I had already thought about posting the clues when I was picking them up every couple of weeks.

I know that the store had permission to give out the clues for free, but I don't have permission to post them here.

The consensus seems to be to remake them. I'll have to measure the darker fabric and see if I have enough. What does anyone think about putting a little bit of the center fabric on each side of the SIAS. Frame it a little, but it would add the measurement I need. Any thoughts?

Here are some pics I took when I completed the blocks. Imagine more of the dark red around the outside of the yellow. I'm just not sure what to do.

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One of the SIAS's will each be surrounded by 4 flying geese blocks kind of like this:

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Huh?

I have had this happen!!! Check back with the place you got the mystery and see if anyone else is having the same problem. They might have a new set of measurements for you.

After seeing your pictures, I am totally confused.

If your untrimmed Square in a squares are too small, and you made skimpy seam allowances your points would be "floating" and not cut off.

If your untrimmed Square in a squares are too large, then I can see where you would be losing your points if you trimmed them down.

Another possibility - if these ended up small -
Your seam allowances might be just a little too deep - even 1/16 of an inch compounded over 4 edges makes 1/4 of an inch difference.

It's completely possible that I just didn't explain something right.

Right now, the way things measure, before I cut off the dog ears and rough edges, the blocks measure to 5 1/4" inches instead of 5 1/2". Once I trim the dog ears and square them up they are closer to 5 1/8".

If I trim them all down to 5 1/8", then allow for 1/4" seam allowance during top assembly, all the points are cut off and the triangles come to a blunt end instead of a pointy end.

I'm going to rip one out, remeasure, resew and see what happens. Just one won't kill me as 20 unsewing would. I have to measure my dark fabric to make sure I have enough for the 20 squares, but I'm pretty sure I do.

I'm also going to surround one or two with an extra strip of the dark red....maybe 1/2" just to see how that would look and measure out. I'll work on that tonight when the munchkins go to bed so I have a chance to see all the possibilities!

OK - I think your triangles on the outside stretched while you were sewing, thus creating the size difference.

I don't mind unsewing (AKA ripping), but I don't think I would rip TWENTY square-in-a-square blocks. I think I would set those boo-boos aside and dream up something spectacular to do with them later. If you've go the fabric, make more blocks. BUT MEASURE CAREFULLY BEFORE CUTTING AND STITCHING. :lol:

Probably the most useful and important suggestion so far.

I do have the extra fabric. I looked over a tutorial on making triangles with squares. I liked it a lot and am looking into making new ones using that method. Once I have some remade...I'll post that process. I still like the idea of sashing around them, but I might save that for the blocks I won't use in this process. Perhaps something spectacular will come out of the unused blocks.