Learn to Quilt: Colorful Bed Quilt

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Experience the king-sized thrill of sewing your own beautiful bed quilt! Gain the confidence to create the quilts you’ve always dreamed of, with smart piecing and quilting techniques.

Creating Templates

Want to create a dynamic, colorful hexagon-patterned bed quilt? Instructor Amy Gibson is going to show you how! Get started by selecting your fabric and playing with color combinations. Learn to find inspiration in everyday life, then prepare your templates for the cutting process.

Cutting Hexagons & Triangles

Learn how to cut your fabric accurately and efficiently with your templates. Amy also shows you how to handle bias edges in your fabric before they become an issue in your quilt — spray-on starch and a quick press lends support to your material. Now get cutting!

Creating the Blocks & Quilt Top

Next, Amy demonstrates how to piece together your hexagons and triangles. Once you’ve created several units, watch as Amy shows how to arrange them into rows with a perfect seam. Then see your quilt top take shape as you learn to sew your rows together.

Backing & Basting

It’s time to trim your quilt’s edges in order to square it up. Then, Amy talks you through how to piece together the backing. Once that’s finished, lay it out and start making a quilt sandwich. Watch as Amy pin bastes the entire project and gets ready to quilt.

Quilting Design Options

Looking at the big picture, Amy talks design. She sketches out several different ways you could quilt your project: with straight lines that emphasize different shapes in your pattern or gently curved lines that soften the pattern’s edges. Draw out some designs for your own quilt!

Quilting Your Large Project

Don’t be daunted by this quilt’s size. Amy goes over an ideal workspace, making sure the project is supported so the area around your needle — and you — stay stress-free. She also gives tips on wrangling a big quilt on your home machine. Then square up the sides and corners of your quilt!

Flange Binding

Binding is like frosting on the cake, and Amy has a great decorative trick to show you. Learn how to create flange binding that looks like it takes a lot of work but is quite simple. Amy demonstrates the entire binding process so you can get a beautiful finish on your new bed quilt!