April 30, 2010
I want to make a quilt swaddling my daughter’s age – something you can take to sleep away from home one day or relax on the sofa. Does anyone know where I can find some good models for what it is? All colors are very light, most designs have a bit of light background. I am really a beginner, so something easy is better. Thank you!
April 30th, 2010 at 11:06 am
Just cut them up in equal sized squares and go to town!
April 30th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Any quilting stores, micheals, walmart, Hancock Fabrics, Joannes and so on has great patterns to choose from. OR just cut squares as many as you can from each blanket and sew them to gether in a kinda pattern and advance from there. I did that wiht my daughters holiday clothing from birth to 2 yrs, its small but she loves it. And now Im working on my youngests quilt. Good luck
April 30th, 2010 at 11:55 am
how about taking the blankets that are in the best condition and cuting them into say about 8 inch squares. than with contrasting blankets, cut out hearts, moons, suns, flowers (like a daisy head) and than stitch them on the squares. That would make a cute blanket.
April 30th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Even easier than squares would be long strips (the whole width or length of the finished quilt) since there would then be no seams to “match” when sewing together.
You could make the strips any width you want, or vary their widths, and you could even intentionally make them unparallel which would be more like a “crazy” strips pattern. Then just sew the strips together along their long sides (can do it in sections if you want, then join the sections).
A “brick” pattern of smaller rectangles would also work to avoid having to match seams because the bricks are offset from each other:
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=brick+quilt
Or of course, you could just do a “whole cloth” quilt by using a whole baby blanket on each side of the quilt with a batting in-between.
If you’re new to this, I’d suggest just making the quilt with the “inside-out” or “quick turn” technique, then just “tie” the quilt:
Here’s some info on that technique
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070531101935AAemBUZ
http://www.fabriclandwest.com/quilters%20corner/Birthing_quilt.htm
http://thecraftstudio.com/qwc/finish.htm
http://blankie.made4usa.com/StarIndex/QuickPin/Quickpin.html
(although she uses no batting, and also pins the top and back together for sewing around *a lot* which probably isn’t necessary)
Here are some links on “tying” a quilt:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=tie+quilt
She’ll love it though whatever you do!
HTH,
Diane B.