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    Easy-to-Make Dollhouse Quilts
    Easy-to-Make Dollhouse Quilts
    Easy-to-Make Dollhouse Quilts
    Ebook145 pages38 minutes

    Easy-to-Make Dollhouse Quilts

    By Janet Wickell

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    Add the perfect "Home, Sweet Home" touch to your dollhouse with these easy-to-make miniature quilts. This expert guide offers step-by-step instructions for foundation piecing, a machine-sewing technique widely used in the late nineteenth century and revived by today's busy quiltmakers. With foundation piecing, you don't need to handle tiny patches of fabric, so creating your 1"-scale masterpiece is remarkably easy.
    Ten gorgeous patterns appear here: Watercolor Weaves (a variation of the ever-popular Log Cabin pattern), Southwestern Skies, Midnight Stars, Springtime T's, and six others. Blocks range from 1" to 1 1/4" square. Helpful layouts will assist you in determining color values and placement.
    Even beginners can follow these simple instructions, and experienced quilters will savor the opportunity to try some lovely variations in a miniature format.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateSep 11, 2012
    ISBN9780486162867
    Easy-to-Make Dollhouse Quilts

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    Easy-to-Make Dollhouse Quilts - Janet Wickell

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    An Introduction to Dollhouse Miniatures

    A miniature is usually defined as any reduced-scale version of a larger object. In the world of quilting, show rules often state that miniature entries must be a maximum of 24 inches square, with blocks no larger than 4 inches on a side.

    Dollhouse miniatures are made following more specific guidelines. Although dollhouses are available in several scales, the 1:12 scale is the most popular, and is the scale used in this book. The designation simply means that a 12-inch area of the original object is reduced to a 1-inch area in the miniature version. In other words, a 12-inch square block is reduced to a 1-inch square.

    Working with such small pieces might at first seem impossible, but don’t let the tiny sizes discourage you from making these quilts. All blocks are foundation pieced, which means you do not cut and sew together precisely-sized bits of fabric. With this method, even beginners can sew perfect blocks for their dollhouse.

    Before you make a quilt, be sure to read the information in the Dollhouse Quilt Basics section, beginning on Page 5. It’s a good idea to read through all the patterns, too. Foundation piecing is basically the same for every block you’ll make, but aspects of one pattern might help you assemble or make design changes to another.

    Use the Quilter’s Coloring Book, beginning on Page 45, to help you determine color value placement. Photocopy the pages, then fill-in the spaces with regular or colored pencils.

    I hope you enjoy making these little quilts. And once your dollhouse is furnished, try using the blocks as embellishments for clothing, or as pieced sashing and borders for larger miniature quilts and wallhangings.

    –Janet Armstrong Wickell

    Getting Started with Fabrics

    Selecting Fabrics and Thread

    I recommend you use 100% cotton fabrics for your dollhouse quilts, rather than cotton/polyester blends. Cotton wears well, is easy to work with, and frays less than blended fabrics.

    Match thread content with fabric content. Over time, thread that is stronger than fabric cuts into fibers, creating rips at seams. One hundred percent cotton thread is the best partner for cotton fabrics.

    Other fabric choices include lightweight satins and silks. Note the manufacturer’s care instructions when using special fabrics.

    Test for Colorfastness

    Some dark cottons bleed—or lose their dyes, particularly dark purples, blues, and reds. Always test suspected fabrics to be sure they are colorfast.

    Submerge a small piece of fabric in warm, soapy water. See if dye bleeds into water. Or, place the wet patch on a white paper towel. Check to see if dye bleeds onto the towel.

    If a fabric bleeds, wash it a few times and check again. If the problem continues, don’t use the fabric in a quilt. You might try setting the dye with a commercial fixative, such as Retayne®.

    Fabric Shrinkage & Pre-washing

    All 100% cottons shrink. Fabrics with low thread counts shrink more than tightly-woven fabrics do, because as fibers relax in water they tend to fill-in the larger gaps between threads. If the blocks in your quilt contain unwashed fabrics that shrink at different rates, distortions will occur when the quilts are dampened. Even small distortions are noticeable in these little quilts, so play it safe and prewash unless you are sure the quilt will never get wet.

    Prewashing removes most of the loose sizings and protectants that were applied to fabric at the mill. Use spray starch if you prefer to work with crisper fabrics.

    Prewash your fabrics in cool water with a mild, phosphate-free soap.

    Understanding Fabric Grain

    Have you been to a craft fair, where you watched someone weaving on a loom? Quilting cottons are made in the same way, although much of the process is automated, and on a larger scale.

    Long threads, called warp threads, are stretched on the loom and secured. These threads become the lengthwise grain of the fabric.

    Weft threads are woven back and forth along the entire length of the warp threads. The weft threads become the fabric’s crosswise grain.

    Selvages, the bound edges along the sides of fabric, are formed when the weft threads change direction as the weaving process travels down the length of the loom.

    True bias is defined as a 45° angle to the straight of grain, but we refer to any off-grain cut as a bias cut. Fabric is very stretchy along the bias.

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