How to Make an Original Rag Quilt

Make an original rag quilt by adding personal touches or photos. This blanket can look however you wish. You can make a comfy little lap quilt or continue on to a king size quilt if you wish.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Fabric -- amount will depend on the size of the quilt
• Thread to match the fabric
• Fleece for the batting
• Accessories of your choice

1. First you need to decide what size blocks you want your quilt to have. Then cut those blocks out. Enough to make a quilt in the size of your choice.

2. Then you need to cut squares of fleece 2" smaller than the size of the fabric to act as batting in the quilt.

3. Make fabric sandwiches by pinning two pieces of material together with fleece in the middle.

4. Sew the squares together with all the seams going the same way at the line where the fleece square is on the inside. Giving you about 2 " of material out.

5. Once all squares are sewn together, with small scissors, snip the seam so the material will fray up.

Tips & Warnings

• Flannel is a wonderful fabric for this.
• You could iron on a photo to some of the fabric
• You could use fabric paint and add a name
• Washing the quilt will accelerate the fraying
• Don't snip the edges past the sewn line