Quick Question
 

I've bought a couple of quilt kits at estate sales. They came cut out (both were dresden plate type kits) with everything to make the top. Of course, these are older kits. Some of you are implying that you just get the fabric as you use the phrase, "generous fabric". Do you sometimes have to cut them out?

bkay

glad you joined & shared your comment. a member of one of the quilt groups i belong to, buys kits more often than yardage. in fact i don't remember when she last shared a new pile of fabrics with us :). she's an experienced quilter, has a wonderful sense of color but says she likes to buy kits because the kit example made up & on display in store is what draws her attention. the print, color etc that the kit has. she says she doesn't think she can do any better in fabric choices than the ones in kit that has attracted her attention & made her want to buy.

and welcome to the Board ..it's a great place to hang! :)

The kit I'm doing right now is from Connecting Threads. It's the Move Over kit; 12 fabrics, 3/4 yd each except for the one also used for binding, which is 1 1/4 yd. The finished size should be 60 1/2" X 80 1/2"

The instructions called for each piece to be cut individually, but when I looked at it, it's made for strip piecing, 20 strips each of two arrangements, with the only variation being the length of the ends, so they're staggered in a wave pattern.

I had enough fabric to cut the strips so the ends were as long as the longest needed, and I got 24 strips of each fabric arrangement (so I could have made it another 16" longer?) which was great, because I had a couple cutting mishaps.

Amazon link to the pattern - I couldn't find it on the CT site recently: https://www.amazon.com/Connecting-Th...ecting+threads

Thank you for the warm welcome! I knit, and the main site is Ravelry; which is an amazing community as well. I'm looking forward to the advice and chatter!

I have purchased and constructed two quilt kits which I fell in love with at quilt shows. In both, I had plenty of fabric and even some extra...I have not been disappointed in either purchase.

I have bought some quilt kits and ran short of fabric (so I had to add from my stash) and I have bought some kits that were generous. Keepsake and Connecting threads do seem to provide a reasonable amount of "mistake insurance" when cutting their fabric so I do tend to go back to them for my kits.

Thank you so much to all of you who responded. Based on your experiences and input, I decided to "go for it" and ordered the quilt kit. Will post a picture of it when I complete it.

I LOVE this board...you are so helpful, and I feel like I have received advise from a friend. Thanks again!!

before i stumbled into quilting all i did was knit/crochet, needlepoint, counted cross stitch etcetcetc ...i love ravelry and a few other sites that are for yarn crafts. yup ..online forums are great places to visit with folks of similar interests. especially if you live waaaaayyy out here w/o neighbors :)

For a first quilt something like a DP9 is far easier. I would recommend something like a rag quilt, then a DP9 or something like that before I made a quilt kit.

I finished a cute "quilt" kit a few weeks ago. It was a gift my daughter gave me. It was more of a little wall hanging then technically a quilt, but it did start as a pieced top. Then I had to add the wool felt applique. None of the pieces were cut out. That would have been easier. But I managed and have lots of wool felt left over. It was tedious work because it was so little and mostly done my hand. But it was fun and turned out great. I would buy another in a heartbeat. https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Stack-Qui...cats+quilt+kit

I have also used kits for bigger quilts, makes life easy.