1 Hour Fat Quarter Quilt with Batting - Easy Quilt Tutorial

hi everyone it's me Darlene I am here with what I hope is going to be a very quick and fun quilting project I hesitate to try this because I think it's going to actually be like so simple that maybe it will lack some pizzazz I don't know but sometimes simple is best I just made this up I was thinking of how I could incorporate some fat quarters into a quilt and you know I looked up fat quarter quilts and most of them you start with fat quarters but then you cut them into all kinds of pieces and you make blocks and it's like well you don't need a fat quarter to do that so what I'm going to do is just leave the fat quarters as they are we're going to trim them so they're all the same size approximately and we're just going to go with it so let's give this a shot so I have eight fat quarters you can choose to have some of your fat quarters matching I picked eight different ones and I'm going to have the top pink and brown or the back doesn't matter but one side will be pink and brown one of my favorite color combinations and my other favorite color combination is green and purple so that's going to be the other side we're going to start by just putting them together and making them even even them out trim them so that they're all the same size so let me lay these out I'll be right back here's how I'm doing it I am stacking them I'm going to stack all eight of them together I'm just you know lining up the top here's my Salvage edge so I'm going to keep the Salvage edge altogether and actually I'm going to turn it this way because I will have to trim the salvage and I can have it ready to trim so Salvage edge and I'm going to line up this edge and I'm just going to do that with all eight [Music] I don't know why I started with them face up and now I'm working with them face down it doesn't matter I am certainly not going to attempt using my rotary cutter through eight layers but what I am going to do is I'm going to turn my cutting mat around because I like to use the edge of it as a guide for my scissors now it doesn't matter what size block you end up with it just matters that they're pretty much the same so I'm just going to go ahead and cut so I have my eight fat quarters trimmed now I'm going to take my pink and brown which is one side and I'm going to put the Pink's you know like this kitty corner and I'm going to put the Browns this way see what I mean we're just going to be sewing we're going to be making a big gigantic four patch with fat quarters now I have very subtle prints here but if you picked some you know really bold wild and crazy kind of prints with a lot of different colors it might look very complicated especially like if you got plaids or stripes and you know and then you could even quilt those lines if you wanted and it would look like a very complicated quilt but just for the sake of construction I went with fabric that I had and this is what we're doing so I'm going to go to the Machine and sew these two together right down here and then I'm going to go ahead and pass these through like that so I'm just going to chain stitch these that one and then this one right after and I have these two pieces song together and these two sewn together now I am going to just sew these two together to create my four patch and I am going to probably put one pin there at the intersection just so it can get close to matching I'm going to tell you a little trick and I did it when you're sewing something long by the time you get to this intersection you know even if you put a pin the fabric you know can shift and want to bunch up so what you do is you put your intersection together start at your intersection just start sewing there to one end then you stop you turn around you go back to your intersection and you sew in the other direction easy as that I'm going to press this open and we're done one side of the quilt I know you can't really see much but you'll see at the end but voila we have one whole side complete now I'm going to do the same with the green and purple I did want to mention you might say well are we putting them up and down or sideways it doesn't matter I'm just putting didn't this way because that's just the way I happen to put them but you just want to make sure that you do the same for each one of them so I have the fat quarters the length going this way on each one of them but if I were to just turn that whole thing then they'd be sideways doesn't matter you're just going to be putting all four of them together so I'm going to do the exact same thing and I'll be right back I raised the camera a bit so you could probably see a little bit more I have the bottom done the top done I should say my two sides are done this is going to be a fairly big lap quilt because for fat quarters equal a yard of fabric you could certainly have used just for fat quarters and use a yard of fabric for the backing you could have even just taken two separate yards of fabric and do this there's no law saying that you can't do that you can especially if it's a print you know a nice big bold all-over print it's pretty cool and again if you like to do machine quilting you can quilt around the print and that looks really nice but I wanted a fat quarter themed quilt so that's what we're going with and I'm doing it on both sides so now what we will be doing is I have to decide if I want some batting I don't usually do batting for the quilting tutorials just for the sake of expense and time but I know some of you like to see me do that so let me think a minute and I'll be right back here's what I decided I am indeed going to put batting because I want to show you once again I've done it before but I want to show you again