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Jul 25 2008

Fabric Yields

Published by nimuae under beginning quilting Edit This

I’m trying to slowly amass a reference resource for quilting information as well as offer up some funny stories . . .hopefully funny, anyway. It’s great to have access to sites with hundreds of block patterns, but eventually you are going to need to cut some fabric, and after you sew the blocks together, you’re going to have to assemble them.

In keeping with this theme of providing fast and helpful information, I’ve included  a short table of what you can expect to get from a fat quarter of fabric. This information was part of a hand written slip of paper that fell out of a used book that I bought years ago. A forum posting I saw recently reminded me of it.

Size Squares in Inches—- Yield
2 1/2 56
3 42
3 1/2 30
4 20
4 1/2 16
5 12
5 1/2 12
6 9
Size Strips in Inches——-
Yield
1 1/2 12
2 9
2 1/2 7
3 6
3 1/2 5
4 4
4 1/2 4
5 5
5 1/2 3
6 3

I hope this comes in handy.

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