Make this attractive and practical cot quilt in a colour of your choice. Elli Beaven shows you how.
Elli loves hand stitching quilted things from waste textiles and sometimes dyeing with plants. Open for bespoke work. @wholeclothstudio
BABY QUILT
YOU WILL NEED
■ Lilac Washed Linen (Fabric 1):
1mx80cm
■ Fine pale blue linen (Fabric 2):
1mx80cm
■ Double gauze (Fabric 3): 1mx25cm
■ Natural fibre wadding: 1mx80cm
■ Lilac hand quilting thread
■ Sewing thread to match Fabric 3
■ Contrasting thread
■ Erasable fabric marker
■ Template plastic
■ Basic sewing kit
NOTES
■ The size of the finished quilt is 70x90cm
CREATE THE TEMPLATE
Step one Cut an 18x2.5cm strip of template plastic. Use a pen to mark 0.5cm in from one end, then mark every 2.5cm after that. Pierce each of the seven holes with a pin, then enlarge all but the first with the point of a pair of scissors, pushing them all through from the same side so that all rough edges are on top. 01
CREATE THE DESIGN
Step one Lay the backing fabric – Fabric 2 – on a table, followed by the wadding and then Fabric 1, smoothing out wrinkles as you go. This is the quilt sandwich. Ensure all the pieces are slightly larger than the final size of the quilt, as the linen will shift slightly during the tacking and quilting process. 02
Step two Keeping the quilt sandwich laid out flat, and starting at one corner, use contrasting thread to tack stitches approximately 5cm long down the length of the quilt. Once you reach the other end of the quilt, sew a 10-15cm tacking stitch to one side and start a new line, as shown. Continue until the whole quilt is tacked together. 03
Step three Use a ruler and the erasable fabric marker to draw a 70x90cm rectangle on Fabric 1, the size of the finished quilt. 04
Step four Place the template along the bottom line at the right-hand side, positioning the first hole over the corner. Using a pin to hold it in place at the corner, place the fabric marker in the first enlarged hole and slide the template up and to the right, pivoting on the pin, drawing an arc until it reaches the right-hand side of the rectangle. Keep it there as you move the fabric marker to the next hole up before sliding it down to the bottom edge. Move the marker up to the next hole and continue sliding back and forth until all six arcs of the fan are drawn. 05
Step five Move the pin and template to the point where the outer line of the first
