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I have blocked/streched a block if it is 1/4" or less off for a 12 1/2" unfinished, anything off more than that I will remake it. It is fine, and long as you quilt sufficiently there is absolutely no distortion and reshrinking once washed. Now if you were to simply ditch around that block and not do any quilting in it then the block could distort and look pretty awful.

Quite honestly, 12" between quilting exceeds the minimum requirements for any batting I have ever seen and battings that say you can quilt up to 10" apart, I would never leave that much space unquilted.

I was actually thinking the exact same thing.

I'd always heard that using steam would stretch a block, but since I use steam to shrink excess,wavy borders on the long arm I know it does just the opposite. Because of this, I've stopped using steam when making blocks. When I have a block that is just a bit too small, I adjust it so that I have smaller seams when sewing to other blocks.

I, too, would make some seams smaller so that the block would be the same size as the others.