(upbeat music) - Good morning, it's January 31st, 2020, I'm Kimberly from Fat Quarter Shop. I have a ton of stuff for you guys today, this live stream might go two hours, hopefully it doesn't,
but please be patient. We just have a ton of stuff, so at the very end of this video, I'm gonna show you and talk
to you about how I start, all my searching techniques, and I learned those from Lisa Bonjean, so it's really her
technique that I'm using. And I'll be answering questions and just live demoing what I
do, it's not for everybody, and we'll talk about that at the end. But we want to start off with Bloom Topia. So Bloom Topia, if you don't know, is our charity quilt for 2020, we're raising money for Make-A-Wish. And with all of your help,
we have raised $20,264, yay. And so we are trying to get
to 30,000 from you guys, and so we just have 10,000 more to go. Kevin and I are gonna give $10,000, and Mark Dunn is gonna give
$10,000 from Moda fabrics, that's gonna grant us five
wishes with Make-A-Wish. When you donate at the
link in the comments, it goes directly to Make-A-Wish. And so we are kicking it off,
it is our first free pattern, so our first release of the free pattern. So on our blog, everything is listed and there's papers that you can print out that look like this. So if you're gonna make
this, we have a quilt kit. I'll show you the kit. Here is the kit. And it has everything you need for the quilt top the binding, it has a specialty ruler
and it has triangle paper, in the background and the full pattern. Here's the little ruler. So, and it also has the full
pattern for the entire thing. If you don't wanna wait, that's the only way you can
get it earliest to buy the kit. So this is what our kit looks like, it comes in this cute little box, and here's our backing set,
and the back says 2020. But if you don't wanna use the kit, I'm gonna tell you the
fabric requirements. And I'm gonna show you some things that we have done in house to show you what it would look like if
you don't want the kits, 'cause this is all about
raising money for Make-A-Wish. And we're asking that
if you're gonna do this for each pattern or
each block, you get $5. You can donate once or multiple times or you can donate as little
or as much as you would like. Anything that you do,
we totally appreciate. So the fabric requirements. If you're not gonna buy the kit, you would need six yards of
background, 20 Fat Quarters, and three quarter yard binding For your pieced backing, that is a little bit more complicated. It's one quarter yards
background, two fat quarters, two fat eights and then
five and a quarter yards for all the big piece and that's, if you wanna do a specialty piece backing. This is all on our blog, the Jolly Jabber, and this morning we released
block one and block two. So over and under is our
first block in release one, and our block two in release
one is bright future. So you're gonna make each
of these blocks twice, no once, so you make two blocks. So I'm gonna show you
what the blocks look like, and all of this
information is on our blog. So these are the blocks that Chelsea made. Sherry and Chelsea are the
designers of this fabric, which is summer sweet. So this is the first block
that is over and under, and this is what you would
make if you have the kit, and this is the second block, so this is what it would look like if you're making it with the kit. And now I'm going to show you
some different variations, if you wanna use fabric from your stash. Theresa made this from Harvest Road, which is the collection by Layla Boutique. And I'm just gonna show you the two blocks and her piecing is perfect, look at that. I know. This one is by Nancy and this is flower
garden by Lindsey McCray. This is stiletto and Deborah made this one and the designer is Basic Grey. This one is memoirs by three sisters and Sue made this block. And so you can see that with all of this, you can come up with a
totally different look. This one is speckled fabric and
she used an Essex background and Crystal is making this one. So there are our blocks, so that, that can help you really
think outside the box, if you want to do modern or traditional or contemporary or whatever, obviously we have kits
to make it easy for you, but you can download the
list of fabric requirements and use whatever, make
sure to use our hashtag, which is on the screen. And I'm gonna show you, I'm gonna answer questions
on that before I show you some other free stuff that we have. Do you have questions, Lily? Oh, sorry, there's no question. It's using the over and
under block from release one, this fabric is canning day. Jocelyn designed it and Sue made it, and Mike from My Longarm
Quilter quilted it. So super pretty right? You can see that in any collection. Okay, I gotta show you the
back, the back is amazing. This is awesome. You like it Lilly? - [Lilly] That's so cute. - I know, I like it. I might have to do one like this, I haven't done one like this before, so I really liked that. So that's a totally free pattern. And then our second finishing pattern, all it uses the bright
futures variation block, completely free pattern that
you can get on the blog. So all of your information
