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Fat Quarter Quilt Patterns

The versatility of fat quarters makes them a popular choice for quilters, allowing for the creation of intricate patchwork, appliqué, and various block designs. These patterns take advantage of the fat quarter’s size to minimize waste while offering ample fabric for diverse quilt projects. We quilters often seek out fat quarter quilt patterns to efficiently utilize our mountains of stash of fabric. These patterns are specially designed to make the most of each piece, incorporating a mix of larger and smaller components that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Quilt designs can range from traditional layouts to more modern, graphic interpretations, appealing to a broad audience. Fat quarter quilts can serve as a canvas for experimenting with color, texture, and pattern, especially for those looking to craft a quilt without the commitment to a full yardage purchase for each color or print.

Fat Quarter Flowers Quilt Pattern

4 sizes available:

52 1/2” x 65 1/2” (lap quilt)

65 1/2” x 91 1/2” (twin bed quilt)

91 1/2” x 91 1/2” (queen bed quilt)

39 1/2” x 52 1/2” (crib quilt)

Bring a dose of optimistic and cheerful vibes into your living space with a quilt that comes in four different sizes for all your needs, featuring a pure white background with a 4 x 5 grid of colorful stars that consist of two rhombuses set in a plus shape across each other, surrounded by small, diagonally oriented hourglass blocks near each of the four star tips.

by Fatquartershop

Fat Quarter Fizz Quilt Pattern

6 sizes avaliable:

60 ½” x 72 ½” (large lap quilt)

72 ½” x 90 ½” (twin bed quilt)

84 ½” x 90 ½” (queen bed quilt)

108 ½” x 108 ½” (king bed quilt)

36 ½” x 36 ½” (crib quilt)

48 ½” x 54 ½” (lap quilt)

Here’s a quilt that will make you remember when you played with blocks as a kid, thanks to its fun design with five rows of ten vertical rectangular blocks each, with the blocks consisting of a contrasting square piece and a rectangle piece set above each other, arranged to alternate in a single row so that the small square pieces don’t touch.

by Fatquartershop

Offset Star Quilt

Your room will turn a lot more festive when you decorate it with this splendid quilt that has a pure white background with Froebel stars in various colors as the main motifs, set in five columns, three of which have five stars in them, while two columns between them have three stars and two halves of a star at the top and bottom.

by Thencamejune

Little Houses Baby Quilt Pattern

Have fun as you assemble triangles and rectangles to put together this beautiful quilt with a thin golden outer frame, a white base, and a grid of vertical rectangular blocks in seven rows with eleven blocks inside each row, made of a rectangle with a contrasting bottom corner, oriented so that two neighboring blocks look like mirror images of each other.

by Suzyquilts

Simple and Easy – Jumbo lone start quilt

Size: 52 x 52”

You don’t need grids of blocks to make a gorgeous quilt and this one proves that statement with its dark background and a single motif of a giant sawtooth star across most of the surface of the quilt, made up of eight rhombus pieces in different colors arranged in a circle to form the intricate star.

pattern: Cdn.shopify

Fat Quarter Cobblestone Shortcut Quilt Pattern

This pattern will let you feel like you got into masonry because it will show you how to make a quilt that has a design that resembles a cobblestone pavement, with blocks shaped like thick cross marks, put into five columns so they alternate between a few different but similar colors.

by Fatquartershop

Shoofly Quilt Pattern

Size: 63 x 63”

Here’s a quilt that makes great use of playing with contrasting colors, featuring a 7 x 7 grid of blocks that alternate between simple, solid, dirty white squares, and squares that are in various colors but all have a single dirty white square in their centers, with matching triangles around the square corners.

by Penelopehandmade

Fat quarter baby quilt pattern

This quilt is a demonstration of simplicity and creativity, with its multiple rows of rectangles oriented horizontally and arranged to alternate between colors, but also to match diagonally in color and be slightly offset with their neighboring rectangles so they form a bunch of staircase lines in different colors.

by Wren-collective

Walking on Sunshine Quilt Pattern

Size: 42″ x 50″

Make full use of that colorful patterned fabric you have and turn it into this lovely quilt that has a white base, colorful text, and seven columns with alternating vertical rectangles and squares with a bit of space between them, placed so the rectangles and the squares in nearby columns are offset each other.

by Fatquartershop

Roaring waves quilt pattern

Size: 56-1⁄2×54″

 

