Charade Quilt Pattern - PDF Download

This colorful improv quilt uses scraps of all sizes, Jelly Rolls, Fat Quarters, or even yardage. It uses a “controlled improv” method meaning that you will have a plan and boundaries to help it flow even if you feel improv is difficult. 

Materials 

Choose from solids, blenders, and small print fabrics that don’t include contrasting spots, lines, or objects. Each piece should read a single color after cut to size.         

NOTES ON COLORS & FABRICS 

1. A “Color” would be a light blue, or a dark blue, or a medium purple. 

2. A Color Group is “all” Blues or “all” Purples. (ROY G BIV)

3. Pieces A-E cut from one “strip” come from a single fabric or “color” unless you are using scraps. You may need different fabrics to equal a single “color” when using scraps.

4. You may have all the ROY G BIV color groups in your quilt, or just Y (yellow) & G (green) as an example. If you only have Y & G you should have lights to darks for each color group.

5. Regardless of the number of color groups, you need a variety of lights and darks in your quilt.

****UPDATE NOTE ON CUTTING:

Start cutting each strip with piece E and work your way to A. If your fat quarter or yardage was cut a little short or made a little less than 44" you will only be missing a small piece A. I don't like waste, but also as a mostly scrap quilt, you can simply cut one additional strip of all A pieces and have enough. Solid fabrics that bleed through to both sides evenly often have solid selvages and you can use a smidge of that in a piece A.