How to Make Cards With Quilt Patterns
Sending cards in the mail is a much-appreciated gesture, but finding the perfect card in the store is hard. Making your own cards shows how much you care. Using different quilt patterns and fabric prints to make your cards ensures that each card is unique. Find different quilt block patterns to recreate on your own greeting cards. Make packages of 10 cards and give them away as gifts.
Things You'll Need
- Cardstock
- Ruler
- Fusible webbing
- Scrap fabric
- Scissors
- Iron
- Quilt pattern ideas
- Rotary cutter and mat
- Straight edge
- Fabric pen
Instructions
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Cut the cardstock to measure 4 inches by 12 inches. Fold the card in half to make a 4-inch by 6-inch card.
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Cut out 5-inch squares of scrap fabric. Make sure to use plenty of different prints of fabric to give you more options when making your quilt cards. Cut out 5-inch squares of the fusible webbing.
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Iron the scrap fabric onto the fusible webbing. Peel the paper from the fusible webbing off the back of the fabric. Make a bunch of these squares.
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Use the rotary cutter and mat to cut the fused fabric squares into smaller squares, strips and triangles.
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Arrange the cut-up, fused fabric pieces on the top of the card. Slide the design off the card, but carefully keep the pieces in the same arrangement.
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Use a ruler to find the exact middle of the card. Take the middle fabric piece of your quilt design. Place it on the middle of the card. Iron it in place. Add another quilt piece and iron it in place. Keep working your way around in a circle out to the edges of the card. Allow the fabric to hang over the edges of the card.
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Open the card out and lay it flat on a rotary cutting mat. Use a straight edge and a rotary cutter to trim the excess fabric from the edge of the card.
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Use a black fabric-marking pen to make decorative stitch marks on the "seams" of the quilt pattern. Blanket stitches are easy to recreate with a pen. Use a top stitch-looking seam since that is also very simple to make using a fabric-marking pen.
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Experiment with other quilt patterns for your card. Use simple patterns such as patchwork, bear's paw, friendship block and various star patterns.
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