Help with a square in a square block
I'm making a quilt that uses a square in a square for the border and I like it a lot. But the instructions for it are driving me crazy. I'm posting two pictures here so you can see one block that was finished per the instructions for the quilt. The second square in a square in the picture is one I tried to make via an easier way. As you can see, it isn't large enough. The center is exactly the right size. I started with a 3 inch block for the center and it finished at 2 1/2 as expected. But the finished block needs to finish at 5 3/4 inches and I don't know how to get my 3 inch center to finish at 5 3/4 with the white added around the edge. Does anyone here know the math for this?