Originally Posted by
Iceblossom
The juvenile novelty focus fabrics are 6.5" raw. I cut the confetti fabric at 2.5", it required ~2.5 yards. The sashing squares varied in length from 6-6.5", I cut them all 3" wide x length. In my project I used 35 focus fabrics set 5x7, it should measure 68x94". If you are doing the sashing by squares, you need two squares per focus fabric, plus one square for top/bottom sides (5+7 = 12), for a total of 82 squares in addition to the 35 focus fabrics.
Correction: Somehow my count was off by 16 squares, so it should be
98 squares to be cut into sashing + 35 focus squares. For rough figuring for a different block size (like 6" cut instead of 6.5") you can figure you need 3 blocks per focus fabric which would give you 105 instead of 98, or just count out 100!
Again, I'm not going to stress on whether it is a juvenile novelty print or not, I'm going to go into my 6.5" strips collection and pull out some bright/contrasting fabrics since I've already been through this box a couple of times.