New Quilter Question

I was asked to make a quilt for someone and I've never done this. I'm
wondering if there is software or something out there that can help me
organize a layout for a simple 4 color squares of fabric blocks for a
quilt. I'm not sure I'm making sense here. But I have for different
fabrics and I know the size quilt I need and the size of the blocks.
But I'm not sure how to lay them out to get a nice design. Is there a
program to put this information in to get a nice random layout, or
nice pattern? Some cheat sheet somewhere? I am not trying to arrange
them to make a fancy design. Just arrange them so they don't look
thrown together. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm an
embroiderer, not a quilter! LOL

Braves Fan


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Hi and welcome to the group!

What you are describing is called a Four Patch block. Here's a couple of
links to info on making them- altho both of these quilts have an alternating
solid block. That would make your quilt top go together much quicker and
gives the eye a resting place rather than use all four patches.

http://faeb.freeservers.com/index/qu...rpatchInst.htm
http://www.quiltville.com/ispya4patch2.shtml

I wouldn't want to discourage you for anything, but piecing together the
quilt top is just the beginning of making a quilt. There's also making and
adding a border- if desired- sandwiching the quilt and choosing the type of
batting, the actual quilting or tying and adding the binding or using the
'birthing' method to finish the edges before you quilt or tie.

We'll be more than happy to guide you thru each step of your quiltmaking
project and furnish links to help you along. Keep us posted and ask
questions as you go!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

"Braves Fan" wrote in message
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I was asked to make a quilt for someone and I've never done this. I'm
wondering if there is software or something out there that can help me
organize a layout for a simple 4 color squares of fabric blocks for a
quilt. I'm not sure I'm making sense here. But I have for different
fabrics and I know the size quilt I need and the size of the blocks.
But I'm not sure how to lay them out to get a nice design. Is there a
program to put this information in to get a nice random layout, or
nice pattern? Some cheat sheet somewhere? I am not trying to arrange
them to make a fancy design. Just arrange them so they don't look
thrown together. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm an
embroiderer, not a quilter! LOL

Braves Fan


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I don't use software for quilt layout, so I can't help you much there, but I
did want to jump in and welcome a fellow baseball fan. (I'm a die-hard Cubs
fan.)

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Kathy A. (Woodland, CA)
Queen of Fabric Tramps

http://fabrictramp.typepad.com/fabric_tramping/
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"Braves Fan" wrote in message
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I was asked to make a quilt for someone and I've never done this. I'm
wondering if there is software or something out there that can help me
organize a layout for a simple 4 color squares of fabric blocks for a
quilt. I'm not sure I'm making sense here. But I have for different
fabrics and I know the size quilt I need and the size of the blocks.
But I'm not sure how to lay them out to get a nice design. Is there a
program to put this information in to get a nice random layout, or
nice pattern? Some cheat sheet somewhere? I am not trying to arrange
them to make a fancy design. Just arrange them so they don't look
thrown together. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm an
embroiderer, not a quilter! LOL

Braves Fan


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On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:23:47 -0500, Kathy Applebaum wrote
(in article ) :

I don't use software for quilt layout, so I can't help you much there, but I
did want to jump in and welcome a fellow baseball fan. (I'm a die-hard Cubs
fan.)



David and I belong to a two religion household--he's born and raised Cubbie
fan and I'm born and raised Cardinals (not entirely unusual for this part of
the State.) You know we're doing our best to help you out, but you guys need
to start hitting.

Maureen

"Maureen Wozniak" wrote in message
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:23:47 -0500, Kathy Applebaum wrote
(in article ) :

I don't use software for quilt layout, so I can't help you much there,
but I
did want to jump in and welcome a fellow baseball fan. (I'm a die-hard
Cubs
fan.)



David and I belong to a two religion household--he's born and raised
Cubbie
fan and I'm born and raised Cardinals (not entirely unusual for this part
of
the State.) You know we're doing our best to help you out, but you guys
need
to start hitting.

Amen to that! Some pitching would help, too. This year it seems the only
team that can beat the Cubs is the Cubs. Maybe Uncle Lou needs to get
ejected again.

My cockatiel is a huge Card fan. It took us a few years to figure out that
what he really likes is the color red and lots of crowd noise. When the
Cardinals' crowd gets going, he starts singing, chirping, and dancing
around, right along with them. *grin*

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Kathy A. (Woodland, CA)
Queen of Fabric Tramps

http://fabrictramp.typepad.com/fabric_tramping/
remove the obvious to reply

Tell us more about your four fabrics, what they look like. Also the size of
the blocks, and the size of the quilt. I'll give it a go on my software for
ya.

Karen, Queen of Squishies


I was asked to make a quilt for someone and I've never done this. I'm
wondering if there is software or something out there that can help me
organize a layout for a simple 4 color squares of fabric blocks for a
quilt. I'm not sure I'm making sense here. But I have for different
fabrics and I know the size quilt I need and the size of the blocks.
But I'm not sure how to lay them out to get a nice design. Is there a
program to put this information in to get a nice random layout, or
nice pattern? Some cheat sheet somewhere? I am not trying to arrange
them to make a fancy design. Just arrange them so they don't look
thrown together. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm an
embroiderer, not a quilter! LOL

Braves Fan


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Oh great! It's a Raiders quilt. LOL Yeah... funny for a Braves Fan,
huh! It's not for me though. The colors are solid black, solid grey,
and then a white background Raiders fabric and a black background
raiders fabric. The blocks are 5x5 and the quilt will be 40x60. I am
going to embroider footballs and the word Raiders in the solid color
blocks randomly. The will be stitched diagonally in the clocks some
from top left to bottom right and some from top right to bottom left.
The layout I had is the center 4 squares were all black. Inside I had
a helmet with the text "Daddy's Little Raiders Buddy" stitched around
it. I had black blocks at the corners and two grey blocks between the
four corners. I then had checkerboard solids in fours and then the
printed fabrics. I'm not sure this makes sense. I wish I knew how to
attach a file here so you could see it. I just need to know how to
randomly put the embroidery on there to make it look right. I don't
want to put a ton of embroidery on it. I thought about all the grey
being footballs and all the black being Raiders. But that doesn't
look right. The block in the center looks really neat, but it screws
up the outer part. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks so much!
Braves Fan
CHOP CHOP!!




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