Opinions needed about Honor Flight Quilt sizing
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Opinions needed about Honor Flight Quilt sizing
[ATTACH=CONFIG]577120[/ATTACH]I recently began piecing a small quilt in preparation for distribution at the end of August to my local guild for the Honor Flight Program. I originally started with 6 1/2 inch blocks but scaled down to 5 1/2 when I made a speed error. My question is this: To obtain the right size, (36x36) approx, I will have to make about 7 rows. (8 will be too wide), no borders.(Quilt is perpendicular on board).
Do you think a quilt with an uneven amount of block rows looks odd? Should I just make 8 rows? They can be a little flexible on the size, but can't be too large since they are meant to be lap quilts on the flights.
Of course had I not made the error, the 6 1/2 's would have worked out perfectly! PS I will be fixing the mistake in row 3-another speed error!
Thanks in advance!
Do you think a quilt with an uneven amount of block rows looks odd? Should I just make 8 rows? They can be a little flexible on the size, but can't be too large since they are meant to be lap quilts on the flights.
Of course had I not made the error, the 6 1/2 's would have worked out perfectly! PS I will be fixing the mistake in row 3-another speed error!
Thanks in advance!
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I didn't know about this program so googled it. Thanks for telling us about it. This person made hers 36 x 48". I agree with the others that anything will look ok.
I didn't know about this program so googled it. Thanks for telling us about it. This person made hers 36 x 48". I agree with the others that anything will look ok.
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Thanks so much everyone for your input. Very helpful. Bree123, I also thought 40 inches a little unwieldy but you know, when you have been working on something for awhile sometimes you lose perspective.
They take the quilts on a bus and plane ride so that would certainly be the case.
They take the quilts on a bus and plane ride so that would certainly be the case.
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