Help!!!!
#33
Thank you very much.
According to the instructions you were supposed to use the three center blocks as a guide/match point to put all the strips together.
I copied the photo on Moda's website and revised to show what your strips should have looked like after you put them together, before trimming the ends. The extra half-inch really is needed sometimes by some people. I know that the feeddogs on my machine occasionally "shrink" a strip by a very small amount. If you don't have that little bit extra, your end blocks would end up being trimmed off.
Originally Posted by catmcclure
Originally Posted by Birdena
I was at a class today and the measurements are just not adding up and I am terrible at math. I have been over and over the pattern and the measurments and when sewing the two rows together I am off about an inch. Here is a link to the pattern http://www.modabakeshop.com/2010/11/...ap-quilt.html. Would appreciate any help....Thank you
I copied the photo on Moda's website and revised to show what your strips should have looked like after you put them together, before trimming the ends. The extra half-inch really is needed sometimes by some people. I know that the feeddogs on my machine occasionally "shrink" a strip by a very small amount. If you don't have that little bit extra, your end blocks would end up being trimmed off.
#34
In the comments section below the quilt instructions there is a post saying that the pattern had been corrected as of yesterday 4/3/2011. I didn't do the math but apparently you are not the only one that was having issues with it.
Ann in TN
Ann in TN
#35
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Bay Area near San Francisco
Posts: 1,213
Originally Posted by mshawii
It would seem to me that the three squares should all measure the same. rather than the center one being 2 1/2".
#36
This may sound off the wall, but I would make the blocks and then adjust the strips accordingly to get the width measurements correct and work on down. Sounds like you've gotten the right answers from other folks.
#39
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: eastern Oklahoma
Posts: 1,873
This seams to help me. When this happens I turn over the block and carefully check each seam. Some times I have got the seam wider in places. Also check the block after you cut the pieces. The first steps are where you learn the most. Best of luck to you.
#40
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Indiana
Posts: 132
The link has a period at the end that does not belong there. Click the link then back off the period at the end and the page will come up.
Originally Posted by ckcowl
clicked on link- got a 'page not found' message- how about describing the block- and the measurements you are using- are you an inch too big or an inch too small?
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Crissie
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
12
11-21-2009 08:50 PM