French braid pattern requirements
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French braid pattern requirements
I am going to make a king size quilt in the French braid pattern. I actually don't have a pattern. I really don't need one except to figure out how much fabric I will need. I would appreciate as much help as possible.
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I ear marked this a few yrs ago because I love how they used the homespun to do it. At the end it gives size for a double queen, that might have. Its a great tutorial and has been actively going for many yrs now. So easy to understand. Love the F. Braid she did
http://keepyouinstitches.blogspot.co...-tutorial.html
http://keepyouinstitches.blogspot.co...-tutorial.html
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Just keep adding strips until it is long enough and then keep adding rows until it is wide enough. I always buy 7 yards if I plan on using it for a king size backing so I check to be sure I have at least 7 yards of all fabric combined before making a king top with no fabric requirement known.
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There are so many unknowns here... is it going to be scrappy, or a fixed set of fabrics? How many fabrics if a set? How wide are the strips going to be? How wide are the braids going to be? Are there separator strips, and if so how wide and what are they going to be made of? How big is king size? Is there going to be a border around the braid section? It's almost impossible to answer the original question with anything meaningful.
In general, say that your king size quilt is going to be 110x110. That's 12,100 square inches, or almost 8 1/2 yards of 40" wide fabric. But you have to account for seams. If your strips are going to be 2" wide finished (2.5" wide unfinished) and 6" long finished (6.5" unfinished) and if you assume that most of your quilt will be made up of the strips, that means you're using 2.5"x6.5"= 16.25 square inches of fabric to cover 2"x6"=12 square inches of your quilt surface, so you need to increase the 8.5 yards up by a factor of 16.25/12. (8.5 * 16.25/12 = 11.5 yards).
So my guess would be that you'll need around 11.5 yards of fabric, give or take, with all the unknowns factoring in to make it more or less. If you're not going scrappy you will probably need more total, since there will probably be some fabric wasted on each cut.
Not much help, huh?
In general, say that your king size quilt is going to be 110x110. That's 12,100 square inches, or almost 8 1/2 yards of 40" wide fabric. But you have to account for seams. If your strips are going to be 2" wide finished (2.5" wide unfinished) and 6" long finished (6.5" unfinished) and if you assume that most of your quilt will be made up of the strips, that means you're using 2.5"x6.5"= 16.25 square inches of fabric to cover 2"x6"=12 square inches of your quilt surface, so you need to increase the 8.5 yards up by a factor of 16.25/12. (8.5 * 16.25/12 = 11.5 yards).
So my guess would be that you'll need around 11.5 yards of fabric, give or take, with all the unknowns factoring in to make it more or less. If you're not going scrappy you will probably need more total, since there will probably be some fabric wasted on each cut.
Not much help, huh?
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