144 | Basic Quilt Math with Squares and Rectangles

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My First Quilt | Sara Gallegos | Runtime (6 min)


Sara wanted to make the country lanes quilt block that’s in the Checkered Past Shibori Hand-Dyed Fabrics quilt pattern a different size than she had a pattern for. Some basic quilt match was needed in order to change the sizes of the squares and rectangles, and Sara explains how she used that math to get the new patch sizes. See what the blocks look like both in the original size and in the new size.

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