Visual for fabric cut sizes
 

I'm looking for a visual of the typical fabric cut sizes, such as jellyroll, cake, crumb, fat quarter?..can you tell I'm a newbie?

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Our friend Mr. Google will give you that info. I just saw one yesterday and do you think I can remember the name of the website? Nope! :( I will keep looking and post when I find it.

https://www.dinkydoo.com/pages/precut-fabric-sizes

Good visuals here, as well as a description of Moda bake shop wares.

"PRECUT"!! Thank you! I couldn't think of the word for them and Google was giving quilt sizes.

Thank you! Someone filled in the.missing piece for me was the word "precut" I got want I needed. :)

I found several websites with visual explanations by googling "precut sizes". Keep in mind, however, that some of the terms are copyrighted, so they will be specific to a certain manufacturer. For instance, not everyone calls 2.5" strips "jelly rolls". They're also called roll-ups, bali pops, and often simply "2 1/2" strips".

To second Peckish's comments -- terminology differs with manufacturer, time and place...

For me a "charm" is when you use all different fabrics in a quilt regardless of size or shape, not a 5" square, which some refer to as nickels.

Back around Y2K there weren't that many precuts, and certainly no 10" squares or layer cakes. I was part of a fabric swapping group that settled on 10" squares for a bug swap, as that size could be used by all of us and cut conveniently and the concept rapidly spread. For a mental image, that's a 10" width of fabric basically cut into 4 parts. Some fabrics can barely get 40" between the selvedges, and some have a bit left over.

Again, back around Y2K there weren't any established names for 2.5" squares -- other than 2.5" square! Mini-charm or candy or whatever simply was not used when we were trying to get our 2k charm squares.

A "fat quarter" is a yard of fabric cut in half both ways, roughly 18x22ish. A quarter yard is a 9" strip... so is skinny compared to a fat quarter although both are roughly the same amount of fabric.

I recently bought precuts 10 inch by 5 inch. I figured if I needed more 5 inch ones, i could cut them in half and use them that way. So far I've not made the quilt I bought them for....
this is where I got them. hard to find!
https://www.fatquartershop.com/jolly-bars

I wondered why the sugary names and where they came from. Makes sense it was a marketplace thing. This helped me. Thank you!