Picking Materials for Quilt Pattern

Series Summary

Quilting is a type of sewing that involves a needle and a special quilting thread is used to sew through three layers of the quilt: the top, the batting and the backing. The quilter typically passes the needle from the quilt top all the way through to the bottom layer and then pushes the needle back up. Simple to quite elaborate patterns are formed by these quilting stitches. Tying is another method of holding the three layers of the quilt together. A bed covering or similar large rectangular piece of quilting work is called a quilt. A quilt does not have to be rectangular, however. Many quilts hang on the wall as art quilts and are all kinds of shapes and sizes. Given the popularity of quilts as heirlooms and gifts, it's no surprise that many people who might have been intimidated by sewing and crafts will attempt to learn this skill as they grow older.

In this free quilting lesson, a quilt expert will demonstrate how to how to create quilt squares, starting with choosing and cutting material, then creating the squares and combining the squares into quilt rows. Learn helpful sewing tips and find out how our expert chooses the material for her quilts.

Video Transcript

"Okay we're going to show you how to do a quilting pattern today; something like this. The first thing that you're going to need to do is to pick material. I would recommend something cotton; the less stretchy the better because you're working with small triangles. There's all different weights. Whatever works best for you. I would get at least three different patterns and possibly four depending on what style you want to do it and you'll need about a yard of length; about a half yard you could probably pull it off, but a yard would give you more options later for pulling them together, but make sure when you get your materials try to find something with kind of a background tone and then you will want a focal color and then a couple of side colors that will actually be more the star type part and this will be the background and the side and once you have your materials we'll be ready to start."