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yet another newbie question Sara Lorimer 11-11-2005
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Posted by Sara Lorimer on November 11, 2005, 1:39 pm
So I have all these lovely fat quarters, and I've decided to sew some of
them together to make a mat for a baby to play on or a small quilt. I'm
just going to sew them together as squares, since it's my first time
doing anything like this and I'm not ready for fancy patterns.

Fat quarters are too large on their own -- I don't like how they look
when I lay them out on the floor was is -- so I'm going to cut them into
smaller squares. What size squares would look good? I don't have much
scrap cloth to try out different sizes.

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SML

Posted by Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS on November 11, 2005, 5:09 pm
Sara Lorimer wrote:

> Fat quarters are too large on their own -- I don't like how they look
> when I lay them out on the floor was is -- so I'm going to cut them into
> smaller squares. What size squares would look good? I don't have much
> scrap cloth to try out different sizes.

Cutting your fat quarters into four squares would work nicely for a
large-square design. That would make something like 8 x 8 inch finished
squares, and I've seen lots of quilts with 8-inch blocks.

Melinda, who would, however, rather see you make something like a
strip-pieced rail-fence pattern or some type of Quilt In A Day method
rather than just big blocks just for the fun of having something look
nicer and especially the QIAD method for how amazingly they come
together so fast

Posted by Sara Lorimer on November 11, 2005, 5:50 pm
Melinda Meahan wrote:

> Melinda, who would, however, rather see you make something like a
> strip-pieced rail-fence pattern or some type of Quilt In A Day method
> rather than just big blocks just for the fun of having something look
> nicer and especially the QIAD method for how amazingly they come
> together so fast

Hmmm. A rail-fence pattern looks possible... But the one I found an easy
pattern for on-line seems to have just three fabrics in it. I have
around 15 fat quarters to get my strips from. Wouldn't that be a chaotic
mess?

--
SML

Posted by Sara Lorimer on November 11, 2005, 10:46 pm
D'oh! Never mind, I figured out how to make it work -- I was unclear on
the method, but I think I have it now.

--
SML

Posted by Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS on November 12, 2005, 3:50 am
Sara Lorimer wrote:
> D'oh! Never mind, I figured out how to make it work -- I was unclear on
> the method, but I think I have it now.

It's easy -- you pick some pieces to go across and others to go up and
down, and then you have a system.

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