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06-02-2010, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by swanrd

That was great. Can you do one that shows squaring a block as that is the one thing I have problems with? Thanks for the lesson. Cathie

On my shadow boxed block I used a 12.5" plastic square ruler & I needed my unfinished shadow boxed block to measure 12.5". I just had to make sure that I wasn't trimming one side of my strips more that another. You just have to center your square ruler on your block (best as possible) & make sure the corners of your shadow boxed square line up with the corners of the square ruler (again, best as possible). I didn't find mitered corners especially easy to do & I had to re-do about 3 of my blocks that I had trouble matching up the mitered points. That's why it's very important to make sure the flower block is the right size & squared with 90 deg angles before adding the shadow box borders. Hope this helps. :D

06-02-2010, 11:07 AM

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Thanks

06-02-2010, 11:28 AM

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Beautiful tut! Thanks.

06-02-2010, 10:12 PM

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wow, thanks for the tutorial!

06-03-2010, 02:13 AM

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Thanks

My word exactly, THANKS! :D

06-03-2010, 05:22 AM

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Thank you so much for making this tutorial for us :D:D:D

06-03-2010, 07:50 PM

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This was very good with all the pictures. Thanks so much!

06-04-2010, 03:31 AM

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Great tute! Thanks!!

06-04-2010, 10:22 AM

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Thanks for the excellent tutorial. I'm Bookmarking this one!

06-04-2010, 05:57 PM

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This seems to be a more exact way than what I do which is just folding and pressing. Nothing never turned out so I just did not miter things. But with your tut, now I can see what needs to be done. Thank you so much.