The green piece is cut 8" and the pink 7", sorry the pink looks bigger must have had the camera closer as it is smaller really, I used a 2 wide strip on each block, think I need to do them 8" as if I use the smaller one there might be very little border or no border at all depending on how I cut them, or maybe I need to make them larger, advice please.
I do not think I will get them all cut at the same angle, well I know I will not be good enough to do that but wonder what they will look like if not all the same?
I have tried to calculate how much fabric I will need 200 strips 6.5" and 200 9.5" if I make them finished to cut down to 8"square so they will end up 7.5 when put together, am I doing okay with this calculation so far?
Maybe I need to make them a little bigger but that will make the quilt so much bigger, this way it will measure 75" square plus a border and binding. Oh yes need to add the border which will be in the black too, not sure how wide to do that but that will need 2 strips 75" long and 2 well depends on how wide the strips are. maybe 3" so that would be 2 strips 81" by 3" or do these need to be a bit wider? Then I need fabric for the binding, think this will be done in the black too not sure how much I need of that, but sure you will all help me there. Well now to work out how much fabric I need, not sure how I go about this so the ball is now in your court please help me!!
I trust this is understandable and please help if you can, hope to go to York on tuesday to get the fabric, there is a man on the market there who sells a good quality plain fabric which is better than my local supplier or do I need to buy kona fabric, that seems to be very popular and think I can get it on line, price permitting of course. Think I am going to be in for a bit of a shock with cost.
