BUT PAY ATTENTION: the sashings will be 3 cm wide finished size. Sew a tunnel at the back/upper side of the quilt for hanging the quilt to a wall. Block 5 to 8 on the second row and block 9 to 12 on the bottom row. You can copy the code and insert it easily at the desired location in your blog. Also 3 strips of 5 x 110cm (= out of the width of the fabric) for the horizontal sashings and 5 strips of 9 x 110cm (= out of the width of the fabric) for binding. Now you can add more Hotfix stones if you want to, for special effect. Choose different decorative stitches and varietaged threads, working on both sides of the sashings. The last job was to trim the overhanging patch edges even with the foundation square and the crazy quilt block is ready for embroidery and embellishment. If there is an area that has an especially heavy piece of embellishment on the front, you can add more quilting stitches around it from the back. To check if the sashings are sewn on the right way, place the three rows on top of each other: they have to looks as one uninterrupted line. This way the quilt will be aprox. Finishing my second Vintage sewing crazy quilt – a re-blog. Subscribe to the newsletter and receive news, promotions and projects directly in your inbox. The 3 stroken of 5 x 110cm for the horizontal sashings will be sewn together to make one long strip. I climbed the stairs, and shot the picture, a bit to the side. Get it? The actual width of the fabric is 110cm, and because you will need a larger strip, sewing 3 strips together and cut this in half gives you 2 larger strips. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. Beth shows you how to figure your needed border length and how to add the border to your quilt top. If you are using one long uncut strip, sew it onto the blocks, cut the strip along the side of the quilt after sewing, and use the left over part for the second sashing for the other blocks. Our goal as crazy quilters is to have our quilts hang straight and true, with the surface even and flat...we don't want wrinkles or sagging distracting the viewer from all the delights of our embellishment work, and we want those embellishments to stay put. We use cookies to improve your experience. You are welcome to copy this banner and use it on your blog or social media channels. I wish I had known these tricks when I first started crazy quilting. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. Together with Irene from Sugaridoo you sew a colorful Mystery-Quilt. I’ve wanted to make something similar but hadn’t quite figured out the process in my head yet. Make sure the space between the sashings is equal with all blocks! can distort the strips you are about to cut. TIP: Take pictures with your phone, to check when assembling. The final part of this project. If you want to, you can pin pieces of paper on each left/top corner, with the number of the block incidating the placement, to keep order of assembly. My quilt in progress: doesn’t it looks great already? I will use the picture of my placement to assemble. When sewing the binding onto the quilt, sew the strip and cut after sewing per side. Using a ruler and rotary cutter and the quilt top as a guide, trim the excess batting and backing layers so that all edges of the quilt are the same. There are no perfect quilts and agonizing over a couple of intersections not matching won’t finish your quilt. "Paper Piecing", or "Foundation" quilting, takes all the hassle out of cutting and sewing your quilt block. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is entirely up to you if you want to cut the blocks at a larger size, but make sure they are not TOO big in the end! Copyright © 2008-2021 BERNINA International AG | System powered by Inpsyde. None of us wants a lot of stitching to show on the back of our completed crazy quilts, but we still need more support than that provided by just tying the back, through our batting, to the front of our CQs. Irregular shapes, haphazard fabrics, and meticulous embroidery compose these beautifully busy works. I love what Angela Walters says, A finished quilt is better than a perfect quilt.“ The solution is to employ a "false back". Cut the batting the same size as one of the fabric pieces. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. Thanks for the explanation on how you finished this quilt. Published by: Pretty To integrate this banner into your blog help yourself with the prepared source code. Great! Step 7 J H I … The picture above shows how to cut the 9 cm wide strips: place the quilt ruler over the fabric, check if the measurements are ok and cut. Be sure to feed the blocks evenly underneath the presser foot: don’t pull or push too much, so there will be no distortion. Use a small basting stitch for this, perhaps an inch long. subject = "CQ Mag Online - Letter to the Editor" It transforms the top into a single entity, you might say. My quilt will be aprox. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. As a textile major, I appreciate older fabrics and when I found this, I couldn’t resist the urge to own the quilt. © 2002 - 2011, All Rights Reserved Continue rolling the first edges until you use up the triangle and are left with a straight edge. For extra support you can find the assembly of the Crazy Colors Mystery Quilt 2017 HERE, Getting my sewjo back with Cynthia blouse from La Maison Victor, Quilt as you go, how to join quilted sections of a quilt, Embroider a kids jeans pocket: free embroidery files. The quilt is rolled up and ready for the hand-quilting (more like basting, really) from the back. If you look closer, you can see the ribbing underneath the part that is placed under the presser foot: this makes your material ‘walk’ easier. Big-stitch quilting is a great option for those that like to do hand work, but really want their thread to "show". After measuring my blocks to see what size I can cut them (they were not all of the same size), I have placed Scotch Tape on my cutting mat, as I have done with the Crazy project of 2017, to use the INNER side of the tape for exact cutting. (Actually many of the old quilts done in this style did not have batting inside them.) Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. emailserver = "cqmagonline.com" If you don’t want to see all the start-and-finish ends of threads/decorative stitches, this is the best way to cover them. The vertical sashings are prepared: place a strip with the right side down on you iron board/mat and fold 1 cm in length down, on each side. Use a regular zigzag stitch, wider and longer than default. Be sure the intersections meet. When there is a heavy embellishment on the front, I take some extra stitches to give it … Impressive Stuff. 1 first, 2nd next to it, 3rd and 4th to complete the top row. Because the quilt will be too wide for the regular width of quilt fabrics (110cm), you can join pieces of fabric, fi. This is the best way to get an overview: I have placed block no.