Two days agone I had a conversation with my sister Audy (she's kinda popular around this blog lately, isn't she?) about using sheets for sewing projects.  She is making an owl toddler sleeping purse for a church activity, and told me she thought it was going to cost her near $150 to make.  Crazy!  I reminded her of all the cute things she could make for $150 and all the new Amy Butler fabric she could buy, and suggested that she use flannel sheets and cotton sheets instead of fabric past the commodities.  Then of course we had a long discussion about how many sheets she would need, their sizes, etc.  I was thinking about how it can be and then annoying trying to figure out the conversion from textile on the bolt to sheets.  Wouldn't it be nice to just take a chart to refer to instead of using those precious, and in my example, oh-so-few brain cells each and every time?  Yes, it would, so I fabricated a chart.

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As I was making the chart, I kept thinking of more information that could be helpful, so I ended up including all of it.  For example, with 45″ fabric you can often get two "lengths" out of the width.  If there was nether 10″ of actress cloth on the edges (96″ broad textile would have half-dozen″ of actress fabric since 45″ ten two lengths = 90″), I didn't worry about it.  In cases where at that place was more than than 10″ (you lot tin can simply get 1 60″ width out of a king sail which is 102″ wide and so at that place is 42″ actress fabric), I besides included the conversion of actual square inches.  That conversion would exist helpful if you were making a projection with many modest pieces, such as a quilt top.  Yikes, I promise this chart isn't more confusing than helpful.  The actress conversions come into play mainly for the larger sized sheets.

*Another thing that's of import to keep in mind is that these measurements are bold y'all are using sheets that are either manifestly colored or that are multi-directional.  If you are using printed sheets for your project that take a one-way pattern, you may not be able to turn your pattern pieces sideways to get the almost out of the cloth.  Make sense?

I hope this chart tin be useful to some of you lot, I merely learned that thanks to the Swine Flu Audy won't exist needing it anymore.  Did you know that to test yous for the Swine Flu they put a stick upwardly your olfactory organ into your encephalon?  Okay, so it doesn't actually go up to your brain but Audy said it feels like it does.  The doctor actually asked her not to punch him simply before he did information technology.  Experience better shortly Audy!