This is my newest baby quilt. The tutorial for it is below. I hope you like it.
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These are the supplies I used. The panels were donated to the volunteer group I work with. The pig panel is 17in square, the smaller barn panel is 17in x 9in. Throughout I used 2in strips for sashing and to fill in the center top and bottom squares. I used solid blue and red and the backing was 29in x 45in, gray blue, prebatted and quilted. I used white thread for construction and dark blue on the top for quilting.
The first thing I did was join the pig panel with the barn panel, using a strip of 2in sashing.
Now this becomes sort of a foundation pieced project. I sew each component together, then sew it to the backing wrong sides together, and fold each piece into place, sealing the seams inside the top and the backing. The photos will explain, I hope.
Then I sewed it down on the backing piece, using the seams of the sashing.
Now I folded it up and ironed it.
It is now attached to the backing.
Next, I made the borders. They are red diamonds in blue rectangles. I made them from 3in squares of red and blue triangles. I made the triangles by drawing them on the red fabric, sewing, and cutting them apart.
The grid is 3 1/2 in squares, with a diagonal line drawn through the points. This fabric is then matched with the blue, right sides together, and sewn 1/4 in on either side of the diagonal lines.
I cut this piece apart along the straight lines.
Then I cut along the diagonal lines and the remaining straight lines to get squares of red and blue triangles, 3in sq. Each drawn square makes two triangle squares.
These squares were joined to make the diamonds blocks, 5in x 5 1/2in.
These were joined to make the borders. Here are all the assembled pieces, read to sew down on the backing.
The long borders fit just right.
Then I folded it out and ironed it.
I did this on both sides.
The top borders were too long by 1 square but it had to come out of the two middle sqaures to make the pattern fit. That meant I had to put a sashing strip in between two 1/2 squares.
I had to take out half of the two center squares and replace them with the strip to make the border fit at the seams. I made up the pattern, so I can change it whenever I want to. :-p.
Here it is again, finished.
I bound it with 2in strips, folded in half and sewn, edge out on the edge, then folded over and hand stitched to the seam line on the back side. I machine quilted it over some of the printed designs and borders and around the diamonds in the borders. This was a quick way to make a baby quilt using panels. You can adjust to any size, just be sure to make the backing large enough. This one finished at 36 x 24.
Here is another one is the same style but the binding isn't finished.
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