I saw this pattern for a wall hanging and thought it would look cute as a baby blanket:
http://www.sewcanshe.com/blog/2017/3...ilts-for-march
In the instructions, it says cut a square 3.5" then cut on the diagonal to make an HST. Okay. Then it says cut a rectangle 2" x 3.5" to be the flying geese beside it. I get that the 3.5" side will attached to the side of the 3.5" square cut on the diagonal, but after sewing the triangles together the HST won't be 3.5" any more. So shouldn't the rectangle be smaller? Or does that accommodate the points of the triangles on the edges of the flying geese?
I am thinking it might be easier to do this as fat French braid instead, but I'm not sure yet. I'm still playing with dimensions to get a proper sized blanket out of it.