Free Fat Quarter-Friendly Quilt Patterns (2024)

Nature Walk Scrappy Throw Quilt

Transition through seasons with a quilt that has blocks arranged from summery hues to cooler colors.

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Rail Fence Ripple

Making strip sets saves time when a design requires several units of the same pieces.

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Red, White, and Blue Bricks

Make a quick-to-assemble patriotic picnic throw or cozy cottage twin-size bed quilt from your favorite scrappy assortment of red, white, and blue fat quarters.

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Flower Show

Florals and solids combine for a stunning but easy-to-sew bed quilt. You can change the theme of the large rectangles-think plaids or reproduction prints-to customize for any room.

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Bold and Beautiful Throw

Highly saturated hues contrast with black prints and white prints in a modern throw.

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Thousand Pyramids

This century-old quilt is a scrap-lovers dream.

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Color Burst Throw

Sort a bundle of your favorite precut prints by dark, medium, and light to piece a throw full of color and movement.

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Color Cross

Colors shine in a lap quilt that has a black background.

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Mini Barn Quilt

Use solid fabrics and vertical line quilting to add modern flair to a mini that mimics a barn quilt.

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Hearts-on-a-String Banner

Set the stage for Valentine's Day with a themed banner.

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Deck the Wall Holiday Quilt

Use templates and holiday fabrics to make sharp points in a seasonal wall hanging.

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Sunny All Around

A simple Pinwheel block is quite a star when it's surrounded by multiple borders-pieced and plain.

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Neutral Appeal

A small throw can add a dash of color to a room that has a neutral color palette.

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Blueberries and Cream

Alternate light and dark prints for a throw that takes it one step at a time.

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Orchard Lane

Time-saving strip piecing and fat quarters makes it easy to complete a Four-Patch quilt.

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Playing Tag

Add fun and fuction to a stroller-size quilt by sewing ribbon and rickrack loops into the blocks.

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Home for the Harvest

To get the scrappy look of this quilt in a speedy way, invite your friends over for a house-block quilting party.

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Flying Geese Table Runner

Flying Geese point in all directions in this playful table runner.

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Side Dish

Serve up a delightful asymmetrical quilt by wrapping a helping of Broken Dishes blocks with appliquéd and pieced borders on just two sides.

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Ring Toss Quilt

Combine a variety of pastel fat quarters in Floating Star units to make a sweet lap-size quilt.

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Roaring Waves

A range of blues and grays, gradating from light to dark, produce the look of waves on a stormy night. Pairing blue with gray instead of white puts a twist on the classic two-color combination.

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On the Bow

Making Necktie blocks is much easier than you may think, especially with this fool-the-eye trick for easy piecing.

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Summer Days Table Topper

Bright print squares alternate with Four-Patch blocks in a cheerful table runner.

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Shift Change

Create subtle shifts in color with ombré fabric. The large pieces allow you to utilize the gradient effect and to see the shade changes in each fabric strip.

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Painter's Palette

Build your color confidence by mixing fat quarters in a variety of hues. Include a few lighter and brighter fabrics to add sparkle and keeps the eye moving around the quilt.

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Eye Catcher

Use the same cream print in alternating squares to balance a variety of florals and dark prints. While the finished wall hanging offers plenty to look at, it isn't overwhelming.

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Broken Dishes Table Runner

For a traditional look, use only two prints for each Broken Dishes block.

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Floral Wall Hanging

Simple squares and curved appliqués in bright fat-quarter prints pop off a coordinating solid to create a dynamic wall hanging.

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Luminous Lanterns

Colorful batik lanterns shine bright against a dark blue batik sky in this beautiful wall hanging.

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Simple Rectangles and Sashing

Make a scrappy yet orderly quilt using aqua, lime, and cocoa print fat quarters. Aqua tone-on-tone sashing and binding tie together the fabrics.

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Country Windmills

Use more than 30 fat quarters when you stitch this cozy throw and coordinating pillows.

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Simple Strips

This time-saving quilt involves just five rows of multicolored rectangles finished by long sashing strips and a border from a single novelty print.

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Fat Quarter Twin Bed Quilt

Cut rectangles from floral fat quarters and join them with solid watermelon pink strips to create pieced rows.

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Red-and-White Table Mat

Whip up a two-color table mat using six fat quarters.

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Rickrack Pillow

Embellish pieces of bright fat quarters with rickrack for a square patchwork pillow.

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Fresh Four-Patch Table Topper

Four-Patch blocks and setting squares team up for a fabulous square table topper.

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Fabric Gift Bag

Whip up a reusable gift bag with just two fat quarters. Make bags for holidays, birthdays, or any time of year!

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Building Blocks Throw

Use a restful aqua check to complement the strong contemporary colors-blue, green, and chocolate-in this easy quilted throw using fat quarter pieces.

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Matching Scarf Set

Use fat quarters to make two matching scarves in stylish colors.

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Pumpkins and Table Runner

Stitch a fall theme table runner and trio of stuffed pumpkins for easy fall decor.

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Old-World Snowballs

Large-scale prints in an old-world color scheme are a perfect fit for Snowball blocks.

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Scrappy Rectangles

Cranberry reds, sage greens, and rose petal pinks combine with a range of neutrals to create an appealing pattern in this simple bed quilt.

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Bright Four-Patch Throw

Rich black tone-on-tone background fabrics let lively Four-Patch units sparkle in this Amish-look quilt.

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Easy-Sew Purse

All it takes to make this fun and easy bag is two fat quarters for the body and two fat quarters for the lining.

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Gnome Sweet Gnome

Use fat quarter fabrics to create a cheerful cheerful holiday wall hanging quilt with festive appliquéd blocks and a pieced border.

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Strips and Stacks Quilt

Gather a stack of fat quarters. Piece quilt blocks and sashing to mimic books on shelves for your favorite bookworm.

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Ribbon and Rickrack Baby Quilt

Add fun and function to a stroller-size quilt by sewing ribbon and rickrack loops into the blocks.

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Lunch Sack Gift Bags

These easy-to-sew bags are great for using as a lunch sack or as a reusable gift bags.

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Tiny Treat Totes

Stitch two fat quarter pieces into a quartet of mini totes. These wee gift bags have grosgrain ribbon handles.

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Pinwheels Table Topper

Pieced and plain borders frame small and large Pinwheel blocks in a fat quarter-friendly quilted table topper.

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