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#11
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Join Date: Aug 2013
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I would keep the pattern simple not just for time's sake but so that on her worst day (nauseated, recovering from treatment,etc) she has a soothing color palette and nothing busy. Cheery but not busy. Just my 2 cents. I was thinking a simple 9 patch if you need it quick.
#13
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Washington state
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The "Falling Charms" quilt is the one I will make next. Looks *really* easy. Here is the Youtube tutorial for it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kkpb...eature=mh_lolz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kkpb...eature=mh_lolz
#14
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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You can make a Double Slice Layer cake quilt top in one day. It is from a Missouri Star video, and I have made several and like all of them. She uses a layer cake, but I have even made one just from five fabrics, where I cut my own ten inch pieces of fabric.
Let me see if I can find a picture of one from a layer cake and one from five fabrics. I was very pleased with mine, and you might find the idea pleasing to you. ...Okay, the first picture is from a layer cake and the second is five different fabrics. This quilt has 42 ten inch blocks, (same size as a layer cake) but I have made a lap top size with 30 blocks....Um, might have a picture of that too. Yes, found it. It is the purple one.
Here is the site....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxC-0T5lXw4
Dina
Let me see if I can find a picture of one from a layer cake and one from five fabrics. I was very pleased with mine, and you might find the idea pleasing to you. ...Okay, the first picture is from a layer cake and the second is five different fabrics. This quilt has 42 ten inch blocks, (same size as a layer cake) but I have made a lap top size with 30 blocks....Um, might have a picture of that too. Yes, found it. It is the purple one.
Here is the site....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxC-0T5lXw4
Dina
#15
If you are going with the 30 block size, you would need less....20 inches of each...though I would buy extra, plus more for borders and bindings.
I think this would work. Each block is 10 by 10 before you cut it down farther....do watch the video, it makes it very easy to understand. If your fabric is 42 inches, you can get four squares in ten inches....ten for each four blocks you want. Just cut blocks 10 by 10 until you have 42...or 30...then just follow the vidoe. You wouldn't even need equal amounts of each fabric.
Hope this helps. LIke I said, it is easy to put together and looks good.
Dina
Last edited by Dina; 08-29-2013 at 04:51 AM. Reason: add info
#16
Make this in adult color fabric with bigger squares: http://www.quiltmaker.com/patterns/details.html?idx=184
Fastest quilt I ever made other then a rag quilt.
Fastest quilt I ever made other then a rag quilt.
#17
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: The Deep South near Cajun Country, USA
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I absolutely agree with alikat110. The original BQ (Big quilt block) is my fastest quilt. It takes longer to cut the material than it does to sew it together. I am slow at sewing & can sew all the blocks for a large lap in one afternoon. I'm, also, not that good at picking colors. It's a whole lot easier when you need 1 focus fabric & two other colors. Of course, you can make the big blocks of more fabrics than just one. DO NOT get a directional fabric for any of these 3 choices!!!! Ask me how I figured this out???
#18
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Join Date: Dec 2012
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I would use a soothing floral print in large squares say 18" and just frame each block with a matching solid color and then add borders. You want to get it to her as soon as possible, I assume. It is the thought that will mean the most to her and she can think of your friendship each time she uses it for comfort.
#19
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Texas
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I made a quilt for one of my friends before she went in for her first chemo treatment that was all HSTs. I started out with 10" squares, and squared the HSTs to 9". Each was dark gray on one half and a cheery color on the other half, mostly in yellows. I called it her sunshine and shadows quilt to remind her that life was filled with both and this was just one of the shadows she had to go through to get to the sunshine. She has now been cancer free for over 5 years.
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