Following on from the Come Quilt With Me posts…. This is such a quick and easy make you will be hooked in no time! It is also a very friendly scrap busting project so no excuse to not being able to play.
For my needlebook (above) I used bits from my scrap basket and some lonely squares that I had lying around.
Supplies:
- 7.5 x 4.5″ cotton pieces. You’ll need one for the front and one for the lining
- Roughly 8.5 x 5.5″ piece of wadding
- Roughly 6.75 x 3.75″ piece of felt
- Button
- Elastic (Hair elastic is good!)
For this needlebook I used a mixture of scraps and squares and cut the design down to the required size (7.5 x 4.5″). Feel free to do whatever inspires you 🙂 If you wanted to have a binding in the middle like I have cut 1.5 x 4.5″ of fabric for the binding and sew to two pieces of 3.5 x 4.5″
Take your front piece and smooth it out over some wadding ready to quilt. Make sure you leave enough wadding on the outside of the piece in case it moves when quilting.
Baste as desired. You can use basting spray, thread, pins or curved safety pins. My personal choice are the safety pins as it makes the basting a breeze and easy to take out without damaging the fabrics.
Once you have basted you are ready to quilt. Being a small project you can quilt by hand or run it through the machine, the stitches, thread colours etc are up to you.
For mine I handquilted using embroidery thread, a random running stitch all over the front (I rather like the effect). Once you have finished trim off the excess wadding and neaten up the edges
Now you can figure out where to put your elastic. Fold it over and baste it into place. * Next time I will be using hair elastic as its thinner and prettier. *
