Originally Posted by gaigai
Originally Posted by paulswalia
I've been called round, or Rubinesque - but never square!
I don't like square quilts because I'm not shaped that way and my husband is over 6 feet, so I prefer rectangular so they are longer than they are wide. Why are so many partterns made square?
Since I've never seen a square bed, I absolutely prefer rectangular. I don't know why patterns are made square, but I almost always modify them and add blocks or whatever to make them rectangular.
The king sized bed that I had when I started quilting was a square---or close enough to be called one. That got me making squares, and now my eye prefers the symmetry of them. I do the opposite; subtract or add blocks to make the big ones square. I like the big square quilts since I can fold them in half, lay them on me lengthwise and snuggle into two layers instead of one! Being nearly 6' tall, this works out well!