Archive for February, 2008
* loop pieced baby quilt
Posted on February 28th, 2008 by maitreya. Filed under Projects with Instructions, Sewing/Fabric Crafts.
Since Amy posted her baby present, here’s the quilt I made for Becket, I mean the baby ;)
I know that yellow and gray is a kind of weird color scheme for a baby, but I think it works, particularly knowing the family. The cool yellow/white/gray geometric print is actually a huuuuuge curtain I found on sale at Anthropologie. That’s the fabric for the back of the quilt too. I think I might make a dress out of the rest of it.
So I thought I’d share my instructions in case anyone else is interested, and to show off the clever trick I came up with to get this done in time for the shower (though, for all I know, I might well have just rederived some well known quilting method, but I *felt* clever anyway). As you’re reading through it, you might think it sounds crazy because, get this, you sew seams and then rip them out later. Weird, I know, but it saves major time and makes all the seams come out much squarer. I call it loop piecing.
All seam allowances are ¼ inch.
- You’ll need 9 coordinating fabrics that can alternate. Cut 5 inch wide strips from each, the width of the bolt (use 45 inch wide fabric, not 36).
- Decide what order you want the fabrics, and sew strips together along long sides, right sides together. Iron seams.
- Sew last strip to first strip, right sides together, to create a tube.
- Square it up so the seams all match and slice into 8 loops, each 5 in wide. You should have enough extra fabric that you can cut off the selvages for a clean edge on both ends.
- Using a seam ripper, open a different seam of each loop. Iron again.
- Arrange the strips so you get diagonals of each fabric.
- Pin adjacent strips, right sides together, to help make the corners match up. Sew. Iron again.
- Cut backing fabric and batting 1 in larger all around than quilt top. Layer.
- I tied this one with little embroidery thread x’s at the junctions, but you can quilt it or tie it, whatever you want.
- Bind by your favorite method (mine is to just fold the binding over and zigzag to catch everything at once). I made my own binding for this since I couldn’t find the exact color of gray to match. (FYI, I highly recommend the clover binding tools. I have a couple of generic ones in other sizes, but now that I know how much better the clover ones are, I am actually going to replace my nonclover ones. Really, it’s like night and day.)
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This week, I’m in Jaipur, India, starting my second teaching stint with Ritchie Ace Camps. Last year’s Jaipur experience was amazing (lots of pics here), and I can’t wait to meet everyone who is coming on the 2015 version (although I’m going to miss last year’s group like mad!). I hadn’t used block printing techniques a lot …
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