Making a quilt for your bed
Quilts can be very useful for making blankets and drapes. Quilt covers are a great way to liven up a room and also serve as a means to protect furniture for the winter. The oldest recorded quilt it is over 5000 years old and the common belief is that the art of quilting originated in Egypt and China at about the same time. Traditionally, the folk art behind quilting covers depicted family records, imperative information and even personal history.
A few centuries ago in America – when new fabric was hard to come by – people used to reuse fabric to make clothes, bedding and drapes. This is where the idea of patchwork quilts derived. The tradition was for mothers to teach their daughters to make quilts from an early age. It was not uncommon for two or more people to be working on one quilt at the same time. Scraps of material from different sources would be sewn together then passed on through the generations. Rumor has it, that during times of slavery, quilts were used to transmit crucial information such as escape routes, the locations of safe houses, the Underground Railroad and things of that nature.
Making your own king size quilt
Making a king size quilt is quite simple once you understand the basics of sewing. You’ll need needle and thread, some fabric (the denser the better), a pair of scissors, and a design. Before you begin it is important to measure the bed because not all king size mattresses are a standard size. You’ll be basically sewing small pieces of fabric together – preferably different colors – to make a block. When you’ve finished making all the blocks you need, sew each block together to create your quilt.
If you’d like to make a quilted cover for the winter, you can create a quilted comforter. For this you can use a sewing machine to attach the quilted front piece of the comforter to the length of fabric you will be using for the back piece. The final part will be selecting the filling for the inside of your king size bedspread. Sew it all together and voila…you’re done.
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