I love all of Terri Atkinson's patterns. They are well designed and well written.

I love the Yellow Brick Road because it looks great when you finish it and it is easy to remember what you need.. I have heard about a baby shower coming up, went and bought my fat quarters and made the quilt in a weekend. It works great for those times when you don' have a month to get something made.

I also like it because it doesn't require a lot of thought, I can do one when I'm so busy I can't think straight! The pieces are small enough to look like a real quilt, but big enough to go together quickly.

There are other great quilt patterns, this has just become a "go to" pattern when you need it. It is dependable and it works every time. It's a great pattern.

Me 3!!!! It's such an easy pattern it could be figured out just by looking at it with graph paper and a pencil.

Wow, I have your same problem. I just did not know there was a name for it. I just thought I was stupid. Thanks for putting a name with it. Now I feel better about my condition.

I've been reading all the responses and I don't think anyone has really "bashed" it, they were simply giving their opinion. Like me, they don't really care to make one or were disappointed when they did make one, but realize, like me, that everyone likes different things. Please give us the freedom to give honest opinions...they are only opinions after all and like the post that explained about the history of the pattern, the creator is happy that many people did like it and she was able to support her family with the proceeds. I would never want to take that success away from her. In the end though, I have not seen any meanness in any of the responses, just honesty.

I agree. This has been a stick in my craw for a couple years. Yellow Brick Road and Turning Twenty aren't even patterns! They are just a bunch of rectangles and squares thrown together. I can do that withOUT a pattern! IF I wanted to! I'm afraid I couldn't be proud of something that was whipped up so fast and thrown together so haphazardly. Even when I'm doing charity quilts, I do something that has more of a pattern to it than that.

You are fortunate that you are clever enough to whip up a quilt without a pattern, when I was a beginner I couldn't and the YBR was my introduction to FQs and their uses, I know of many many quilters who have made the YBR and made some lovely quilts in the process.

Although I am not a lover of the TT pattern one of my class did the most glorious quilt using a selection of batiks and the TT pattern, which were perfect for it, we all have our own likes n dislikes and these patterns deserve to be on a quilters list IMO :thumbup:

That's your opinion, others may like the pattern especially when they are new to quilting, you are sounding kinda harsh.

I agree with you 100% :thumbup: I believe some are taking it a little too far, thanks for your kind words, we need more of them :!:

It makes very quick baby quilts. And I like the designer.

It's all in the fabric choices ... I've made several for baby quilts, and my daughter chose it for her dorm quilt. They all turned out great. It's perfect for beginners and it's great when you need a quick quilt.
I think I read that it's the BEST-selling quilt pattern EVER ... simple and quick is obviously GOOD ! :)