Part 2

Sorry for the delay.....   


Heres part two....


Materials:

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  • Heavy cotton for middle of quilt
  • Heavy cotton or Soft Fleece for backing.
  • Pencil 
  • Scissors
  • Sewing Machine

1.  Take your fleece that you will be using for the middle and lay it out on a flat surface, like a floor or cutting table.  Then lay the front piece on it, right side facing up.

2.  Cut out the fleece along the edge of the blanket.  I lined this one up against the edge of the fleece so I only had to do three cuts.  Pin along the edge of the front piece.  Edge stitch around the two pieces to make them into one piece. 

3.  Once you have the middle piece and the front piece together, repeat the above step with a few differences.   Lay out your backing fleece with the side you want facing out toward you. Then you want to lay the front piece right side down onto that.  You want to make sure the two right sides of the quilt are facing each other.  Then follow the same method as above.  Carefully cut out and then pin around.  

4.  A trick for pinning the pieces together.  You want to leave a part open so you can flip the quilt around to the right side.  I usually do this in the middle of the short side so my corners will always look nice. 

             (I usually do a straight pin length ways to remind me to not sew between the pins)

5.  Go ahead and sew around the edge of the quilt.  


6.  Now its time to trim the corners before flipping right side out.  Take your scissors and trim the corner without cutting into the seam you just made.  

7.  Now flip right side out!  To get the corners nice and flush, take your scissors (closed! of course!)  and push them into the corner.  That pushes the seam out nicely.  Now the part we left open should look something like this:

8.  Fold that part in.  It should fall in line with the rest of the seam.  Pin it down.  Now carefully edge stitch around the whole blanket to keep it in line.  It will look like this:

9.  Now would be the time to applique something onto the quilt to "quilt" it, but I chose to just leave this quilt with the edge stitching.  You can do anything from just sewing along the seam lines of the blocks to sewing any shape you like right onto the quilt.  I've done lines, stars, swirls, and just edge stitching.  Remember, as long as you've put two pieces of fabric together you've quilted something.  

                          (The finished product)




Have fun!  Next time I'll show you different examples of quilted fabric.