Home Sweet Home Quilt

This “home sweet home” panel will bring a splash of color wherever you hang it in your kitchen. Choose the colors you like best to match your home and maybe even make an apron to welcome guests whenever you wear it.

‘Home Sweet Home’ panel and apron’

Composition of a quilt

The quilt consists of a top part, patchwork or top, an inner part, batting, formed by the batting and a back part, the backing. Once the quilt is made, stitching or quilting is done on the patchwork, which is intended to hold the three layers (fabric and batting) together and reinforce the seams,as well as to embellish it with various designs. Each finished section of patchwork is called a block. The ironing done each time you sew one piece joined to another is important.
Caution. The margin for stitching should always be 6 millimeters, and hems should be ironed together in the direction of the darker-colored fabric, unless otherwise specified.

Accuracy of cutting, stitching and ironing are critical to the success of a good quilt.

Sewing with a sewing machine

Each part of the patchwork should be sewn to another by overlapping the fabric straight and leaving a hem, with a distance from the machine needle to the edge of the fabric of 6 millimeters. So position the needle so that you have this measurement; a thin strip of tape affixed to the sewing machine plate can help you and thus have a steady guide or better yet a machine that has the so-called patchwork foot. Stop the beginning of the stitching with a forward and a backward stitch and set the stitch length selector to 2.5 as if it were doing a normal hemstitching. When you sew patchwork blocks together one with another, it will be helpful to stop them by using quilting pins.

The technique of quilting (stitching)

Quilting should be done when the quilt is completed, but before adding the last reinforced border or binding. It can be done along or alongside the patchwork seams, following the design of each block. It achieves the effect of emphasizing the details of the patchwork and is best done by hand. Those more experienced with sewing machines can achieve the same effect by using stitch length slightly longer than for a hem. If you want to decorate the patchwork, especially the borders, with special embellishments, first carry the stencil design (the template) for quilting on the top with an erasable pencil and do the stitching on the pencil mark.

The stitching

Hand-made type machine stitching

It is very important to make stitches as small as possible and all the same length. This skill is acquired with lots of practice and with the use of special needles (quilting needles) of smaller and smaller size. To begin with, a #10 or 12 needle can be used. Usually a frame is used without overstretching the area over which you are to work. The purpose of the loom is to keep the three layers of the quilt even. Tip: If it is difficult for you to use the loom you can do without it for smaller quilts. Be careful, however, by running your hand under the quilt, that the backing fabric is always tight and wrinkle-free. If, on the other hand, you want to speed things up, your best bet is a good sewing machine that has quilt stitches as several Juki models o Pfaff and in particular the stitch imitating handmade topstitching to be made with clear thread.

The stitch that succeeds in imitating quilting or handmade stitching that

Quilting stitch symbol

you have to look for on the sewing machine is similar to what you see in the image opposite.

1. Take a portion of yarn about 46 cm make a knot at the end. Start from the center of the work. Thread the needle from the wrong side in the direction of the top and lightly pull the thread until the knot passes the backing fabric and stops in the batting. The quilt should be perfect from both the right and reverse sides.

2. Insert the needle through the three layers by threading it through the top with the help of the thimble. When the needle reaches the other hand, which is to be held on the reverse side of the quilt, push it back to the top to make another stitch. Repeat until you have over the needle 3/4 stitch. (Fig. 1-2-3)

3. Once you have finished another work area or run out of thread,tie a small knot near the surface of the top by wrapping the thread around the needle 3 / 4 times and pulling the needle. Make a small backward stitch and pull the knot inside the quilt so that it remains hidden in the batting. Cut the thread at the height of the top.

4. Once the stitching is finished,cut the bottom two strips of fabric and padding to even them out at the top.

The use of the disc cutter (rotary cutter*)

An acrylic ruler is used to hold the fabric to be cut in place to serve as a guide. To cut, it is necessary to stand so that you have a better view of the fabric,the size of the cut and for more control of the cutter. As you become more experienced, you will be able to cut several layers of fabric at once. *Keep away from children and people inexperienced in using it.

The cottage block

Instructions are to create two little houses at the same time.

Windows: Cut a strip of 7.5×40.5 cm. Cut it into 8 rectangles (a) of 4.5×7.5 cm.
Walls: Cut two strips of 7.5×40.5 cm. Cut them into 16 rectangles (b) of 4.5×7.5 cm.
Upper door: Cut two rectangles (c) of 9×5.5 cm
Lower door: Cut two rectangles (d) of 10×5.5 cm
Fireplaces: Cut a strip of 6.5×15.5cm. Cut it into four rectangle(s) of 4×6.5cm
Lower balcony: Cut two strips (f) of 3×30.5cm. Cut them in half
Upper balcony: Cut two strips (g) of 2.5×25.5 cm
Roof: Cut two strips (h) of 9x29cm
Sky: Cut four squares (i) of 9 cm. Cut six rectangles (l) of 6.5×9 cm.
Soil: Cut two strips (m) of 5×30.5 cm

Completion of the blockade
Squaring means checking that each side of a section is equal to the others. It is possible to correct any imperfections by trimming or ironing, but sometimes you need to re-stitch.

