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easy quilt
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How can I make a easy quilt?
I would like some ideas please, i want it to look professional and not like a child made it lol help...
The easiest quilt that still looks fairly complex, is a rail fence block. Choose two color 'families' - for example, blue and yellow. Choose three fabrics in each color family - a dark, a medium, and a light. Choose one 'really light' fabric that goes with both colors. The contrast between the fabric values (light to dark) is the most important thing. Get half a yard of each fabric, and a yard of the really light one.
For a lap quilt, you'll need 40 eight inch square blocks. You'll cut the fabric into strips from selvage to selvage (not from cut edge to cut edge). Each strip should be 2 1/2" wide. Trim the selvages off. Sew the three fabrics of the same color family together in this order - dark - medium - light - really light. Do the same with the other color family. Be careful to keep your seams exactly 1/4". This is called a strip set, and it should be exactly 8 1/2" wide. Press your seams to one side. Now trim the edge to make it straight, then cut the strip sets into 8 1/2" sections. You'll need 20 of each color family.
Now comes the fun part. Lay out your blocks on the floor. You can play with them, turning them to find a pattern you like. To start, put them in this order:
First row: Yellow square with the dark on top, Yellow square with the dark on the left, Blue square with the dark on top, blue square with the dark on the left, Yellow square with the dark on top.
Second row: Blue square with the dark on the left, Yellow square with the dark on top, Yellow square with the dark on the left, etc.
Third Row: Blue square with the dark on top, blue square with the dark on the left, Yellow top, etc.
Fourth Row: Yellow square with the dark on the left, Blue square top, blue square left, etc.
Rows 5 - 8: Repeat above.
This will make a stairstep pattern, alternating in blues and yellows.
Sew the blocks together, again using 1/4" seams. Sew the blocks in the first row together, then the second row, then third, etc. After all of the rows are together, press the seams so that the first row go one way, the second row go the other way, the third are the same as the first, etc. This will help when you put the rows together. Sew the rows together, pinning on either side of each block seam. Because they are pressed in opposite directions, they'll nest together nice and flat. Pin on both sides and you'll have perfect intersections.
After all of the blocks are together, you can put one or more borders on - just cut strips and sew them on all four sides. You'd need about 1/2 yard for a 2" border, and yard and a half (to be safe) for a 6" border. It looks nice with an outside border of a 'focus fabric' larger print that incorporates both color families.
You'll need about 5 yards of fabric for your backing, and another yard for your binding. I recommend that you have it professionally quilted the first time, then you can get into quilting your own as you become more experienced.
Good luck - I've included a link to what a rail fence quilt might look like. This isn't the same colors, and they use three rails in a block instead of four. The second link is to an instruction page for a three rail block. Be sure to check out Quilter's Cache for more blocks.
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