You’ll need fabrics in gray, black, blue, yellow, and the other darker shades of colors you can see on the beach to sew this beauty, a quilt that has wavy rows of rectangles in gradient colors that form a pixelated depiction of murky sea waves hitting the shore.by Allpeoplequilt

Color burst throw

Size: 60-1/2″ square

Despite its complex appearance, you won’t have any problems while you sew this enticing quilt that is made of creatively-arranged squares and rhombuses put in a 3 x 3 grid of blocks that look like rectangular clover leaves in different colors and have background-colored squares inside, each petal of the leaf with contrasting vertical halves.

by Allpeoplequilt

Fast and easy fat quarter quilt pattern

Size: 57″ x 70″

Prepare fifteen fat quarters and snatch this pattern to sew a simple, beautiful, festive quilt that features a thin outer frame with alternating contrasting rhombuses oriented diagonally, and six columns of upward rectangles and squares in all kinds of colors, offset from the columns next to them.

by Diaryofaquilter

Garden path FQ quilt

Feel the spring dance its way into your home with this bright quilt that has a dark outer frame with contrasting squares in its corners, an additional thin, bright frame inside, and a 9 x 9 grid of squares in alternating colors that have black and white checkered squares in the second, fourth, and sixth row with a single block distance between them on all four sides.

by Jedicraftgirl

Queen quilt fat quarter cut up

Size: 92 x 96”

Eighteen fat quarters and this pattern is all you need to be able to make a lovely quilt that has a pastel background with eight squares in different colors set in eight rows with equal distance between the squares and small white squares with X marks across them placed around the corners of each square.

by Sew4home

Fat quarter fancy quilt pattern

Size: 64’’ x 80’’

Feel the warm and soft embrace of the rainbow when you cover yourself with this fancy quilt that has a big lattice design across a pure white background that gradually changes from pink and purple hues into blue and green, going from the top-left corner to the bottom-right one.

by Sewcanshe

Garden moon quilt

You’ll break your record for most rectangles cut for a single quilt when you decide to make the quilt we have here, with a 20 x 11 grid of vertical rectangles that match in colors diagonally so the quilt has a color scheme similar to a rainbow that starts at one corner and ends at the diagonally opposite corner.

by Modafabrics

Urban Scandinavian Modern Half-Square-Triangles Quilt

Size: 93 x 108″ (king-size quilt)

Here’s a king-size quilt that will look amazing in your bedroom or your living room with its fun but simple design that features a 7 x 6 grid of basic half-square triangles that mostly have one half in matching colors like the blocks that are nearest to them, which makes them appear like large windmill blocks at a glance.

by Fairfieldworld

Parcel FQ quilt pattern

Size: 56 x 72”

Art is when you take inspiration from everyday objects and turn them into something beautiful, like this quilt that has a white background and eight offset rows of colorful triangles and thin vertical lines with a bit of space between them that look just like those buttons for keeping the doors open in an elevator.

by Cloud9fabrics

Rainbow Rail Fence Quilt

Size: 48 x 64”

Here’s a different and unique take on a rainbow design, a quilt that has a 3 x 4 grid of large blocks that feature a rectangular spiral in one of the colors of the rainbow per block, as well as a single white square in the center of each block, arranged so no blocks of same colors touch.

by Conniekresin

Color explosion quilt

Size: 36 x 48”

Enjoy the explosion of colors this lovely quilt boasts, with its numerous triangles arranged so they point towards the center from all four sides, with colors going through the gradients of red and orange from the top, blue and green from the bottom, and white from the sides in the middle.

by Bonjourquilts

Fat quarter mixer quilt

Six different sizes: 50 x 60”, 60” x 60”, 60” x 75”, 70” x 90”, 80” x 90”, 90” x 90”

Patterns that come in multiple sizes are a treat, especially this one that comes in six sizes and has a design that lets you rest a bit from all those symmetrical blocks most quilts have, with its blocks that are seemingly randomly some with vertically oriented rectangles with squares on one of their sides, and some with horizontally oriented contrasting or matching rectangles.

by Materialgirlquilts

I hope you liked my handpicked selection of free fat fat quarter designs and project ideas. There is something for everyone – and the selected designs vary by size, difficulty and style. Patterns may feature simple, repetitive blocks suitable for beginners, or more detailed and intricate designs for advanced quilters. The best thing about fat quarter quilt patterns is their adaptability, making them a staple in the quilter’s pattern repertoire and a favorite for workshops, quilting bees, and personal quilt-making endeavors.

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