Yellow Brick Road Tutorial
 

Clearly, I'm not an expert; I just can't figure out from the instructions how I'm supposed to assemble the cut pieces for my YBR quilt....I'm making a lap size, so I have 12 6.5 inch pieces, and 36 sets of the 3.5 inch pieces. Now what? Looking at the pictures (which is how I usually get it to make sense) is only confusing me more. I've looked all over the Internet for a tutorial, but apparently no one else is as clueless as me.....help?

here's a previous thread here on the QB that might be of some help... it's long so lots of input http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...n-t168417.html

and a tutorial from eHow! http://www.ehow.com/how_6850815_dire...oad-quilt.html

I don't have my pattern with me, but all those numbers in the parenthesis refer to the number of units you're making, depending on what size your quilt is. Left to right they go from crib to king size, so if you're making the smallest quilt always look at the number on the far left. If you're making a king, always refer to the number at the far right. I think your next step says to sew X number of 6.5 strips to 3.5 strips in random combinations. You won't be using all of your 6.5 strips in this step. Only sew the number indicated in the parenthesis for your size. Then when you get those strip combos made, you will be sub-cutting them according to the diagram. Hope this helps.

That is spectacular for a first quilt. Nice job.

I understand you problem. It is not like a standard pattern where this piece goes here. You just lay out the blocks turning them this way and that until you find the look you like. I tried to avoid any seam allowances meeting which I was eventually successful at. I have never used the pattern again.

Setting the blocks is the most difficult part of this pattern.Don't stress out. I made one and ended up placing the blocks where they looked best and it turned out fine.

I started a YBR years ago - of course I needed it to be bigger than just the 12 fat quarters - so I bought 24. All went well with the cutting - I marked the size I was going to need so I knew how many pieces to cut. Then I started sewing the blocks together - still going pretty well until I lost tract of who many blocks of each type I needed to make. I ended up making more of one kind than I needed so,didn't have enough pieces to make the required number of the others. And that's where it has been sitting for a long, long time. I have now gotten over my annoyance at making this mistake (my "happy" medicine really helps😄😄) and so I will drag out the squares and set them up however they look good to me and finish it. I think it's a really neat quilt and Keepsake Quilting has sets of 12 fst quarters for making one -easy way to go.

Sandy in Mooresville, NC

I like the Double Slice layer cake quilt pattern better than YBR. Jenny Doan has a tutorial for this pattern. Very quick and easy to put together.

I agree. The results look very similar. I had trouble following the Yellow Brick Road pattern instructions years ago. I thought it was just me. The double Slice Layer cake goes together very quickly, and I always make my own layer cakes. Easy peasy.

Dina