Christening wall hanging for Maggie |
Next month our granddaughter will be baptized. When her big brother was baptized I made him a wall hanging to 'decorate' our home for his party. It now hangs over his crib at home, keeping him safe in God's love.
Template placement |
I bought the fabric at JoAnn's. I used the same designs from Embroidery Library that I used on her brother's wall hanging. I printed the templates for her name and date and arranged them on the background fabric along with the templates of the other designs.
Stitching all done |
After doing the stitching, I pressed and then cut the background fabric to size. I cut the background fabric to 24" wide and 29" tall. The first and third borders are the same fabric with a skinny 1/4" border of a different fabric in between.
Border detail |
The first border cuts were (2) 1-1/2" x 29" and (2) 1-1/2" x 26". The second border cuts were (2) 3/4" x 31" and (2) 3/4" x 26-1/2". The third border cuts were (2) 3-1/2" x 31-1/2" and (2) 3-1/2" x 32-1/2". I sewed on the side borders first and then the top and bottom borders.
Pressing detail for narrow border |
Usually when you press your borders after sewing them on you press towards the border. However when sewing on a very narrow border you need to press towards the inside, away from the border. Then when you sew on the next border you use the edge of the 1/4" foot along the stitching line on the left so you get a nice even 1/4" border.
Using left side of the foot along the stitching line |
After sewing on all the borders, I used fusible quilt batting and ironed it to the back of the quilt top. I then ironed the backing onto the other side of the fusible batting. I then added my binding. I stitched it on from the back and then topstitched it in place from the front. Afterwards I did a bit of quilting. Usually you do your quilting and then your binding but with it all fused together I decided to do the binding first.
Quilt/wall hanging back |
I did very little quilting as this is a wall hanging and is not going to be washed.
Embroidery detail, lettering from MasterWorks |
Embroidery detail, designs from Embroidery Library |
I made sure to document all the sizes this time around so that when the next grandbaby comes along I won't have to measure an old one to remember what I did.
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