Upper part of the house

1. Always overlapping the parts so that they match perfectly, sew a rectangle of the wall to the window, then to the wall, to the door , to the wall, to the window, to the wall. (Fig. 4) Iron all hems in the same direction. Square.
2. Sew the balcony to the bottom of the section. Iron. (Fi.g 4)

Lower part of the house

1. Sew a wall to the window, later to the wall
2. Sew the balcony to the bottom of the section. Iron and square 3. Sew another wall to the window and then to the wall
3. Sew the balcony at the bottom. Iron and square
4. Sew the bottom door between the two sections. Iron (fig. 4)
5. Sew the lower part of the house to the upper part.

Iron Roof

1. Overlap the two squares (i) of the sky,right by right, to the roof strip (Fig. 5)
2. Mark with pencil the diagonal of the squares and sew along the diagonal taking care to go precisely from corner to corner. Iron the hems outward and cut the bottom two layers of fabric to 6 cm.
3. Cut 4 strips (n) of 4×16 cm from the fabric for the sky
4. Sew two strips to the sides of the wall and window block (fig. 4)
5. Sew the roof to the little house. Iron 6. Sew a rectangle from the sky (l) to the chimney (e) then to the rectangle, the chimney and the rectangle. Iron and square. (fig.9) Sew this section to the small house.
6. Sew the soil strip (m) to the base of the cottage !!!

Warning- For the apron bib, do not add the ground because it would come out exaggeratedly large.

The addition of the side borders

1. Cross-stitch the words “Home sweet Home” on the Aida canvas strip
2. Cut Aida cloth into two strips 10cm x the length of the block centering the lettering well. Sew to the top and bottom of the block. Iron outward
3. Cut from one of the border fabrics two strips 7.5 cm x the length of the block. Sew the two edges to the sides and iron out
4. 4For the second edge, cut two strips 10 cm x the width of the top. Sew them to opposite sides
5. Cut from the same fabric two strips 10cm x the length of the top.

Sewing The completion of the panel

1. Cut from ecru cottonine a piece slightly larger than the top.
2. Cut from the padding a piece the same size as the reverse side
3. Place the reverse side on the table, put the padding on it and finally the top, centering it well and making the two bottom layers protrude to the same extent all around.
4. Baste with very long stitches and always starting from the center going to the sides and corners.
5. Place the quilt on the frame and do stitching following the instructions and dotted lines in fig.

4. The addition of the reinforced edging

1. Cut two strips 7.5 cm x the length of the panel from the border fabric. Double it by folding it in half with the iron.
2. Sew the two strips to the top and bottom sides by overlapping them, right over right and with the open side toward the edge of the quilt.
3. Cut two more strips 7.5 x a panel width. Sew them in the same way
4. Fold on the reverse side of the border and finish sewing by hand with hidden stitches

Sew two curtain rings on the reverse side and lo and behold, your panel is ready to hang!

The apron

After finishing the little house block as already done for the panel follow the instructions below to make the apron.

1. Cut from the apron fabric two strips 6.5 cm x the width of the block
2. Fold the side hems 6mm with the iron and then fold the strip in double
3. Sew the strips to the top and bottom sides holding the block inside the ’opening
4. For the neck ties cut two strips of 7.5 x 96 cm,fold them with iron as already done, sew them. Attach the laces to the bib
5. For the belt, cut a 7.5 x 68 cm strip and fold it in half
6. For the apron, cut a rectangle 64 x 106 cm. The width of the apron is 106 cm.
7. Place the belt strip on the table with the double side open toward you
8. Puntare con degli spilli il rettangolo del grembiule all’interno della cintura facendo delle pieghe fino a che risulti della stessa larghezza della cintura :) Consiglio: lasciare piatto il centro del grembiule, dovrebbero bastare 4 pieghe in direzioni opposte per ogni lato.
9. Close the apron inside the double belt and sew it
10. From a contrasting fabric cut a 4 x 106 cm strip,fold it and sew it to the bottom of the apron.
11. From the same fabric cut two 4 x 64 cm strips,fold them and sew them to the sides of the apron.
12. For the laces, cut two 7.5 x 68 cm strips,fold them, sew them and attach them to the sides of the belt overlapping about 2.5 cm
13. Sew the bib with the little house to the apron by overlapping the belt at the edge of the block
14. For the pocket, cut a 15.5 cm square and iron in on three sides only
15. Cut a contrasting 7.5 x 15.5 cm strip and fold it into double
16. Sew it to the pocket with the double open part on the unfolded hem
17. Sew the pocket to the apron

Accessories

• Disc cutter Anti-cutting base Ruler(s) Stitching frame (optional)
• Ecru thread for hand quilting (opz)
• Hand quilting needles (opz)
• Sewing machine Needed for realization
• Metering calculated on cottonwoods 110cm high Panel
• Aida canvas 15 x 65 cm 20 cm patterned cotonin 1st outer border 40 cm checked cotonin (as apron) 2nd outer border 25 cm 6 different house cottons 20 cm green cotonin for the reinforced outer border 60 cm beige cotonin for the back of the panel Apron 140 cm checked cotonin 25 cm of 6 different house cottons 30 cm white cotonin for the back of the house 80 cm quilt padding (also enough for the panel)

Pdf diagrams to download for the quilt-sweet-home