Free Baby Quilt Patterns
These easy baby quilt patterns are a perfect projects for beginning quilters who are making a first quilt, especially if you aren't sure you're ready to sew lots of quilts or purchase tools for an all-out attack on the craft.These easy baby quilt patterns are made from squares. You don't have to learn quick-piecing methods, because it's easy to arrange the squares side by side and then sew them together with a quarter-inch seam allowance.
Even if you have made a few other quilts, playing with individual squares is an excellent way to become familiar with color value, and value is important, because it controls the pattern that emerges when your patches are sewn together.
This is one (rare) occasion when it's acceptable if your seam allowance isn't absolutely perfect. Come as close as you can, but as long as the seam allowance is consistent throughout the entire quile, your sewn squares will fit together like they should.
Before you begin the baby quilts, read:
Cutting 5-inch Squares
If you have rotary cutting equipment, cut long strips of fabric from selvage to selvage, each 5-inches wide. Square up one end of each strip and then cut 5-inch squares from each the squared up end.If you prefer to cut with scissors, begin by cutting a 5-inch square from rigid template plastic. Use a light or dark pencil or permanent marker to draw around the square onto fabric, butting shapes next to each other. Cut out the shapes.
You might not have to cut at all. Many quilt and fabric shops sell assortments of precut 5-inch squares.
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