Patchwork quilts or quilts made with patchwork are beautiful to look at, own and make. One of the first craft projects that past generations of young girls learned was to make patchwork quilts. Getting started is very simple and your skills will continue to grow each time you complete a project.
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Method 1 of 3: Before Sewing
Step 1. Gather used materials or patchwork
You can get patchwork from your other sewing projects, old clothes, or fabric from family and friends. Save it all for your patchwork quilt project.
You can choose a patchwork of the same size or a variety of sizes and shapes, depending on your taste. Think about how the pieces of fabric come together. Try at least 6 different patterns
Step 2. Find a pattern
Search the internet (Google Books is a good place to start) and craft books to find patterns that match your interests or create your own pattern by deciding what kind of quilt you're going to make.
Quilt designs use small pieces of fabric and create a collage display from a single piece of a design blueprint. The piece of fabric is usually no smaller than 5 cm2 and can be much larger than that, depending on the design you choose
Step 3. Choose the quilt pattern you want
Then cut the fabric according to the color and pattern you need. Sharp scissors are necessary for this step.
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Make sure you have an extra 1.25 cm of sewing space on each side of the patchwork piece. If you want a 5 cm rectangle, be sure to cut 6.25 cm on each side.
Of course you don't have to use only squares or squares. Rectangles and triangles can also be used
- Form your pattern on the floor. It's easier to put them together when they haven't been sewn together. Arrange the pieces of fabric in the order you want them to be. Besides being able to see how the colors are arranged, you can also see how big the quilt will be and whether the size is to your liking.
Method 2 of 3: Making a Quilt
Step 1. Sew each quilt piece together
Work by line. You can use a sewing machine or by hand if you are confident in your stitches–and if you are patient enough.
- Once all the rows are sewn, join all the rows together. It's easier to put all the rows together than to sew random pieces of fabric.
- Make sure all the pieces of fabric are facing the correct side! The patterned parts must face the same. If you are using a sewing machine, make sure the foot setting is 0.6 cm.
Step 2. Press the quilt surface with an iron
Set the temperature according to your fabric. Smooth out the seams to make sure the quilt is straight when you're done sewing.
Step 3. Use one sheet of fabric for the back of your quilt
It should be 20 cm wider and longer than the top of the finished quilt. Store-bought fabric will be cut to your needs, but you may need to buy two long strips of fabric and then sew them together.
- Place the fabric in an area where you can put everything together. Place it face down to the floor. The back side of the fabric is facing you.
- Spread it on the floor or a large, wide table. Place it with the cloth face down. Smooth the surface of the fabric.
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Attach the top and bottom to the floor using masking tape, smoothing out the creases before placing the tape. It's important to make the fabric as smooth as possible without pulling the fabric so tightly that the lines change.
Once leveled, take Quilter's 505 and spray it over the quilt back fabric
Step 4. Spread a layer of quilt batting (foam cotton) over the fabric
Batting tends to hold the crease in place, but as long as you've smoothed it out, don't worry, you won't see the crease line. Batting does not need to be ironed.
Spray another 505 over the batting
Step 5. Lay the quilt front face up
The layer should be even without wrinkles. You'll end up with a smaller quilt front than the quilt's batting and back fabric – this is intentional because otherwise it will be difficult to align all the layers perfectly. Smooth out all the creases until the front of the quilt is even.
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Unite all layers with a pin at a distance of 15, 24 cm from each other. You can use as many pens as you want. Attach the pin from the center and out concentrically. This means the fabric will be squeezed out of the quilt instead of gathering in the middle.
Once everything is pinned, remove the tape, removing the quilt from the floor
Step 6. Sew everything together
How you stitch each layer together depends on your preference, experienced quilters often use a free-motion, undulating stitch to sew a quilt with loops and loops. However, the simplest method is with stitch-in-the-ditch. This means sewing horizontally so that the seam goes into the ditch that is created when two pieces of patchwork are held together by a seam.
- Sew all the layers or use a twisting pattern using yarn that contrasts with the color of the fabric. You'll also need to sew in the center of each square so that the back and front of the quilt don't separate.
- Once the quilt is finished sewing until all the layers come together, you can trim the edges of the quilt, trimming the back and batting that shows off the edges of the quilt.
Method 3 of 3: Sewing Quilt Edges
Step 1. Cut lengths of fabric for the edge of the quilt
The size depends on the size of your quilt. A good size is about 6.25 cm in width. This long piece of fabric will form the frame on all sides of your quilt.
- Cut the fabric long enough to go around the quilt. It has to be longer than the quilt to be able to stack on both sides.
- If you don't have four long pieces of fabric, put several pieces of fabric together until they are enough for the length of the quilt's circumference.
Step 2. Align the long fabric for the edge of the quilt
Line up the long fabric with the fronts facing each other, pinning along the long side of the quilt.
