Monster Monster - cheater quilt fabric
Silly colorful monsters in an easy-to-use cheater quilt - perfect for children's bedrooms and throws! The brightly colored blocks behind each monster are irregular so not easy to measure, but if you imagine each monster with his block inside a square, those squares are 12 inches. 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 this 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 wa