OK, well good to know it's not a ton of extra fabric :)It's actually a very tiny repeat, it's sort of like wavy stripes with a scattering of paisleys in between. The stripes are maybe 1/2inch wide and go the width of the fabric.........with perhaps 1 inch in between stripes.........so I'm thinking that I"m much more concerned with lining the stripe part up than the repeat of the paisleys. Does that make sense???