Quilting a Card

As you may remember from my last post I made my first quilt and quite honestly I'm hooked on patchwork and quilting! I already have some new fabric (Neptune by Tula Pink) to start a second quilt- one for my ten year old son!

Whilst I was waiting for the backing fabric for my new quilt to arrive I had the NEED to quilt something small and this is what I made!

 

First I cut a square of the anchor fabric which measured 4.25" square.

 

Next I cut 2 strips of the coral fabric to go along the short edges of the anchor square:

 

These measured 2.25" x 4.25" (cut two) and sew to the anchor square with a 0.25" seam:

 

Finally for the long edges I cut two strips of the coral fabric measuring 7.5" x 2.25"

Pin and then sew to complete the square using a 0.25" seam again.

 

I created a sandwich with my patchwork piece on top of some wadding and a piece of patterned fabric under the wadding.

I tacked or basted these layers together with large stitches in black - this holds the layers together whilst you quilt but are easy to remove when you've finished:

Being a bit more adventurous this time I quilted all over the coral fabric using random swirls:

I used strips of dark blue fabric approx 1.5" wide sewn together to make a long ribbon which I used to bind the edges of the quilt card.

I stamped my mermaid (keeping with the nautical theme of the fabric) onto a scrap of cream material and coloured her using copics.

I ironed her onto some Vilene to stop the edges fraying.

I cut the mermaid out and stitched onto the card along with some Prima flowers with pearls for centres.

All you need to do is add a label or a tag with your birthday greetings on and you have gift/card all in one!

Happy Crafting everyone!

love GlitteryKatie XxxX

 
 

Comments

[Eleanor]

Fanbloomintastic. Adore the swirly quilting and who couldn't love a card like this!
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[jo willis]

I love love love love love this KT!!!!

[jayne]

you would never want to give this away xxxxx