What are your favorite easy to intermediate quilt patterns?

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loveSEGA

I am wanting to make a twin sized quilt with one main focal fabric, and 2-4 supporting fabrics. I have only made one quilt before and it was a simple four-patch baby quilt. It turned out pretty good, but I am afraid to try anything too complex yet (squares, rectangles, and triangles only maybe). If you can link patterns online, that would be super. Or just tell me the name and I will research it. Thanks!!

Answer
Take a look at some of the patterns at http://reocities.com/quiltfrenzy/ -- these are all pretty easy because of the way they're sewn, even though they look complex. Take a close look at "On Flamingo Pond":
http://www.reocities.com/quiltfrenzy/onflamingopond.html

Roman stripes also works up easily and looks a lot harder than it is: http://www.reocities.com/quiltfrenzy/sunshine-shadow.html

Another good beginner block is a 9 patch, which tends to be a bit boring, but here are a couple of variants that aren't a whole lot harder:
http://www.scrapquilts.com/julybom.html
http://quilting.about.com/b/2009/04/01/beginner-friendly-framed-nine-patch-quilt-block-pattern.htm
http://larryeverson.com/2004/uneven9patch-2.jpg (9 patch with a big center square, set with plain blocks of the same size).

Yet another that's very easy (and good for using up a lot of scrap fabric) is Chinese Coins:
http://www.quilterscache.com/C/ChineseCoinsBlock.html
http://vickiwelsh.typepad.com/field_trips_in_fiber/2007/09/chinese-coins-q.html
This is so easy that I often wind up using Chinese coins on the back of a quilt. Don't forget you can vary
the separator strip sizes easily.

If you head to the library, Alex Anderson has some good beginner's quilt books:
http://www.amazon.com/Start-Quilting-Alex-Anderson-Projects-Most/dp/1571208127
and Eleanor Burns has a number of books with easy blocks and ways to make them even easier:
ttp://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&tag=mozilla-20&index=blended&link_code=qs&field-keywords=quilt in a day&sourceid=Mozilla-search

Have fun!

How to make sense of quilting guide books?

Rouge Jedi

I am interested in trying my hand at quilting, and i thought i'd start small with maybe a baby quilt and see if i really like it. But i've browsed through the self-help books and they do not make much sense to me.

Any ideas on how to get started? And how to make sense of the self-help material? I mean, pictures are nice, but they can be slightly confusing... and i'm not the best with sewing... LOL

Thanks in advance.

Answer
You could try HowDoYouQuilt.com. It is a new website with quilting videos just for beginners.

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