last year was the first time I heard of scant 1/4 when a girlfriend and I took a quilting class. The instructor designed a pattern with stars and didn't tell us about the scant (we should have read the pattern first but thought she was the instructor and should have let us know about this) Thank goodness we only did one block and our star points weren't points. I put blue painters tape on my machine to keep the scant 1/4 when finishing this quilt