Making Beautiful Traditional Quilts

By Owen Jones


One of the fantastic things about sewing quilts is the tradition behind quilt making and the usefulness of the final product. It is really nice to have a hobby that can improve your life by either being functional or by being saleable.

One of the other good things about quilt making is that it is so flexible. If there is more than one way to skin a cat, there are thousands of ways of making a quilt.

Patch work quilts are one of the most gorgeous and traditional quilts to use to keep you snug at night. They are also one of the cheapest ways of sewing a quilt, but they are not the easiest of quilts to begin with. Matching all the squares in a patch work quilt is not quite as easy as it looks. The easiest way to begin is to buy two big squares of cloth that you like.
However, there is a great tradition in Europe and America of making patch work quilts. The craft of doing this has even become a social gathering in the United States. If you would like to get going sewing patch work quilts, you could join a group if you live in America or you could join a Net group that specializes in constructing quilts. Do a search on line and you will discover what you are looking for.

There is such a lot of choice if you want to create a quilt. For example, you could make the top of the quilt either totally smooth or completely fluffy or completely smooth or a mixture of all or some of them. Then you can have the underside as a extraordinary cloth as well or you could simply use a sheet or preferably something a bit more robust.

If you are thoroughly intimidated by the thought of making a full-size quilt, you could attempt making a quilt for a baby. Okay, you might not have a baby and you might certainly not be planning having one, but you could create one for the practice and keep it to give to a special person in your life who is having a baby or only sell it through a local shop or even eBay.

Once you are confident about making and selling quilts for babies' cots or toddlers' beds, you could upgrade them a bit and offer to embroider your name and the baby's name on the quilt. Later still, you could accept orders for custom quilts, made to the desires of the orderer.

Making quilts, especially babies' quilts is a decent way of earning money from home for people who cannot leave home a lot. Those people such as work at home mothers and fathers, the elderly and the poor in health.



If you are thoroughly intimidated by the thought of making a full-size quilt, you could attempt making a quilt for a baby. Okay, you might not have a baby and you might certainly not be planning having one, but you could create one for the practice and keep it to give to a special person in your life who is having a baby or only sell it through a local shop or even eBay.

Once you are confident about making and selling quilts for babies' cots or toddlers' beds, you could upgrade them a bit and offer to embroider your name and the baby's name on the quilt. Later still, you could accept orders for custom quilts, made to the desires of the orderer.

Making quilts, especially babies' quilts is a decent way of earning money from home for people who cannot leave home a lot. Those people such as work at home mothers and fathers, the elderly and the poor in health.




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