Need help with 9 degree wedge ruler.

A dear, dear friend who has been a HUGE help during my injury down time needs some help. She wants to make a tree skirt from the Omnigrid 9 degree circle wedge ruler by Marilyn Doheny but has lost the directions even though she's previously made one. This is a strip technique in which you sew the strips and then cut the wedges by flipping the ruler around for each cut. What she needs to know ASAP (she's driving through Paducah tomorrow and wants to stop at Hancock's only IF she knows the correct instructions) is how much fabric to buy for the tree skirt. AND how wide to cut the strips. She doesn't want to buy extra fabric as she only wants as much Christmasy fabric as needed for this project. So.....if any of you have the directions for this ruler and technique, could you please post them or send them to me? I'll then call her tomorrow as she's on her drive. I really hope I can find this info for her. I've been thinking about what I could do for her and I know she would be really happy to have this information. Thanks in advance!!

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KJ
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Kathyl, I truly wish that I could help but I can't even think in terms of

9°. Polly

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Polly Esther

I spent most of yesterday working out fabric quantities!! So my mind is in that gear!

To answer your quantity question, one way:

There will be 40 wedges. Find the width of the widest part of the ruler. Find the height of the ruler. Area of the wedge is half the base x height. Total of fabric is 40 times that. Then you can divide by the number of fabrics you wish to use to get a rough idea of how much for each. It's pretty rough because the wedge narrows and you might not want to use an equal quantity of each fabric. You could spend a little longer and work it out strip by strip. Or, if you could tell me how many strips along the wedge, and the height and greatest width of the wedge, I could work it out for you. . In message , KJ writes

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