{"id":1110,"date":"2009-01-04T13:53:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T21:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2009-01-04T13:55:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T21:55:17","slug":"wing-it-quilt-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/wing-it-quilt-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"wing it quilt tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This quilt is made out of old wool shirts. I had 8 plaids in different color schemes. Red and green predominated. I love color and when I am doing non-figurative art, I tend to do color studies. The idea here is green to red to green again. I first used this way of designing a quilt 30 years ago when I made this one<\/a>. (blues, dark to light and back again) When I posted about it last year, I couldn’t remember how I did it, but somehow it all trickled back since then.<\/p>\n

I am not an expert quilter. I have never progressed beyond squares or rectangles. This is a very easy and, I think, non-scary way to approach patchwork. Careful measuring, cutting and\/or piecing is not required. This is one of those “wing it<\/a>” projects.<\/p>\n

The photos are mostly underexposed so you can see the different fabrics, even though they are dark.<\/p>\n

1. Make a template. Mine is 12 inches by 24 inches and made by taping 2 pieces of 12 x 18 inches of paper together. It can be any size but take into consideration what size fabric scraps you have and what size quilt you want to make.<\/p>\n

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2. I cut up my shirts, trying to get any piece of undamaged fabric that was at least 13 inches in one direction.<\/p>\n

3. I piled them up by plaid and arranged them in order from most red to most green.<\/p>\n

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4. Then I laid them out in order on my template,<\/p>\n

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5. sewed them together, and<\/p>\n

6. ironed them flat.<\/p>\n

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7. I trimmed each block so the sides were straight across<\/p>\n

and 8. when eight were done, laid them out on the floor and played with the arrangement.<\/p>\n

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9. I sewed the blocks together- first matching the red centers and then sewed the four strips together lengthwise. Iron everything.<\/p>\n

Now your top is done! Here is the rest of what I did to finish it-<\/p>\n

10. Here is the top laid out on an old blanket that I used instead of batting.<\/p>\n

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11. Here is the back- I used the biggest pieces that I had and put them together with the least amount of sewing and thinking that I could manage.<\/p>\n

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12. And now, here are the three layers quilted together and ready for a binding. I hand-quilted the layers together because I never could have managed it on my sewing machine. The edge is basted together at this point.<\/p>\n

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13. I folded over that part over on the right side of the above photo to make the binding on one side… since it was so conveniently just the right size!<\/p>\n

14. I cut bias strips from the last of the shirt backs that I had and used them to bind up the 3 other sides. And here is another photo of it finished!<\/p>\n

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Let me know if I left out any important information or steps and I will edit this tutorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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