How to Quilt a Lap Blanket
Making a cozy quilted lap blanket is a fabulous way to create your own custom quilted blanket to cuddle up in when reading or watching television. The basics of quilting involve sewing small pieces of fabric together for a lap quilt top, and then layering the quilt top with cotton batting and a cotton muslin backing. The quilted lap blanket can be constructed with the use of a sewing machine or sewn by hand.
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Things You'll Need
- 1 yard light colored cotton fabric
- 1 yard dark colored cotton fabric
- Ruler
- Scissors
- 1 1/2-yard cotton quilt batting
- 1 1/2-yard cotton muslin fabric
- Sewing machine or needle and thread
- 36 safety pins
Instructions
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Cut the light and dark colored fabrics into 36 6 1/2-inch squares, using the ruler and the scissors.
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Sew together one light colored and one dark colored square by placing the right sides of the fabric squares together. Sew a seam 1/4-inch from one edge with the sewing machine or needle and thread. Repeat to make 18 pairs of light and dark squares.
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Sew together two pairs of squares in a checkerboard fashion with a 1/4-inch seam. Repeat to make nine four-squares.
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Sew together the four-squares to make the lap quilt top.
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Cut the batting and muslin pieces two inches larger than the finished quilt top. Layer the muslin, batting and quilt top on a large table. Insert a safety pin in the center of each square to connect the three layers.
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Quilt through all three layers by hand stitching through the seam lines that connect the squares, making smal, even stitches. This is called stitch in the ditch.
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Trim excess batting and backing. Cut a 2-inch wide strip of muslin for the quilt binding, long enough to bind all four edges, piecing together strips if necessary.
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Sew the binding to the edge of quilt top, with right sides of the fabrics facing each other, stitching a 1/4-inch seam along the entire perimeter edge. Fold the binding under 1/2-inch twice and hand-sew it to the back of the completed lap quilt.
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