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Step 3Preparing to buy fabric
Now that I've printed out the picture of my image, I drew a grid so I can see the individual squares and begin to label them against the color matrix I've printed out.
This lets me know how much of each color I'll need. I take the square and add .5 inches on them for sewing a .25 inch stitch on each side. Each square will now be 2.5X2.5.
To quickly know how much fabric I'll need, I'll take the width of the roll of fabric, in most cases, 44 inches, and do some quick math and know that I can get (17.6) 2.5 inches squares per width. For example, if I need 63 squares, I divided it by 17.6 which is 3.57 rows. I'll round up to 4. 4X2.5 is 10 inches of fabric. When I have then cut it, I'll round it up again to 12" just in case.
I'll do this with all the colors.
This lets me know how much of each color I'll need. I take the square and add .5 inches on them for sewing a .25 inch stitch on each side. Each square will now be 2.5X2.5.
To quickly know how much fabric I'll need, I'll take the width of the roll of fabric, in most cases, 44 inches, and do some quick math and know that I can get (17.6) 2.5 inches squares per width. For example, if I need 63 squares, I divided it by 17.6 which is 3.57 rows. I'll round up to 4. 4X2.5 is 10 inches of fabric. When I have then cut it, I'll round it up again to 12" just in case.
I'll do this with all the colors.
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