Accuquilt January "Crazy Quilt"

[Music] good morning Happy New Year oh it's gonna be just a great year don't you think I'm really excited I'm starting my new year out in vintage the good old times vintage because this is a what kind of vest crazy quilt vests it's a crazy quilt vest in action I wore it many many years ago I have to show you the picture but anyhow I always wore outfits like this and Brian's help me get dressed this week goes oh my gosh oh you used to wear stuff like that all the time well somebody actually asked me el who makes all your costumes and so maybe I was a little I don't know if this ever buttoned but it sure won't button now that sign of the times huh well what a day I have planned all starting with vintage crazy quilts and then of course we're going to do one with the Accu quilt cutter you ready so have you been looking at these quilts are they not beautiful they are beautiful and you know what's really fun about this one right up here it's actually embroidered 1885 we could read that embroidery but it's just so fun it's this is from the influence of the Japanese artwork and the English stitching back in it was about 1875 they started doing this and for almost a period of 50 years they worked on it and then that was it they of course they never finished them look at this because oh whoa that didn't work through the Teresa oh but that's really cool cuz I'm just gonna go over and show Eric this picture because it's so much fun they didn't finish them but they never washed them either and they never slept under them they were just artwork they were artwork and the stitchery is beautiful and some of them have symbols that mean things and I would love you to figure out what this symbol might be Eric if you can just go real close is that cute so - ow sitting in a tree and one owl has on a band-aid a bandage do you see that what do you think that's all about huh so cute so they were so fortunate they had all of these beautiful pieces of silk and velvet and the threads were incredible but I want to show you the date because I see it right here here is the shield the symbol and if you read let's see if I tip it up a little bit okay can you read 1885 right there is that incredible and look at all of the beautiful work well flowers have meanings all of the flowers have some symbol that works really good and what I love about this one yeah yeah oh I just this one is beautiful and I really want to pull it over for you because this is very English yeah these are very fragile and look at me what I'm doing I want you to look at the stitchery in this little work and see if you can tell me to the English artist was in the 1850s doesn't have a name let's put it flat there can you see her I thought you know Kate Greenaway don't you remember she did all of those beautiful children's illustrations and so they took her illustrations and put them into the crazy quilt it's just beautiful really fun all unless we've got to show this one too so can we swing it around these are all little Kate Greenaway as well is that gorgeous and look at the stitchery and I know the fan has a meeting but I can't remember what it is anybody know who's that the fan what did you say it's hot I don't know if it's hot so use your fan oh and there's a little bee in here just beautiful I was so lucky I opened my trunk in my living room and all of these were actually collected all together so we know this one the year is 1885 they've worked on this just bits and pieces they gave up all of that beautiful cemetery of those stars and excellent rows and everything lined up and matching and said we're going to go crazy and you go okay that's a mental must have been a mental as you know it's a comes from the Japanese word it's actually crazy for the glazing on pottery that took on a cracked effect so it really does have meaning it goes back to a Japanese word so it's just so fun okay so we looked at this gorgeous like oh there's an angel of course we have we must know the symbolism of an angel huh and there's one here it's a graveyard they always did little crosses in graveyards the angel I know where that one is let's see if we can find it it's okay here is our man okay how are you doing Eric are you getting all of these beautiful are you doing good look at this one he is standing in the graveyard can you see the little crosses and I don't know we had to make a lot of it up but anyhow over here this is a bird so we think that he worked maybe in the fields because here's the so long the outside edge and there's the flowers we can make up all kinds of stories that's really fun okay so we're going to take a look at this quilt over here while Teresa now it's your turn you get to set up the to set up the machine okay so come with me over here thank you ready this one is very special I did get it in Solana Beach people ask me where I got them and what's interesting about it is that a lot of times crazy quilts just started in the middle and killed us went crazy putting little pieces together from the center out but this one is very organized in rows can you see that and you're not going to believe this Eddy is going to go really close for you do you know that in the late 1800s they put little silk pieces in cigarette packages and I'm sure it was the women that encouraged the men to smoke so they could get their silk patches and Eddie's going to go real close right on here as close as he can and is as close as you can go this is Daniel Webster do you believe that Daniel Webster and I think and I decided somebody embroidered a hat so I think it's hats off to Daniel Webster that makes a good story right it's obvious okay it's really obvious and another one they always had was a spiderweb and this kind of looks like a spiderweb but I have seen seen some really very intricate spider webs one of them says freedom on it and here's another gentleman I actually