Friday, September 27, 2013

Create Colorful Quilts With Novelty Quilting Fabric

By Marla Mills


Imagination and children go hand in hand. Making a children's quilt using novelty quilting fabric will provide hours of fun and endless imagination. They are fun to make, and the colors, characters and other fun children's imagines will provide hours of learning.

To make the quilt, pick the colors and novelty materials. Pick lots of colors, and materials with shapes, characters, dolls, airplanes, toy cars, or pictures of clothing, beds. Pick things the child likes, and can identify with.

After choosing just the right fabric, beginning cutting pieces into square of five inches. Scrap material can also be used, carefully cutting into five inches. Now make the pattern by arranging pieces on a table, or flat surface. Fun pieces should be paired with a solid color next to it, and then another novelty piece. Lay the first row in this manner.

Laying beside the novelty patch is a solid, and beside the solid, another novelty patch. The next row will be a solid, a patch with shapes, and a color. The last row will start with patches with images again, a solid, and another image.

Now that the design has been laid out on the table, pick up patch one and patch two to the far left of the first row. Pick them up with material wrong side out, and lay them on top of each other in this way. These will be the first two pieces sewn. Place them on the sewing machine and make a quarter inch seam. The next two patches of the next row will be sewn in same way, and followed by the far left two patches in the third row.

Once finished, there should be three pieces left on the table. Take the pieces already sewn together and place them face side up on the table. Take the loose patch on the top right and place it wrong side out on top of the middle piece for final sewing. Go back to machine and sew a quarter inch seam. Without leaving the machine, take the next loose piece and place it wrong side up on top of the next row piece, as was done previously on the table. Sew and repeat to the last row, and finish sewing.

There will be only threads holding the rows together, as they are not yet completely sewn. Heat an iron, and leave the rows attached by the threads, and iron face side up. After ironing attach the rows by sewing together. Do this by turning of the rows wrong side of fabric showing on top of the next row. Sew a one quarter seam in place. Repeat this with the last row as well. After sewing, iron the nine block.

Measure the nine block. Fourteen inches should be the measurement. Place a ruler, straight up and down the block, at the 7 inch marker. Cut in half. Place one of the cut pieces long way on the measuring board, and see that it measures at fourteen inches. Cut it in half. Do the same with the other half piece. Once cut, place the four pieces on the table in the original pattern. Flip each piece the opposite way. By doing this a whole new, colorful pattern is created for the quilt. Sew the four pieces together using previously described method. Create the rest of the quilt by using the same novelty quilting fabric block method.




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