8" or 9" blocks or bigger ones that I want for 12.5 but not good enough at math to figure out how to change them! Its a great ability for you all!! Beautiful blocks!!
This might help you... If I see a design that is basically a 4 patch, 9 patch or 16 patch, I know the parts need to measure as follows:

4 patch: 6.5" squares
9 patch: 4.5" squares
16 patch: 3.5" squares.

If you find a pattern that is broken down easily into those sizes, just engineer the parts to fit in their respective sizes.

Not all designs are 4, 9 or 16 patches, obviously... but a whole lot of them are!
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