have his name behind me I can't remember it but anyhow these are from cigarette cartons interesting very very pretty and a lot of these velvet silks plaids beautiful stitches I just love it little flowers really really cool huh okay so I'm gonna go behind the table I want to show you this one it's wool and very very large squares and what's unique about this one is that the quilt maker started with a square in every patch and then she just built upon him and these are fairly large patches and the yellow stitchery really shows up on it isn't it beautiful I think it's gorgeous and then she put the large blocks together and finished it like that I think it's beautiful this one does not have a backing on it it wasn't finished a lot of them were never finished but it is wool and it's quite a collection beautiful I love it so now that you've seen all of the antiques you want to see a new one I know you can't wait huh I thought that you know I did not get my die until I came back from Christmas vacation and so I had to really hustle on it but I'm really quite excited you ready [Music] isn't it cute I think it's really cute these are the six inch blocks there are six inch blocks and larger blocks I'll show you both of the dies in just a minute but there's twelve blocks in there and I thought instead of putting my blocks all together it would look too busy so I separated it with lattice and corner stones very very good don't you think and just a little border in Viney and when I looked at this thank you when I looked at this die on Monday morning of this week I said oh my gosh I'm never gonna get those little pieces done but I took it home Monday night maybe so at about an hour and a half two hours until I was exhausted finish the blocks Tuesday and another hour Theresa put it together and Amy quilted it it was the fastest quilt I think I've ever done I'm serious almost in a day you get to be Theresa okay okay so what's really fun about this line okay hold on to it it's a feed sack reproduction line and I totally enjoyed using oh she came back now okay it's a feed sack line and it has the coolest name it's called Red Rover Red Rover do you remember did you did you play Red Rover Red Rover okay Glenda you gonna play wait don't go away you don't play Red Rover with me oh he doesn't know how in Red Rover you make you make lines and you hold tight it's a daring game right you ready okay oh you're gonna do it okay Red Rover Red Rover we dare Oh Ryan to come over but you're supposed to break the hands and so now are you ready you get the unveiling um the die this is the six-inch die Theresa could you go and get the 12-inch die behind me oh the big one one is a 10 inch finish a big one there's two of them but they're exactly the same but I'm going to only talk about the six inch that's because there's less sewing right and it's really fun okay so the first thing I learned from one of the other patterns to put the letters on the die look there's ten different pieces how can you remember all of that and so I just took my marker I wrote a b c d e clear up to H I J J that's the last one so do that okay so if you're looking at your sheet there I wrote this down on the second page and I then I took this die and I photocopied this design on a piece of paper is that good I knew I can't do that and then I put it in a shallow box Oh am i smart see I've done it so here it is right here all these little pieces they're slipping just a little bit I was trying to think you can't it would be best if you put down photocopied onto a piece of flannel so they didn't slide around but I don't know how to do that yet so anyhow this shows I took a stack of five ten inch squares from my layer cake and what was the name that layer cake Red Rover I dare you so anyhow there's five here all in order and so you should work in groups of five and I'm just gonna take my some of my other ones see this is Red Rover the paper so I remember it so I decided to just put a nice stack like I and and work with the colors so first I did red then green then blue I thought okay I don't want to put them all together I did another red and green this is the rest of my layer cake I'm running out so I have just five here I believe one two three four five okay so just put them on to your die and I made sure that you guys know this is my method and that's why I wrote quilt in the day up at the top so some of it is a cue quilts this is what I decided to do you could do all little pieces if you want that's okay look just go this way right go big so cover it with your mat and just push it through I forgot one thing I have to put it through again because this there are so many little pieces and little sections in here who I hope I cut it good because I found out that if you try that and it doesn't work you got little threads that aren't cut you should put a paper on top on top of the mat and it's just a little bit of thickness that helps push the mat down into the die and now I'm afraid if I do it again it'll screw up don't do it again but anyhow remember and I wrote this on your paper if you try some scrap pieces and you have little threads then just go ahead and try that paper on top in a cycle Rhine said oh we have lots of that and this is the next part really I always tell you to spin your Matt but this is one block you do not want to mess up the pieces right I always do these things first so I can tell you what not to do I learn from experience yeah I did that pretty good huh whoa okay so then the next tricky thing you need to always have a piece a pair of scissors handy a pair of scissors and just in case there's so little bit of thread and I told Teresa oh this is going to be so slow for me I would just won't be able okay there's a little thread right in the corner it's like one little thread and so you just have to clip it and you just have to pull a very cryptic air Philippe