Deb Tucker Pattern called Abstraction
I've been getting into optical illusion type patterns and found this one on Deb Tucker's website called Abstraction by Running with Scissors Quilters. From the looks of it, it didn't seem too difficult to figure out but believe me I've made a ton of mistakes in reading the instructions. But luckily I have extra fabric and was able to recut the large 27.5 x 27.5 square needed for the sides. The miscut one I cut some of my strips out so didn't lose too much of the fabric. Then as I didn't label each set of strips by their width, I used the wrong ones on some of the blocks and found myself getting together with RIP a lot yesterday.
Anyway, I have a question for anyone that has worked on a Deb Tucker pattern if she normally makes her blocksw larger so you need to trim them down quite a bit. My 4-patch should be 4.5 unfinished but it's coming out at 5.0 and pretty much all the other sections of blocks are also about .5" larger than necessary. Most of the blocks I can trim using what I have on hand but there's an off centered 3-patch that will need trimmed and the instructions say to use Deb Tucker's Four Patch Square Up Ruler. I went online to watch a video on how to use it for these off centered 3 patches and ordered it from another site that was a bit cheaper for me. My real question is does Deb Tucker normally write her instructions so you have a lot to trim off? Seems a waste to me and since I've made so many booboos on this pattern already, I really don't need to waste anymore fabric.