How Do You Decide How Big Your Quilt is Going to Be?
#52
If I have to fit a quilt to a bed, then I make the quilt PLENTY big enough.
Quilts get a bit smaller in the quilting process. Cotton shrinks when it is washed.And I want a bed quilt to not only fit over the bed, but to fit well over my husband and me when we are both in the bed under the quilt, with no tug of war over the quilt.
If I am just making a quilt to make one, I like to make sofa size throws, about 50 x 70 inches. That is small enough to finish, but big enough to show the design repeat well. It is also usuable for Project Linus or for Quilts of Valor if I decide to give it away.
Quilts get a bit smaller in the quilting process. Cotton shrinks when it is washed.And I want a bed quilt to not only fit over the bed, but to fit well over my husband and me when we are both in the bed under the quilt, with no tug of war over the quilt.
If I am just making a quilt to make one, I like to make sofa size throws, about 50 x 70 inches. That is small enough to finish, but big enough to show the design repeat well. It is also usuable for Project Linus or for Quilts of Valor if I decide to give it away.
#53
Originally Posted by pumpkinpatchquilter
I usually focus on the design of the quilt rather than the size it will end up being, unless I want to make something of a specific size for a bed/couch/table or something like that.
Do you try to make your quilt sizes coincide with bed sizes? Or do your quilts just end up as big as the end up?
Do you try to make your quilt sizes coincide with bed sizes? Or do your quilts just end up as big as the end up?
#57
Originally Posted by PatriceJ
mine are usually planned.
then they laugh at my plans and turn out to be the size they want to be. :lol:
then they laugh at my plans and turn out to be the size they want to be. :lol:
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