Re Sizing
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Re Sizing
Is there any easy formula for resizing a quilt square. The one I want to do is all squares and rectangles and I just need to make it a little smaller but am sure it is not as easy as taking 1/2 inch off of every piece
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It is either take a tuck, gather, or cut smaller. But then, you could make the borders or sashes smaller, or eliminate them for a smaller quilt. It is discouraging to make adjustments after the fact. Sorry, it does happen, even to experienced quilters.
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As long as you are dealing with squares and triangles, this will work. If you could give us additional information such as the name of the pattern, there are many of us on the board who have the program Electric Quilt that we could resize the quilt for you.
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That quilt is made of only one block, turned different ways, so you only have to draft out one block, and make it in different colors. Sketch it out the size you want on graph paper. When you sketch it you have to sketch it with lines drawn where each seam is on the pieces. (In other words, you don't draw out the square which looks like a picture frame as one piece of fabric.) After it is sketched, just measure each square and rectangle in your sketched pattern, and add a half inch to the length and a half inch to the width of each piece to get the size you need to cut the fabric for that piece.
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