amount of yardage to buy?
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amount of yardage to buy?
Need to make a chevron quilt for dgd's baby shower. Colors are blue/gray. My question is how much fabric of each color do I need to purchase. I think I will probably make it like MSQ tutorial, but don't know how much fabric to get; won't have layer cake. I've seen lots of cute chevron quilts, but can't find exact amount. Guess I need to go back and look at tut. Thanks for help.
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Unfortunately, this is difficult to answer without knowing the size you want to make it or how many blues and grays you want to use. Graph paper is a really good place to start, though. Sketching the block or blocks to scale gives you a great visual and will go a long way toward helping you compute the amount of fabric needed. Good luck!
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It depends on what size 1/2 square triangles you plan to make and what size quilt you plan to make. In the tutorial they use a layer cake - which is 10" squares, so, after making your triangle squares & trimming, squaring them up you probably have 8 1/2" squares ; 8" finished.... So, 20 squares ( 4 across X 5 down) would make it 32" x 40" and takes 20 (10") squares... In a yard of fabric (36" X 42") you can cut 12 (10") squares (3 across X 4 ) so, you need to determine the size of the quilt you want to make, their size of the squares you want to use and how many you can get out of a yard of fabric
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