the best thing about doing a fat french braid is you won't have your large pieces with lots of cuts in them. Then you could use more focus fabric that you didn't want seam lines in.
The measurements look fine, read through all the directions and then go back up. Some of the drawings aren't in scale with each other. I prefer cutting methods that don't have that much waste.
BTW - you don't CUT on the diagonal, you sew on the diagonal and then cut off the extra - like the "covered corner" method they do with the FG. You won't be cutting anything across the diagonal, but 1/4" away after you sew.
Last edited by Macybaby; 05-22-2017 at 07:44 AM.