{"id":885,"date":"2012-04-09T20:01:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T04:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=885"},"modified":"2012-04-10T20:42:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T04:42:10","slug":"creative-girl-art-quilt-how-to-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"Creative Girl Art Quilt How To 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI did a mini workshop last week on creative girl art quilts. I spent the week prior making detailed step outs on the construction of these art quilt. Today I am sharing one method of construction for making a creative girl art quilt. <\/p>\n

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\nStep 1: Gather items for quilt: pattern, faces pre fused to fusible webbing, fusible webbing, background fabric, backing fabric, batting, ruffles, fabric for dress, embellishments. My quilt is 6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 9\u00e2\u20ac\u009d so my background and backing fabrics are cut a bit larger than this.<\/p>\n

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\nStep 2: Color face with colored pencils and cut out. If desired, you can draw different hair with a permanent marker before coloring. <\/p>\n

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\nStep 3: Trace dress pattern onto the back of fusible webbing, fuse dress fabric to the fusible webbing and cut out. If making a short sleeve dress or want to add legs, fuse webbing to fabric matching the face and cut out arms and legs. My arms for these girls were straight lines.<\/p>\n

Step 4: Assemble girl together by removing all release paper from the pieces and fusing the girl together on a piece of parchment or teflon sheet. You can assemble the girl directly on to the background fabric.<\/p>\n

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\nStep 5: Fuse girl to background and assemble your quilt sandwich.<\/p>\n

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\nStep 6: Attach ruffles using a straight stitch. The ruffles are cut slightly wider than the dress and each end is folded under as it is attached.<\/p>\n

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\nStep 7: Outline stitch around the girl, add quilting stitches and bind quilt. I used a pillowcase type binding on these quilts where I folded the edges together and stitched them in place. (You can see where I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t finished trimming my quilting lines.)<\/p>\n

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\nStep 8: Embellish quilt with buttons, ribbon, metal trinkets, embroidery floss. Write a saying for the girl on a piece of fabric fused to fusible webbing, trim and iron to quilt. Stitch around the saying and attach a hanger to the back of the quilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did a mini workshop last week on creative girl art quilts. I spent the week prior making detailed step outs on the construction of these art quilt. Today I am sharing one method of construction for making a creative girl art quilt. Step 1: Gather items for quilt: pattern, faces pre fused to fusible […]<\/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\/885"}],"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=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}