Square Quilts
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I make most of my lap size quilts.........60 x 70-75 as I have a kitty that likes to join me when I cuddled under mine. I also make my baby quilts about the same size so they can grow into them. They grow so fast that if I made them smaller, they wouldn't get the full use out of it.
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I wondered about that when I recently made a baby quilt for a neighbor. I made it 40 x 48" - mostly because it's a tumbling blocks and I had had enough at that point. (But also because babies are almost square.) Sorry for the duplication; can't seem to remove the quilt top photo.
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I think part of it is that when you put it on a bed, you do not use it as a bedspread that you fold over the pillows. It is laid across the bed with decorative pillow shams on top. I would make fairly square twin bed size quilts for the kids in college dorm rooms. They lay across the bed but hung a bit further on the sides and covered the storage areas under their slightly higher beds. This also made a good size for them to grab to take when they had outdoor activities but still small enough that they were easily laundered.
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Ha, makes me laugh, the comment about crib quilts for square babies! I like a larger crib quilt than many of the patterns as no one actually puts a quilt in with a baby (risk of SIDS) so they don't really use until little older, we are all taller, so throws need to be at least 66+". And unfortunately, we also need at least 50 wide! Even my tiny DIL asked for a larger quilt to snuggle with the g-boys---said the first one I gave her worked for her but left 3 boys no cover!
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