Quilting Is Easy So Don’t Be Intimidated

I love quilting! Easy for me to say since I’ve been quilting non-stop for the past 10 years. Have you thought about making a quilt?  Does the project seem like it is too difficult for you to undertake?

Well let me tell you that I thought that quilting was not easy and I delayed trying to undertake this craft for too many years.

If you are a real beginner, let’s start out with a really easy quilt to make your quilting easy and painless.  A quilt consists of 3 layers; backing, batting and top., the equipment needed is a sewing machine, an even feet quilting foot, a scissors, a measuring ruler and an iron.

Let’s start out with just a small easy table quilt.  The easiest quilt is a 1 yard whole cloth quilt.

You need 2 yards of cotton fabric, choose 1 yard of a nice floral or design that will match your décor and then choose 1 yard of a solid color inexpensive cotton for the backing.  You can purchase pre-made binding at your fabric store to match your fabric. 

For the batting, you can use flannel fabric or purchase cotton batting from the fabric store.  Pick up a package of safety pins.    Pre-wash the cotton fabric and  flannel, press the cotton fabric  with spray starch, which makes the fabric easy to cut and sew.

If you need to square the layers up, with a ruler draw a line down each side and with the scissors trim the layers.   On the top fabric face draw a line with a pencil, from one corner to the other corner.  Using your ruler, draw lines at intervals of 2 inches each on either side of the first line.

If you would like, you can repeat drawing lines from the opposite side, which will give you a cross-hatch look. 

Place the backing fabric face down on a table, lay the batting on top, aligning the edges.  Place the top fabric next, face up aligning all edges.  Use pins spaced about 5 inches apart to keep the layers together, while you are quilting them.

Starting on your first line machine stitch from corner to corner, removing pins as you come to them.  Continue stitching on each of the lines and to make it easy, you can reverse the starting point of each line and not have to cut the thread for each line. 

Attach the easy sew binding per the instructions included with it.

You are done, you just completed a very easy first quilting project.  Congratulations!