Cutting up the blocks
Step one of any quilting project is cutting out pieces. In a rag quilt you need to cut out the back and the front of the quilt.
In the picture on the left you can see the blocks and the batting. I used 6 inch squares for my rag quilt and my batting blocks were 5 inch square. After cutting up all of the blocks you need to pin them together. This process is similar to making a sandwich. Put your bottom piece down nice side down. Then put the batting in the middle. Then put your top piece on. Once you have your 3 layers you need to pin them into place, so that you can quilt the x across the center of the block. Depending on the size of the quilt this could be a big process. The blue and brown quilt I made had 260 squares in quilt, 20 in pillow case, and 2 pillows each of 9 squares for a total of 298 blocks. So plan ahead to make sure you have the amount of items needed for the size of quilt your making.
Step one of any quilting project is cutting out pieces. In a rag quilt you need to cut out the back and the front of the quilt. 
In the picture on the left you can see the blocks and the batting. I used 6 inch squares for my rag quilt and my batting blocks were 5 inch square. After cutting up all of the blocks you need to pin them together. This process is similar to making a sandwich. Put your bottom piece down nice side down. Then put the batting in the middle. Then put your top piece on. Once you have your 3 layers you need to pin them into place, so that you can quilt the x across the center of the block. Depending on the size of the quilt this could be a big process. The blue and brown quilt I made had 260 squares in quilt, 20 in pillow case, and 2 pillows each of 9 squares for a total of 298 blocks. So plan ahead to make sure you have the amount of items needed for the size of quilt your making.
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