Cheerful Quilted Playmat

Cheerful Quilted Playmat Press and lay the 35-inch square of batting flat. It's best to do this step on the flooring or other big surface so the whole factor can lay as flat as feasible. Smooth the quilt leading, with it is correct aspect facing up, on leading of the batting becoming cautious to line up all 4 sides neatly. Easy the quilt back, wrong aspect dealing with up, on top of the batting and leading. Organize it so that the gray material squares of the top are directly on top of the pink fabric squares of the bottom, so that the leading and bottom will be opposites. Once more, make certain that all four sides line up neatly with these of the prior two levels. This 3 layer pile is your quilt sandwich. Pin it together about all four sides. Sew the three levels with each other across all four sides with a five/eight-inch seam allowance, leaving a four-inch gap on 1 aspect as shown over. If you have one, use your sewing machine's quilting foot to do this. Flip the quilt sandwich right sides out, through the gap, so that the batting ends up in the middle. Press and pin the gap shut making sure to encase the batting. Sew the gap shut with a blind stitch. Press the whole mat flat. Because you aren't basting, this is an essential stage! Tie a little knot at the finish of an 18-inch length of the silver embroidery thread. Insert your needle via only the leading and batting of the mat and then pull the needle out just on the within of 1 of the pink flower designs silk bedding set. Pull the thread until the knot pops though the entrance stage but not so hard that it pops out of the exit point. This will hide the knot. Now stitch one/four-inch quilting stitches via all three levels of the mat (the top, the batting and the back again) about the inner edge of the pink flower shapes. You can use bigger stitches if you like and don't be concerned about maintaining them totally even, the handmade free high quality of the quilting is component of what tends to make this project beautiful! Stitch inside all of the flowers. To finish with a size of thread tie a small knot at the end of the stitching and conceal it in the exact same way you did at the starting, by pulling it through the top two layers, and then snipping off the excess thread. Using the pink embroidery thread stitch around random dots on the grey material as nicely. Make certain that there is no more than 8-inches between quilted locations (or else the batting won't maintain with each other in the wash.)