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You can create many squares with just one Fat Quarter!

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Hi makers!

Did you know that from just ONE FAT QUARTER you can create 99 squares? YEAH! 99 squares… With the excitement of making a new project, sometimes it's easy to just cut through the fabric and waste some of it. I can relate to this because when you are a beginner it's hard to pay attention to those little things. Before, the most important thing to me was just to cut and get the project done. Now, that I'm learning more and more about sewing and quilting I'm trying to be more careful about cutting in a way that the fabric will last longer.

Last week I was reading some articles and I stumbled upon one that explained how many squares you can cut from a fat quarter and I found it very very interesting. So I decided to make another little graphic for you to pin or save it to your computer! I hope you find it helpful and that you're able to maximize the times you can use your favorite prints.

Let's take a look: Fat quarter chart

Very cool and interesting, right?  If you guys have more ideas that I could make into graphics I would really love to read them! Let me know in the comments. ;)

I hope you all enjoyed,

Carolina.

6 responses to “You can create many squares with just one Fat Quarter!”

  1. Kathleen Avatar
    Kathleen

    That’s amazing when you see it all in a graphic like that. Ninety-nine two-inch squares!! Wow!

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  2. Ioleen Avatar
    Ioleen

    Very informative.

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  3. KAREN MCINTOSH Avatar
    KAREN MCINTOSH

    Many thanks for this cutting guide. It will make quilting designs so much more economical when using FQs.

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  4. Gina Cox Avatar
    Gina Cox

    I would love to see HOW to position your cutter, so that you actually do get those number of squares from your fat quarter! Because obviously if you don’t cut them in the right way, you won’t get that many squares.
    My very first quilt pattern called for 6 inch squares from a fat quarter and you were supposed to end up with 81 cut squares, only trouble is, the pattern forgot to take in or consider seam allowances. And I notice your chart doesn’t have a total number of squares for 5 & 1/2 inch squares either (which is just what I need at present…..lol).

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  5. Karli Klemm Avatar
    Karli Klemm

    Hi Gina! Thank you for catching our mistake with leaving out the amount for 5.5″ squares. You can get 9 squares that are 5.5″ x 5.5″ from one fat quarter. Hope this helps!

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  6. Jim Avatar
    Jim

    Who wants to cut teeny squares just to sew them back together again? With the seam allowance they would finish at only 1.5″ !!
    IMHO they’re too small to be practical.

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