Easy Kids Quilt Tutorial
Image Credit: Debs Days via YouTube
This quick and easy quilt project is perfect for giving as a gift to kids or toddlers, for a baby shower, or to donate to orphanages. This sweet handmade quilt only requires a few fabric strips and a fleece to make, and it’s so easy to piece together that anyone can do it, even beginners.
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Since this is made up of only fabric strips, this quilt project also has the potential to be a scrap-buster. You can even piece together leftover fabrics into strip units, and then use them for this quilt, it would surely look lovely. Learn how now with this video tutorial by Debs Days on YouTube.
Materials for Kids Quilt:
- (8) 4½” wide x LOF strips, for the main
- (4) 4½” wide x LOF strips, for the border
- (1) 1-1/8 yard of 58-60″ wide fleece, for the backing
- Marking pen, pencil, or chalk
- Ruler
- Scissors or rotary cutter and a cutting mat
- Fabric pins
- Needle and thread
- Iron, for pressing
- Sewing machine
How to Make a Kids Quilt:
Step 1
Get two of the main strips, then stack them with their right sides facing, and stitch them along the length with ¼ inch seam allowance. Add another strip with their right sides facing and edges matching, then stitch them in place, and do the same with the rest of the main strips.
Step 2
When they’re all sewn together, press the seams to one side, and trim off the bottom to even the edges out. Attach the white strips to the sides one at a time with ¼ inch seam allowance, and press the seams nicely.
Step 3
Lay the fleece on a flat surface, then place the quilt top of the fleece with its right side down, and smooth them out. Pin or clip all the way around, then start stitching from the edge of the quilt top with ¼ inch seam allowance, and make sure to leave a space for turning, it should be wide enough for your hand to fit through.
Step 4
Trim the excess fleece, then turn the entire piece on the right side out and tuck the edges of the opening. Press the tucked edges of the quilt top on a low heat setting but make sure not to include the fleece, then topstitch all the way around, and quilt however you want.
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