College students need extra-long twin-sized quilts for dorm beds.
When your daughter heads off to college for the first time, you will need to help her acquire all the items necessary for living in a dorm. Bedding will be at the top of the list. But college beds are extra long and standard twin-sized quilts are not long enough to adequately cover the bed. If you can sew, you might want to make a twin-sized, extra long quilt. Not only will it fit the dorm bed better, but your child will have the comfort of your loving gift to sleep under.
Instructions
1. Choose a quilt pattern. Get your student in on the decision-making from the start of the project. If the quilt will be a surprise gift, choose a pattern and color scheme that you think your daughter would like. Patterns can be found in quilt books and magazines and on the Internet. Be sure to choose a pattern that will be large enough to fit an extra long twin bed -- 39-inches wide and 80-inches long. An extra long twin quilt with a 10-inch drop but without a pillow tuck should measure 59 inches-by-90 inches. You may choose to make the quilt larger to allow for a pillow tuck and more quilt to hang down the sides of the bed.
2. Buy the necessary fabrics and batting according to the chosen pattern and the desires of the recipient of the quilt. Fabric can be purchased at quilt shops, fabric stores or online. It's recommended you use 100 percent cotton fabric for quilts.
3. Prewash the fabrics to remove sizing. Wash colors separately in case colors bleed. Dry fabrics completely, then iron to remove wrinkles.
4. Cut fabrics using the rotary cutter, ruler and cutting mat according to the directions included in the quilt pattern.
5. Sew the quilt pieces together according to pattern instructions to create the quilt top.
6. Sandwich the quilt. Lay out the fabric for the quilt back on a large table or floor space. Spread the batting smoothly on top of the backing. Cover the batting with the quilt top. Pin the three layers together using the quilting pins, beginning from the center and working outwardly in a circle. Be careful to smooth out the fabric to prevent wrinkles.
7. Quilt the sandwich. This can be done by hand-sewing small stitches, or by tying the quilt with yarn, or by machine quilting with a sewing machine.
8. Bind the edges of the quilt with a strip of fabric.
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