Quilting Math

[bertine]

I am making a rainbow quilt for a baby out of "half square triangles" and I have never had so many issues with math before! I am going to have 360 2.5" squares and I am trying to figure out how wide and tall the quilt should be without any leftover pieces.

Dudes, I am good at math! Why can't I figure this out? Here are all the options (in number of squares):

1 X 360
2 x 180
3 x 120
5 x 72
6 x 60
8 x 45
9 x 40
10 x 36
12 x 30
15 x 24
18 x 20

The 18 x 20 is a 45" x 50" quilt. The 15 x 24 is 37.5" x 60". So which do you think would be nicer for a baby?


Also, how am going to lay out the 360 and keep them in order while I am sewing them together?

Comments

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

I know nothing of quilting. Can you lightly connect them with a loose stitch?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

That takes as long as stitching them together. :(

[i12bmore.livejournal.com]

I would think the 45 x 50 is more the dimensions of a baby blanket.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I also think so.

[pork_chop]

I would provably do the more square size, 18x20.

What do you mean about laying out?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I need to keep them in order while I sew them. I don't want to do a design wall since I don't have a good place to put it and I can't leave it in the hallway while I sew them together (which is what I did with the space invader). It is much more complicated than the invader.

[pork_chop]

for my churn dash block quilt, after laying everything out how i wanted the final product, i labeled each block with a post-it denoting the row (such as a, b, c, etc.) and the column (1, 2, 3) - then i piled them on top of each other and put them in a container the cats can't get into to mess up.

[jonthedull.livejournal.com]

It seems the squareish one is probably more practical for a baby the 15x24 seems like it may be sort of odd proportions. But I know nothing of babies or quilts..

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I have made baby blanket close to thoes dimentions but I think this one will be more square.

[annablume.livejournal.com]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=quilting.calculators&hl=en

[pork_chop]

cool!

here is the iphone version: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quiltingcalc/id390366459?mt=8