I started a quilt and I have had soooo many people ask me how to make it that I thought I would do a tutorial on it. It's a great quilt to use scraps on so here goes.......
I'm just doing a wall hanging so I bought 6 yards of muslin. It only comes in cream, white or black and I wanted color so I dyed it. I used Dylon fabric dye in olive green.
It's really easy to use and 2 packets did all the material
After it was dyed, washed and dried and ironed, I cut the material in 9 1/4 inch squares. You can do any size you want from 6-10. Just make sure you give yourself the 1/4 inch on the edges
fold all 4 sides in 1/4 of an inch and iron down
fold over and match ends and iron
fold the opposite way and iron, this will give you the mid point of your square
now this is like origami, you start folding in the corners to the midpoint that you found when you ironed the material
make sure you iron it down really good and then once again you fold all 4 corners into the middle
your square should look like this when done
tack all four points down in the middle, my camera sucks so I couldn't get a close enough pic of that
the to join the squares..I do 2 at a time, you do a running stitch on the BACK of the squares
then take a piece of scrap and fit it in the middle. I just use a bunch of scraps and trim as needed.fold over the edge of the material catching the edge of the scrap and hand sew down.
do this for all 4 edges and it should look like this, I hope you can see it
keep doing 2 squares then sew them together to make a 4 square patch and put scraps anywhere there is a diamond. If I have explained all this good enough, then you should end up with something like this.
you just keep adding squares til it is the size that you want. I love this quilt because there is no need for batting or backing. I throw a bunch of squares and scraps in a ziplock bag and take along to my sons football practice or anywhere else I know I'll be waiting awhile. If you have any questions just ask.Enjoy :)
ps: A wonderful woman named Connie taught me how to make this. She makes the MOST amazing quilts I have ever seen!
ps: A wonderful woman named Connie taught me how to make this. She makes the MOST amazing quilts I have ever seen!
Now maybe I can get on to all the stuff I need to make for the craft shows coming up!
I have 3 crafts shows in November so I'm trying to stock up and start making all the bags and things I'll need. With beautiful fabric like this its hard not to be inspired!