how you can use batting and still do the sew around and turn it method and it works my thing is I don't like quilting a quilt I don't like sewing up and down and flattening it out so I'm not going to do that step I'll show you how to make it with you can use batting of course cotton batting is the best I use polyester because for the sake of a tutorial I just want to show you I don't care about the batting that I'm using you can also use flannel or fleece whatever you want it's up to you so here's what I'm going to do I'm gonna show you how I cut my batting I'm going to fold this in quarters half this way and in half this way it's gonna put it aside I have a nice big piece of batting here I want the batting to be bigger because things shift and then I can trim the batting after so let's say if this is the halfway point here let's just fold here so I'm just going to quarter this up also that'll be a good place to fold it right there so now I just got this folded and it's big enough so that when I put this here mmm gotta pull that down a little bit more make sure it is enough and I'm just going to cut generously around this now we make our sandwich but we make the sandwich with the batting side down the batting side on the bottom then one of your layers of fabric the fat quarters and you want it right side up you want to leave some batting around the edges I'm just gonna work on this side right here for right now and then the other layer right side down and I am going to put pins first I am going to just shake this a little bit make sure that there's going to be batting all the way around yes and I'm going to pin and then I'm just going to you know turn it and straighten it out and I'm just going to pin all the way around you don't have to get down on the floor to do this you can do it on a table just like I'm doing and I'll be right back that was quite easy I wouldn't say it if it wasn't because I don't like not easy now I do want to remind everyone that you do need to leave a space because we're going to be turning this so what I do so I don't forget is I have two pins together here two pins together here I'm going to start here and go all the way around and then when I get to the two pins that's a reminder that I need to stop because two pins are weird to me I would not normally have two together so I have to remember that that's my ending point and I don't want the opening to be where there is an intersection so I just moved to the opening instead of doing it like right here where there's an intersection I just moved it over to here so now that's exactly what I'm going to go do I am going to go here and I'm going to sew probably a half an inch in just to make sure you know it's all cool and you should have no problem sewing with your batting on the bottom I have done it before with even the polyester batting and it works great and it's going to go so all the way around and I'll be right back except I'm going to stop here leaving this open that was super easy super quick but yes I did scratch my arm three times on pins as careful as I was I did get injured hate pins I did want to mention if you end up with just like a nice little amount of batting kind of even all the way around you don't even have to trim that because when we turn it and sew around it's kind of cool if there's extra batting in the what we're gonna call the border but I'm going to go ahead and trim [Music] now you want to find the space that you left open and you want to put your hands through the two fabrics like this not the fabric and the batting but through the two fabrics and go in and grab your corners pull them through then you can go in and push your corners out this is really such a cool way to make a quilt with batting because you don't have to bind it the only thing is it's a little bit harder to do with a very large quilt and it's not the best method if you like to do machine quilting because this can end up being very puffy and if you you know try to do like a whole line it can end up puckering at one end but it's very good for hand tying and that's probably how I'm going to finish this one I absolutely want to do some hand quilting with the long running stitch I don't know if you've ever seen that but like the stitches are almost like an inch long and I think it looks so cool so we will try that at some point and do remember your batting is secured because it is sewn in all around the edge now what we're going to do is the edge like this you just kind of put your fingers in and you don't tug on it a little bit and the edges go in and you're just going to go to the Machine and top stitch on that and go all the way around the whole entire quilt and then I like to go around again I go in like maybe a half an inch and go around again and it just looks really nice so let me go do that I shall be right back and this is what the edge looks like when you go around twice just very neat and unless you so crooked like me and I do and that's okay this is pretty much done for the sake of this video I will take some pictures so you see all I would do at this point is probably tie this in the center and maybe in two other spots along the the seam and that's about it I'm just not going to do that right now I don't want to have to go look for my embroidery thread and all that stuff but if it's something that you want to see me do we can do a whole little project on just that I would like to do that but you're free to just quilt this any way you want thank you so much for watching and I'll be back with more soon bye [Music] you

Channel: Darlene Michaud

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Id: sd0pAoCdobE

Length: 14min 48sec (888 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 30 2018