I posted for help on math skills with this quilt that I am undertaking:
http://waynekollingersquiltblog.blog...to-ponder.html
I have the most beautifully rich purple fabric and I wanted to use it in a quilt to highlight how stunning this fabric is. I also don't like making the same quilt twice. Finally found this one on line and said looks easy enough.
Well, if you go to this thread, you'll see it wasn't as easy as I thought LOL
Help! My math skills are abysmal for this !!!
In that thread, I had actually made a number of the blocks, however when I sewed them together, there was so much squaring up, I was losing "edges."
I tossed them, and went back to EQ7 and printed the PP pattern. They are 4 inch blocks.
I also remembered reading somewhere about people who starch their fabric (I never have, but I have starch - I used it once to "fix" a quilt that wasn't flat - didn't work as well as I wanted it to!)
So I starched the fabric, cut it in strips, starched again. Paper pieced each square, starched again. Sewed the four squares together, starched again, and then did the second block. Joined those, and starched again. (am i using too much starch?)
Here's a pic of my first two blocks ... I will be posting my progress throughout this thread, so feel free to drop in and see my progress!
Thanks for looking and to all the brilliant math genuises, thanks for your help!
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