PatPitter

I like them for scrappy quilts, especially baby quilts. I also think they are great for applique quilts. I started buying them years before there were layer cakes and jelly rolls.

Someone said they didn't understand wanting all the fabrics in one line. I have used fat quarter bundles to make scrappy quilts such as Turning Twenty. You get a lot of variety without having to buy 1/2 yard cuts of all the fabrics.

A lot of people use them in "I spy" quilts.

Wanabee Quiltin

I personally love Fat Quarters as well as the other precuts. I have several books for FQ's and several patterns I have bought and used. I really do like the versatility of all the various fabrics at cheap prices. I use them all the time and here are just two of many I have made. Hope the pictures show.

romanojg

A lot of stores (mainly small independent ones) will take ends of bolts and turn them into fat quarters. I go thru the bins and see if I like any. Sometimes you don't need a whole yard or even a half. I think they are cheaper than buying the rolls or layers, etc.

Fat quarters are great when you want to make squares to practice FMQ on. I do not buy them from our one local chain store because I don't think the quality is there, they come into the store pre-cut.

mojo11

I buy a lot of fat quarter and some cake layers. I hand applique so I don't need large pieces of fabric. In the end, fat quarters cost a little more than a regular 1/4 yard and cake layers are pretty expensive when you do the math to make a yard with them.

mhollifiel

Amen to that incorrect measure on lots and lots and lots of precuts statement. This really burns my biscuits! Of course, I discovered this the hard way - more than once.

Macybaby

I love getting a coordinating pack of fat quarters, but I also love controlled scrappy, where I'll use several different fabrics of a color instead of one - IE if the pattern calls for 2 yards of red and one of blue, I'll use 8 different red fat quarters and 4 different blue fat quarters.

this quilt has about 50 different batiks - much easier to do with fat quarter bundles to get a lot of variety.

purplefiend

I make a lot of scrap quilts, a fat quarter bundle is a way to get a variety of fabrics without buying yardage. I don't buy jelly rolls and such because they are often not cut accurately, a waste of money and causes frustration.
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Joan in AK

Wannabee quilting is there a pattern for the grey, black and white quilt. I really like the simplicity of it.

IrishgalfromNJ

Count me in as another who love fat quarters. I get lots of variety and the price is right. Fat quarters are the perfect size for a cloth napkin.

nuevaquilter

Macybaby baby, your quilt is awesome! I want to make a stained glass quilt, but I'm tired of the geometric repetition of an array of identical blocks. Did you use a letter, or just wing t?