How difficult is it to sew a quilt or fabric wall hanging?
I mean, If I don’t know how to sew !!
What i want to do is this….My sister is having a wedding, and I want to make like a collage quilt or wall hanging for her, with wedding pictures. Now, I found these beautiful fabrics that are apparently designed to be able to transfer images onto easily. How difficult is it to sew these things together…I mean without having them fall apart !!!
Is there a quick how to sew a quilt/wallhanging instructional video someone can point me to??
It’s not difficult, but a wedding photo wall hanging is not the project I’d choose for a beginner who apparently doesn’t have anyone to teach them the basics. On the other hand, if you get it done and looking good, you’ll have a lot of good lessons in precise sewing.
The first thing I’d encourage you to do is to do a couple of photo transfers. Generally, you get the best resolution with the highest thread count fabrics, but to my eye, all of the transfer fabrics yield sort of pastel results.
The second thing I’d encourage you to do is to find a sewing machine and start learning basic machine operation… keeping your seams straight, the seam allowances even and accurate.
Then choose a simple quilt pattern — I’d suggest Snowball or an Uneven Nine Patch — and put a top together of inexpensive cotton fabric — just fabric, no photos*. If you’re satisfied with that, then go ahead and do your sister’s gift.
http://www.straw.com/quilting/articles/snowball.html
http://quiltingartsforum.com/bom2003_3.html
*The photos would go in the center of these blocks when you cut the “real thing”
Tricky things: If you don’t sew accurately, the quilt blocks won’t line up properly. Fabrics that are sewn on the diagonal (“bias”) tend to stretch during sewing — the method used for the snowball block tends to defeat that stretching. Choose a simple block, and take your time.
After you’ve got the top pieced, “birthing” is probably the easiest to assemble the quilt sandwich:
http://www.hgtv.com/crafting/ask-alex-birthing-a-quilt/index.html
And then you can tie or handquilt the quilt.
The biggest difficulty you’re going to run into is learning to sew accurately.
Swapna demonstrates ‘Thermocol Wall Hanging’
