Many years ago. I participated in some online block swaps.
They were both made with Moda Marbles black and bright colors; one was for 4 1/2" HST's and the other was for 4 1/2" 4 patch blocks.
After seeing Danmar's Northern lights quilt, I thought this would be a wonderful pattern to follow using these blocks.
I got them out the other night and started laying them out on the floor. I counted the HST's and I had 191. I probably have the same amount of 4 patch blocks. By my calculations, it takes 2 HST's and 2 4-patch blocks to make one larger block for the quilt.
Problem...... they are all not 4 1/2" blocks. Some are slightly larger, not a problem. I can trim them down to 4 1/2".
The big problem is that some of them are slightly smaller than 4 1/2".
I've already trimmed about 45 of the HST's to the correct size and put aside about 12 that are too small.
My question is, do you think I should trim them all down to the same size, which would be 4 1/4". That would make them actually 3 3/4" finished. Or should I just keep going with trimming them down to 4 1/2" and see how many I won't be able to use.
FYI - I figured that I would be able to make the quilt 8 completed blocks wide by 10 blocks long.