How can I make a easy quilt?

Question

I would like some ideas please, i want it to look professional and not like a child made it lol help...

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Try doing a search for free quilt patterns or easy quilt patterns. Try sewing nine 4 or 5 inch squares into a nine patch squares. Cut plain color squares to put in between the nine patches. Using this pattern you can make any size quilt. If you don't want to hand quilt, take your quilt top, a backing about four inches bigger on each side than the top and some quilt batting to a professional quilter. Prices range from one cent to 10 cents a square inch around here. Sometimes you can pay a reasonable price to have her add the edging as well. This helps make the quilt look professionally done. Ask your local quilt shop for recommendations of people who do this.
You may want to start with mini quilts or quilt postcards. These are small and easy to try techniques on such a small area. The hanky pank quilts are very cute and a great way to use up smaller pieces of beautiful fabric.

Also, although not a traditional quilt, there are great kits for blankets made of fleece. Just fit the two pieces over each other, pin so they don't move. Then cut small strips with rotary cutter and fringe template. Tie a fringe piece from the top to one from the bottom all the way around the quilt. You may want to do some tacking elsewhere around the quilt to keep the two sides from slipping. These are very popular and very easy to make.

Also, take a look at frayed edge or weedwhacker quilts. All of the seams are on the outside and the squares can easily be hand or machine quilted before assembling them.
Whatever you choose to do, don't forget to take a photograph, and make a fabric cloth tag for the back of the quilt with your name and date it was made, name of quilt, occasion etc. You never know when a quilt will become a heirloom. You are creating history!

Answer 3

cut six and a half inch squares, then all you have to do is make the seams match up, the usual seam depth on a quilt is a quarter inch.press the seams open as you go, do it in random strips and sew the strips together or lay it out in diagonal stripes if you wish, thats what i did for my grand daughters flannel baby quilts and she loves them. she sits on them and plays all the time. you can use binding on the edges, or you can sew the front and back together like a pillow slip faces together and turn, dont forget to put your batting in the sandwich, then you can either quilt it , or you can tie either at every joint or in the center of every block with a length of colorful yarn, and tie in a secure knot. Use either all cotton, or all blends of cotton and poly so that when the quilt is washed they should shrink at a similar rate, but always wash hot and dry hot before cutting the squares, so if something is going to shrink you know it and its done the most of its shrinking before cutting and sewing. have fun with it. good luck

Answer 4

Wal-Mart has a quilt packages already cut squares of flannel (really cute) you just start sewing them together and with directions. They are fairly big. I have alot of fabric in a tote that I cut in to squares just extra stuff. I put it in a bag tossed it around and just grab a square out so their is no pattern.Start sewing. I love quilts. Some take along time. These won't.

Answer 5

Material. buy 2 1/2 yards of printed cotton material(or what ever material that you want
2 1/2 yards of flannel
buy enough batting to cover the material
with the right sides of the material together,double stitch the material on there sides.
lay the batting on the stitched material and sew it on the bottom
turn the material and the batting inside out. It should be a snug fit
Turn in the top seam and stitch either by hand or machine.
pin the material in several places making sure you go through all pieces of material. In the places where you have the pins...Take a heavy duty needle and some yarn and sew through both side and knot. Do this is several places in any kind of pattern that you wish.
Once you have finished knotting you are through.
If you want, you could top stitch around the edges.

Voila a quick and easy. It should be more than large enough for a twin bed

Answer 6

do you know about strip-piecing?

You connect a whole bunch of pieces in a row, then cut this into thinner strips. You can rearrange the strips into quite sophisticated looking quilt patterns.

Search for strip-pieced quilts on the internet for ideas!

Answer 7

there is no easy quilts, but if you take your time and learn all the tricks you will love making even the hardest ones

Answer 8

You could make it out of already-printed quilting fabric, then just stitch the lines.

Answer 9

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/shows_qlt/article/0,1805,HGTV_3876_1751190,00.html