{"id":255,"date":"2011-06-12T19:06:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T03:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=255"},"modified":"2011-06-12T20:32:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T04:32:31","slug":"girl-art-quilt-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Girl Art Quilt Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nShe feared decorating decisions (6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 10\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)<\/p>\n

A comment from \u00e2\u2122\u00a5Duff<\/a> inspired me to write a tutorial on making a girly quilt. It was fun to pause during each step and snap a photo. Hope you enjoy seeing the process as much as I enjoy doing it. <\/p>\n

Find a drawing or photo of a face and trace it. If I am using heads I already created such as these<\/a>, I skip this step.
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Scan the drawing, edit using Photoshop elements and print the onto muslin ironed to freezer paper. Remove the freezer paper and iron the fabric face onto fusible webbing. (I used my tracing and then made a modified version with longer hair and printed 2 sizes of the faces.)
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Color face with colored pencils.
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On the release paper of a piece of fusible webbing, draw a dress\/body pattern to go with the face.
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Select fabric for the background and dress.
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Iron fusible webbing to the dress\/body fabric.
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Cut out the face and dress\/body pieces.
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Place a teflon sheet or release paper pulled off a piece of fusible webbing under the girly. Peel the release paper from the dress and place the head, arms and legs. Iron carefully to secure the girl dress, body and head together. Trim extra fabric near shoulders.
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Piece the background fabric, then create a quilt sandwich. Ensure the background fits the size of the girl – not too big and not too small.
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Use decorative stitches on the sewing machine to create a stitched background and trim the quilt. (Sometimes I doodle with free motion quilting on the background instead of using the decorative stitches.)
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(here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what the back of the quilt looks like at this point)
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Remove all release paper from the girly and place her on the background. Iron.
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Sew around the girly with black thread. Sew the lines in the hair as well.
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Embellish the girly – with decorative machine stitches, lace or trims.
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Square up the quilt if needed and bind (pre-made binding is great for this).
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Add embellishment to the quilt. Dimensional embellishments such as these tiny metal frames or buttons that need to be hand stitched are added after machine stitching the hand written sentiment.
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Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what the back of the quilt looks like at the end. The hangers haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been stitched on yet, but I wanted to show where they will be.
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She feared decorating decisions (6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 10\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) A comment from \u00e2\u2122\u00a5Duff inspired me to write a tutorial on making a girly quilt. It was fun to pause during each step and snap a photo. Hope you enjoy seeing the process as much as I enjoy doing it. Find a drawing or photo of a face […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}