My next quilting project

**Missy** · 11-08-2007, 02:08 PM

Is a puff quilt (if you don't know what one is, here's a link that has an image http://www.puffsandotherstuffs.com/ )

I have seen them in department stores, catalogs, and so on, but i have never gotten one, knowing i could make it myself.

Anyone here ever make one?

Mine will be done in blues. I don't know if i am going to do it randomly or a pattern. Maybe a "trip around the world" style would be nice. I dunno.

I want to make matching shams and throw pillows too.

**PB&J** · 11-08-2007, 02:18 PM

My grandma used to make those. She made one for every baby born, we have a big family so she probably made at least 30 of them. lol

Hers were mostly random, pastel prints.

**tightwadmommy** · 11-08-2007, 05:11 PM

I've been wanting to make one of these. Bought a pattern years ago.
I might try to make one this winter. I have lots of fabric.
I'd like to make mine in reds.:surprise:

**kaykwilts** · 11-09-2007, 08:27 AM

Be sure to post a picture when you finish it.

**Jayne** · 11-09-2007, 09:36 AM

Sounds lovely Missy!!..Can't wait to see how it turns out!!

**kittykatstrong** · 11-09-2007, 09:41 AM

Looks like a fun project. Show us when you are done.

Katy

**Missy** · 11-09-2007, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by tightwadmommy

I've been wanting to make one of these. Bought a pattern years ago.
I might try to make one this winter. I have lots of fabric.
I'd like to make mine in reds.:surprise:

Red blankets and quilts are so pretty. There's a certain kind of "coverlet" my grandmother has that is all red, it is cotton, woven, and has a design on it of some kind. for the life of me i can't remember what it's called. It's gorgeous anyhow and it's always had me wanting one.

lol make sure you wash the fabrics first.

I made ds2 a red blanket. not so much a proper quilt as a comforter i guess, and the first time he used it was in the summer. he sweat. and the color bled onto him with the sweat. it looked like he had a serious rash or a bad fever until i realised it was the dye. I about had a coronary. He lost it at his grandpa's house somewhere.

**Missy** · 11-11-2007, 10:23 PM

update :

I cut up the fabric I have on hand. I will need more greens and blues and white on whites. and muslin...and, and and...

but i got the center nine squares worked up and pieced together. it looks good, and is pretty cool how it all comes together. It looks nice, feels nice under the hand and feels good when you lay on it too. So i think this one will be a great one when it's all done. I gotta get more stuffing too.

**favesis37** · 11-12-2007, 06:19 AM

did you have trouble sewing the squares together? i have always wanted to make one but had trouble when it came to this part.

**Jayne** · 11-12-2007, 09:52 AM

Missy the coverlet your Grandma has, would that be "redwork" by any chance???...I am thinking of getting into doing redwork and bluework myself...

**Missy** · 11-12-2007, 11:37 AM

Jayne, no, my grandmother's red coverlet isn't a quilt at all...it is SORT of like this. http://cgi.ebay.com/Charter-Club-100...QQcmdZViewItem

Kim, it wasn't all that hard to sew them together once i realised not to fill em so tight, so the middle one is sort of tight, but the others aren't so much.

**Missy** · 11-12-2007, 11:38 AM

hold on, trying to upload a pic, but the manage attachments thing keeps siezing up my pc

**Missy** · 11-12-2007, 11:59 AM

that's what i have worked on this weekend. three starts to three different quilts

nothing like starting out being afraid I will have UFO's

**dwnloom** · 11-12-2007, 12:52 PM

Missy, can you explain how you are doing the puffy quilt? I would like to try it. Are the blocks a certain size? Are you sewing front and backs together and stuffing, then sewing to another puffy piece?

Thanks,

**Missy** · 11-12-2007, 01:12 PM

sure!

I took muslin and cut it to 3.5 inch squares. and i cut 100% cotton and cut to 4 inch squares. Right sides OUT i pinned it even in each corner, and then on THREE sides I pinned it gathering the slack to make it lay flat. then i sewed along the three sides. I did a bunch of these this way.

Then i stuffed it with a small bit of stuffing. then i gathered the slack and sewed it shut. the edges are all raw.

then i laid out my pattern i wanted to follow. I layed it in a 3x3 grid. I took the top three and sewed them together, by squishing them rights sides together and pinning. Then i sewed them together...TWICE (reinforced) then went on to add the next one in the same manner. I continued until i had three strips of three puffy bumps each.

then i laid two of the strips rights sides facing each other, matching seams, and pinned. then sewed the strip sets together. repeated with the remaining strip.

hope that makes sense...