now I wish we had some fast-forward going on but make sure that you keep all your little pieces nice and flat just kind of hold on to them and work okay ask me a question if you want to know it's gonna take me a second to go through I I would not recommend more than five and actually I did four one time and it worked really good so let me see you actually need a total of twelve no there's 12 you're make if you're making 12 blocks hot whatever number of blocks you're making that's the number of squares that you need to do so if you're only going to do like it a little six block quilt then you just go ahead and just put in six and then you'll get you'll get you'll get enough for six blocks you've got ten of six blocks right and it'll go together I wish I want to use my paper I like that in your pattern 15 blocks you need 15 squares 10 because 10 inch squares yeah everyone cuts all the color all that pieces on it okay and so now if you want would you hold up the big one again so you can do exactly the same thing this is called the version everybody pay attention to Theresa why finish this okay okay it's exactly the same but now you need to have a thirteen and a half inch piece of fabric and then one for each okay I'm getting that I have lots of little threads and I will tell you I have experimented with the size with the weight of the paper orion kind of gave me some cardboard but my act equipmen did not like the cardboard just a piece of regular paper aha and you'll see as soon as I get this off that it's it's a dye that has a lot of little space in between and that's what makes it kind of hard okay put a pin okay all right so so look what happens whew yes I have two pieces there you go scraps given to Brenda okay okay so now I'm gonna take my little box and besides putting the drawing or photocopying a of course you're going to cover up a so you have to write a little a in the outside right okay and so I'm just going to turn it so it's the same way and so there I'm just going to stack these pieces very carefully on top good okay and so I know Teresa is going to line them up all very nice and now I'm gonna go to my sewing machine okay now I need I need to have a and B okay I have a and I have B so you can go to the inside paper so now I'm going to take a and leave it like it is but I'm going to take B and put it on the bottom of the stack only one okay only one because we're gonna now it's all going to be messed up and now the colors aren't going to be beside each other right yes yes ma'am okay and so I'm I do need my stiletto Teresa I don't have to think twice because I have a stiletto on one side and I have a Ripper on the other side wow that's that's cutting your thinking process down right away right there it is okay so when you pick these two up it's interesting yeah so Theresa is gonna just go through no I was doing - she's gonna pick up C and she's gonna take two and put it on the bottom and that's C and then she's going to go to D and what she gonna do three okay so when you put it this is the great thing about a Q quilt do you see how this lines up straight at the top and this is square at the bottom and that's what you're going to find with every one of these pieces they kind of line up in different ways but this one a and B lines up like that and I just put them close to my sewing machine and I assembly line so all a and B and I hope that they're going to be different every time whenever you different colors whenever you pick it up hopefully how so far so good because I've been known to just pick up a piece and toss it put it on the bottom but in theory theory you're supposed to keep them in order exactly like this and do I have an iron Theresa you will I will okay now now let's look and see Eric every single one is different on the top is that cool that's very cool okay so I like to work doing all of them and I will show you what I've done do you all have a pencil you got to get a pencil because I want to show you I decided to press my seams in one direction and so right here is a B can you get that Eric ad uh-huh Amy I'm gonna press my scene towards a so I've just drawn this little tick mark toward a toward a can you you are given permission right now this is the first time I've ever opened an AK equal pattern that the instructions were not inside I don't know if this is a new thing but they give you their website and what number to put in basically it's the number of this die which I believe is five five to something it says five five two two six so now there aren't directions but when you go in there and download it this is what you find so I just decided to give you guys help you guys out and put it together so now it says at the top of your sheet a cue quilt this is all straight from a cue poke it's saved there at some time of which we've been really really busy so I'm just about done with a B whoops I have to there so what do you think about the quilt behind me isn't it cute I think it would be a darling baby quilt and Brenda just told me before we started that she is working with the large one in flannel and okay so you're always supposed to do these right so what's it like to you're supposed to do do them the same just follow them along there oh good and there's my eye you're getting hot okay I wanted hot baby because it's nearly done it's interesting you know what in my stack I did not pick up the same one the same color at all and this is exactly what I did when I sat and so oh the last one I lied but they're different huh but still it look pretty spotty in the quilt if I left this like that huh okay I have to do something okay so anyhow now I have and this is the system that I follow every time I have all 12 lined up in a row I'm going to press my seams toward a and so always whenever I'm going to press a seam a certain way I put that letter on the top and I just I leave it all chained