I don't know how I happened across this formula, but I estimate a queen sized quilt at no less than five yards. Since I am a scrapper, it really doesn't matter how much I have of anything, but it has been consistent with me, no matter the pattern, just to put the quilt on the top of the mattress, no less than five yards. If you want it to hang over, I figure +20" on all four sides ... does that help you at all? <wave

Ok so I got my fabric...here is the story. I told my friend I had a funny feeling my fabric was on the sales floor, so today I went in again and was looking for the positively pineapple ruler and decided on the way out to look quickly to see if I coukld find it...Sure enough there it was...I grabbed it and went to cutting table to tell them the story...they measured it and luckily no one had bought any and so I got to take the whole bolt home with me! Yeah! I will probably not get to start on it until next weekend...Its very pretty fabric..Whew I lucked out!

It's looking great!! It reminds me of an under-sea landscape with coral and sand and starfish and sea urchins. I love it!

As to size, that can be adjusted by how many strip sets you have, and then you can add borders to make it as much bigger as you like.

Good job!

so if I want to make a queen size..about five yards and how many strip sets should I cut then? I know adding borders will make bigger but just approximatley how many strip sets?

that is really pretty and soothing...it does look like sand dollars in some places!

I love the colors on that one...it does really look like sanddollars...very pretty!

Measure what you have and then decide how much bigger you want it. For example: if it took 5 strips (of the layered material) to make what you have right now, and youvdecide you want it twice as big, cut 5 more strips. If you want it about half as much more, cut 2 or 3 more strips. It is entirely up to you.

Julie that is looking fantastic. I'm always amazed at how much better the effect is once eveything is sewn. :-D

Daisey I'm sooo pleased you managed to rescue your fabric! To add to what Gai said, each strip set yields around 18 - 19 hexagons and they finish (if you cut the 3 3/4" standard as stated in the book) at around 6" across (though they're not square)

As this is a 12" repeat, one set of repeats gives 3 sets, ie 57 hex blocks. This would take 2 yards of fabric. If you cut double repeats, you'd get 6 strip sets yielding 114 hex blocks and it would take 4 yards. I would do the latter, then with borders, build it out to queen size. When you cut double repeats though, you're likely to get duplicate hexagon blocks so you might have to play around with the orientation as described on p 29 (of this first book) :-D

This is my finished queen size top. DH couldn't reach any farther so hope you can see it all. Wish I had more of the original fabric for one of the borders but had to improvise once I decided it should be a queen. It was darker than I thought it would be but the gold brightens it up. If and when I ever get it finished, the backing will be brown and I have two more hexagons to applique somewhere.

So you are saying cut about 4yrds of repeats or 6 strip sets? Ok sounds good...I dont care too much if I have repeats,,,who will really notice with 114 hex's...LOl