Quilt Kits
 

I bought a quilt kit for the first time and my worst nightmare happened. I was ripping out a seam and the piece of fabric ripped. Now never having done a kit before, could any one tell me if there is extra fabric in case of making mistakes? And if you get extra fabric, how much do you get? Thank you for any help you can give me.

I have found there is extra fabric..how much extra do you need to replace?

I would contact the store and see if they have any extra piece of fabric. It is also my worse fears with a kit that I would make a mistake with cutting.

I think it depends. The one I bought had almost no extra fabric. I was glad I bought some yardage to go along with it. Maybe you can find something similar, coordinating or appliqué something over the tear.

I have ordered kits from Connecting Threads and Keepsake Quilting and both of them always have allowed extra material for each quilt. Always have extra material left over and use them in other quilts. If I think I am going to do something different from the actual quilt pattern, I add a tad more fabric where I think I am going to go in my own direction.

All the kits I have bought there have been extra fabric but the BOM kits seem to not have extra. I've gotten a 2 x 2 piece before in a BOM to make a 1 1/2 square. Now that is stingy! Seems the more expensive BOM the more stingy.

The kit that I just tried had such skimpy pieces of material that I had to use a similar piece from my stash because I was too generous when I trimmed off a selvedge. There was no extra fabric in the kit at all. I would imagine that it depends on who made up the kit.
I hope that you are able to match your fabric.

I buy a lot of kits and have always found that if short of a specific fabric, I call the company where I bought the kit, and they have always sent an extra piece of the fabric I need - an ample piece.

I seldom buy kits because the one very special kit I bought, had a list of the fabrics with the amount that was included. The kit was short by almost a meter total and one fabric was so small that I could not cut the specific pieces from it. I contacted the company and never even got an acknowledgement. Needless to say, I have never bought another single thing from that company. I think it really depends on the store that puts the kit together.

If you are really worried, measure out what is left of the problem fabric and calculate what still has to be cut. If you feel you are going to be short, contact the company immediately.

I buy kits all the time and from all different shops.Never had problems with getting shorted on a fabric, very generous cuts.

I made a quilt with kimono ladies and happened to wash the fat qtrs first. not enough fabric to do that!

somekits have a lot of extra , some minimal, depends on what kit you have.

You could mend the tear with a fusible knit interfacing.

I'm currently sewing my first kit from Connecting Threads and it looks like they gave me almost double what I need, but then it IS just a 14" square and they included a fat quarter for each of the colors.

If you tell us the name of the kit, maybe we can find the fabric you are missing.

Contact the company. I cut a strip wrong from a kit and couldn't finish the quilt. I don't know why I waited but it was a couple years later and I was going to the quilt show in Chicago (where I had bought the kit) and took the strip with me. The vendor was there again so I stopped and told her I needed a quarter of a yard of this material and showed her the strip. She asked if it was from one of their kits and when I said yes she told any time that happens, mail the strip and they will sent a matching replacement. It is cheaper than putting extra fabric in each kit. Granted the quilt had 25 or 30 fabrics so I understood that. Got the piece I needed the following week in the mail.