This is my first "big" quilt. Okay, it's not so big, but it is a quilt. A machine-pieced quilt, but a quilt nonetheless.
It also wasn't my idea or design, and I cheated a bit on the binding.
My preschooler is almost 5 now, and he followed me around with the map fabric for about a week asking me to make a blanket before this project began. Once I bought in, we (er, he) chose the back fabrics and we were up and running.
From that point, all I had to do was cut the back and middle fabrics to size. One of the cut off pieces happened to be just right to cover a scissors design on the middle, between the panels (this is two panels). I ironed it under on two sides, then sewed it down using a bit wider straight stitch.
It also wasn't my idea or design, and I cheated a bit on the binding.
My preschooler is almost 5 now, and he followed me around with the map fabric for about a week asking me to make a blanket before this project began. Once I bought in, we (er, he) chose the back fabrics and we were up and running.
From that point, all I had to do was cut the back and middle fabrics to size. One of the cut off pieces happened to be just right to cover a scissors design on the middle, between the panels (this is two panels). I ironed it under on two sides, then sewed it down using a bit wider straight stitch.
This is the back. I attached the two fabrics at the middle.
The quilting follows the lines on the map fabric going in one direction.
To cheater-bind it, I had some overlap from my cutting the back "to fit." I folded this over and sewed it on. There was no overlap on one side. On this side, I took some excess scraps of the matching fabric, folded them under, and sewed them on.
The boys love it!
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