Do you break up Fat Quarter packs or make one main quilt from it first?
11-01-2016, 10:43 AM
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Do you break up Fat Quarter packs or make one main quilt from it first?
I realized I tend to hold onto Fat quarter packs to make one main quilt before I will break it up.
Even then I will try and hold them together with like fabrics of the same designer, batiks, modern, brand or time era like 1930 or Civil War.
Overall this works but I also find it contributes to over buying and or holding onto fabrics for that perfect quilt.
What do you tend to do? Break it up and add a little of the new fabric to freshen up older fabrics or like me tend to hold onto the whole Fat Quarter pack till you made a quilt out of it. Are those nice coordinated Fat quarter packs standing in your closet waiting for that quilt that doesn't seem to happen?
Even then I will try and hold them together with like fabrics of the same designer, batiks, modern, brand or time era like 1930 or Civil War.
Overall this works but I also find it contributes to over buying and or holding onto fabrics for that perfect quilt.
What do you tend to do? Break it up and add a little of the new fabric to freshen up older fabrics or like me tend to hold onto the whole Fat Quarter pack till you made a quilt out of it. Are those nice coordinated Fat quarter packs standing in your closet waiting for that quilt that doesn't seem to happen?
11-01-2016, 10:48 AM
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I tend to pick up printed collections when a FQ pack calls my name. If I pick it up three times, it's mine. Then I purchase a back fabric out of the collection (which is usually there somewhere). I make throw size quilt out of it. After that, if I'm sick of the patterns, it's the free table but if I like the patterns still, it's in a giant zip lock for placemats or something small. I almost always add a neutral solid to the line so there is plenty of "stretch room".
11-01-2016, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by toverly
I tend to pick up printed collections when a FQ pack calls my name. If I pick it up three times, it's mine. Then I purchase a back fabric out of the collection (which is usually there somewhere). I make throw size quilt out of it. After that, if I'm sick of the patterns, it's the free table but if I like the patterns still, it's in a giant zip lock for placemats or something small. I almost always add a neutral solid to the line so there is plenty of "stretch room".
11-01-2016, 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Melanie Rudy
I break it all up and use whatever I want in my free-spirit kind of way 
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