Firstly, I thought you would like to see what you could be making which is a full sized quilt.
But we are going to make just two blocks to make our needle case.
You will need:
- Iron and ironing board
- Mat, cutting ruler and rotary cutter
- Main fabric and contrast
- A small piece of felt
- Needle and thread
- Tape Measure or ruler
Right then we are ready to start - now these are the important bits - you must be as precise as possible with your cutting out and folding - always put the guard on your rotary cutter and finally, measure twice and cut once.
1. Cut two 7 inch squares of your main fabric. |
2. With the right side of your fabric facing down, fold over 1/4" of fabric all the way round and press it flat. |
3. Fold the fabric in half lengthwise and press, now do the same widthwise, where these lines bisect is your centre point. |
4. Fold each corner into the centre - we are now moving into origami territory. |
5. Press the fabric flat, make sure each new corner is a sharp point. 6. Fold the new corner points into the middle. |
7. Press all the corners into the middle. |
8. Catch the opposing corner points with a slip stitch, do not got through to the layers beneath, just the points. |
9. Your square should now look like this. Now repeat the process for your second square. |
11. If you look at the pic above, you will see that the seam is invisible when you pull the thread taut. |
13. Now cut a piece of fabric which fits the
diamond shape between the two joined squares,
this will become your Cathedral windows.
14. Roll the edges of the square over your cut out diamond and slip stitch the rolled edges, at each corner, catch the two sides together with a little bar stitch. |
16. You now have your cathedral window and secret garden blocks. In order to make it a little more interesting, I have added buttons... am thinking about adding loop to close the needle case. |
18. Your case is now ready for the needles. |
17. And there you have it... you can now do two sorts of hand quilted blocks. |
I also have a method for doing this by machine... would anyone like to see it?
6 comments:
When you mentioned Cathedral Windows in your HM post it reminded me of some old work I done... Iput it on my blog with a link to yours.
OOhhhh I've never tried that 'mattress stitch' I'll have to give it a go. Lovely fabric you've used too.
Jan x
Thanks Jan, sometimes it is really nice to slow right down with a piece of hand sewing. Mind you I think I need to do more practice because my stitches have got so big an clunky... either that or I need new specs!
I don't really sew- I've always had a hard time with it.
I may have to try this. It's really cute, and looks so easy! :D Thank you for this.
Ros - What an well presented tutorial! And a photo for each step - thanks for this! Nancy
AHHHHH! I have to make one!!! I LOVE IT!
Dear Ros,
I SO enjoyed making this, the points are bit pesky, but fabric is pesky stuff isn't it!
YES PLEASE, could you post the machine equal you mention here, I would love to try it.
Thank you very much,
Joan Wells.
(Lincoln)
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