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I pulled out all of my quilting material, with the goal of selling it. I felt like I was giving away my children :(. I need a super easy quilt pattern (other than squares), and an easy embroidery idea to get back into the game.

Setting pieced blocks with Snowball blocks (where the corners of a square are triangles) is fast and fun and has all sorts of possibilities. You can do a google on Snowball Quilts and get a 1000 ideas.

For best results the triangles of the Snowballs should match the triangles or at least corners of the pieced blocks... for example I'm going to be using some large scale Easter print as the center of my Snowball, and have decided on a LeMoyne star in coordinating colors with an extra triangle on the corner blocks. Or, in your case you can use the large piece for embroidering. The alternating blocks can be anything you want, from 9/16-patches (you said no squares though) to Churn Dash or Stars or really anything.

Welcome back to quilting! And welcome to the Board :)

Here is a super simple, easy and free pattern plus tutorial: http://cluckclucksew.com/2012/06/tut...bed-quilt.html

If you're wanting to add some embroidery, you could certainly do it on the solid/one piece 8.5in squares. I plan to do a little hand embroidery there when I make this soon.

Film In The Fridge also has some wonderful tutorials and patterns on her blog: http://filminthefridge.com/tutorials/
Her Two by Four tutorial makes a cute and fast quilt, as does Rectangle Squared.

Moda Bake Shop has great tutorials too: http://www.modabakeshop.com/

Go to youtube and search for Jenny Doan. Great easy patterns with videos.

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Welcome from NE Ohio.

Youtube, Jordan Fabrics has lots of easy quick ideas. Hope it all works out and you get to keep your fabric and make it all into fantastic quilts and can post pics for us to admire....oh and welcome from Maine, sorry I didn't start with the welcome, I was just in so much shock with the idea of selling all your fabric. :shock:

Hi from North Carolina! You'll find lots of people here with lots of ideas that will get you quilting in no time! Keep that fabric. You are going to need it to make some wonderful quilts!

Welcome from Michigan!:)