COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE • UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, LEXINGTON, KY, 40546

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4-H Member Project Guides NEEDLEWORK Quilting

Agriculture and Natural Resources • Family and Consumer Sciences • 4-H Youth Development • Community and Economic Development EXTENSION 4-H Needlework: Quilting 4JF-12PB

Purpose To have fun while learning how to use a hand needle and thread and/or sewing machine, fabric, and batting to create useful well-constructed items through the needle art of quilting (hand and/or machine).

Contents 4-H Needlework: Quilting Young Beginner Level...... 3 This is the first of three levels of quilting. Let’s have fun and learn to make a patchwork quilt.

4-H Needlework: Quilting Beginner Level ...... 5 This is the first of three levels of quilting. Let’s have fun and learn to make a patchwork quilt.

4-H Needlework: Quilting Intermediate Level...... 7 Piecing can be fast and accurate with the use of rotary cutting equipment. Adult supervision is required for this project.

4-H Needlework: Quilting Advanced Level...... 9 What fun you will have creating all kinds of quilted items with the skills you have learned!

Nita Benson, Kentucky Certified Master Clothing Volunteer, 2004 Revised by:, Marjorie M. Baker, M.S., Extension Associate for Clothing and Textiles, June 2011 4JF-12PB 4-H Needlework: Quilting

4-H Needlework: Quilting

Young Beginner Level Suggested ages 9 – 11 4-H Member Project Guide

This is the first of three levels of quilting. Let’s have fun and learn to make a patchwork quilt.

Do Apply Using skills from the above list, practice You will learn to: what you have learned and complete this • Select fabric and batting appropriate to project. Remember to keep a record of what the project you have learned. • Identify hand sewing needles used for What you will do: quilting • Identify appropriate thread for selected 55 Practice the techniques and ­ project skills­—learn by doing. • Prepare and straighten fabric Make one or more of the suggested • Cut fabric and batting to size of project practice/service items. Consider giv- ing some of them as gifts to friends • Use the sewing machine and identify and family. The practice projects its parts include: holiday ornament, baby mo- • Sew even seams to piece patchwork bile, hot pad, coaster, jar cover, and together by hand or machine pin cushion. See your leader/teacher • Press seams to distribute bulk or county agent for copies of the pat- tern and instructions. Practice/service • Sandwich fabric and batting together projects cannot be exhibited in 4-H • Pin and baste your quilt for quilting Needlework Department at the Ken- • Tack your quilt by hand or machine tucky State Fair. • Thread a needle and knot the thread • Do simple machine or hand quilt stitching

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55 Make and exhibit: One four- Share block patchwork quilt that mea- Show others what you have learned. sures 12 inches by 12 inches. • Participate in club/county, district, or Fabric suggestions include: Firmly state demonstrations woven 100-percent cotton fabrics. Ask your leader/teacher or county agent • Exhibit your project in county or state for the pattern and handout. fair, festival, or rally day (Project Card is required) 55 Keep a record of what you have quilted. Ask your parent or leader to help you fill out the record sheet for 4-H Nee- dlework projects. Check off the skills Clutter Control you have learned. Store it in a folder or notebook to review before you be- Equipment and supplies have a tendency gin next year’s quilting project. to get lost. Here are some suggestions to help keep everything safe and in good What you will need: condition. • Use a one gallon bag with a zip top • Firmly woven 100-percent cotton for your quilting project. Be sure to fabrics for patchwork put your name on it. • Fabric backing • Use a small container to hold your • Cotton batting basic sewing kit supplies. • Patchwork block design • Use a cloth or sturdy bag with • Basic sewing kit (tape measure, dress- handles to carry all your supplies. maker’s shears, thread clips, marking • Use a pocket folder or three-ring pencils/pens, pins & pin cushion, hand binder to store handouts and needle (sharps and betweens) patterns. • Sewing machine • All-purpose thread • Hand-quilting thread if you are hand quilting • Perle cotton thread if you are hand tacking • Walking foot (optional) • Iron and ironing board

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4-H Needlework: Quilting

Beginner Level 4-H Member Project Guide

This is the first of three levels of quilting. Let’s have fun and learn to make a patchwork quilt.

