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Basting a quilt on a small table

18 Saturday Sep 2010

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basting, basting with boards, free tutorial, Pinmoors, quilting blog, sewing blog, sewjournal blog, Sharon Schamber

I learned a cool way of basting a quilt from Sharon Schamber’s hand basting video some years ago. However whenever I have used it I found problems because the quilts I was basting were larger than the fabric she uses in the video and also because I only have a small table. You can see Sharon’s video here and below is my adaptation of it.

Basting a quilt on a small table – free tutorial

The first step is to mark the centre of the table with some masking tape, then line up the centre of the pressed backing fabric with this line both at the front and back of the table.

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Then flatten out the backing and put a board across it to weigh it down. Lay the batting on top of the backing and smooth it down. Then lay your top on top of the batting making sure you line up the centre of the top with the centre of the back and the masking tape mark on the table.

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Take the second board and place it close to the front of the table on top of the quilt top. Gently smoothing as you go, slide it until it meets the board that is anchoring the backing. Then baste from the board towards you starting in the centre and moving out towards the edges. Once you have several vertical lines of pins you can fill in the large areas between the lines.

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When you have pinned the portion of the quilt in front of you pull the whole sandwich towards you until all the pinned section is hanging off the front of the table and the boards are close to you. Fold the quilt top forwards over the top board.

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Then do the same with the batting. Slide the bottom board back towards the back edge of the table, smoothing the backing as you go. Remember to check the centre is still aligned correctly.

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Smooth the batting back over the backing then smooth the top over the batting.

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Then slide the top board back over the quilt top towards the back of the table until it reaches the other board. Smooth the quilt top as you go. Then you can pin the rest of the quilt. If you haven’t completed the quilt by this stage just repeat the last step until the whole quilt has been pinned.

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Pinmoors

As you can see I used my make-shift version of the Pinmoors product. I have actually ordered some of the real thing which I am looking forward to getting. Catherine from Catherine’s Place is running a co-op on them. The price is Aus$19.25 for  a pack of 50 and Aus$36.50 for a pack of 100 INCLUDING POSTAGE! That’s a really good price, in fact its the best I’ve found and believe me I’ve been looking. If you’d like to join the co-op just sign up a the Yahoo group here or visit Catherine’s Blog Big Blue Shed for more details. I have no affiliation with either Pinmoors or Catherine’s Place I’m just sharing useful info.

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Ort/gift bag free tutorial

09 Sunday May 2010

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bag, free pattern, free tutorial, gift bag, ort bag, sewjournal blog

Here is the promised tutorial for the ort bag. It is written the way I actually made it but I have had some ideas since making the first one and would do some of it differently if I made another.

Ort bag tutorial

Ort bag tutorial


What you need
Materials

Materials


You need two pieces of fabric:

One 14.5″ x 3″

One 12.5″ x 5″

a length of ribbon (approx 20″)

Score .5" from the top edge

Score .5" from the top edge


Method

Take your ruler and a pin and score a line .5″ from the narrow edges of all the strips of material.

Then repeat .25″ from the edges.

Fold .25" from the top edge

Fold .25" from the top edge


Fold along the .25″ score mark and then fold again.

While holding down the folded edge, pin a strip of ribbon slightly wider than the strip along the top edge. Then machine the along that top edge. Once you have done this, machine the bottom of the ribbon to secure it. Do this top and bottom of both strips. Then trim the ribbon to the edge of the strips.

Pin the ribbon

Pin the ribbon

Sew down the bottom edge of the ribbon

Sew down the bottom edge of the ribbon


Sew the ribbon to both edges of both strips of material

Sew the ribbon to both edges of both strips of material


Sew along the folded over fabric

Sew along the folded over fabric


Fold over .25″ on the long edges of the strips and machine down.

Sewn strips

Sewn strips

Fold the narrow strip lengthwise

Fold the narrow strip lengthwise


Fold the thin strip lengthwise and finger press. The unfold and machine along the fold line. This will help the bag to fold like a supermarket brown paper bag once it is finished.

Stitch along the fold line

Stitch along the fold line


Then fold the thin strip in half the other way and finger press the fold so that when you open it out you have a cross at the centre. Then take the wider strip and first fold it lengthwise and finger press. Then open it out and fold it the other way and finger press. You should now have a cross of folds at the centre of both pieces of fabric.

Place the narrower strip over the wider strip at right angles. Take a pin and pierce the centre of the folded cross of both pieces. Then pin the strips in the form of a cross and machine stitch the borders of the cross.

Fold the wider piece

Fold the wider piece

Place a pin through the centers

Place a pin through the centers

Pin the two strips together

Pin the two strips together

Stitch around the borders of the cross

Stitch around the borders of the cross


Once you have stitched around the rectangle at the centre then stitch diagonally then across the narrow side and diagonally again and then across the the other short side.
Stitch diagonally

Stitch diagonally

Turn the bag right side out

Turn the bag right side out


Turn the bag right side out and pin around the sides of the bag.

Pin around the sides

Pin around the sides

Machine around the edge

Machine around the edge


Stitch around the edges a little less than .25″ from the edges. Do this on both ends of the bag.

Finished bag folded like a supermarket bag

Finished bag folded like a supermarket bag

Bag from the other side

Bag from the other side

 Finished bag open

Finished bag open


I hope you enjoy making this bag. If you use the contact form to let me know you have made one I’ll be happy to send you my email address so you can send me a photo and I’ll put it up on the blog.

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