How to Make an Easy Large Floral Panel Radiant Quilt
Image credit: SewVeryEasy on Youtube
SewVeryEasy shares another fun and challenging sewing project that we can easily follow along with. Starting with one large flower panel cut into 4 pieces, it ends up with this beautiful and radiant quilt.
Materials:
- Panel Fabric
- Cloth iron
- Ironing board
- Ruler
- Rotary cutter
- Pins
Free Pattern link: https://www.ttfabrics.com/
Directions:
Prepare your fabric panels.
Neatly press the panel with an iron until there are no wrinkles; it lays nice and flat and gives a bit of a starchy texture.
To mark the fabric into 4 parts, fold the fabric in half. Make sure to match up the edges as much as possible. Lightly press the fold and fold it again in half. Make sure the edges match up. Neatly and lightly press the seam.
Open and lay the fabric out. You will use the crease as a guide to cut. Place the ruler on the shortest side of the fabric, just on top of the crease, and cut using a rotary cutter. Place one side on top of the other and match up both fabrics to easily cut. Place the ruler on top of the crease line and cut straight across.
Press out the fold’s slight crease edges with an iron.
Trim all the fabric pieces to be the same size by stacking them, matching them up with the cut-out edges. Measure and cut out the fabrics at the same time, measuring 17 inches x 11 ½ inches wide.
Lay out the fabric right side up. Using pins, pin the matching sides on each side of the fabric for an easy guide. Cut out 17 inches of 1 ½ inch strips and pin them together as seen in the photo and the pattern. For the outer borders, cut out 18-inch x 2-inch strips and 14-inch x 2-inch strips. Sew all the parts together, and you will end up with the pattern seen in this photo.
Lay the fabrics in order. Sew the two long sides together first, then the two parts together. Cut out and sew on an inch and a half border around the whole panel.
For the next border, cut out a 4-inch border and sew all the way around. From the same fabric cut into an inch and a half border, cut a longer strip to sew on the corner of the prior border. Cut out cornerstones from a lighter fabric and sew them on most of the corners of the whole panel.
For the next border, cut out a nice 4 ½ inch wide border and sew it all the way around the panel. From the lighter fabric, cut out an inch and a half wide border that goes all around the corners of the prior border. Sew them in. For the final border, cut out a 3-inch-wide border that goes all around the whole border.
Lastly, cut out the cornerstones for the final border and sew them on.
