🟪🟧SCRAPS STRIPS TO SPLENDOR-MAKING A KING SIZED QUILT FROM A MILLION ZILLION SCRAPS

do you have a pile of fabric crumbs these are those tiny pieces of fabric that are too small for other scrap projects in previous videos I have shown how you can sew them onto adding machine tape in this quilting video those crumb strips will be turned into blocks which will be assembled into a KingSize quilt so stick with me and I'll show you how to do it hi I'm Karen Brown of just get it done quilts I give you tips tricks and strategies to help you make the quilt that you want to make and if you like what you see please click that subscribe button I think I made my first adding machine crumb strip back in 2017 my Mount scrap Moore had grown large enough that I needed to find projects to fit the various size leftovers that I kept in my stash and I decided that any strip smaller than 2 and 1/2 in I would make quilt as you go scrap strip blocks but I quickly realized that there were still scraps too small for even this so when I found some abandoned 3-in adding machine tape in my office cupboard I knew exactly what I was going to use it for now I have previously explained in a lot of detail how to make these crumb strips in this video here but briefly I take my fabric strips and I sew them to adding machine tape pieces Less Than 3 and 1/2 in I combine with other crumbs until they are large enough to incorporate into a strip the smallest piece I will use is 1 in and I repeat this until the strip is covered and I trim with a/4 in seam allowance it's tempting while making them to start curating your fabric choices but but I decided not to go there for this project I use all my crumbs whether they're cotton or flannel linen salvages holiday or even ugly I have also included some small leftover hsts hourglass blocks and four patches truly I only have two rules one is to use any fabric only once in each strip and the second one is I don't use any solid Fabrics I have another project where I use those [Music] when I started I knew that I wanted to make an extra large block so I cut my strips 18 in Long intending to sew six together to make an 18 by8 block but as I worked with these strips I could see that it would be a challenge to sew these strips directly together with all these bulky seam allowances now I could use sashing between the strips but I've never been particularly fond of of sashing plus there would be a big difference in weight and structure of the crumb strips and the sashing making it easy for them to go a skew but after doing some math I figured out that I could use half inch sashing between the blocks and on the outside edges which would be just wide enough to connect the strips and the seam allowances would lie tight and flat underneath them I chose this peacock linen by Kaufman and I cut the strips with the straight of grain that is parallel to the salvages to try and keep stretching to a minimum while [Music] stitching I wanted to put my blocks on point and that would surprise no one that knows me because this layout always works better for me I am wanting to make it large enough to fit my king mattress from my mattress sizes video if I look at the free handout on quilt sizes for a king I need at least a 100 in in width then if I go to my Quilt Block sizes spreadsheet from my keep it simple video and go to the one for onpo blocks go to the 18in block page it shows me that 25 blocks will give me a quilt 102 in by 102 in which means that I need 125 strips I made 100 strips which made 20 blocks so I need to make 2 five more strips to make five more blocks giving one last count and I have 25 [Music] check in a regular OnPoint layout you need Quarter Square triangles for the parts along the side and you need half Square triangles for the four Cor Corners that is so that the grain of your fabric aligns with the edges of your quilt but because my block has directional elements to it I need to use hsts on the side and Quarter Square triangles in the corners which means the bias is going to be all along the edge not ideal but I'm leaving the adding machine tape paper into the very end to avoid the blocks distorting I also have an issue that my blocks are only 18 in high so when I was making my ust's I went back to my video 10 ways to make a half square triangle block and chose the number six the easy angle strip method so if I make my block 1 in wider I could cut two hsts from one block using this technique and I cut three blocks on this diagonal for these six triangles then I cut three blocks on the opposite diagonal for these six triangles the quarter square triangle block was also very tricky I would need two that look like this but I also need two4 Square triangles like this again I have a height restriction on my block of 18 in so I played with the width until I could fit all four qsts with a little wiggle room this was a little bit nerve-wracking but I checked my angles several times and in the end made them just a little bit bigger than I needed as with so many quilts that are made over a span of many years the quality control of my strip and block VAR considerably I use many different colors of thread there are many different Stitch lengths and some needed a good trim and a couple of times I had to get out my Stitch Ripper as the edges of some blocks were just too Jagged and they had to be rewn other than the blocks being heavy the assembly was pretty straightforward I started in one corner and work towards the center and not surprisingly I needed a lot of clips and a couple of magnets to keep everything in place eventually I hit the limit of my design wall and I had to use my bed to lay out the whole top and even though this is filled with scraps I took just as much care as any other quilt by pressing every seam so that the top would lie flat now the only thing left to do with the top is to remove all the adding machine tape I have found this plastic stiletto the best tool for tearing off paper the tip is sharp enough to grab the paper but not enough enough to damage the fabric underneath I thought that this step would take forever but it was actually fairly easy as there were no funny angles or overlaps with the paper I just put on an audio book and ripped away now the top is finished I understand how big it is it is 102 by 102 in I chose a wide back for this project because one I didn't have any scraps left over to make an after quilt with it was already made from scraps and two with all the seams in the top I just thought this would be the easier way however you know that when you're long arming your quilt your backing needs to be 8 in bigger than your top my backing is a 108 in wide which didn't give me a lot of wiggle room so I sewed a 10-in strip of odd fabric to the top and the bottom so that I didn't lose any of my good wide backing on the takeup roller not only am I at the limit of my wide backing I'm also at the limit of my long arm and I'm also at the limit of my batting at one point I was actually thinking of double batting this quilt but I realized it's already heavy enough I also want to longarm a pretty tight pattern because of all the small pieces in the top I thought about free motion quilting but I finally went with some straight lines because I thought it worked better with the print on the back I also thought that I could manage it better because I was at the limit on both sides of my long arm I'm trying to be more consistent with my spacing in this technique and I use my little dude to help guide me now I know there's Quilters out there that have this technique down to the Micron but I am still struggling partially because this is a really boring technique and then I realized it was silly for me to be worried about spacing when the rest of this quilt was so Scrappy [Music] I tried out a number of different colors and patterns for The Binding but I really felt this needed a thick dark binding to frame it I went with a navy to complement the sashing color unfortunately the widest binding that I could do was a half an inch as I didn't have enough excess batting on the edges to do anything wider and for a/ inch binding I cut my binding strips at three and a half inches now if I thought the top was hard to manage this quilt sandwich was getting very heavy before I sat down to bind it I set myself up with a couple of extra surfaces around me so that I could manage the bulk I attached it to the back and I've never had a binding chicken this close I didn't even have to trim a thread from this for it to work and then I flipped it over and machine bound it to the top now it just needs a label this quilt grew organically from my Mount scrap Moore and every project that I have made in the last 15 years has a spot in this quilt and it also contains scraps from friends and classmates some Fabrics were purchased on shop hops vacation some came in prizes and for some of the Fabrics this is the end of the road having been used to make quilts or bags or after quilts their leftovers were used to make scrap sampler blocks and scrap strip blocks and these crumbs Are All That Remains I really enjoyed making this quilt and I look forward to all the memories it brings this is not the end of my adding machine tape Adventures as you know Mount scrap Moore is never gone you can only keep it from growing so I look forward to designing another crumb block for my next project if you want to learn more about managing your scraps including how to make these strips and other projects I'll leave a link to that playlist here take care and I'll see you next time

Channel: Just Get it Done Quilts

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Length: 12min 17sec (737 seconds)

Published: Mon May 20 2024