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question from the mathmatically challanged
OK. I want to make a type basket weave quilt and I can't figure out how
wide to cut the strips. I don't have a pattern, just trying to make something I saw hanging in a quilt shop this summer. I can't go look at it again because it's a 2 day drive away! I'm using 3 colours (D,M,L) in 5 rows... DDDDD LMDML DDDDD MMMMM LMDML MMMMM LLLLL LMDML LLLLL MMMMM LMDML MMMMM DDDDD LMDML DDDDD make sense? If I cut the strips at 1 1/2" I would end with 5" finished, right? If I cut the strips at 1 3/4" I would end up with 6 1/4" finished??? I'm going to sew the strips together and then cut them at ??? to make a square. If I cut them at 11/2", sew them together, would I then cut the strips at 5 1/2" to give me 5" finished? Shawn, who's dimming her lights because of the intense headache coming on g -- mslibra www.cutcakes.ca |
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I'm not sure I can help you with the math part, but if you cut your strips
WOF ( width of fabric ) and sew them together, then you can use a ruler with a 45 degree line on it. Just line it up on one corner, and cut when it hits the opposite corner. That will give you a square. Five 1 - 1/2" strips sewn together and cut into squares should give you a 5" finished block, ie a 5 -1/2" square. Sounds good to me! Elena in Tx, also dimming the lights. "Shawn" wrote in message . ca... OK. I want to make a type basket weave quilt and I can't figure out how wide to cut the strips. I don't have a pattern, just trying to make something I saw hanging in a quilt shop this summer. I can't go look at it again because it's a 2 day drive away! I'm using 3 colours (D,M,L) in 5 rows... DDDDD LMDML DDDDD MMMMM LMDML MMMMM LLLLL LMDML LLLLL MMMMM LMDML MMMMM DDDDD LMDML DDDDD make sense? If I cut the strips at 1 1/2" I would end with 5" finished, right? If I cut the strips at 1 3/4" I would end up with 6 1/4" finished??? I'm going to sew the strips together and then cut them at ??? to make a square. If I cut them at 11/2", sew them together, would I then cut the strips at 5 1/2" to give me 5" finished? Shawn, who's dimming her lights because of the intense headache coming on g -- mslibra www.cutcakes.ca |
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If I cut the strips at 1 1/2" I would end with 5" finished, right?
YES If I cut the strips at 1 3/4" I would end up with 6 1/4" finished??? YES I'm going to sew the strips together and then cut them at ??? to make a square. If I cut them at 11/2", sew them together, would I then cut the strips at 5 1/2" to give me 5" finished? YES. You cut them at finished size plus 1/2 inch. My own problem is not the math--I can do math problems. Where I get into trouble is alternating back and forth between "finished" and "unfinished" sizes. When you start out with a block, you're generally in one of two positions: 1. If I *start out* with pieces X size, what will I get as a finished block? 2. If I want a *finished* block at Y size, how big do I need to cut my pieces. I find it's much easier to work backward from Position 2, adding 1/2 inch all around to every piece. Otherwise, I often find myself with too-small pieces, that I've inadvertently cut to the finished measurement. HTH. Nurse Ratched, whose mind is a terrible thing these days |
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Thanks, Patti. That was part of the question. I can see now why cutting
the set the same width as the group of strips makes sense, I'm lost when it comes to figuring out how wide to cut the original strips. You're right - I started this thinking it was going to be tricky! I wanted a set of strips 6" wide and started working from there trying to keep in mind seam allowance and so on. Then it dawned on me that each strip will lose 1/2" in sewing. So I came at it from the other side. Cutting five strips 2" wide is actually 5 X 11/2= a 7 1/2" finished block. Yah? Then I cut the set at 8" so when I sew it up losing 1/2" I end up with 7 1/2". (Please say I've got it as this has now become my reality, lightly grasped tho' it is g) Shawn -- mslibra www.cutcakes.ca "Patti" wrote in message ... Hullo Shawn I can see why you have a headache! - you are concentrating too much on finished and unfinished! *And* you probably started off by thinking 'this is going to be difficult'. If you want to make a square (of any size) from strips, then you cut your set of strips into pieces which are the same width as the original set of strips. So, if your set of strips ends up 5 and a half inches wide, then you cut your pieces 5 and a half inches wide to get a square of strips. If your set of strips is 6 and a quarter wide, you cut your pieces 6 and a quarter. You've done the difficult part already!! If I've misunderstood, please ask again. I love 'sums' and mathematical puzzles are food and drink to me!!! I'm weird g. . In article , Shawn writes OK. I want to make a type basket weave quilt and I can't figure out how wide to cut the strips. I don't have a pattern, just trying to make something I saw hanging in a quilt shop this summer. I can't go look at it again because it's a 2 day drive away! I'm using 3 colours (D,M,L) in 5 rows... DDDDD LMDML DDDDD MMMMM LMDML MMMMM LLLLL LMDML LLLLL MMMMM LMDML MMMMM DDDDD LMDML DDDDD make sense? If I cut the strips at 1 1/2" I would end with 5" finished, right? If I cut the strips at 1 3/4" I would end up with 6 1/4" finished??? I'm going to sew the strips together and then cut them at ??? to make a square. If I cut them at 11/2", sew them together, would I then cut the strips at 5 1/2" to give me 5" finished? Shawn, who's dimming her lights because of the intense headache coming on g -- mslibra www.cutcakes.ca -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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