How to Make a Rag Quilt

How to Make a Rag Quilt
A tutorial on how to make a Rag Quilt
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Hi there, it's Monica with It's Just Sewing and today I'm gonna teach you how to make the easiest quilt on the planet and it's not even a quilt. It's easy, fun and fuss free. So we've got our quilting cotton and our flannel and what I want to start by doing is preparing our fabric to feed right through the sewing machine because I'm going to show you the coolest trick to make your sewing experience so much quicker, so much more efficient and I'm actually gonna save you money on thread - so wait for that. The first thing we're going to do is start by collating. The objective for our rag quilt is we'll eventually sew from one corner to the other and then this corner to this corner. In order to be more efficient we will focus on just doing this corner to this corner with all of them first, and I'm gonna show you how to do that with using little to no excess thread. I'm going to go ahead and pop in my corner and start sewing corner to corner, just like that. No as I get to the end of this square, what I'm gonna do is grab another one and hug it up right behind the previous one that was sewn. Remember, I'm not overlapping them, what I'm doing is just hugging them right up next to each other and they're feeding through with just a small amount of thread in between. So now that you've done your chain stitching on one side, what you're going to find is that you will have a chained piece of square - which is fabulous. There's just a little bit of thread connecting each one, so you can do a couple of different things. Your just going to pop the next ones in and sew corner to corner that hasn't been sewn yet. We're gonna start fringing and basically what we want to do is snip all the way around the perimeter of each of the squares. Once you've laid everything out, just see if it feels balanced to you. The final thing is I would get out your cellphone; I would take a picture before you start organizing it so you have a reference point so if you need to go back to it as you're assembling. I have my first set of squares ready to assemble my first row and what you're gonna do is take the first, top square and if you ever have a hard time remembering which one is the top you can always put a pin in it, so it reminds you. We are going to put it next to our second square and notice that I have the flannels touching. I would suggest that you use a one inch seam allowance. I think it gives you a huge margin of error. Here we go - we're gonna go ahead and sew all the way down. It's time to assemble row to row. I've got my first row and I want to get it ready to assemble with my second row. Now we're doing a baby quilt right now, so it looks a little smaller. But you can double the size and make it as large as you want. This is the first row and this is the first square, the upper left-hand square and the one it's going to butt up next to is going to be the red one that goes right underneath. I'm going to split the difference, so I'm gonna start in the middle. I'm ready to sew row to row and I have got my center point. What I like to do is line these up - we're gonna use the exact same seam allowance of one inch. I start actually in the middle. What we're gonna do is go ahead and start in the middle. I'm gonna give it a few stitches and I am gonna back stitch at this point - only because I'm starting in the middle. When I get to the area where I'm going over multiple layers, I just slow down. Look at what we have - two rows sewn together. See how the fringe looks clipped; it doesn't look really sweet and fluffy yet. That is because we haven't washed or dried it yet. When you wash and dry - that is where the magic really happens. A couple of things you want to do before you pop it into the washer is you want to take your scissors and cut any excess threads. I've already done this, but you'll find threads all throughout and you want to cut those down so they are good to go after you have washed and dried. You want to sew around the entire perimeter of the quilt because that's going to lock in all of the stitches, so they're not gonna go anywhere from when we did our rows to rows. This lady’s headed to the washer and drier now. I can't wait for her to get all beautiful and give you the big reveal. I can't believe this - we are done with our rag quilt. That's really the appeal of the rag quilt. I promised you this would be the easiest quilt on the planet. Follow us at it'sjustsewing.com for more fun tutorials.

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