on fabric requirements, everything is listed and here
it is, this one is smaller. - This is our finishing pattern two, that Joslin designed it, Nova stitched it and Mike from My Longarm
Quilter quilted it. It uses the early bird block. The star accent fabric is strawberry jam and the background is garden variety. So you can see that Nova just
use fabrics from her leftovers or her scraps to be able
to put this together. This is great, I love this one. It would make a great table topper or just a little accent to your house. So let me know if there's any questions on any of the Bloom Topia. And then there is a little
bit more for Bloom Topia that I'm gonna talk about. But biggest huge thank you from everyone at Fat Quarter Shop. Kevin and I, $20,000, every time I'm a little OCD
about clicking on that link. Okay, how much have we raised? How much have we raised? Because if I say, I wanna raise 30,000, I really want to do it. We do have a pop-up that we
can use that's gonna show you our different goals. So these are our goals, and so you can see that
we had a goal at 8,000 and that was our finishing
one, the free pattern. And then we had the goal of 15,000, so we released that today
and then we have two more. So when we get to 22,000,
there'll be another free pattern. And when we get to 30,000,
there'll be another free pattern. So there's even more to look forward to. So if you don't have time to
make the really big quilt, which is our quilt kit,
you could obviously, maybe use one of the smaller ones and donate $5 for one of the smaller ones or anything that we can
do to get the donations up is really what we're doing. So let me know if there's any questions on that before I go to
the next one, sorry. - [Lilly] All right, Julie Washburn said, what is the specialty ruler? - Oh, okay, so the specialty
ruler makes this right here. So see how this little tulip
is not a 45 degree angle, it's more of a, no, it's like
just not a straight angle, so it's a ruler that you make it bigger and then you trim it down. But if you don't buy the kit, 'cause the only way you can
get that ruler is in the kit, there's a template in
the pattern to do it. I don't know anything about
angles that maybe that's why my daughter is struggling
with geography right now. But it just is like a
angle that you can't make automatically in quilting,
that probably makes more sense. - [Lilly] All right,
Tracy Eckerd was asking, when I bought the kit, does
that money go to Make-A-Wish? - So basically the way
that Kevin and I do it is, we just say, we gonna
write a check for $10,000, because the profits of the
kit, if that makes sense, 'cause there is a cost
of buying the inventory, it's all very complicated, sorry. - [Lilly] All right
and then next question, Jessica Knox was asking, what fabric is the pink on the back for? One of the samples that we had to show. - Okay, so the very first sample it is, I believe Strawberry Jam,
Denise is gonna look. - [Denise] It is Canning Day. - sorry Canning Day by Corey Yoder. - [Lilly] All right, and
then, we have two super chats. First one from Linda Panther,
she just gave us $10. So thank you so much, Linda. - Thank you woo. - [Lilly] They're super piggy. And we also had another super chat from Gabriel Cuentas for $2. He says thank you,
Kimberly, for all you do. - Thank you. - [Lilly] Thank you, Gabriel. Oh, he's so cute. All right and then we also
have a new YouTube member, Cassie Barker, she just
joined right before we started the stream. - Thank you. - [Lilly] So welcome Cassie, yeah. All right, and Stitch
by Stitch was asking, can you remind me what Bella
white, you love to use? - I'd like to use color 98 Or 97 or 200. The one that I use the most is 200, but I do like all three of those. Okay, so I'm gonna pop up
on the screen real quick, the dates for the Bloom
Topia, so you can just see it. And so that is gonna show you like if you gonna be so in along. These are the dates and these
dates are all on our blog and that will really help you,
if you want to stay on track. So this is kind of the whole schedule. And then for cross stitch, which is the other
image that she just had, so that is just the corner
of the cross stitch. And so with cross stitch, we are also offering a free cross stitch, and so that was released
this morning also. And so for the cross
stitch, we were just saying, if you did the cross stitch, we thought $15 would be reasonable
to donate to Make-A-Wish, and so that was released this morning. We have across this channel, which is called Fat Quarter
Shop, no, Fat Quarter Flosstube, and you can go back on
Tuesday's video and it has all the information that you would need. We would love for you to subscribe to it, but that was released this
morning also the cross stitch. So just to let you know
that, that's how we're trying to get to 50,000 this
year versus last year, by offering more. You can see that we're really doing a lot, trying to offer a ton of stuff. And we wanna give a big
thank you to Priscilla, because Priscilla from the Real
Housewives of Cross Stitch, finished it for us and
it is right over here and you can see it. It's so pretty, so big shout out to her. So the next thing I was
