How
wide to cut the strips?
Someone
asked me, how wide she should cut her strips for a certain project
where she needs to fit her word into a defined space. Have to say, that
I've never tried to think my way through it - I just start working and
make adjustments as needed, but I decided to graph it out and see if I
could figure it out that way.
I cut the graph paper 8" x 27" and I didn't know if the letters were
supposed to hit the edges or not, so I decided to leave an inch around
the entire thing. For one thing, it's a lot easier to make a block
bigger by adding on wider borders than it is to make it smaller if you
overshot it (if you've already pieced it all together anyway).
I had fun drawing this out - similar to piecing it, but a whole lot
quicker (and probably more boring since I can't have accidents doing it
this way). To fit this space, I would cut the largest letter strips
2.5" and the narrowest 1" and for the background the narrowest would be
7/8" (that's what I use to get a quarter inch, which is what I used
between the letters). I used the widest "strip" for the main chunk of
all the letters, altho the i and r are a quarter
inch narrower.
It would be easy to make adjustments to this, such as leaving a half
inch between letters instead of a quarter inch, and making the letters
go even higher and lower. If you use different fabrics for the letters,
you could leave out the background fabric in between the letters and
just join them up.
This is just a mock-up to get an idea of what the finished product
would look like - please please please use something like this as a
guide, not specific instructions.
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