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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

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.

BQ, BQ2, & BQ3...these are all great and fast......

I watched the video and loved it!

Dina....Love this idea. Very pretty!! If using 5 different fabrics, how many yards would I get?

Oh dear, I just used from my stash. If you are going with the 42 block (starting with ten inch squares) you would need 9 squares of each 5 fabrics( 42 by 5 is "close" to nine), so you would need 30 inches of each, plus more for binding and borders. I would buy a yard of each, plus more for borders.

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

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.

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???

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.

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.

Disappearing 9-patch is my go-to pattern for quick quilts.

A jelly roll race goes really fast--and then put an appliqued "something" on it (big flower or something that might compliment one of the fabrics in the quilt).

Those quilts are beautiful. I have a "UFO" of this. I'm inspired to finish it now. Hope it looks as good as yours. It really is a quick and simple quilt that looks like we fussed a lot, isn't it?

Did you see the 'Silly Goose' quilt tutorial by Jenny Doan? I don't know of an easier block than that. You can make it with layer cakes instead of charm packs. You can make that quilt in a couple of hours AT THE MOST!!!

got a whole different way for you to go- try really big applique- on 16 inch blocks with very simple pieces - I make baby quilts this way - one 16 inch block a big elephant applique and keep putting on big different boarders until I like it - I can make one quilted and all in about 4-5 hours and people have asked me to make them for new little ones I don't even know- machine applique with simple bold patterns are amazingly fast and simple

Jenny from Missouri Star just posted a new video called "Silly Geese", I believe. It looks super simple and could be made using any size block, hope you find a pattern you like.

You are right, Neesie. The fabric makes the difference.
Oops..I am using my Kindle and it has a mind of its own...it showed up your name as "News is"! I had to go back and fix it.

BTW, l have the same nickname as you, but spelled differently. Neecie. Short for Janice.

Hi, Janice! :thumbup: (closest I could find, for a waving hand) News is! :D Gotta love that auto-speller! I'm a Denise "Neesie." :)

Another fun block is the ten minute block, it can be found on y-tube. It is fun and works up quickly made with a layer cake. One cake will make a long lap size so it can tuck under feet.