Step 1

The first step is to pick the fabrics you want to use. Generally with a rag quilt, you want to chose more floral prints, but anything is fine. To encourage better fraying, cotton and flannel fabrics work best for this quilt. I have used all cotton for mine. For this particular pattern, you want to have four different prints for the four small block pattern, and a separate print for the larger solid blocks. You then need a solid fabric for the buffer, and either a solid or print fabric for the back of the quilt.