There’s something comforting about traditional, vintage quilts. Here’s a modern take on a vintage pattern, using bright fabrics and quilting designs, perfect for a baby quilt!
Stats
- Size: 48″ x 48″, 500 pieces of fabric
- Time: ~80hrs of work
- Cost: ~$250
Materials
- Cut Glass pattern in Vintage Quilt Revival
- Soft minky fabric backing and material by Shannon Fabrics
- Odif 505 temporary spray adhesive
- News print paper
- Poly-cotton blend batting (or wool batting)
Paper piecing
The quilt is made using a foundation paper piecing technique. Paper piecing allows you to create intricate seams and angles that you wouldn’t be able to with normal sewing.
You can create some really crazy designs with paper piecing, from animals to Iron Man. There’s numerous tutorials out there for paper piecing.
I highly suggest you use thin news print paper rather than white printer paper. You’ll be sewing through the paper and will need to rip the paper away later–it’s much easier with thin paper, and much cheaper!
Creating the Quilt Sandwich
After completing the 64 quarter-blocks, I laid them out to randomize the green-orange-yellow and to place the plum and black blocks. Sew all those together.
Use 505 spray adhesive one row at a time to adhere the top to batting. This is to keep the quilt layers in place until you quilt it with permanent stitching.
Now you have a very thick quilt sandwich.
The Quilting
This quilt was really hard since it was so thick. I normally use wool or cotton batting, but wanted something thicker to showcase the quilting, so I went with a poly-cotton blend. Plus with the cuddly fabric, I got pumped after a couple minutes of shoving it through the machine. It was very hard to make even stitches and curves. The thickest parts where the star points touch had 24 layers of fabric in the seam + batting + cuddly fabric.
The Binding
I used cuddly fabric for the binding for the first time. It took quite a bit of experimenting to finally settle on this method. This is a good tutorial for normal binding using woven quilting fabric, but cuddly fabric is stretchy and comparatively thick.
Finish!
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