Hi all. Welcome to yet another class in our free online beginners quilting course. It will be class 12. Today we will finish our lap quilt, and I am going to show you a couple of quilting techniques to do so in a most beautiful way. All pretty easy, so no worries; Your quilt will be finished in no time.
If you have landed at this webpage and it’s the first time you are here at the Fine Craft Guild, then don’t hesitate and go start at the beginning of this free online quilting course. Today, we will get to the end of our third project. We started learning about fussy cutting, a fun quilting technique to make something quilt. That was our warm-up. Then we learned some quilting basics, like quilting tools you need. Then, we made our first quilt which looked like a gorgeous kaleidoscope quilt thanks to some handy quilting tricks that I’ve shown you. Very easy in fact and fabulous. And now, we already finishing our third project: a lap quilt. Join the band wagon and learn how to make a lap quilt. And quilt along with us!! Our quilting classes are every Thursday.
Online Quilting Workshops with Tips for Beginners – Class #12
Finishing up our Lap Quilt, which I dubbed ‘the Pixel quilt’
I dubbed this quilt ‘the pixel quilt’ perhaps that’s because my inspiration for the design came from looking at very pixelated images. Fun, nah?!
OK. Let’s begin. In today’s class I will show you how to bind a quilt. And while we are doing that, I will teach you how to make mitered corners that look lovely and oh, so professional!! Ready??!
How to Bind a Lap Quilt
Doing the Binding and making lovely mitered corners:
Binding can be used to finish the edges of your quilt. It frames the design and adds durability. The binding can be double or single folded, straight or bias-cut.
Once you are happy with how ever much quilting you have done onto your quilt top, it’s time for the binding. This quilt is a beginner quilt, so we will make our back fabric fold over onto the front as a binding.
Our batting in the middle is cut to the same size as our quilt top and the back fabric will protrude out about 1,5" (3cm). Like so:
Mitering Quilt Corners
We then fold our backing fabric in half and then over again a second time and pin it onto the front of the quilt.
Once you get to a corner, you fold the fabric once diagonally and then do the same fold in half and half again over the top.
Now, the corners will be mitered. Pin down.
Go all around the edge of your quilt, folding over and pinning.
When done, sew your edge down and there you have your completed quilt.
If you have followed our instructions for making this interesting and modern pixel quilt – then:
Well Done You!
You have created a GORGEOUS QUILT!
‘Til next time,
Janeen
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Free Quilting Patterns & Tutorials & Classes in this quilting course by Janeen van Niekerk:
- Class #1: Fussy cutting ~ How to Make a Quilt: Free Quilting Beginners Class.
- Class #2: Quilting Tools – What you’ll need as a beginner.
- Class #3 : How to Choose & Work with Quilting Fabric.
- Class #4: How to Read & Work with a Quilt Pattern.
- Class #5: Creating a Finished Quilt Block .
- Class #6: How to Make Quilt Rows – from finished blocks.
- Class #7: How to add borders to your quilt.
- Class #8 : How to finish a quilt: add backing, batting and how to bind a quilt.
- Class #9 : How to Make Quilt Blocks more Exciting.
- Class #10 : How to Make a Modern Lap Quilt.
- Class #11 : How to Make a Modern Lap Quilt, the next steps.
- Class #12: How to finish a Quilt :: Modern Lap Quilt.
About Quilting Instructor Janeen van Niekerk
Our latest news of quilt making instructor Janeen van Niekerk is that she has just launched a brand new paper piecing magazine.
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Quilt artist Janeen van Niekerk is an avid quilter. In particular, she’s an accomplished paper piecing designer. She does it all with a passion.
Janeen’s prolific range of hand-made quilts (she takes commissions for personalized, stylish portrait quilts), as well as her unique quilt patterns (think quilts featuring safari animals and trees, or kids toys) are inspired by her environs; she lives in sunny Pretoria in South Africa, with her husband and kids.
Janeen offers her quilts designs & paper piecing patterns for individual sale Out of Janeen’s 230+ quilt patterns for sale, these are my top 5 Paper Piecing Quilt Patterns, Animals and Flowers. All really beautiful!!
Janeen van Niekerk (spelled by some as Janine van Niekerk) is also part of the Free Block of the Month -club, offering a free paper piecing quilt block pattern, each month. Check it out here:
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Quilting Pattern Library & Other Training Courses
This gorgeous owl quilt pattern is both included in one of Janeen’s books as well as being available for individual sale. Don’t you just love this quilt design?
The owl and all Janeen’s other patterns are for sale here at Craftsy. BTW. Crafty also has other quilting, sewing and other craft workshops, which I encourage you to check out, by clicking either the banner below, or the link above.
Or,… continue your journey with Quilting patterns, tutorials and ideas featured here at FineCraftGuild.com (beyond Janeen’s quilting course).
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this is my first time visiting your website, but after reading all the class instructions I can’t wait to make these quilts. I’m new to making quilts and so far I’m really enjoying it, to me the quilting’s not only being creative but for me relaxing. I look forward to more of your online classes and wanted to say thank you for making them available to us.