Originally Posted by sewcrafty
Originally Posted by weezie
I have done John Flynn's method, successfully. I had a piece of fabric that was a bit too long and a bit too narrow, so I cut it diagonally from top left corner to bottom right, slid the 2 cut pieces in opposite directions until I had the width I needed and still had enough length. I marked the 2 pieces, sewed them back together, starting and ending at the marks, cut off the end triangles, i.e., squared up and, voila, I had the rectangle the size I needed. This was for a queen sized quilt.
God Bless You!!!!!! I found this website that tried to explain this and sort of understood, but couldn't get the #'s. I gave the equation to my son that's in pre-calc and he's scratching his head!!! I printed off Flynn's instructions to take into his Math Teacher for clarification!!!!! :oops: :lol:
http://bsue.wordpress.com/2007/03/25...ng-directions/
Sounds much easier the way you did it!! What size was your fabric width?
I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but I don't know how wide it was. But I THINK it was denim. (At the time, I had a new embroidery machine and was practicing doing embroidery designs -- on denim .... BAAAAAAAAD choice!). I NEVER throw anything away, so I used the practice blocks to make an attic windows quilt. I think that the brown backing was probably about 60" wide. I will attach a photo of the front of the quilt ... it's not a very good photo, nor a very good quilt and it is heavy enough to withstand a mortar blast ... but you can see that the quilt, on a king-sized bed, stretches from one side to the other; that's about 6.5' across. If the backing was 60" wide, I must have dropped it down to add at least 1.5' to the width once I made the diagonal cut. Each one of the larger "windows" is 12" square, so seeing the photo might help you get some idea of width and height????
I think your best bet might be to use graph paper to determine what you need. Is this backing fabric that you already own? John Flynn's info. is where I got my instructions ... I printed a copy of them many years ago.