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I also don't fret if I can't exactly meet the given dimensions of a pattern. For the most part (I said MOST not all) it just doesn't matter.... and later......This is a hobby to be enjoyed, not to get tangled up in stuff that gives people stress.
Well, I really am dumb. I was dumb enough to ask once before on a QB thread about why 1/4" exactly is so important. No one answered me. Is that because I simply should know? or no one really knows? Or, is it because I don't use patterns (I'm dyslexic and it takes me way too long to try to follow a pattern) so I study a quilt I like and do it with my own colors and my own twists. About 1/4 inch seems to work, so I use about 1/4 inch, but I can't see why 3/8 wouldn't be ok or even 1" if the person had trouble keeping to the very small 1/4". I realize the quilt might come out a bit larger or smaller than predicted if you don't use 1/4" but does that really make any difference. I've made a log cabin quilt with probably closer to 3/8" just because I was new to quilting and was nervous. I'm sure I cut the end off a few logs because it was too long, and probably cut the edges down on the last log because the square was too big (bigger than the first one which became my guide). Sooooo.....? What am I missing here?