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A quilt design usually requires small quantities of several fabrics and for most quilters fat quarters are a convenient and affordable way to buy fabric for a design.

A fat quarter is half a yard or metre of fabric cut in half across the width, yielding a piece that is normally 18in x 22in (46 x 56cm), which is much more useful and versatile than a thin quarter, which is approximately 9in x 42in (23cm x 106cm). Fat eighths are also more useful than thin eighths. For the number of squares yielded from a fat quarter see Useful Information.