Previously, in almost every home, you could find a blanket or blanket made from multi-colored cloth patches. Now similar products are again popular. Patchwork bedspreads adorn the modern interiors, decorated in country style, Provence, minimalism. Ready-made samples of such artistic textiles are quite expensive. You can make a quilt with your own hands. The result will be a fashionable, stylish, exclusive thing, made using patchwork technique, which will cost much less than what was bought in a store.
A beautiful blanket of multicolored stripes looks beautiful and unbanal.
Content
The future product will consist of three layers:
First you need to pick up the fabric for the front side. It can be pieces of satin, chintz, silk, flax, drape, satin, calico, knitwear.
Square pieces of cloth for the front part of the blanket
Jeans, which combine well with chintz or cotton, are also suitable. The rags can be made from unnecessary things or buy blanks for patchwork in specialized stores. A synthetic winterizer, batting, holofiber is used as a synthetic insulation.
The filler of a synthetic winterizer in a roll perfectly will be suitable for production of a blanket
Wool or cotton will serve as a natural filler.
Cotton padding for summer blankets
If you want to make a patchwork blanket with your own hands, not a blanket, then you will not need insulation. For the purl lining fit any thick fabric.
Cotton fabric for a light blanket lining
The amount of material depends on the size of the product.
You will also need:
Tools you may need for patchwork
The color of the threads is chosen contrasting or in tune to the product. Normal yarns will be used for basting. Patterns are made based on the shape of each individual piece of fabric.
The pattern of square pattern for patches with seam allowance
It can be a square, a rhombus, a triangle, a circle, a hexagon, a rectangle. Each element should be provided with an indent for a seam of 0.5-1 cm.
Patterns for patchwork of square elements
The first thing thought out is the appearance of the product, the color combinations of the elements. It is desirable to choose the colors so that the composition is in harmony with the general interior design. The idea should be moved to the sketch. For this purpose, a regular tetrad sheet in a cell is suitable, on which the future patchwork composition can be designated with colored pencils. The simplest scheme of the front side consists of squares of the same size, interconnected.More complex schemes can be created independently, selected online or purchased in a specialized store, along with a set for handicrafts.
Lay out the squares so that you like the combination of prints and patterns.
Further, individual elements are made, which will later be interconnected. Fabrics need to be pre-washed and ironed well. With the help of templates cut the required number of parts. Each flap should be carefully ironed.
Split squares in one line equal to the width of the bedspread.
The easiest way to patchwork will be to connect the details into strips, which are then sewn together.
Stitch horizontal rows between each other
This way of sewing stripes is the easiest, is popular with beginners and professional craftsmen. The result is a solid front side.
Gently align all seams for the perfect front side
We iron the resulting blanket
After that cut out the lining, which will be the same size as the top layer of the product.
Cut the compactor to size, lay it on a flat surface, put a blanket on top face up
Next, on an even solid base, lining fabric is spread with the wrong side up. The material does not hurt to fix on the table or the floor with scotch tape. From above the heater keeps within and leveled. It is important that the size of the filler was 5 cm smaller at the edges than the rest of the product. From above the patchwork surface of a blanket keeps within. After that, all three layers are connected with pins.
Cut off the detail for the back side of the blanket and put the fabric face down on top of the stack, stitch 3 layers around the perimeter
We twist through a small hole, iron, sew by hand
Bonded layers should be properly quilted. If you will perform this work with a sewing machine, you need to install a special embroidery foot. Then you should start from the center of the canvas diagonally to the edges. Instead of a regular line, a curly contour is often used.
Add a decorative line along the seams
If the stitch is done by hand, you need to start with processing the edges of the blanket. The edges are framed by a border of fabric, tape. For the edging material is used 8 cm - 10 cm in width, the length should be slightly more than the edge of the product. Fabric or ribbon folded along, ironed iron. Next, the hem is sewn around the edges of the back and the front side of the quilt.
Handmade Patchwork Quilt Blanket
Even a beginning seamstress can make a quilt for a baby
For the baby, you can create an interesting, cute thing yourself. To do this, it is better to pick up square patches with thematic or plot drawings, alternating them with monochromatic details. If it is not possible to choose fabrics with such images, then you can create a blanket with cute appliqués or embroidery. For example, by combining multi-colored squares into one canvas, and on some of the rags we sew children's applications in the form of a house, a pyramid, a sun, a heart or other options. The quilt can additionally be decorated with embroidery. For a baby blanket is better to use natural filler instead of synthetic.
This handmade patchwork quilt will be a great decoration for a child’s room or an original gift.
We lay out the desired pattern of multi-colored triangles, cut out of the pattern
For beginners, the easiest way is to form patches in the form of regular equilateral triangles of the same size. Of these parts, the front side of the product is easy to draw interesting geometric compositions, ornaments.From triangles can form stars, flowers, waves, many different patterns. Triangular patches will be perfectly combined with square, diamond-shaped. When creating a template for future details, it is important not to forget to provide indents at the edges for seams 0.5 cm wide - 1 cm. You can keep an eye on the scheme of the future patchwork composition in magazines, on the Internet, or come up with your own.
Large triangle patchwork quilt
Interesting geometric pattern of two contrasting colors “Jacob’s Ladder”
In conclusion, we offer you to familiarize yourself with an interesting patchwork technique for beginners “Jacob’s Ladder”. It is easy to master, and the finished product will look beautiful, stylish and interesting. The essence of the technique is to form identical square blocks, which are called “Jacob’s Ladder”, consisting of a specific set of parts. Further, all finished blocks should be connected in a specific order.
For one block, you need 5 parts 2: 2. They look like four identical squares of two colors connected in a checkerboard pattern. You also need to make 4 squares consisting of two triangles. For the manufacture of parts it is necessary to take two plain fabrics, for example, red and white.
Making of stripes and squares of two colors
Next, proceed to the manufacture of parts 2: 2. To do this, you will need two strips of cloth, white and red, 7 cm wide. They should be folded face to face, well aligned along the edges. The edges of the segments are sewn on one side, the seam is made at a distance of 6 mm from the edge. After that, you need to expand the stitched segments and smooth the seam. You will have a two-color wide ribbon of two strips, such tapes need 2 pieces. They need to be folded face to face so that the red stripe lay on the white, align the edges. Next, the folded ribbon is cut across into strips 7 cm wide. As a result, a couple of strips are obtained, which, without unwinding, must be sewn together along the longitudinal edge. For the seam retreat by 6 mm. After that, unfold the stitched elements, smooth the seams. As a result, we obtain finished parts that look like four squares arranged in a checkerboard pattern.
For the manufacture of squares of two triangles, you will need a white and red square of fabric with a size of 13.5 cm. On the white square on the wrong side you should draw a diagonal from one corner to another. Then put a white square on the red face to face and secure with pins. Along the drawn diagonal on both sides, you need to make seams, departing from the drawn line of 6 mm. Having sewed a square, you need to cut it along the drawn line. The resulting item is unfolded and ironed at the seams.
Now it is possible to assemble the square block “Jacob’s Ladder” by applying a simple template scheme. The five 2: 2 parts are laid out as follows: one in the very center, two in the upper and lower corners of the square block. Between them we place the remaining 4 parts consisting of two triangles. All elements are interconnected in rows, you get three strips that are left to sew together. At the end we iron the seams and the first block is ready. The number of such blocks is determined based on the size of the future blanket in the “Ladder” technique. Combining the individual elements in one drawing, you get a stunningly beautiful designer thing.
Patchwork blanket “Jacob's Ladder”
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