Today, quilting instructor Janeen van Niekerk brings you a free lap quilt pattern in her step-by-step online workshop on quilting for beginners. In case you wonder ‘What is a lap quilt’…. it is just a particular quilt size. Another word for it would be an afghan. It is about 2x the size of a baby quilt. So, there you go.
Now over to Janeen. You can find more about her work at the end of this article, as well as links to the first 8 workshops in this quilting series.
Tips for Beginners #9
Quilt Fabric Needed + How to Cut Quilt Blocks
Last week we spoke of making a "modern" lap quilt that wouldn’t take a lot of time. We had an idea of where we were going with it too. This week we need to get our fabric sorted out and then cut so that we can get going on joining our blocks.
Lap Quilt Measures:
50" x 50" (approx. 130cm)
Quilt Supplies: how much fabric do you need? (Photo #1)
- 6 Colors of your choice – You only need about 12" (30cm)of each fabric
that is 90"(110cm) WOF. (WOF: Remember what that quilting term means? If not, refer back to the earlier quilting classes so you’ll memorize your quilting terminology. The links are at the end of this class).
- I (10.5" x 10.5" Block) (26.5cm x 26.5cm) in a stronger color to contrast all the other colors. You can make your own "special block" to use as the focal point ( ~ We spoke of this last week).
Cutting your Lap Quilt Fabrics
First off you need to cut your fabric into strips:
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Color Code Number |
Cut Strips
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1 |
11" x 66" |
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2 |
11" x 66" |
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3 |
11" x 49.5" |
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4 |
11" x 44" |
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5 |
11" x 22" |
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6 |
11" x 22" |
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7 |
10.5" x 10.5" |
From the strips of fabric you need to cut blocks.
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Color Code Number |
From strips Cut 11" x 11" Blocks |
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1 |
6 |
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2 |
6 |
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3 |
4 plus 1 block 5.5" wide |
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4 |
4 |
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5 |
2 |
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6 |
2 |
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7 |
1 Focus block |
From the 11" blocks you will need to cut:
- 10.5" blocks,
- 5.5" x 10.5" rectangles
- and smaller 5.5" blocks
(See photo 3)
(click this image, to get a large printable version of this lap quilt pattern layout chart)
Make sure you have the right amount of blocks in the right colors:
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Color Code number |
Number of blocks you need (10.5") |
Number of rectangles you will need (5.5" x 10.5") |
Number of blocks you will need |
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1 |
3 blocks |
4 rectangles |
4 blocks |
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2 |
2 |
6 |
3 |
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3 |
1 |
5 |
3 |
|
4 |
1 |
5 |
2 |
|
5 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
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6 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
7 |
1 Focus block |
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Block Assembly:
Follow the color guide for placement of the blocks. The color code photo is very important and shows where the block placement will be. (see the lap pattern layout chart above ~ photo 4)
You can sew the 9 large 10.5" blocks together as a unit and then each of the other smaller blocks in their units and then sew the four units together
OR you can sew each row together making sure that you alternate your seams so that in the next row, you can nest your seams to get a perfect fit.
(photo 5 & 6)
You can substitute your own "special" block you have made in the last class, in the Large block (Middle) of the 10,5" blocks.
(Photo7)
Getting Your Quilt Supplies Ready for Next Week
For the back you will need to get 1) fabric
Next time we will sandwich our quilt again and finish off our ‘lap quilt’. Are you excited?!
‘Til next time,
Janeen
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Free Quilting Patterns & Tutorials & Classes in this quilting course by Janeen van Niekerk:
- Class #1: Fussy cutting ~ How to Make a Quilt: Free Quilting Beginners Class.
- Class #2: Quilting Tools – What you’ll need as a beginner.
- Class #3 : How to Choose & Work with Quilting Fabric.
- Class #4: How to Read & Work with a Quilt Pattern.
- Class #5: Creating a Finished Quilt Block .
- Class #6: How to Make Quilt Rows – from finished blocks.
- Class #7: How to add borders to your quilt.
- Class #8 : How to finish a quilt: add backing, batting and how to bind a quilt.
- Class #9 : How to Make Quilt Blocks more Exciting.
- Class #10 : How to Make a Modern Lap Quilt.
- Class #11 : How to Make a Modern Lap Quilt, the next steps.
- Class #12: How to finish a Quilt :: Modern Lap Quilt.
About Quilting Instructor Janeen van Niekerk
Our latest news of quilt making instructor Janeen van Niekerk is that she has just launched a brand new paper piecing magazine.
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Quilt artist Janeen van Niekerk is an avid quilter. In particular, she’s an accomplished paper piecing designer. She does it all with a passion.
Janeen’s prolific range of hand-made quilts (she takes commissions for personalized, stylish portrait quilts), as well as her unique quilt patterns (think quilts featuring safari animals and trees, or kids toys) are inspired by her environs; she lives in sunny Pretoria in South Africa, with her husband and kids.
Janeen offers her quilts designs & paper piecing patterns for individual sale Out of Janeen’s 230+ quilt patterns for sale, these are my top 5 Paper Piecing Quilt Patterns, Animals and Flowers. All really beautiful!!
Janeen van Niekerk (spelled by some as Janine van Niekerk) is also part of the Free Block of the Month -club, offering a free paper piecing quilt block pattern, each month. Check it out here:
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Quilting Pattern Library & Other Training Courses
This gorgeous owl quilt pattern is both included in one of Janeen’s books as well as being available for individual sale. Don’t you just love this quilt design?
The owl and all Janeen’s other patterns are for sale here at Craftsy. BTW. Crafty also has other quilting, sewing and other craft workshops, which I encourage you to check out, by clicking either the banner below, or the link above.
Or,… continue your journey with Quilting patterns, tutorials and ideas featured here at FineCraftGuild.com (beyond Janeen’s quilting course).
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