Hi - hoping someone can point me in the right direction as I know nothing about this stuff. I am hosting my friends baby shower on Sunday and was thinking to do baby singlet painting as one of the activities, however there are 30 people coming. I had the idea that we could each paint a panel for a quilt and then get this made up. Is this idea okay do you think or even possible?
If yes, what material do I need to buy and what size would the squares need to be? And then what material would I need to buy for the back? I would have to take it somewhere to be made as I am terrible with craft things..........as you can probably tell from this post.
Even if she never uses the quilt, it would be a pretty cool keepsake I would think.
Please ladies, point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance
It sounds like an an amazing, beautiful idea, it would be creative and fun for the attendees, and a lovely keepsake for her. What a beautiful thought!
It also sounds like a LOT to organise in just a few days. Quilts are not easy to sew together and have a good finish, ie, neat joins and everything perfectly flat. If you really want to do this, and don't sew at all yourself, I would suggest you find a local sewing/alterations person, and have a chat with her (or him.) You'd want to know the price of having it all stitched together - and it will be time-consuming, I would think even with a machine - before you go out and buy the makings.
If you did decide to go ahead, if you used squares of approx 21cmx21cm, (the 1cm becomes a 1/2cm seam allowance for stitching together) and sewed them as a 6x5 retangle, the final dimensions would be 100x120cm, plus a few more cm for a border.
You'd probably want to use cotton, with the decorated squares one shade or a range of several colours, and a single large piece of cotton for the back, pattern or neutral, plus enough for the border, either precut binding or enough cotton to make 5m or binding - the sewer could advise you how much you'd need as this depends how wide the border will be. You'd then need the fill, and the thread, and the paints/pens whatever is appropriate for decorating. And you'd need to make sure every quare is cut accurately, as if they're a bit skew-wif (sp?) it will make the whole quilt not lay flat.
It's such a lovely idea, I really hope you do carry it out, good luck.
I had a quilt made (cot size) and my beautiful friend did the bulk of the work, then I paid for one of her friends to do the actual quilting - $100 just for that, so you could be looking at a big expense for something that may not look all that nice (LOL I know if I decorated quilt panel it wouldn't look too crash hot!).
Is there something else you could all decorate - letters of the alphabet and 1-10 or something like that? Might be a bit less effort and $$.
Have a lovely shower!
PS I think the singlet thing is lovely. You could also get some plain 1sies and hats. People could sew on buttons and lace. When I did it at a friend's not everyone made one anyway.
Thanks for responding....I think it is more diff ult than I realised. I like the 1-10 numbers etc though, I might go have a look at spotlight and see what I can find
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