Free Quilting Projects and Patterns for Your Tweens
Have you wondered how to teach your homeschooled children necessary domestic skills? Or how about school holidays and vacation times when your tweens get bored? Teach them how to sew, and quilt using fabric scraps, a needle and thread!
Show your tweens how to make the things they used to buy, and in the process they will learn necessary self-reliance skills. Young girls and boys can learn how to mend their clothes or sew a button back on, and look for boys' sleeping-bag tote, and bean-bag chair freebie patterns with instructions included.
Patchwork Quilt Block Purses
AllQuiltPeople.com offers free patterns with instructions for stylish purses like their "Mini Messenger Bag" , soft shoulder-style "Messenger Bag" , or "Fabric Gift Bag" which only require a couple quilt blocks (plus assembly)! A more difficult (but cute and free) patchwork pattern design with instructions, comes from Robert Kaufman Fabrics online, for a "Ruffled Tote & Coin Purse".
Quilt Pillow Tops, Totes & Chair
Easy-to-assemble quilt pillow patterns and instructions for an "Hourglass Pillow" are free to download from AllQuiltPeople.com. Robert Kaufman Fabrics online offers a free circular pattern patchwork, overnighter's "Sleeping Bag Tote", or "It's A Boy's Life Bean Bag Lounger Pattern" for everyone.
Patchwork-Covered Books & Letters
Get a free pattern and instructions download to assemble a patchwork "D-R-E-A-M" ribbon-banner, for a bedroom wall, or a "Chirp! Memory Board" patchwork pattern from Robert Kaufman Fabrics online. Patchwork-covered journal books are a quick-quilt type of project, with free patterns and instructions for "Covered Journals" also available from AllQuiltPeople.com.
Repurposed Quilts
Karen's Variety.com offers a free pattern with instructions for making a repurposed "Biscuit or Puff Quilt" by making small pillows, stuffing them, and then sewing them all together for a fluffy quilted comforter. Mother Earth News.com also has free instructions for creating a "T-Shirt (Memories) Quilt" made from outgrown or worn-out favorite tees!
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