patchwork quilt If you are just starting to master the techniquepatchwork, it is desirable to start with simple but large products. For work, it is best to use cotton fabrics. Therefore, we suggest you to sew in a patchwork style a blanket made of fast squares. By the way, having mastered this method of patchwork sewing, you can easily and quickly make not only blankets, bedspreads or blankets, but also smaller things (pillows, potholders, etc.).

Preparation for work

First of all, it is necessary to decide on thethe size of the blanket and its color scheme. Of course, it is advisable to use fabrics of matching colors, but as a training you can take any cuts at all. And for this blanket we will need cuts, because we will sew it from long strips of fabric, which "turn" into patchwork squares. In addition, we will need a piece of cloth (for the size of the blanket) for the back side of the blanket and the same size of the cutaway as well as the fabric for the fringing. So, for a blanket in patchwork style, we prepare a calico of three different colors, scissors, thread, pencil, ruler-square (or pattern-square) and a sewing machine. If you still do not know how to masterfully handle a sewing machine, then prepare also pins or a thread with a needle to sweep the parts. Prepared cotton must first be soaked in hot water for about ten to fifteen minutes, and then rinse it thoroughly in clean water. It would not be a bad thing to starch the fabric. To do this, dilute the starch in cold water (a tablespoon of starch to a glass of water), in a separate saucepan, boil two liters of water, pour the solution of starch into boiling water and immediately remove the pan from the fire. When the water is slightly cool, rinse the calico in it and leave to dry, hanging the fabric on a rope or on a crossbar. Wet the calico with a hot iron on the share thread, and so that the fabric does not stick to the iron, iron it through a dry gauze or a thin cotton cloth. That, strictly speaking, that's all. We have prepared the fabric, and now we will start creating the very fastest squares, of which we sew a patchwork quilt. By the way, the master class of making quick squares in this way was presented by the artist Elena Folomieva at the Gatchina festival-2010. quilt patchwork

Making quick squares

First, we take two fabrics of different colors andwe cut out of them two bands of equal width. Then we put the stripes on the wrong sides, we weak them and iron the seam well. After that, we measure the width of the resulting part and we cut out the third strip (from the third cut) of the same width plus the allowances for the seams. Fold this strip with the first detail with the sides and again sew on both sides. As a result, we get a two-sided "sleeve" - ​​one side of the two stitched strips, the other from one whole strip. After that, lay out our cotton sleeve on the table and cut out squares from it. To do this, place the ruler square on the fabric, unfolding the square with an angle downwards and aligning its extreme (diagonally) corners with the bottom seam line. Cut off part of the strip on the right side of the ruler (obliquely of the fabric strip, from right to left). We shift the ruler to the left and up, we combine its extreme angles with the line of the top line. In this case, the right corner of the ruler should lie on the intersection of the previous line of the cut with the seam line. Again we make a cut along the left side of the square from left to right. Again, shift down, combine, cut, again - up, combine, cut. And in this way we cut two-sided triangles from the sleeve. Unfolding the triangles, you will see that you have obtained patchwork squares of two kinds, sewed from three different fabrics. It is these squares that we will add for the production of our patchwork quilt.

Connection of squares

For the manufacture of products in the style of patchworkdifferent patterns are used. Those squares that have turned out for us, will make a pattern in the form of rhombuses, in the form of zigzags, in the form of triangles or in the form of scales. Try different options, laying out our quick squares and choosing the one that you like best and corresponds to your idea of ​​a blanket made in the style of quilting technique. After selecting a picture, you can start to stitch the squares. First, we squeeze out of the squares longitudinal strips (in the width of one square) and iron the seams. Then the finished strips alternately we weak into the whole canvas and again smooth the seams. The front side of the blanket is ready! quilts of patchwork

Making a blanket

For our patchwork quilt we useany suitable fabric that will become its wrong side. But the best way to do this is to take a cut of cotton, cambric or staple. Now we lay out a piece of lining fabric on the table face down, put a sintepon on it, and put a patchwork sheet on top (face up). After that, we sweep or chop all the details together and quilt the quilt on the sewing machine: it is possible on the borders of squares, but it is possible on the boundaries of the resulting figure. It remains to cut out the fringing. For her we cut off a piece of cloth eight centimeters wide and a little more than one side of the blanket. Fold the fringe in half (along the length), press, apply to the front side of the blanket, aligning the open cut edge with the edge of the blanket, and we add it. Next, turn the free edges (beyond the blanket) edging to its underside, wrap the edging on the wrong side of the blanket and tie it from the front side, making a line on the patchwork cloth. We also trim the other sides of the blanket. However, for edging, you can use the usual bake or sew a blanket in the style of patchwork in any convenient way for you. You can, for example, stitch the strip for edging from the remains of all three fabrics used for fast squares. You can take for finishing only one of these fabrics, and you can make edging from any other fabric. By the way, for a baby blanket, you can sew ruches as edging. But it all depends on your taste, your ability to handle a needle and thread, from your mood and imagination. Good luck! We advise you to read:

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