together I find it works really fast and this is also a really good check if you're pressing along and they're all the same you did it right yes so then if I'm pressing toward a I just pick up a and go straight into it I decided instead of pressing these seams open it would take me way too much time and so I just impressing in one direction towards that little letter okay and then is that cool look at that one more two more the one on the floor okay so we have that and then once I have them all pressed and I do highly recommend that you press as soon as you sew it so you don't get confused and that was the one thing Brenda said to me yep you can get confused very easily get that little cheat sheet okay and so Theresa I'm gonna let you finish this finish cutting it apart but you'll have that one on the top on the bottom yeah it's okay so now okay so if you you want me to keep the one and that you want me to reverse it oh you're gonna be done okay yeah I need to so you can just put it back on your photocopy cheat is that good it's easy now huh and so now you're just going to go ahead and pick up see and I'm just gonna do one and you're just gonna take it and flip it right sides together this is C and that says step 6 step 6 and I want you to notice that you are going to press both of your seams toward a okay you're getting homework okay Theresa I want you to come over and okay so what the presser foot I always forget okay so this is C and you would do all of those right in a row and now you press it towards set the scene with this with it's actually you'd set it with green on the top so that you can press them all in the same direction okay ABC and that's the first section done yay are you happy and here is the block and this is ABC ABC and now I'm just going to take D and E and let me tell you of any of them D and E totally blew me away and I had to unser so look at D and E it's that little it looks like it looks like a little rocket ship or something taken off okay so then you're just going to take and press this one and see you have matched this edge here in this one here good are we going are we good are you keeping up with me okay so Theresa I am just going to keep on sewing I'll give you the scissors and you can clip it off okay that is D and E and I want you to press the seam towards D okay okay okay d okay Markin okay what's the next letters F F and G and see how it looks watch when you flip it right sides together you have two little the top and the bottom just line up they just line up so I'm going to assembly line so that one oh and I'm just not gonna do all the letters aren't you glad I'm not gonna show all of them okay turn the page okay gnf toward f toward F so there's H an eye on the next page H and I and it lines up again H and I this is perfect see the little edge there and the edge right there lines up perfect okay you keep it up with me Theresa yeah I'm lining it up right here for you Oh God okay H and I and then you need to give this one back to me which because I think that you're going to add J right on to it right H and I towards I but okay let me see that one is you would press it towards F the little it's not in there I had okay you know why you have to draw those in there it's press it towards F the bottom little bottom one uh-huh yes that one the reason that you have to do this is because we downloaded from a cue quilt and we and my artist could not draw on these pages that's why you're doing it I'm keeping you busy out there right and then you have to give me that one back because I have to put J on there okay and you're pressing in step 10 towards J and that's how it's going to look like that like that and you just flip it you're pressing towards this one okay okay are you getting confused you guys you're with me oh good and so this is what I was doing that just took me I don't know maybe two hours and I was doing it in my sleep so it was good okay so now this is the second half and we are just going to continue to build right now this is what I have done I will show you I have this much done I need my scissors to clip right there and you're going to press toward J right this is J put J on the top and press it open okay and this is where we are right now we have this much done this much done and now we're on step 11 and we're going to add G and F oh look she's got it all laid out okay look at that it's correct that's good okay we don't know what happened but this is how you seemed rip oh yes would you like to try my seam ripper thank you okay there you go okay so now go to step 11 you have G and F and you're pressing it away from F step 11 right towards I right we're nearly done and then step 12 you're pressing your seam towards D step 12 toward D just draw your little thing toward D oh we tip we said 11 Oh towards I step 12 towards D we're nearly done okay you with me step 13 okay you press away from you press towards this whole bottom thing you press toward ABC they're good there it was just two rivers why is this river [Laughter] there okay look how cute it is it's all primary colors it's like just like the primary colors that you use in grade school doesn't it look like a box of crayons it's just like a blocks of crayons with all those beautiful colors cool okay so you want me to show that one together okay would that make you feel better yeah and how did you like it I love it because they took all to my little threats with the bottom of this oh very cool mhm I did not know that cool that's cool okay so we've got this one done and the reason that I showed you all of this is because I wanted them to just every time I sewed it over a piece I wanted the pieces to be going down that way you don't have to fight any seams ah no fighting seams rustle no don't wrestle nestled right and actually I said nestled but there is no matching seams on this there are no matching seams just every seam was