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Ragged-Edge iPOD Case Tutorial
I was inspired to make a case for my favorite little piece of technology - my new iPOD Touch.
Here are directions so you can make one too.
Doll QuiltI made this adorable doll quilt on a recent Sunday morning for my daughter to give as a gift at a friend's birthday party. This my first free online quilt tutorial. If you make it, please let me know how you like my instructions - thank you! I made this little quilt "greenly" by using scraps from my stash and a scrap piece of Dream Green batting.I chose one light colored print with lady bugs on it and one darker coordinating red fabric that almost reads as a solid. Step 1. Cut 1 strip of the print fabric 42" long and 1 1/4" wide. Cut 2 strips of the solid fabric, each 42" long and 1 1/4" wide. If you don't have scraps that long you can use shorter strips to get a total length of about 42". Step 2. Sew the strips together (all seam allowances are 1/4") with the print fabric in between the two solid strips.
Step 3: Cut your sewn strip into 2 3/4" squares. You will need 15 of these striped squares:
Step 4: Cut 15 - 2 3/4" squares from your print fabric.
Step 5: Arrange the striped squares and plain print squares in 5 rows of 6 blocks each, alternating striped blocks with plain blocks. Step 6: Sew blocks together to create rows. I recommend sewing pairs of blocks together using chain sewing to make this step go very quickly. Note: if you always press the seams away from the plain block, it will be easier to sew the rows together with nicely matching corners.
Step 7: Sew the 5 rows together. Note: To personalize this for the birthday girl, I added a 6th row made up of a 2 1/2" piece of the solid darker fabric with her doll's name embroidered on it.
Step 8. This step is called (believe it or not) birthing the quilt or turning the quilt. Cut a piece of batting and a piece of backing fabric to the same size as your quilt top. Layer them together in this order: Batting on the bottom; backing fabric in the middle, right side up; pieced quilt on the top, right side down.
I recommend that you pin the layers together before sewing to help everything stayed aligned.
Sew the layers together with a generous 1/4" seam allowance. Leave an opening about 4" wide on one side so that you can turn it right-side-out.
Turn the quilt right-side-out. I like to use a chop stick to help me turn the corners nicely.
Step 9: Pin the opening closed, sew around the edge, and quilt your doll quilt. I chose to sew around the edge with black thread and quilt it by quilting some of the plain blocks with a square sewn 1/4" inside the edge of the block, also using black thread.
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