Quick and Easy

Years ago, a Guild member showed us a pattern for a quick and easy quilt. Where I’ve been working on the Hexagon Star and Dear Jane for a while, I wanted to relax and make something that was quick and easy.

The original pattern called for 5 1/2″ squares. I had received two stacks of 5″ squares for my birthday. I would use them. From the top of the stacks, it looked as if the fabric was color coordinated, but it was not. Where this was a quick quilt, I would use them anyway.

The pattern calls for eighty squares. Thirteen of the eighty squares are the same fabric. I used a mottled gray fabric for the alike squares. The quilt is sewn together in ten rows of eight squares. The gray squares have their own spots.

Press the first row to the right and the second row to the left. Continue down the quilt in this manner.

Now the fun. The quilt is sliced down the gray squares.

Then the top is brought to the bottom and sewed.

I forgot to take a picture for the next step, but the quilt is sliced across the gray squares. Then, the top is brought to the bottom and sewed. Now all the gray squares are half square triangles around the perimeter of the quilt. The sides are now on the bias. Carefully measure the sides and add a border. I used the same gray fabric for the border. It was cut at 3 1/4″ but could be any size.

This is the prefect size for a crib quilt or a lap quilt. It could be made with any size squares. I might make it again using baby prints. There should be at least eight different fabrics. Maybe more if there were a lot of scraps left over from other projects. Or I might make it using floral prints with green as the alike fabric. There are many possibilities.

Machine quilting with an even feed foot in a cross hatch would also be quick and easy. This is a great quilt when you need one in a hurry.

Have a great day and happy quilting.