Quick Quilt?
 

I just heard that a friend of mine has been diagnosed with a brain tumour. She's hospitalised and will undergo chemotherapy shortly. I would love to gift her with a quilt! However, so far all my quilts have been month-long "labours of love" that I hand-pieced and hand-quilted. I'm just getting the hang on machine quilting, have done a few practice pieces and a wallhanging, but no big quilt so far. So I am a bit hesitant... Is this doable? What would be a good pattern to use?
Thanks for all your help!

My go to pattern is Warm Wishes. It is a free pattern online. Good Luck with getting this quilt done for your friend.

I think the fastest is a 3,4 or 5 strip rail fence. Just sew the WOF strips together, cut the strip sets in squares and assemble. Not my favorite from a design point of view, but can be attractive with pretty fabrics. Another super fast one is Yellow Brick Road.

Jelly Roll Race, Jelly Roll Race 2, Warm Wishes, or 5 Yard Quilt

A simple patchwork or DP9 is fast. Maybe do just a large lap size quilt. I wish you luck. Prayers for your friend.

What about this one http://www.quiltfrog.com/fourhour.html ?

This one is my new go-to donation quick quilt.

http://www.maryquilts.com/quick-strippie/

THANK YOU for posting this "playswithcolor" - what a wonderful, quick quilt. I have just printed it off. I inherited my BFF's stash after she passed away and there is no way that I could cut up all of that fabric into little pieces and sew it back together in an intricate quilt in my lifetime.

My go-to patterns are Warm Wishes and D9P asd well. But this time I made a D4P and it went together well. Of course it was a baby quilt with 12 blocks, sashing, and a narrow border. For quilting, I cross-hatched diagonally. That took a little under two weeks. That was quick for me. I started with 6in. squares.

I agree this is a great quick quilt for lap size. Pick a beautiful main fabric to make it special. The one I made went together easily. I did straight horizontal quilting with the walking foot. I backed it with a nice fleece (no batting) and it turned out nice and cozy.