Whats the First Step When Making Any Quilt?
Sponsored LinksPreparing your materials is a vital first step if you are beginning a new quilt. You wouldn’t start a new job in dirty clothing, so why should your quilt be any different?
To get your quilt off to the best possible start, I have listed my pre-flight quilting checklist.
Read Any Instrutions
This is the most significant step before anything else, I learned this the tough way – which I’ll tell you about later on.
The directions will give you warnings about anything that will damage or affect the materials during the preparation process, so take care you read all the instructions so that you don’t get caught out.
Washing
Once you’ve read the directions, your next stop is to wash the quilt. The directions will tell you whether its safe to put in the machine or whether you should hand wash it, as well as the temperature of water to use.
I was recently working on a green quilt design and did not go over the directions. As it seems, the particular dye they used for this material doesn’t handle warm water well and the colours ran and faded in areas, so be vigilant and check!
Drying
Drying is one of the things that surprises numerous quilters. Some material does not react well to being put in bright sunlight shortly after washing.
More frequently, there are other materials that may get damaged if you put them into a dryer, so be sure you know what you’re dealing with.
Ironing
Like drying, ironing is another step in which you can destroy a supremely good fabric. Materials like silk and polyester will burn or melt if you use an iron that is too hot.
There are too many materials to cover here, so in short if you are unsure, put your iron on the lowest setting simply to be safe.
When you’re ironing, start from the center and push your iron out to the sides. Once the material is flat, run your iron over the sides to remove any little wrinkles and make it prepared for stitching seams.
If you follow these steps, your material will be prepped and ready to be used in any quilt, removing any forseeable issues with the fabric itself.
Interested in more green quilt design ideas? Then head on over to Jane Green’s how to make a patchwork quilt site now!
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