Herring bone stitch – Stitching style to design and decorate

Herring bone stitch

 Sandwich the three layers together, with the wadding in the middle and the main fabric and lining right side out, tack together all around the outer edge. Make lines of tacking stitches diagonally or in parallel lines across the panel, a bout 10 cm apart. 2 Quilt up and down the panel by machine. Trim the quilted panel to the finished measurements of the bedspread and round off the corners if required. If the bedspread has to fit over the frame of a bed, cut out the corners so that you can arrange the overhang neatly around the bedposts at the foot of the bed.

Cut lengths of binding on the bias, making one strip long enough to fit all around the outer edge of the quilt and one to fit across the top. Join lengths as necessary. The binding should be about 8cm(3 in) wide. Turn under and press 2 cm G in) down each long edge, and fold in half and press. Position the binding around the outer edge of the quilt and stitch in place by hand or machine.  Make up further strips enough to fit the width of tl strips so that each one starts fabric in the sequence. Press a clip across corners of seam all Join the strips in the same ‘A being careful to take precise allowances. Check the array strips before stitching so diagonal bands of pattern.

Make up the quilt with panel and a piece of wadding the patchwork panel, and when joining  triangle square, match the raw edge resulting seam will be incorrect,  If the quilt is to fit over a brass or wooden bed frame, cut out the corners of the quilted fabric to accommodate the bed posts before applying the binding.