Imagination and children go hand in hand. Making a children's quilt using novelty quilting fabric will provide hours of fun and endless imagination. They are fun to make, and the colors, characters and other fun children's imagines will provide hours of learning.
To begin making the quilt start by selecting fabric. Select various colored, patterned, and novelty fabric pieces. Pieces can be cartoon characters, animals, letters, numbers, people, or anything else that peeks interest and would be fun to include.
Now that all the fabric has been picked out, its time to cut them in squares. Cut in squares of five inches. Lay squares flat on a table in the arrangement they will be sewn. Coordinate novelty pieces with squares of more subdued color, and solid. They should be laying on the table in patch of 9 pieces, three patches each row. The first row should start with a colorful piece that might include a cartoon character or a race car.
Laying beside the novelty patch is a solid, and beside the solid, another novelty patch. The next row will be a solid, a patch with shapes, and a color. The last row will start with patches with images again, a solid, and another image.
Once the design has been established begin sewing by picking up the first two pieces on the left, in the first row, wrong side out. Using the sewing machine, sew a quarter inch seam on one side. Picking up the next two, to the left, in the second row, repeat the quarter inch seam. Do the same in the third row, with the two pieces to the left.
Three patches are still on the table. Remove the pieces from the table that have already been sewn and lay them on the table, with material showing the correct side. Pick up the remaining patch from the first row and lay wrong side up on first patch, of the first row, already sewn. On sewing machine, again make a seam. Sew the last two patches in this same manner at the machine.
There will be only threads holding the rows together, as they are not yet completely sewn. Heat an iron, and leave the rows attached by the threads, and iron face side up. After ironing attach the rows by sewing together. Do this by turning of the rows wrong side of fabric showing on top of the next row. Sew a one quarter seam in place. Repeat this with the last row as well. After sewing, iron the nine block.
The nine piece should now measure at 14 inches. Lay a ruler horizontally down the middle of the 9 patch, and cut in half. Turn each piece vertically, and cut in half again. This should measure 14 inches, cut on the 7 inch line. Line the four pieces up in the pattern started with. Take each piece and turn in the opposite direction. This creates a colorful, fun novelty quilting fabric for children, with many different ways to name things on the quilt and see if children can find it. Sew the new block, and repeat the nine patch process for the entire quilt.
To begin making the quilt start by selecting fabric. Select various colored, patterned, and novelty fabric pieces. Pieces can be cartoon characters, animals, letters, numbers, people, or anything else that peeks interest and would be fun to include.
Now that all the fabric has been picked out, its time to cut them in squares. Cut in squares of five inches. Lay squares flat on a table in the arrangement they will be sewn. Coordinate novelty pieces with squares of more subdued color, and solid. They should be laying on the table in patch of 9 pieces, three patches each row. The first row should start with a colorful piece that might include a cartoon character or a race car.
Laying beside the novelty patch is a solid, and beside the solid, another novelty patch. The next row will be a solid, a patch with shapes, and a color. The last row will start with patches with images again, a solid, and another image.
Once the design has been established begin sewing by picking up the first two pieces on the left, in the first row, wrong side out. Using the sewing machine, sew a quarter inch seam on one side. Picking up the next two, to the left, in the second row, repeat the quarter inch seam. Do the same in the third row, with the two pieces to the left.
Three patches are still on the table. Remove the pieces from the table that have already been sewn and lay them on the table, with material showing the correct side. Pick up the remaining patch from the first row and lay wrong side up on first patch, of the first row, already sewn. On sewing machine, again make a seam. Sew the last two patches in this same manner at the machine.
There will be only threads holding the rows together, as they are not yet completely sewn. Heat an iron, and leave the rows attached by the threads, and iron face side up. After ironing attach the rows by sewing together. Do this by turning of the rows wrong side of fabric showing on top of the next row. Sew a one quarter seam in place. Repeat this with the last row as well. After sewing, iron the nine block.
The nine piece should now measure at 14 inches. Lay a ruler horizontally down the middle of the 9 patch, and cut in half. Turn each piece vertically, and cut in half again. This should measure 14 inches, cut on the 7 inch line. Line the four pieces up in the pattern started with. Take each piece and turn in the opposite direction. This creates a colorful, fun novelty quilting fabric for children, with many different ways to name things on the quilt and see if children can find it. Sew the new block, and repeat the nine patch process for the entire quilt.
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