yet another newbie question

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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Sara Lorimer
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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

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Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS

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?

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Sara Lorimer

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.

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Sara Lorimer

Not at all. You make it look like ribbons woven together to make the quilt. With your permission, I can create a bitmap file to show you what I mean and email it to you.

I created a quilt from scraps using the "woven ribbon" look I am talking about and it turned out quite nice.

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Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS

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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Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS

I don't know how big a "fat quarter" is....because I am not a "legitimate quilter"......and I usually just buy the fabrics I like and then cut them with my rolling cutter to make up my baby blankets. I make my squares 4"x4".......my oldest child is now 16 and we have added many sections of squares around the edges over time so that now it is big enough for her double bed! (same with the boys now 12 & 14)

Have fun with your project. Joy in Michigan

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Joy Hardie

I'd appreciate that -- thanks! I'm snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com, taking out those capital "A"s.

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Sara Lorimer

Oooh, I like that idea too, thanks!

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Sara Lorimer

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