YBR question

I haven't quilted in over a year and am trying to make a quick YBR quilt
for a granddaughter who is getting married in just a few months. I have
used this pattern before but years ago now. I got the revised edition
this time since I remembered having some sort of problem with the older
version but I don't remember any details.

I'm at the very beginning, have just completed the first units and
cutting them to 6 1/2 and 3 1/2 inch widths, 2 of each. That comes to 20
inches by my calculations so why did the directions say I need to have a
21 inch width????

Please help me before I get even more frustrated. I'm working on some
nursing pads for a nephew's wife in the mean time and that is tedious
cutting but really quick and easy sewing.

Judie in Penfield

Den 21-05-2012 15:28, Judie skrev:
I haven't quilted in over a year and am trying to make a quick YBR quilt
for a granddaughter who is getting married in just a few months. I have
used this pattern before but years ago now. I got the revised edition
this time since I remembered having some sort of problem with the older
version but I don't remember any details.

I'm at the very beginning, have just completed the first units and
cutting them to 6 1/2 and 3 1/2 inch widths, 2 of each. That comes to 20
inches by my calculations so why did the directions say I need to have a
21 inch width????

Please help me before I get even more frustrated. I'm working on some
nursing pads for a nephew's wife in the mean time and that is tedious
cutting but really quick and easy sewing.

Judie in Penfield

Judie,

I also make that 20 inches - I might guess that they want 21 inches,
either because the edge is cut off, or to allow people to cut a little
bad and have to straighten up as they go along?

Hanne in DK

On 5/21/2012 11:47 AM, Hanne in DK wrote:

Judie,

I also make that 20 inches - I might guess that they want 21 inches,
either because the edge is cut off, or to allow people to cut a little
bad and have to straighten up as they go along?

Hanne in DK


Thanks, Hanne. I'm just going to go ahead and try not to even think
about this too much, I already have a headache and way too much stress.

Judie

....what is a YBR?

-Irene

On Mon, 21 May 2012 09:28:51 -0400, Judie
wrote:

I haven't quilted in over a year and am trying to make a quick YBR quilt
for a granddaughter who is getting married in just a few months. I have
used this pattern before but years ago now. I got the revised edition
this time since I remembered having some sort of problem with the older
version but I don't remember any details.

I'm at the very beginning, have just completed the first units and
cutting them to 6 1/2 and 3 1/2 inch widths, 2 of each. That comes to 20
inches by my calculations so why did the directions say I need to have a
21 inch width????

Please help me before I get even more frustrated. I'm working on some
nursing pads for a nephew's wife in the mean time and that is tedious
cutting but really quick and easy sewing.

Judie in Penfield

On 5/22/2012 6:25 PM, IMS wrote:
...what is a YBR?

-Irene



Irene,

It's a Yellow Brick Road pattern, fairly quick and easy and popular a
few (or ten) years back.

Judie in Penfield

Make sure the FQ is in the right orientation. I didn't do that for the second one I made and I had to get extra materials. Perhaps that might be why you have leftover material...thinking it has been at least 5 years since I made the YBR but people still request it at my quilt shop.

Marilyn

I'm at the very beginning, have just completed the first units and
cutting them to 6 1/2 and 3 1/2 inch widths, 2 of each. That comes to 20
inches by my calculations so why did the directions say I need to have a
21 inch width????

Please help me before I get even more frustrated. I'm working on some
nursing pads for a nephew's wife in the mean time and that is tedious
cutting but really quick and easy sewing.

Judie in Penfield

Thanks Judie!

-Irene

On Tue, 22 May 2012 18:57:18 -0400, Judie
wrote:

On 5/22/2012 6:25 PM, IMS wrote:
...what is a YBR?

-Irene



Irene,

It's a Yellow Brick Road pattern, fairly quick and easy and popular a
few (or ten) years back.

Judie in Penfield