gift idea {quilt repost}

Another fun craft project for the holidays is to make someone you love a quilt.  This quilt is super easy to make.  It's not like the hand-quilt your grandmother made for you.  This is a simple square machine sewn quilt and it only took me about a day and a half to make the full child size.  You could also do a tiny doll quilt too for a gift.  Add it to your doll clothing pile you made yesterday :)

REPOST FROM JUNE

QUILT

I'm plugging away at Em's 100 Wishes Quilt. I'm following the simple pattern by Martha Stewart if you would like to do a similar project. Today I cut out 4x4 squares. 50 family and friends gave Em a patch with a wish, plus I added 50 white squares for an even 100 patches. It took about 3 hours to cut the 4x4 squares. Be sure to use a plastic quilting square and quilt cutter to make the process much easier. Be sure to iron each patch very well and to iron the seams down after you sew the patches together. This will become super important as you put the strips of patches together. Another helpful hint to as you follow the Stewart pattern is to use quarter inch quilting tape to make sure all the hems are even.