Your Baby Lock Unity has tons of fun built-in embroidery designs perfect for kids’ projects. Using a fun fabric and built-in embroidery designs you can make an adorably playful quilt. Decorate a room with this wall hanging great for the little racecar fan in your life. Download printable instructions.
Materials:
- 1 Yard of a car focused fabric
- 1 Yard solid cream colored fabric for embroidery
- 1 Yard blue print for sashing
- ½ Yard green print for the corners
- ½ Yard of yellow print fabric
- Backing fabric
- 5 Different assorted fat quarters for piecing on the pinwheel squares (red green yellow orange and blue)
- Twin size Warm and Natural batting
- Madeira® embroidery thread
- Madeira Cotona sewing thread
- Madeira Aeroquilt quilting thread
- ¼” Quilting foot with guide
- Baby Lock Tear-away Stabilizer
- Temporary spray adhesive
Tools:
- Baby Lock Unity sewing and embroidery machine
Steps:
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At the Cutting Board:
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Cut six 12” x 12” squares from the solid print fabric. (These will be trimmed after embroidery to the correct size.)
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Cut five 2½” wide strips across the width of the blue print fabric. Then cut these strips into 31 8” long pieces. These will be used for the inside sashing.
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Cut two 2½” wide strips from the green print fabric. Then cut them into 20 2½” squares.
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From the car themed fabric cut out 12 4½” squares for the pin wheel squares and three 3½” wide strips across the width of the fabric for the outer sashing.
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From the fat quarters cut out an assortment of 4½” squares. These will be used for the pinwheel squares.
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From the yellow fabric cut several 2½” wide pieces for under three of the embroidered squares and for the binding.
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Set the machine up for embroidery.
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Hoop the stabilizer along with one of the 12” cream colored squares centered in the 130mm x 180mm hoop.
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Retrieve the first car design.
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There are three car designs under the Exclusive Kids’ Corner category.
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Center the design in the hoop and embroider the design using Madeira embroidery thread.
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Using different colored thread embroider this design again on another cream colored square.
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Repeat for the other two designs. You will have a total of six embroidered squares.
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Set the machine up for sewing and attach the ¼” quilting foot with guide.
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With right sides together place the 4½” car themed squares and the assorted 4½” square sections together.
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Using a pencil draw a diagonal line from corner to corner.
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Place the sections under the presser foot with the guide on the foot aligned over the drawn diagonal line.
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Stitch. Reverse the square and repeat by stitching while placing the guide along the drawn line.
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Using a ruler and rotary cutter cut along the draw line to create two pieced sections.
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Open each of the sections and press the seam toward the darker fabric.
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To create the block lay four pieces on a flat surface to form one block.
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Adjust the sections according to your taste. In the sample the sections were placed in a pinwheel pattern. Create six different pinwheel blocks.
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On the lower side of the embroidered section trim away the excess fabric while leaving ½” from the bottom of the tires to the bottom edge of the square.
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Sew a 2½” red or green strip to the bottom edge on each of the embroidered sections. Cut the embroidered sections the same size as the pinwheel blocks.
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Sew a 2½ blue strip to each side on each of the blocks (as shown below). Sew the pinwheel blocks and the embroidered blocks together using ¼” seam allowance to form four rows.
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For the sashing between the rows sew a 2½” green square at the beginning and at the end of the row while sewing two in the middle aligning the square with each of the rows.
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Press the seams in the same directions. Create 5 sashing rows.
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Sew the sashing rows to the top of the first row and between each of the rows.
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Finish by sewing the last sashing to the bottom of the quilt top.
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Sew a 3½” wide car themed sash on each of the sides and then on the top and bottom of the quilt top. Trim as needed.
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At the Quilting Machine:
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On a flat surface make a sandwich with the backing fabric batting and the quilt top in that order. Smooth out all layers.
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Using the temporary spray adhesive lightly spray between each of the layers to temporarily hold in place.
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Set the machine up for quilting by lowering the feed dogs and attaching the “O” Quilting Foot.
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Bind your quilt by hand or machine. And you're done!