Quick Baby Quilts

Pillowslip

Some kind of filling

Cotton

Needle

Permanent pen

Scissors

Cardboard or folded newspapers

Material scraps (optional)

Put some cardboard or folded newspapers into a pillowslip so pen marks won't show through the other side of the quilt.and draw your quilt design onto the front of the pillowslip.

Cut a piece of batting/filling slightly smaller than the pillowcase and slip inside. I used an old faded quilted bedspread. You could use an old duvet inner.

Thread your needle and sew three lines of big basting/tacking stitches (running stitch): One across the middle of the pillowslip and the other two halfway towards the ends of the pillowslip as shown in the photo.

Add a border.

Determine the width of the border, then double it and add an inch or so. Cut four strips of batting slightly longer than each side of the pillowcase. Cut four strips of material to cover the batting and attach by tacking.

Sew a border to the edge of the pillowcase with right sides together.

Turn the piece over. The blue fold line is where you want to fold to hide the raw edges.

Fold the border piece in half and hemstitch or small overcast stitch along the (folded under) blue line to attach to the pillowslip. The long border edges should meet on each side of the quilt.

Add border piece to opposite side.

Trim border pieces to fit quilt size. Add top and bottom border pieces.

Trim top and bottom border pieces slightly wider than pillowcase. Fold in the corner edges to hide raw edges and close with a small overcast stitch.