Meadow - Blue - cheater quilt fabric
Cheerful wild flowers in shades of blue, scattered on a white background. Why Cheater Quilts? In addition to being fast - cheater prints are also the least expensive way to make a quilt. No waste! Nothing lost to seam allowance! As an example - here's a cheater quilt I'm working on. It's 2 yards of the Monster Cheater Quilt print on organic cotton sateen, so the printed size (not including the strips of white along the selvedge) is 56 inches wide and 72 inches tall. A comparable size quilt top made with any of my patterns would use about 6 yards of 42-inch wide fabric. Even factoring in the different fabric widths - that's still more than twice as much fabric! I like to hand quilt my cheaters using Big Stitch Quilting - but you can also machine quilt, or tie, or finish it any way you like. This isn't a traditional cheater quilt fabric (it's not designed to look like patchwork) but the scale is large enough to make it work really well as a cheater. Here you can see an example of the