Originally Posted by pittsburgpam
I'm looking at a pattern called 4 Square Fun and it says the requirements for a queen size 88" x 100" is 32 fat quarters. 32/4 = 8 yards of fabric? and that's just the center of the quilt, add on 3 yards for the border.
Isn't 8 yards an awful lot of fabric for a queen size quilt? Is something wrong with the fabric requirements?
11 total yards of fabric doesn't sound like a lot to me... But I've already gone into the realm of almost 15 or more for one quilt, and there's plans for one that would take 27... I know, I'm crazy, but I'm perfectly OK with that.
You probably won't use the whole fat quarter, sounds like a scrappy kind of quilt, and the 3 yards for the borders will probably get cut straight-of-grain, that's why it's 3 yards long. If you want your binding to match the outside border, get another yard. Just remember to take it off the yardage before you cut the borders (ask me how I remember to do this :roll: ).
Post pics of progress. Would love to see.