Farm Animals - cheater quilt fabric
Adorable farm animal faces in easy-to-use cheater quilt fabric - perfect for children's bedrooms and throws!
The square blocks are 4 inches.
For this fabric I photographed my actual quilted and appliqued blocks, then assembled them digitally into a repeating fabric design - so you get all the quilted lines and my stitched outlines, but with much smaller blocks.
Looking for coordinating fabrics? There are blenders here - the exact same fabrics I used to make the blocks I photographed for this fabric!
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.
The button will take you directly to the fabric on Spoonflower - a separate website. Shiny Happy World coupons won't work on that site, but Spoonflower is almost always having a sale of some kind. Check the banner at the top of the page when you get to their site.
When you place an order on Spoonflower, they custom print whatever design you like on whatever base fabric you choose. I like to use Organic Cotton Sateen for my cheater quilts.
- The fabric is lovely and smooth.
- It's very high quality - thread count is 220.
- The colors are bright and durable.
- The printable width is 56 inches - significantly wider than standard quilting cotton.
NEW!!! Spoonflower has wide fabrics now! Cotton sateen that's 116 inches wide!!! The 3.5 ounce weight is best for quilts and bedding. The heavier 6.5 ounce weight is better for things like curtains and tablecloths.
The fabric will be very crisp when it arrives. Just like any fabric, I highly recommend pre-washing before you use it. It softens up beautifully.