Quilting as a form of decorative art existed in many different nations. Products made with this technique, archaeologists have found in India and the Middle East, Europe and America. Especially popular sewing patchwork was in America, where it fell together with the colonists. Tissue was not enough, and the hostess tried to use every piece of fabric. In the US, patchwork got its second name - patchwork. Patchwork sewing and sew blankets, curtains, tablecloths, garments. Recently, this technique has become very fashionable from the masters of arts and crafts and design.
Scraps can be very different forms. The most popular option - sewing squares, triangles or hexagons. To start making a cardboard template on which and cut a piece of the future product. Allowances are bent and zautyuzhivayutsya. Master baste and stitch the pieces by hand or by machine. Assembling is carried out in a particular order. First of individual squares or hexagons make some fragment is then collected together a few finished pieces. One of the most popular ways - sewing strips. Usually the product in the technique of patchwork to do double or even triple as the famous quilt, quilt.