What is a froggy fat quarter?
No, it is not a fried frog leg with lots of fat. It is a piece of fabric that is one quarter of a yard with a frog print on it.
Fat Quarters are mostly used by quilters, who often buy small amounts (1/4 yard) of lots of different materials to piece together into a quilt. If you get 1/4 yard from a fabric store, it is cut as a 9″ length of a 44″ wide material. A long skinny piece like that can be hard to use, so instead quilting stores sell “fat quarters”, which are quarter-yards of material that have been pre-cut in the “fat” direction of the fabric. So, it’s still a quarter yard of material but it’s 18″ x 22″ instead of 9″ x 44″.
The biggest advantage to using fat quarters is that you get more of the pattern on the material in a single block. This is really useful for fabrics with a large print or when you have a quilt design that calls for one large square of fabric in the center.
You can save a lot of money buying fabric in fat quarters when you only need small amounts of that particular fabric. The FrogStore has over a dozen different (and hard-to-find) designs of froggy fat quarters.