I Need Your Help
 

I have to make a quilt and I need to make it quick. I would like to use large blocks but I would like it to be pretty, it is for a cancer patient. Can you send me some ideas or tell me some sites to go to for free patterns.

Please do not ask me to go to the block site. I have been there. I need your creativity.

Thank you in advance for your help and your kindness.
Quiltbaby

A scrappy 9-Patch would be pretty quick/easy and would also give your friend something to focus on. Even better, would be a scrappy Disappearing 9-Patch (D9P).

Rail Fence and Warm Wishes are other quick/easy ones.

The fabric is what really makes the difference. The simplest quilt can look plain or elegant, depending upon the fabric used!

A rail fence is a quick quilt - especially if you use a jelly roll. Jenny from Missouri Star Quilt Company has a tutorial on YouTube for The Layer Cake Quilt which would go together quickly. Good luck - very nice of you to do this.

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

I also usually make a rail fence quilt when time is of the essence. Here is one I use for soldier quilts.
As mentioned, the fabric choice makes the difference.

Jan in VA

How about a 5" charm pack and a jelly roll quilt. Take a charm square and using a strip from the jelly roll, you put borders around the charm square. Then sew all the squares together to make a lap quilt. I believe Jenny from Missouri Star has a video for this.

Also, if you have a layer cake and a jelly roll you could work up a nice size quilt pretty quick. I believe Jenny also has a video on this. You slice off 4" X 10" from entire layer cake. Sew a 2 1/2" X 10" strip to the 4" X 10", then on the other side of the 2 1/2" strip you sew the 6" X 10" strip. Then across the top you sew another 2 1/2" strip by 12 1/2". (http://quiltingtutorials.com/all/jel...ly-roll-quilt/)

I will see if I can find the videos.

I can't find the one on framing the 5" charms with jelly roll strips. But these following videos are for fast and easy quilts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxC-0T5lXw4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XddSxGAlLQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNP8T8p9tuc

My go to fast quilt is the Big Block Baby Blanket that Quiltmaker has featured in their magazine this year. They are fast, easy and look way more complicated than they are. And my old eyes love the bigger pieces.

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