Randy: Thanks for sharing your star pattern with us. You did a nice job. :D

Boo has posted a web site that has all quick and easy patterns in one spot.......check it out and add it to your bookmarks it's great :-) I like the star also

Speaking of the YBR pattern-- does anyone know where / if it is available online for free? Or does it have to be ordered from Atkinson Design?

The reason I don't use Quilters Cache is the MUSIC! It drives me insane when I am trying to search. I also agree that the site can be confusing, especially to a beginner.

Mandy, it is a very inexpensive pattern, and one you will use again. Any quilt shop will carry it and I think the price is like $7. Believe me, this is a great pattern to have for those times you need something in a hurry. Or the times you just fall in love with an entire fabric line but don't know how to showcase them. The pattern covers baby thru huge bed quilt, so you will find it useful. :lol:

I concur about the quilter's cache being a little confusing. I love most of the patterns there, but am unsure if I can actually do them or not. I know she has the pin system with how many types of piecing are in the block. I think she should have separated them beginner, advanced, expert or something like that. But that doesn't stop me from going there all the time to look at the patterns!!

I prefer the McCall's website

That just goes to show you that great minds think alike.! I was going to put my 2 cents in and say the same thing :D

Only in NC

:D
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR INPUT YOU HAVE GIVEN ME ON EASY QUILTS. USUALLY WHEN I GET DONE WITH THEM, WITH EMBELISHMENTS, ONE WOULD NEVER KNOW THEY WERE EASY. :)

wHEN MY DAUGHTER AND HER HUSBAND WERE STATIONED AT MT. HOME AFB, MTN. HOME ID....50 MILES EAST OF BOISE, I WOULD TAKE A PANEL AND DIDN'T KNOW WHEN TO STOP. THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SELL IT, BUT COULD TAKE DONATIONS FOR THE NCO WIVES CLUB.

THEY ARE LIVING IN DENVER, NOW IN A $425,000 HOME. THEY STARTED OUT SMALLER OF COURSE, MADE A LARGE PROFIT WHEN THEY SOLD THAT FIRST HOME IN AURORA, CO. BOTH OF THEM ARE COLLEGE GRADS AND MAKE VERY GOOD MONEY. YOU HAVE TO IN DENVER, WELL, JUST ABOUT LIKE HERE IN RAPID CITY, SD. PRICE OF HOMES HAS GONE BEYOND THE MIDLE CLASS ANYMORE.

JULIA ROBERTS...YES THE ACTRESS...IS MOVING INTO MY BACK SURGEONS HOME NOT FAR FROM MY PLACE. SO THIS WILL PROBABLY INFATE REA ESTATE EVEN MORE. OH, WELL, SO IT GOES.

I RETIRED FROM TEACHING AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL 2 YEARS AGO DUE TO CFS. TAKE RITALIN NOW, SO AT LEAST I HAVE SOME ENERGY. I TOOK ONE DOSAGE THIS AM WITH SKIM MILK, SHOULD HAVE BEEN STRONGER...NOT DOSEAGE BUT FOOR.

HAVE LOST 1993 IS LAST FOUR YEARS, SO STAY AWAY FROM FOOD...BUT I STILL,LOVE SWEETS.

BUY FOR NOW, AND THANKS SO MUCH. IF YOU HAVE A SPARE PRAYER FOR ME WHILE PRAYING FOR OUR TROOPS, ETC, SEND IT MY WAY. I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE THIA.

ALSO IF ANY TYPOS, DUE TO HYPERNESS OF RITALIN...HA

HAVE A GOOD WEEK. 8)

Melissa, The easiest patterns I have come across are Eleanor Burns, Quilt in a Day patterns. she has many books out there for all levels of quilters. Her web site if fantastic with fabric, books, notions etc. No affiliation, just a happy customer.

I have her courthouse steps. It looks pretty good. It's on my list of possibles. I try to plan which quilts I do next. Thanks to the responses on this thread I have a whole lot of ideas now!!

I have lost 100# not 1993. I must be having a senior moment. And Boo, what is the inexpensive pattern you wrote about on May 21. Thanks

HJ

I love to use a modified log cabin block. Am posting a picture of one that I made recently. The middle square is cut at 6 1/1 inches square the other pieces are strips cut at 2 1/2 pieces. I will try to post a picture of it so you can see what I mean. You can chain piece it real easy. Start with the first piece and sew all of them on, cut them apart and then go to the second piece etc. etc.

jane

By far the absolute easiest quilt pattern I've come across on the web is this one: http://byannie.com/free_patterns.html it's appropriately called "Wickedly Easy" I've done the crib size 36 x 52 in about 3 1/2 hours. You just have to try it.
Here is one I did in pink and white
http://thumb11.webshots.net/t/52/452...1LIsXPu_th.jpg
It's hanging over the lap size I did in blue and yellow

Thanks for the ideas ladies. Are you keeping cool? Your quilts are lovely.

I also have CFS, lupus, and fibromyalgia. I have decided to try my hand at quilting because it looks like something I can out down for awhile if I need to!

I can't get the wickedly easy pattern to load. Is there somewhere else to get it? That looks great and I need a pattern for something quick and easy cause some of the girls at work are having babies.

Try this link: http://www.byannie.com/media/images/...s_patterns.pdf

That looks great for a beginner. I am printing it out! I am getting so many ideas here I think I shall start a little notebook. Soon I will have my own little quilting book!

Found my next baby quilt patterns! Thank you so much!

Now I have a couple different ones in mind. I can make one of those sew and chops and then one of these. They are so darling!

try these u-tube vids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOWSp...eature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekYpJ...eature=related

does anyone have a truning 20 pattern they can share with my wife.

There are 2 tutorials here for very simple quilts. One is based on jelly rolls & one is a sew & chop. Both were very satisfying to make.

I go to Moda Bake Shop for modern easy quilt patterns.

http://www.modabakeshop.com/

PM me regarding the Turning 20 pattern.

I used the freequilts.com website and found an easy pattern using 10 1/2" squares. I think it was from Claudia's Quilt Shop. The pattern is called, "Big Blocks." I can work on it from start to finish in about 2-3 days time. It's very simple.

What a neat idea, we did something like this for my youngest sons kindergarten teacher, all the children traced their hand with a crayon, and then colored them. They were all given a 12" block and they only thing we insisted on was that they traced their hand, and some of them were very creative, then we helped them spell their names on them. It turned out great, and she loved it.

I stumbled on Eleanor Burns, Quilting guru, when I started making quilts. Her instructions are well planned, step by step and easy to follow! I buy almost all of my quilt books second hand as I am on a fixed income. Try Goodwill Stores and any other second-hand book stores. The easiest pattern I found was Eleanor's Irish chain pattern. Her products are listed online at 'quiltinaday.com'. I have also had much luck on alibris.com. They have nearly every book ever printed, and the prices start at $1.99! Good luck and may the quilting bug bite you gently. lol!