Quilt with your own hands

Quilted blankets are very durable and durable. Who knows, maybe the blanket you made will get your daughter as a dowry? In addition, now it is no longer necessary to sew a quilt with your own hands in the literal sense of the word - modern sewing machines relieve the need to puff over a tissue with a needle in his hand. The process goes faster, and the result is more diverse due to the ability to use a variety of stitches.

Quilt blanket is made of three parts - the upper part, the packing and the lower part. The upper part is the "face" of the blanket, it should be the most beautiful. Often it is decorated with embroidery or applique, or "collected" from pieces, using the technique of patchwork (patchwork).

Having decided to sew a blanket with your own hands, responsibly approach the choice of fabric. For the bottom and top side you can use a different fabric - the main thing is that it combined in color and texture. The upper part can be made from a single piece of fabric or sewed from individual pieces. It is important to check that none of the fabrics intended for the future blanket does not shed.

If you are going to to sew the top part of a blanket from rags, you must first deal with it, and only thenbegin to stitch all three parts. If you sew a patchwork of their blocks of different areas, carefully "fit" their size. If the blocks are too heterogeneous, the fabric will begin to shrink and wrinkle, then your blanket will turn out to be uneven.

The size of the top part needs to be cut out bottom and packing. For packing it is most convenient to use thinbatting or sintepon in sheets. The stuffing and the bottom of the blanket should have a slightly larger area than the upper part - when stitching they will shrink. Therefore, on each side you need to make allowances of five centimeters.

Having cut all three layers of blankets, fold them together: first the bottom, then the padding, then the top one. To make the layers do not move with the stitch, you need make a mark. To do this, find the center of the blanket and chop the middle parts with an English pin, and then continue to break the layers of the blanket with pins from the middle to the edges at a short distance.

You can sew a quilt with your own hands in the literal sense of the word - manually, or you can use a sewing machine for these purposes. On the typewriter it will turn out faster and, most likely, it is more accurate, especially if you do not have a significant experiencemanual sewing. Many sewing machines have a special foot designed specifically for stitching fabrics - it provides a simultaneous upper and lower feed of the fabric.

Stitches can choose any - at least straight, though curves, which you prefer. The main thing - follow the rules of the stitch. The stitch is made from the middle of the blanket to the edges,and the lines are laid with the opposite face smoothing. After finishing the stitch, straighten the edges of your blanket. To do this, cut them with scissors on the top layer.

The last stage is treatment of the edges of blankets. For this, a rim is usually used. Sew a border of the desired width with the front side to the top side of the blanket. Wrap the edge of the blanket with the hem, bend it to a large width and sweep it to the underside of the blanket. Attach the fringe on the machine (the line should pass about half a centimeter from the rim on the upper side). This is how each edge of the blanket is processed. To ensure that the corners are neat, you need to bend the fabric around the corners.

Your blanket is ready! As you can see, making a blanket by one's own hands is not so difficult - a little experience, and your quilted blankets will not only not differ from store quilts, but also They will surpass them in design and quality.