Quilted Jam Jars
Make some pencil holders and practise your machine quilting.
All you need for this project is a jam jar which is the same size at the bottom as at the top. I used a marmalade jar, a fancy French conserve jar and a small tomato paste jar and they were all fine.
Cut a rectangular piece of fabric for the back which is 30cm long by the height of the jar plus 8cm.
Cut a piece of felt the same size for the wadding (you can use proper quilt batting if it is thin).
The top is up to you. One of mine is plain fabric which I then free machine quilted. The second is strips of batik fabric sewn on with stitch and flip, which quilts the piece as you go. The third is hand dyed fabric with braid sewn on through all the layers and fancy machine stitch quilting.
Once you have quilted the rectangle cut it to exactly the height of the jam jar.
Then set your machine to a wide zig-zag and stitch along the top and bottom long edges. On the left hand side of the zig-zag you stitch into the fabric and on the other the needle goes right over the cut edge and creates a neat finish.
Now with the nice side of your work on the inside, pin the quilt to the jar. Children might need an adult to help, it was fiddly and pins can hurt! I pinned along the line I would be stitching. Set your machine back to straight stitch. Now carefully stitch along the pinned line, taking out the pins as you go. Turn the tube the right way round and you should be able to carefully slide the tube onto the jam jar. Now all you need is some pens and you can admire your work.
All you need for this project is a jam jar which is the same size at the bottom as at the top. I used a marmalade jar, a fancy French conserve jar and a small tomato paste jar and they were all fine.
Cut a rectangular piece of fabric for the back which is 30cm long by the height of the jar plus 8cm.
Cut a piece of felt the same size for the wadding (you can use proper quilt batting if it is thin).
The top is up to you. One of mine is plain fabric which I then free machine quilted. The second is strips of batik fabric sewn on with stitch and flip, which quilts the piece as you go. The third is hand dyed fabric with braid sewn on through all the layers and fancy machine stitch quilting.
Once you have quilted the rectangle cut it to exactly the height of the jam jar.
Then set your machine to a wide zig-zag and stitch along the top and bottom long edges. On the left hand side of the zig-zag you stitch into the fabric and on the other the needle goes right over the cut edge and creates a neat finish.
Now with the nice side of your work on the inside, pin the quilt to the jar. Children might need an adult to help, it was fiddly and pins can hurt! I pinned along the line I would be stitching. Set your machine back to straight stitch. Now carefully stitch along the pinned line, taking out the pins as you go. Turn the tube the right way round and you should be able to carefully slide the tube onto the jam jar. Now all you need is some pens and you can admire your work.