Do Apply You will learn to: Using the skills from the above list, practice what • Select fabric and batting appropriate to you have learned as you the project complete this project. • Identify hand-sewing needles used for quilting What you will do: • Identify appropriate thread for selected 55 Practice the techniques and project skills—learn by doing. • Prepare and straighten fabric Quilting is an art as well as a skill. • Cut fabric and batting to size of project The more you practice the skills you • Use the sewing machine and identify are learning, the better you will be- its parts come at them. • Sew even seams to piece patchwork Make one or more of the suggested together by hand or machine practice/service items. Consider giv- • Press seams to distribute bulk ing some of them as gifts to friends • Assemble unit block pieces together to and family. The practice projects may include a: pot holder, place mat, coast- complete a quilt top er, or holiday ornament. See your • Sandwich fabric and batting together leader/teacher or county agent for • Pin and baste your quilt for quilting copies of the pattern and instructions. • Tack your quilt by hand or machine Practice/service projects cannot be exhibited in 4-H Needlework Depart- • Thread a needle and knot the thread ment at the Kentucky State Fair. • Do simple machine or hand quilt stitching

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55 Make and exhibit. Share One-by-three four-block quilted Show others what you have learned. patchwork runner. Ask your leader/ teacher or county agent for the • Participate in your County Demonstra- pattern and handout. tion Contest • Exhibit at your County Fair, Festival or 55 Keep a record of what you have Rally Day (Project Card is required) quilted. Ask your parent or leader to help you fill out the record sheet for 4-H Nee- dlework projects. List skills you have learned. Store it in a folder or three- Clutter Control ring notebook to review before you begin next year’s quilting project. Equipment and supplies have a tendency to get lost. Here are some suggestions to help keep everything safe and in good What you will need: condition. • Firmly woven 100-percent cotton • Use a one gallon bag with a zip top fabrics for patchwork for your quilting project. Be sure to • Fabric backing put your name on it. • Cotton batting • Use a small container to hold your basic sewing kit supplies. • Patchwork block design • Use a cloth or sturdy bag with • Basic sewing kit (tape measure, dress- handles to carry all your supplies. maker’s shears, thread clips, marking pencils/pens, pins & pin cushion, hand • Use a pocket folder or three-ring needle (sharps and betweens) binder to store handouts and patterns. • Sewing machine • All-purpose thread • Hand quilting thread if you are hand quilting • Perle cotton thread, if you are hand tacking • Walking foot (optional) • Iron and ironing board

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4-H Needlework: Quilting Intermediate Level 4-H Member Project Guide

Piecing can be fast and accurate with the use of rotary cutting equipment. Adult supervision is required for this project.

Do Make one or more practice/service projects. Consider giving some of In addition to the skills previously learned, these projects as gifts to friends or skills to be added include: family. Practice projects suggestions • Measuring and rotary cutting fabrics include: machine-pieced placemat in the rail fence pattern, pillow sham, • Selection & placement of light and dark table runner, seat cushion, pillow, hot values to create quilt pattern pad, and/or tote bag. See your leader/ • Appliqué techniques by hand or teacher or county agent for copies of machine the pattern and instructions. Practice/ • Bias cut edges used for patchwork service projects cannot be exhibited in 4-H Needlework Department at • Quilting in the ditch or echo quilting the Kentucky State Fair. around a design • How to apply binding with mitered 55 Make and exhibit: Lap quilt or corners to finish quilt edge quilted wall hanging. Now that you have practiced piecing Apply and hand quilting and are familiar Practice what you have learned and with the skills involved, it is time to complete this project. make your project. This item can be a wall-hanging or a lap quilt which What you will do: measures not more than 36 inches by 36 inches. It can be machine or 55 Practice the techniques and hand pieced and quilted by hand or skills—learn by doing. machine. Ask your leader/teacher or county agent for patterns and hand- Quilting and accurate piecing is an outs. art as well as a skill. The more you practice what you are learning, the • Your lap quilt or quilted wall hanging better you will become at it. must include the following:

