Hi gang, I just grabbed the measuring tape in the kitchen to check the size of the checkered squares on the tablecloth. Not quite an inch. Growing up I learned that lined paper is 8 1/2" by 12". So I checked that. The lines were 4 to the inch, I think, but maybe it was 3? It was a whole number, not a fraction. Yeah, I checked and ... all three of those things are not true now. (Dramatic pose) I feel violated! Or have I got a rum measuring tape? Alice