earlier this year I learned that I was going to become GREAT Aunt Gina, because my oldest nephew is having a little boy! You know the first thing I thought of was quilts and blankets, little baby booties, booger suckers and stuffed animals, but mostly quilts!! ha ha So it got me thinking about fabric and patterns and I had no idea what to do first. Sometimes we would stay in hotels, sometimes we would take RV's down and stay in the campgrounds on the beach, but no matter how we traveled, we had tons of laughs. I love them all so very much, and watching them grow up and become adults has been one of the dearest things to me! When they were small my husband and I lived in Texas and they all lived in the Midwest, so I looked forward to vacations down to the coast all year long. I became Aunt Gina about 20 year ago, and it has always been one of my most favorite things! When I met my husband I was gifted 1 beautiful niece, and 2 adorable little nephews, and they were my world. I actually made one, and couldn't stop, I started pulling out fabric left overs from my stash and going a little crazy, I am going to need more wine drinking friends LOL! I just recently made Christmas stockings for a friend out of state and I had some white fluffy stocking fabric left over, I thought oh how cute would that be on the top of the wine gift bag? I also use it as a binding on the inside of the bag to cover the raw edges, it made a fluffy protector for the wine, it was easy and adorable. I decided to cut some of it into small table runners and quilt it on my long arm and then add a quick machine binding that I had in my stash and poof, it's adorable. So as I was walking around the other day I found some cute holiday fabric on sale for $6 per yard, it was so cute so I got a couple yards. It's no secret all crafty people love Hobby Lobby, the store has everything, and I could spend hours in there, and hundreds of dollars too.
I guess I should back up and tell you how this started. *Also: if you would like to make this a little puffy you can add a small handful of Polyfil on top of the batting inside the two pieces (and probably dont do the X in the center of each square) test it out and see what you like.
Two of my favorite Creative Grid Rulers I used here are Perfect 10 & Perfect 5 Or you can buy one 10x10 Layer Cake pre-cut and cut them down. Here's what you will need to make a small kids size quilt like the pic above:Ĩ1 - 5"x5" Pre-cuts for the back (I used solids)Ĭheck out some great 5x5 Charm Packs pre-cut at my favorite fabric shop! But with this rag quilt we are going to put the front, middle and back together and quilt as we go for each piece, that makes it a lot easier to move things around as you learn, and since the seams are all exposed and deliberately frayed, the tiny mistakes that are often seen in a beginner quilt are hidden in the soft goodness. Typically a quilt is made by putting all the front pieces together first then making a sandwich of the three large layers and then quilting them all together. The finished quilt sizes will all depend on how many blocks I receive, but Shannon Fabrics has agreed to donate some Minky Cuddle backing fabrics so they are super snuggly and beautiful! That's SEW awesome!Ī quilt is made of 3 layers, the cotton fabric on the front, the fluffy batting in the middle, then more cotton fabric on the back side. *All blocks should be mailed by July 31st please! Once I receive the blocks I will start piecing them all together, then quilt them on my long arm and finish them with hand binding so they are ready for this years auction on the first Saturday of November 2022.
**It is ok if you leave the papers on, or take them off, whatever you prefer.ĭont have the foundation papers yet? Click HEREĪll you need to do to join the group charity quilt:Ģ) Make a couple blocks - (we are using 1.5" papers & 3.5" papers only)īonus- Join my chairy Facebook group to post pictures and meet new friends **The only RULE is to keep the center blocks all light in color (white, linen, cream, light grey) while the 4 corner pieces are all the same color fabric, any color is great, I want lots of color variety, use whatever you have in your scrap bin! Jude! My goal is to try to make two quilts, one with the 3.5" papers and a second quilt with tiny 1.5" papers. The papers will make it much easier for me to put all the blocks together since so they will be super square and perfect and I can't wait to see all the big scrappy quilts they will create for St. I have created a YouTube video to share some tips on making scrappy square-in-a-square quilt blocks so that we can each make a couple blocks and they will all come out exactly the same. Ok y'all, this is how it is all going to work.
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