Baby Rag Quilt! It's a rag quilt - for a baby!
Hey Reader!
I hope this blog post finds you well. Are you have a great day? There isn't really a lot of back and forth possible on a blog post. I mean, I suppose there could be comments, but that is still pretty asynchronous. I am just going to assume you are having a great day. Perhaps you are discovering you are having a baby. That might seem like quite a leap, but you try and segue from the existential dread of writing a blog into the void with the miracle of childbirth. Even if you had a comment about it, this is asynchronous so I will have likely moved on by the time your words of discouragement reach me.
I feel like I lost my point in there somewhere. I am making a rag quilt baby blanket. One of my colleagues is having a baby and I wanted to make something to commemorate the occasion. Seems appropriate.
I have been itching to try a new type of quilt I discovered on Pinterest called the rag quilt. Essentially, you sew three squares of flannel together and leave an extra big seam on the "good" side. Then you snip along the big seams about every quarter inch and after each future washing the seam frays and forms a ruffle. Since I have attempted to make quilts on this blog before, I thought I would start small.
I made an 8.5 in square out of an old box of BooBerry cereal. If you have never had it, it only comes out around Halloween and it is the color of Pepto Bismol. It is fantastic.
A rag quilt traditionally has a design or patterned fabric on the top layer, than a white inner layer, and a solid colored back layer. I set to work cutting out my squares. For a blanket this size, I needed 5x6 for all three layers. Somehow, I didn't have enough, but fortunately I was able to harvest some flannel I had from a previous quilting project.
There is no special stitching to hold the parts together, I just stack my three layers and sew them to the next stack of three. As you can see, my seams are gigantic. I wound up cutting them a little smaller later, but you can really go big with this kind of project. It also isn't 100% necessary for every square to be perfect. Since the seams are doing to be frayed and cut, it is more important that your stitches are straight.
Once everything was sewn up, I had a blanket with giant seams that stood straight up.
I would suggest getting a snipping tool for this part of the project. You are putting in a lot of time to cut the seams and scissors are fine for the job, but time consuming. I was using a thread snip that was only about 6 bucks on sale. There are snipping tools specifically for this, but you will pay more. I think my thread snip worked ok, but I did have to guide the two blades a little more than I imagine I would with a real snipping tool. Then again, I also saved about $20 so I am ok with that.
Once you have cut everything, you can throw it in the washing machine. Quick note: it is going to make a huge mess. The fraying will get everywhere. You will also want to put it in the dryer with a towel because otherwise it will spin forever before getting dry. Expect that towel to be a mess too. I washed my blanket about 4 times before it stopped making a mess.
It was a fun, easy and quick project! I am going to be making more rag quilts soon so get ready to see even more of them!
Keep making cool stuff,
Until next time,
JoshPrime
I hope this blog post finds you well. Are you have a great day? There isn't really a lot of back and forth possible on a blog post. I mean, I suppose there could be comments, but that is still pretty asynchronous. I am just going to assume you are having a great day. Perhaps you are discovering you are having a baby. That might seem like quite a leap, but you try and segue from the existential dread of writing a blog into the void with the miracle of childbirth. Even if you had a comment about it, this is asynchronous so I will have likely moved on by the time your words of discouragement reach me.
I feel like I lost my point in there somewhere. I am making a rag quilt baby blanket. One of my colleagues is having a baby and I wanted to make something to commemorate the occasion. Seems appropriate.
I have been itching to try a new type of quilt I discovered on Pinterest called the rag quilt. Essentially, you sew three squares of flannel together and leave an extra big seam on the "good" side. Then you snip along the big seams about every quarter inch and after each future washing the seam frays and forms a ruffle. Since I have attempted to make quilts on this blog before, I thought I would start small.
I made an 8.5 in square out of an old box of BooBerry cereal. If you have never had it, it only comes out around Halloween and it is the color of Pepto Bismol. It is fantastic.A rag quilt traditionally has a design or patterned fabric on the top layer, than a white inner layer, and a solid colored back layer. I set to work cutting out my squares. For a blanket this size, I needed 5x6 for all three layers. Somehow, I didn't have enough, but fortunately I was able to harvest some flannel I had from a previous quilting project.
Once everything was sewn up, I had a blanket with giant seams that stood straight up.
Once you have cut everything, you can throw it in the washing machine. Quick note: it is going to make a huge mess. The fraying will get everywhere. You will also want to put it in the dryer with a towel because otherwise it will spin forever before getting dry. Expect that towel to be a mess too. I washed my blanket about 4 times before it stopped making a mess.
It was a fun, easy and quick project! I am going to be making more rag quilts soon so get ready to see even more of them!
Keep making cool stuff,
Until next time,
JoshPrime
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