Lava meets sky quilt

I got to start working on this quilt yesterday and am writing this blog for the customer so she can make the decisions necessary to move forward with the project.

First a few definitions:

• A queen size quilt is typically 90" x 108"
• A cut piece - is the first cut from the original fabric
• A block - is what happens when you put the cut pieces together
• A row is made up of a certain number of blocks and then you sew all the rows together and get a quilt top
• To get a queen size quilt, we need 22 rows with 18 blocks in each row
• We need 396 blocks to make this quilt top

Lets start with the fabric you gave me:

• There are 8 Fat Quarters of Blue and 9 of Red that you pulled out of the packages. These pictures are of the cut pieces - 5 1/2 x 5 1/2.
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• Each Fat Quarter gives us 9 cut pieces. This means, we get 153 cut pieces.
• To make the blocks, you put two cut pieces together, cut them in half and sew the two halves together to make a half-triangle block.
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Non selected material:
There are at total of 27 other Fat Quarters in the bundles you gave me.

 

• 7 Orange
• 6 Yellow
• 2 Black and very dark blue
• 6 Gray
• 6 Light Blue
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Decision to be made:

• By only using only 17 of the 44 Fat Quarters, we get less than half the block needed for the size of quilt you want. (396 -153 =243)
• The shades in the 17 Fat Quarters selected will provide some depth to the design but it won't look like the original picture which has some lighter cut pieces in it - but I think you've already agreed to this - just need to be sure you understand your quilt isn't going to have the same pazazz as the pattern.
• Do you want me to get more of the 17 selected Fat Quarters so there is enough for the whole quilt? Or do I use some of the Fat Quarters I already have? Or a combination of these options - you could let me know which ones from the non-selected group you want to include and we'll see where that gets us?