On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:53:03 +0100, pat on the green wrote:

This is the first 'thread' I have started since the changeover.

I am envisaging a scenario (the exact circumstances don't matter at
all), when I would dearly love to make small bed quilts for two girls (7
and 4) and a cot quilt for the new baby brother.
However, if I do embark on this project, I really need something quick
and easy. Some of you might remember that I don't usually do quick and
easy! But, if I let this idea take hold of me, I am not going to have
time for a specially designed and exotically quilted -(not that I used
to do that anyway gg) set of gifts.

What idea would be your favourite?

I generally fall back onto central star patterns for fast and easy.
There is a great deal of versatility in those.
You can run the gamut from making your big diamonds out of little
diamonds or blocks (easily strip pieced) to making them just single
pieces each.
For three quilts in a short time, I would probably make them stripey.
You can make your stripes as wide as suits your inclinations, and run
them in whatever direction suits your fancy.
Doing something like a large single central liberty star, which is stripey
to begin with, for the cot quilt, and maybe amish spinning stars or a
star of bethlehem variation in coordinating colors for the other two,
would be the sort of direction I would go. Fast, easy, but not so simple
as to be mind numbing.
YMMV, as I'm sure you must have a fairly simple or simplifiable central
motif that you favor that could work similarly.

NightMist