Originally Posted by
barbarakibler23
Macy that is a beautiful quilt! Are those 2.5" squares??? Looks bigger from here.
Yup, they are about 98% swap candies. I only had to cut maybe another 50 of specific colors to have enough. Still have quite a stack of candies for another project.
I've been saving up 1.5" squares - trying to keep them as unique as possible so every time I cut into a new fabric, I cut a square for my collection. I started this several years ago, and at the time was also cutting 2.5" squares. Had a friend putting together top with only 2.5" squares so I gave her what I'd collected up to that point, and stopped cutting that size.
I made a Bonnie Hunter scrap quilt that was all 1.5" squares - it was king size so that took 14,400 pieces. At that size, there is more fabric in the seam allowances than the face of the quilt.