Since we have had two new babies in the family, I am making another rag quilt. This one is made out of a flat child's sheet that no longer has its mate and an old towel. Rag quilts seem to be very forgiving for the beginner quilter (um - that would be me!) and fairly quick to make into the bargain. If you have always wanted to make a quilt - I reckon one of these is the way to go!
Here's what I did...
For some great tutorial on rag quilts, have a look at the instructions for my first one here, or have a look at this You-Tube video tutorial here, or these links here and here. This is a link to a pretty striped rag quilt
Score card:
Green-ness: 5/5 for creating something new out of "old" items.
Frugal-ness: 5/5 for only paying for the postage and not the gift!
Time cost: Probably about 4 hours all up over 3 days
Skill level: Basic impatient beginners sewing in a straight line level!
Fun -ness: This one is great fun - such bright happy colours!
Here's what I did...
Find a pleasant place to sew...
Preferably with a view that includes chickens!
Cut out all the cool pictures on the sheet and then put them back to back with a layer of towel in between so that you end up with a sandwich of picture, towel and then picture.
Play around with the arrangment until you have them all in lines that are roughly the same length
This time I chose to quilt each one with a different pattern... Just to see if it could be done. (and it can) Traditionally, rag quilts have been quilted with an X accross the square. Have a look at the links at th bottom of the page for variations on a rag quilt.
As fun as this is - I forgot that I would lose some of the picture to the seams...
Then I joined the panels together into strips
And then the strips to each other...
Which gives me a quilt with a front like so...
And a back like thus...
Now all I have to do is sew around and then snip all the edges, which would have been so much easier to do if I hadn't sprained the knuckles on my right hand playing basketball yesterday! Oh well, I will be able to catch up with some blogs while Im sitting around unable to do much with my mangled hand in the meantime...
I'll update as soon as I can hold a pair of sissors!
For some great tutorial on rag quilts, have a look at the instructions for my first one here, or have a look at this You-Tube video tutorial here, or these links here and here. This is a link to a pretty striped rag quilt
Score card:
Green-ness: 5/5 for creating something new out of "old" items.
Frugal-ness: 5/5 for only paying for the postage and not the gift!
Time cost: Probably about 4 hours all up over 3 days
Skill level: Basic impatient beginners sewing in a straight line level!
Fun -ness: This one is great fun - such bright happy colours!
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