?how much fabric do I need?
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I plan on a hunters star quilt at about 80" x 80" in two colors. I will go for 5" blocks as the rapid fire ruler starts at this size. How do I figure out how much fabric I will need?
I highly appreciate your help
Granny
I highly appreciate your help
Granny
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My first thought was "all of it" but that wouldn't help. I really don't know but this link might help you figure it.
http://vrya.net/quilt/classic.php
It brings up a yardage calculator page.
http://vrya.net/quilt/classic.php
It brings up a yardage calculator page.
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Originally Posted by raptureready
My first thought was "all of it" but that wouldn't help. I really don't know but this link might help you figure it.
http://vrya.net/quilt/classic.php
It brings up a yardage calculator page.
http://vrya.net/quilt/classic.php
It brings up a yardage calculator page.
The calculator is great, but since the hunter star is made of different shapes a bit complicated :oops:
thanks a lot
Granny
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Don't feel bad, Carol Doak told us that for her first quilt she had no idea how much fabric to buy so she bought 10yds of each fabric that she wanted to use. When someone asked her for the pattern and asked how much to buy, that's what she told them: 10 yds of each fabric in the quilt. Then she laughed and said that for the first couple of years all her quilts had the same fabric in them. LOL
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For this hunter star quilt below, EQ says 6 5/8 of one color and 6 1/4 of the other - -keep in mind there are many variations of hunter star quilts and I just chose a simple one since you said you wanted it two color only. This uses 5 inch blocks and it will take quite a few of those!
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Originally Posted by granny_59
thank you so much scrappycat.
"my" hunter star will have the stars a bit further apart so I will need slightly less and go for 6 yards each.
"my" hunter star will have the stars a bit further apart so I will need slightly less and go for 6 yards each.
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The traditional way to estimate fabric needed is:
Measure each piece and color for that piece. Convert to square inches and then uiltiply by number of blocks.
Or - Looking at your picture, there are 196 blocks - 15 x16.
If each block finishes at 5" then add a couple inches for seams. This makes 7" 7x7= 49 square inches in each block
49"x 240 (number of blocks) = 11,760 squares inches Divide this by 1512 (square inches in a yd of fabric 42".
11,760 divided by 1512 = 7.7 total yards - Make it 8 yds.
If there are 3 colors of about equal amount then 8 divided by 3 = 2.66 yds (2 3/4) of each color.
Do the same for sashing and border.
Does this make any sense?
Measure each piece and color for that piece. Convert to square inches and then uiltiply by number of blocks.
Or - Looking at your picture, there are 196 blocks - 15 x16.
If each block finishes at 5" then add a couple inches for seams. This makes 7" 7x7= 49 square inches in each block
49"x 240 (number of blocks) = 11,760 squares inches Divide this by 1512 (square inches in a yd of fabric 42".
11,760 divided by 1512 = 7.7 total yards - Make it 8 yds.
If there are 3 colors of about equal amount then 8 divided by 3 = 2.66 yds (2 3/4) of each color.
Do the same for sashing and border.
Does this make any sense?
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