Help! Pattern suggestion for to pretty to cut fabric collection
 

It’s just to pretty to cut into small pieces! I’ve been collecting gorgeous blue and white, mostly medium and large print florals to make a Cal. King quilt. I originally planned to make a snowball pattern but I’m bored with that look, could anyone suggest a pattern with larger size pieces? Thanks in advance

Can you post photos of the fabric? That would help greatly with suggestions.

BQ is a good one. uses large cuts or 10 inch squares I think. several versions of that pattern at mapleislandsquilts
and missouri star quilts has patterns or tutorials for layer cakes (10 inch).

this posting is a very attractive pattern for you https://www.quiltingboard.com/pictur...t-t305514.html

I recently made this BQ4 pattern and was thrilled with it! (not so thrilled with the instructions, very confusing, but I was at a retreat and had lots of help). I am going to make it again with a very large poinsettia print. I saw a completed quilt on the wall at a shop in FL and fell in love....when she showed me the pattern I was less than excited! The picture lacks any personality, but the quilt is awesome!.[ATTACH=CONFIG]614361[/ATTACH]

Turned out beautifully, love the colors and floral.

I like to make simple quilts with really beautiful fabric. 6 or 8 inch squares with a simple border around each square. I love to use the rich Kaffe Fassett florals with simple prints like polka dots as borders. It's fun to make a bunch of squares with similar patterns and then take time to lay them out so they look great. There are so many interesting color combinations you encounter when you don't plan too much. It's also easy to piece and looks beautiful when it's quilted.

Here's a free pattern for large "no waste" flying geese using layer cakes; should show off your large prints really well.
http://reannalilydesigns.com/2016/02...e-layer-cakes/

BQ2 beautiful for larger prints.

Walkabout or MSQC's "Spice Rack" (same pattern, different colors) can be done with large feature squares. I have made similar quilts using 9" fussy cut squares. Also, there's this layer cake friendly quilt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKZOn4F5MTk

I've been looking for the same type of pattern lately. Here's a good one I found. This is a link to the pattern, but a pattern really isn't necessary. If you will notice, the alternate blocks are made of 4 smaller squares with snowballed corners. That's all there is to it.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/Abfoe7...oZZKz1iDttETM/

I've made several BQ2 quilts and have always gotten compliments on how pretty they are. They aren't hard but you do have to pay attention to how to put the block together.

The yellow one looks washed out but the colors were a lot brighter. The second one had cats in various poses.

I love Walkabout for featuring a fabric.

How about something like this?

https://ankastreasures.files.wordpre...pg?w=500&h=753

In another thread, OKsewglad showed some donation quilts she made with the Simplish pattern:
https://www.quiltingboard.com/quilti...ml#post8247863

There are videos and print directions on line, simply Google Simplish.

So basic yet it ticks off so many boxes for me. A great way to use fabric with a theme that don't necessarily connect well. You can use it for big fabrics you want to show off in the rectangles. Instead of the little plain squares you can put in some pieced blocks. All different ways to sash, border, add...

I just finished my first top during the virtual quilting weekend, I'm not 100% pleased with it, would have liked either less or more of the cheetah/leopard print but the goal was using up fabric and learning how to work with the design so I did that! I wrote down notes to myself and developed it slightly differently than the published pattern using 4" (finished) squares, 4x8" rectangles, and 2" sashing.

I'm calling it "Here Kitty Kitty" and the leaves and the jungle cat prints came out of fabric I had left from swaps back around Y2K -- the leopard print was clothing scraps that weren't quite the best size for this project (thought it was yardage but it was a long skinny strip) plus I had to buy the jungle print with the pandas in it because I just didn't have anything better.

I have a booklet called Living Large 2 from Anka's Treasures with patterns specifically designed for large scale prints that you want to showcase.

I love the BQ quilts they look like they are difficult to make but they are not. I saw that there is a new one out I think it was called Scattered Stars? It looked awesome but if you don't want to cut your fabrics in small pieces then probably not what you want.

There is a book "Easy Peasy Three yard quilts" for suggestions:
https://mefutch.wordpress.com/2017/1...carousel-85642

I love yolajean's quilt on this quilting board:
https://www.quiltingboard.com/pictur...s-t297086.html

Ann Lauer of Grizzly Gulch Designs has patterns to show off large print fabrics.

I was just looking through some saved magazines, McCall's Quilting July/August 2014, and saw a pattern called Bird Watching that might be another option for you to consider. Here is a link to the pattern: https://www.quiltingcompany.com/stor...-quilt-pattern