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* Four 12-inch blocks or nine 9-inch • Curved basting needles or safety pins blocks that are made with appli- for pin basting qué and/or triangular pieces • Quilting needles (betweens) * Sashing and/or borders • Cotton quilting thread * Piecing by hand or machine • Quilting hoop * Quilting by hand or machine • Walking foot for machine quilting (cross hatch, stitching in the ditch, (optional but helpful if you have one) or echo/outline) • Iron * Binding with mitered corners • Ironing Board * Hanging sleeve is optional Share 55 Keep a record of what you have Show others what you have learned: quilted. • Participate in Club, County, District or Ask your parent or leader to help State Demonstrations Contest you fill out the record sheet for the 4-H Needlework project. Check off • Exhibit your project in County or State the skills you have learned. Store it Fair, Festival or Rally Day (Project Card in a folder or three-ring notebook to is required) review before you begin next year’s quilting project. What you will need: Clutter Control • 100-percent cotton assorted light and Equipment and supplies have a tendency dark fabrics to get lost. Here are some suggestions to • Quilt pattern help keep everything safe and in good • Rotary cutter, mat, and ruler condition. • Rotary cutter safety glove • Use a one gallon bag with a zip top for your quilting project. Be sure to • Batting put your name on it. • Sewing machine • Use a small container to hold your • Backing fabric basic sewing kit supplies. • All-purpose thread for basting • Use a cloth or sturdy bag with • Basic sewing kit [tape measure, dress- handles to carry all your supplies. maker’s shears, thread snips, marking • Use a pocket folder or three-ring pencils/pens, pins, and pin cushion, binder to store handouts and hand needle (sharps)] patterns. • Quilting thimble

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4-H Needlework: Quilting Advanced Level 4-H Member Project Guide

What fun you will have creating all kinds of quilted items with the skills you have learned!

Do include quilted oven mitt (pattern in- cluded in the Keeping 4-H in Stitches Skills to be learned include: Needlework notebook), holiday stock- • Free-motion quilting ing, an embellishment on clothing, baby bib, baby quilt, photo album, • Transferring and following a design for purse or tote bag, pillow sham. Ask quilting your leader/teacher or your county • Handling bulk in machine while quilting agent for a copy of the handouts and • Adjusting machine tension pattern for this practice/service proj- ect. Practice/Service Projects cannot • Various appliqué techniques be exhibited in 4-H Needlework De- • Advanced piecing techniques such as partment at the Kentucky State Fair. foundation piecing, English paper piecing, and miniature scale 55 Make and exhibit: A creative quilt or quilted wall hanging • Dimensional and landscape design that measures at least 24 inches • Appropriate finish techniques by 24 inches but not more than 48 inches by 48 inches. Apply It can be hand or machine piece/ Using the skills you have already learned appliqués and quilted by hand or as well those listed, practice what you have machine or a combination. It must in- learned as you complete this project. clude advanced piecing and quilting techniques such as: What you will do: * Dimensional pieces 55 Practice your skills and * English Paper piecing techniques—learn by doing. * Foundation piecing Make one or more of the suggested * Freezer paper or needle turned Practice/Service Projects. Consider appliqué giving some of these as gifts to * Landscape design friends or family. Practice projects * Miniature scale

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For other ideas, check your local li- • Basic sewing kit [tape measure, dress- brary for quilting books, look at quilt- maker’s shears, thread snips, marking ing magazines, books or visit various pencils/pens, pins, pin cushion, hand fabric or quilting shops. Your county needles (sharps and betweens)] extension agent may also be a source • Iron and ironing board for quilting ideas and books. • Quilting hoop for hand quilting 5 5 Keep a record of what you have • Quilting thimble quilted. Ask your parent or leader to help you fill out the record sheet for 4-H Share Needlework projects. List the skills Show others what you have learned. you have attempted and check off the • Participate in club/county, district or skills mastered. Store it in a folder or state demonstrations contest three-ring notebook to review before you begin other quilting projects. • Exhibit your project at a county or state fair, festival or rally day (Project Card is What you will need: required) • 100-percent woven cotton fabric • Appliqué or patchwork pattern • Light-weight fusible web for appliqué Clutter Control • Freezer paper for needle turned appli- Equipment and supplies have a tendency qué or English paper piecing to get lost. Here are some suggestions to help keep everything safe and in good • Sewing machine condition. • All-purpose sewing thread • Use a one gallon bag with a zip top • Cotton batting for your quilting project. Be sure to • Backing fabric put your name on it. • Quilting design pattern • Use a small container to hold your basic sewing kit supplies. • Basting pins or curve needle for hand basting • Use a cloth or sturdy bag with handles to carry all your supplies. • Darning foot (for sewing machine) • Use a pocket folder or three-ring • Machine quilting thread binder to store handouts and patterns.

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