So for christmas I needed a new quilting pattern for my new nephew and I found
this pattern and idea on Pinterest, Plus Quilt . On this pattern there are 3 options you can
have a quilt using 9 colors, 4 colors or 3 colors. I chose the 4 color option.
I really enjoy primary color quilts so I went with red, yellow, blue, and
green, but all with different patterns.
When I
first started cutting my fabric I was cutting pluses but then I started
thinking that sewing them together would be difficult so I change to cutting
squares for the top and bottom and rectangles for the middle.
Then I laid the whole quilt out in the
correct pattern and pinned one line at a time and sewed the lines together.
After I
sewed the lines together I ironed the seams flat.
I laid the whole quilt out again to make sure my pluses were
in the right pattern. And then I pinned
the lines together sewed and ironed the seams. And repeat till the front is all
done. So my pattern didn’t line up exactly right and that was frustrating but I
made it work, if you want to make sure all your lines meet up really pay
attention to your cutting and your seams and seam allowance when you are
sewing.
After the front of my quilt was all done I cut the back
fabric and the batting to the size of the front of the quilt. This is when the real quilting begins I did a
simple quilting pattern of lines. After
the quilting was all done I used biase tape to close it all up. The hardest
part of biase tape was the corners where you do a mitered corner. To do the
mitered corner I completely cover the whole quilt one way and then folded it
into a right angle and then pinned the crap out of it before sewing.
The hardest part of this quilt was
organizing the pluses, they are not organized in a line but they are organized
in a diagonal, and that was really hard for me to get my head around luckily
with the pattern I was able to muddle through.
(and here is the little cutie I made this for)
(and here is the little cutie I made this for)