pressed down away so you could assembly line so and just fly you make two units like this that is really pretty that really doesn't has it it is pretty isn't it it's just really fun and so then all you have are these two halves that you have to put together and whenever you line them up you see this one lines up right at the top like that this lines up at the top like that and look at the bottom see how it lines up so it's perfect and the larger one is exactly the same way that you just you just um you have larger pieces more sewing so Brenda did you actually start to sew on your pieces she cut Brenda cut 30 blocks out of flannel okay it had two ten inch squares because the thickness of flannel yeah Oh only two to two squares yeah yeah okay well I have two Unsoeld - oh I get to try out my new seam ripper okay whenever I laid that out I did not flip it right and then I really even went okay don't go close on this Eric you don't want to show anybody this but it would make everybody feel so good how crooked I did okay so whenever you lay this out so that you don't fight the seams you have the larger half on the left and the smaller half ABC on the right so when you flip them right sides together it's just like I told you the seams are all going down on the backside the seams are all going down okay so now I'm just going to take this and see if I can get this sewn back on there okay and now Theresa we need to have a six and a half inch square up ruler six and a half uh or I guess I do I could yeah nine and a half inch ruler would be really good nine and a half inch okay Accu quilt did not recommend squaring up Eleanor burns recommend squaring up it's because I did it oh my gosh I just said oh I I this is so wonky I've got to make them really beautiful so with this one the last seen pretty pretty I love it set the seam open and press and that doesn't look too bad but a little wonky don't you think a little crazy and then you crazy very very crazy and so I think that six and a half um it's supposed to be a six and a half but personally mine were more low that's that's actually not bad but it's only six and a fourth on one side this is six and a half this way can you see that on the road on the and this is definitely a little crooked right over here I'll show you can see that sticking out right and but it's only six and a fourth down here so I'm just going to take and sliver trim two sides make them straight see how little you trim take this corner I trim two sides turn this around and now put six in the fourth on all sides 6 and 1/4 right down here ok that's looking good 6 into 4 6 & a 4 6 & a 4 I gotta push that up ok now it's a lot better and then when I when I set the blocks together then I was aware of going okay see what I trimmed away not much not much and that's what the block looks like oh ok so on this pattern it says it shows actually putting block to block to block 16 blocks but as I said we just downloaded this from a cue quilt your yardage chart on the front is for this quilt on the back and it's very easy to do and rows of three across and four down my cornerstones are one and a half inches cute one and a half the strip is one and one and a half inches wide and cut your lattice to the size of your block okay maybe you'll have a perfect six and a half inch block but I did so my lattice is 6 and 1/4 inches around and then I did just a little narrow border and then a wider border in that yardage that I did is all on the front how's that sound good look and then it's I love it quilting easy binding I really enjoyed it well a couple of years ago quilt in a day we we did a crazy quilt as well and now I'm going to switch this is actually what quilt and the day did all rotary cutting and this is our pattern from quilt in a day it's called two crazy quilt and Teresa's mom did this quilt Teresa did the piecing from the quilt and add a pattern and then her mom did all beautiful decorative stitches on top it's kind of more like my best right right part of me these are these are a lot of them are by hand I see my machine I can see that yep and if you do this kind of thing for crazy quilting I recommend you pressure seams open and this is a larger block this is twelve in two days and instead of 10 pieces quilting the day only has six six pieces and you have that pattern sheet that mirror yeah thank you okay and so this is what the pattern sheet in quilt in a day yes and it's included in the middle of the pattern and you can also put a 10-inch square on top of this one and then all it is is rotary cut down through the middle and then you have three pieces on the first half and three pieces on the second half and they go together exactly the same way and so it was just really fun to do to make and and I have to look and see what year I did this because because I ten years ago yeah oh my goodness ten years ago because I did it I did it this way that I just taught you and so there's all ah yeah that's really fun is that the front one no no it's not yeah so with bigger pieces that's easier to do all of your decorative embroidery stitches or your stitches by hand oh my goodness and see this has hunks of lace just like my vest this one actually has beads sewing on top sewn on top I'll stand still Eddie if you want to go and buttons antique buttons you can do I didn't think with my little 6-inch block I could really do too many of those stitches what do you think yeah my Red Rover so anyhow I just think it's so much fun to make crazy quilts so you go crazy and have fun [Applause]

Channel: Quilt in a Day

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Keywords: quilting, eleanor burns, quilt in a day, accuquilt, sewing, fabric, fabric cutting, quilt pattern, crazy quilt, accuquilt die

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Length: 49min 0sec (2940 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 01 2020