Rainbow Glen
78x78 inches
Requirements for making this quilt:
3 ½ metres of background fabric—if you want you can use a selection of leftover whites and creams. If you are doing this you need a total of 72 squares measuring 8 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches.
The blocks are made from 12 colour groups. In each colour group there are 5 strips measuring 2½ x width of the fabric. The colours are as follows
Red-5 different strips 2½ x width of fabric
Yellow-5 different strips 2½ x width of fabric
Green -5 different strips 2½ x width of fabric
Light green - 5 different strips 2½ x width of fabric
Orange - 5 different strips 2½ x width of fabric
Magenta-5 different strips 2½ x width of fabric
Teal - 5 different strips 2½ x width of fabric
Turquoise-5 different strips 2½ x width of fabric
Blue-5 different strips 2½ x width of fabric
Purple-5 different strips 2½ x width of fabric
Lavender-5 different strips 2½ x width of fabric
Pink-5 different strips 2½ x width of fabric
This is ideal if you have lots of strips from left over jelly rolls, You can also use fat quarters for this pattern but you will need to cut two strips off the long side from the each fat quarter and sew them together.
You can also change the colour groupings around or you could use a similar colour scheme throughout.
The total amount of 2½ x width of fabric strips you need to complete the quilt are 60.
There is no border on this quilt but you can add a border if you wish– you would need 30 inches to adda 3 inch border.
30 inches for the binding.