The numbers below are for that 50 by 65 inch quilt, with 4 inches of overhang for the backing and batting, 2 1/2 inch binding strips, and ordinary 42 inch quilting cotton. Change the quilt in the card and they follow.
Materials for a 50 × 65 inch quilt
Four inches of overhang on the back and the batting. Binding is 2 1/2 inch strips. The top is not in this list, because a pieced top is not a rectangle.
- Binding, 42" fabric
- 1/2 yard
- Backing, 42" fabric
- 3 1/4 yards
- Backing, 108" fabric
- 2 1/8 yards
- Batting to cut
- 58" × 73"
Open Backing in the studio. The form on this page is that calculator.
The top is not a rectangle
A pieced throw top is not "50 times 65, divided by the width of the fabric." Seams, sashing, and the way a block is cut all change the yardage, and a single number would be a guess wearing a precise face. Design the top, or follow a pattern that already counted the pieces. Quiltler's fabric calculator does that from the design itself.
People still want a shopping range. A simple throw top is often somewhere around 4 to 6 yards in total, split across several fabrics, before backing and binding. Treat that as a budget for the shop, then replace it with the pattern's list or a design before you cut.
A throw is often the right first bed-size
Fifty by sixty-five inches is large enough to drape a sofa and small enough to quilt on a domestic machine without a weeks-long marathon. That is why so many first finished quilts are throws. The back still wants continuous cloth, not leftover charm squares sewn into a puzzle. Use the card to change the inches if your throw is taller or wider, then take the top yardage from a pattern or from a design in the studio.
Compare sizes in the quilt sizes guide. If you are designing the throw, the throw quilt designer page is the studio job. A standalone fabric calculator helps when you are not inside a saved design.