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Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
I make a square in a square quilt for my granddaughters and grand nieces. It has 88 blocks. Sometimes I end up with too many center squares and sometimes I come up with extra corner triangles. And sometimes even after counting the center squares and the corner triangles and putting them together I end up either long or short on blocks. <shrug> I think the scraps do stuff in the dark when I'm not looking.
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There is a reason we all have those huge stash piles!
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I was in a half square triangle swap once and I didn't pay attention to how many squares I was to make for the swap, later found out that it was only 60 2 1/2" squares.
I made 400. lol 3 quilts later I finally used them all up. :roll: This quilt is a queen size and used up about 200 of the half square triangles. I also made twin and crib size. http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...45965719fgaxFs Sharon W. |
Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
I make a square in a square quilt for my granddaughters and grand nieces. It has 88 blocks. Sometimes I end up with too many center squares and sometimes I come up with extra corner triangles. And sometimes even after counting the center squares and the corner triangles and putting them together I end up either long or short on blocks. <shrug> I think the scraps do stuff in the dark when I'm not looking.
and search and search and SEARCH! plus...having to rip and re-sew! Yep, "stuff in the dark"! |
I have done that many times, I am so anxious to start that I don't read thru all the instructions.
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I have done things like that. Then you get to be creative to use the fabric you cut. It's called a "creative adjustment."
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Just take the word "beginner's" off your post, and you will know what all quilters have done, probably more than once! Hope you can make lemons out of your lemonade.
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Oh sorry that happened! It's like the carpenter rule to measure twice, cut once, except it is read three times (at least) lol!
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Been there, done that myself. I now read the pattern twice and then the third time before I cut.
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I'm very new so read for a long time before I start!
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