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9 patch help
Okay... so I'm having a brain fart or senior moment or something and I need
your help. I want my 9-patch to finish at 4 inches. What size do I need to cut my strips? I just can't get it right and I am desperate! Help Me! Thanks. Lynda still quilting 'till i'm wilting and i think i may have wilted. |
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"Mike G" wrote: Okay... so I'm having a brain fart or senior moment or something and I need your help. I want my 9-patch to finish at 4 inches. What size do I need to cut my strips? I just can't get it right and I am desperate! Help Me! Thanks. Lynda still quilting 'till i'm wilting and i think i may have wilted. 4 divided by 3 is 1 1/3 inches. Then add 1/2 inch for seam allowance. So, you need to cut your strips 1 5/6 inches....odd measurement though. How critical is exactness? Can you cut the strips 1 3/4 and sew your seams a little scant or cut them 1 7/8 and be a hair oversized and trim up the block to exactly 4 1/2 at the end so it finishes at 4"? marcella |
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"Marcella Tracy Peek" wrote in message ... In article .net, "Mike G" wrote: Okay... so I'm having a brain fart or senior moment or something and I need your help. I want my 9-patch to finish at 4 inches. What size do I need to cut my strips? I just can't get it right and I am desperate! Help Me! Thanks. Lynda still quilting 'till i'm wilting and i think i may have wilted. 4 divided by 3 is 1 1/3 inches. Then add 1/2 inch for seam allowance. So, you need to cut your strips 1 5/6 inches....odd measurement though. How critical is exactness? Can you cut the strips 1 3/4 and sew your seams a little scant or cut them 1 7/8 and be a hair oversized and trim up the block to exactly 4 1/2 at the end so it finishes at 4"? Alternately, if the 4" is critical, and precision is critical, sounds like a job for paper piecing. -- Kathy A. (Woodland, CA) Queen of Fabric Tramps http://www.kayneyquilting.com , remove the obvious to reply |
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Hullo Lynda
Do you mean you want finished 4" squares in your nine-patch; or the whole nine-patch to finish at 4"? I ask, because 4" is a very strange number for a nine-patch. If you *do* mean the whole thing finished at 4", you need to cut your strips One and a third inches *plus* half an inch for seam allowances. Not the easiest thing in the world to do! Whenever you have this kind of problem, always work on the finished figure first, and add the half inch for seam allowances to the answer. If you start trying to include the seam allowances as you go along, that is why errors creep in. So, for this one, you divide the 4" by three = one and a third; then you add the half inch. Should be one and five-sixths I reckon. Could you not choose a more congenial finished size? Even 4.5" finished would make it infinitely easier. Then you would just have 2" strips. .. In article .net, Mike G writes Okay... so I'm having a brain fart or senior moment or something and I need your help. I want my 9-patch to finish at 4 inches. What size do I need to cut my strips? I just can't get it right and I am desperate! Help Me! Thanks. Lynda still quilting 'till i'm wilting and i think i may have wilted. -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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I will try that. Thanks Marcella
Marcella Tracy Peek wrote in message ... In article .net, "Mike G" wrote: Okay... so I'm having a brain fart or senior moment or something and I need your help. I want my 9-patch to finish at 4 inches. What size do I need to cut my strips? I just can't get it right and I am desperate! Help Me! Thanks. Lynda still quilting 'till i'm wilting and i think i may have wilted. 4 divided by 3 is 1 1/3 inches. Then add 1/2 inch for seam allowance. So, you need to cut your strips 1 5/6 inches....odd measurement though. How critical is exactness? Can you cut the strips 1 3/4 and sew your seams a little scant or cut them 1 7/8 and be a hair oversized and trim up the block to exactly 4 1/2 at the end so it finishes at 4"? marcella |
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I've been working with some thangles and if you want a 4" then you cut
4.5". I seen someone else reply with something else?? I don't see how but I guess I'm going to have to do some reading. Joanna Mike G wrote: Okay... so I'm having a brain fart or senior moment or something and I need your help. I want my 9-patch to finish at 4 inches. What size do I need to cut my strips? I just can't get it right and I am desperate! Help Me! Thanks. Lynda still quilting 'till i'm wilting and i think i may have wilted. -- Remove Quilt to reply |
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Forget what I said I was so screwed up. Sorry!
Joanna Joanna wrote: I've been working with some thangles and if you want a 4" then you cut 4.5". I seen someone else reply with something else?? I don't see how but I guess I'm going to have to do some reading. Joanna Mike G wrote: Okay... so I'm having a brain fart or senior moment or something and I need your help. I want my 9-patch to finish at 4 inches. What size do I need to cut my strips? I just can't get it right and I am desperate! Help Me! Thanks. Lynda still quilting 'till i'm wilting and i think i may have wilted. -- Remove Quilt to reply |
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