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.

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!

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

Thanks CKCOWL for figuring this out- I have saved your info to do a quilt later!

thanks for responses.