So I don't want to be complaining, but I'm already preparing for winter :cry: but since I still live with my parents, and we started working on my room last winter (I had very little insulation) and it was a long cold winter. Since it obviously won't be finished this year and another long cold winter is predicted, I would like to make a quilt for my bed and use wool batting (cross your fingers!) and my bed is a twin. I'd like it to be a wide twin quilt and there are so many more difficult patterns (for me) to try so I would like this to be a simple but elegant quilt that's quick to make.

I've already done a patchwork and we have quite a few log cabin and feed sack quilts made but don't fit my bed. I'd like an old pattern as my house was built around the civil war and we're restoring it so that it doesn't look to modern laying on my bed when it's finally done

thanks in advance! oh, and I'm new to quilting so anything too fancy and I get scared

why not a log cabin in CW Repros?

or a 9 patch?

If you want a warm quilt, you may do as I do, I use a light blanket for the backing.

Yellow brick road is a good one.

There are some great flannels that would add warmth and you could make matching pillowcases, Courthouse Steps would be a good pattern choice to consider along with the suggestions already made.

I just saw an ad at the bottom of the page that reminded me that the Rail Fence is an old fashioned pattern and very easy... wool batting is very easy to work with and will be nice and warm. You can also use fleece on the back to really warm you up!

Log cabin,patchwork or rail fence.

Log cabin or rail fence?

I know someone who used actual sheeps fleece, washed and carded, for her batting. It was so warm! Her room had no heat at all and it kept her warm. Another really warm quilt solution is to use wool material as your quilting material. My grandmother made several using blocks cut from granddad's old suits, backed it with flannel, no batting and tied it. Very warm. Very authentic for old time style as these were made around 1900 and she had made several before then.

Rail fence looks great in civil war prints.

Not old, but a Turning Twenty is quick and super easy.

rail fence, split 9 patch, log cabin, split 4-patch. You could do it in the 30's reproduction, wool batting and minkee backing and it would be real toasty.

Warm wishes is an easy one to do and works up quickly.

have you tried the super jelly roll strip quilt?

really easy and mine measured 57X70, I think

All of these suggestions are great. Don't be afraid of the wool batt! I used one last Christmas for the 1st time..quilted like buttah! Nice loft too..just remember the washing instructions down the road. To be safe, put a care label on the back.

The Wickedly Easy is nice!

www.byannie.com/media/images/wickedly_easy_quilts_patterns.pdf

Good luck

Single Irish Chain is easy and you can use a striking focus fabric in the big squares.

so I've decided to go with rail fence because my mom only made 2 of these and gave them both away so there are none of those laying around my house. that's the main reason I didn't want to do log cabin or courthouse steps. Between the 2 of them, we must have about 5 laying around somewhere. Not that there's anything wrong with them, I just want to have different quilts than she does.

But as for colors, I'm going to use colors that will eventually go with my room (lilac and light green) But as the pattern I'm using needs 4 fabrics, I'm using a bright purple with yellow flowers, a solid yellow, a dark green with clovers on it because it was the only green we had that was the right shade and there was a lot of it so some of it can be used for a border, and because I liked the one green with small purple flowers the exact shade of my purple fabric, I'm using that. Well, until I measured it and found I was going to be 3 strips short! So I found a plain light green that would also work and will use that for one block in each row going diagonal down the middle, and as the quilt will be 5 blocks wide by 5 blocks long (they're big blocks which is great because I hate cutting!) I'll just do it right down the center.

I'm going to need to go to the store and find a dark purple fleece or flannel backing material which will also be a smaller inner border for the quilt, the outer border will be my clover material. I'm also still hoping for wool batting, but I may just go with fatt batt as I'm going to tie it.

I can't wait to get started! But I'm determined to finish another quilt first!