gonna talk about was, this week, Lori Holt was here, she's getting on a plane
right now to go home. So I'm so sad, but we did a
Quilters Cottage Photoshoot, so the quilt is behind me. The book is coming out in May, it might come out a little bit earlier but Lily's gonna zoom in so
you can see all of the quilts. It is, we had a cross-stitch, and then at very bottom, there's a fence, and then under the fence
are three quilt blocks. And this is what it was based on. So this is one of Lori Holt's first cross-stitch pattern she published. We have this available now and
it's called Filters Cottage. And we got so many emails
and so many phone calls and so many live stream comments, that they wanted this in a quilt so she put it together in a quilt with the vintage happy collection, and so it's hanging on the wall. We went to Fredericksburg
and did a little photo shoot, and in the book, our
instructions to make the quilt, the cross stitches, totally separate, but also to make the table
runner, which is right here. So this is the table runner, and the pillows that
you see right here also. So those instructions
are all part of the book. And so that is brand new
and we've got some photos from the photo shoot that we can show you, just to show you like
some of the photo shoot. So this is the cover of the book, and so there, you can really
see those quilt blocks that are at the bottom of the quilt. - [Lilly] Oops, sorry. - I think this is the
first photo that we did, so this is the table runner and the house that we photoed in was really perfect. This is so funny, there
was like a vintage phone and every one of us, I think, picked it up to see if we could really dial but if we look there's no cords
so I was kind of like, yeah, that would have been smart, if I would've seen if there was cords, so it's kind of making
fun of myself in my head. - [Lilly] Who would you
have dialed if it worked? - I don't know, nobody. I was like, well, I
think Jocelyn dial zero, I was like, where does zero go even? Cause like when I was a
kid, zero went somewhere, but now I don't think zero goes anywhere. - [Lilly] Yeah, it was
like the operator, right? - And then this was, and
it was the built-in desk, Oh no, it wasn't a built-in desk, it was like a built-in nook and the wall and then the desk fit
perfectly, and we decorated. We're sending that sewing
machine home with Lori today, so she's got like five or six of those. And then there's the cross
stitch, which is available now. And that's just like a
little shot of the bed and just cute little photo. Yes, so these are just photos. Oh wait, okay, so there's Lily. There's Lil, she's videoing her sewing or messing with the machine or something And Oh, there's Laurie, so
there's Lori in the left, and that was everybody trying
to figure out how to get the quilt on the wall, and
we put it up with contact. What are those things? - [Lilly] We tried command hooks, yeah. - Command hooks, and then it fell down. So then what do we do? - [Lilly] We ended up
having it Jocelyn and Carrie there on the sides hold
it up for the photo. - So that's Mr. Honey on the top left. - [Lilly] Mr. Honey. - Yeah, so that was quite the adventure. So let me know if you're
having any questions. Of course, that is the
Quilters Cottage Book, it comes out in May, it
might come out earlier, 'cause we got the photo shoot
done already in January. If you have any questions on that book, it's all Lori Holt designs. - [Lilly] Yes, okay. Linda Gillespie, was asking
the book has several patterns? - So it has the pattern for the quilt kit, which is sorry, the quilt, the big quilt, which is behind me. It has the pattern for the
table runner right here, the flower and then three
pillows, one, two, three. And then the cross stitch, which is right here is totally separate. And it'll be like, we'll have
a picture of the cross stitch in the intro, just to talk about, how Lori designed that and
how it morphed into a quilt. - [Lilly] Iris Rivera is asking, is it all piecing or
there's applicate too? - All piecing. So Lori does a lot of
free applicate patterns that she does in conjunction
with Riley Blake. All of the books that
Lori and I do together under the it's Imma brand are all pieced, so that's how she kind
of keeps it separate. - [Lilly] Karen Anderson's asking, what size will Lori holds pillows be? - These are 24 inches and she put 26 inch pillows inside them. - [Lilly] All right, and then
Terry, Oh, sorry, go ahead. - We gonna confirm I might be a little bit off on that, but I'm close, I'm within the twenties. - [Lilly] All right and then Theresa says, whoever does your set
decorating is really good. - Yay, Cody and Denise do it, right? - [Lilly] Yes, I think she
might've also been saying, be at the photo shoot. - Oh, at the photo shoot,
okay, so at the photo shoot, Lori did that and Sarah
and Jocelyn and me and Lily just stand around and
like, what do we do next? I'm not good at styling,
I'm not speaking for Lily, I'm speaking for myself, I'm
like, I don't know what to do. - [Lilly] Yeah, they
are a lot better at it. So I just stand back and I'm like, just tell me what you need
and tell me what to do. - Yeah, tell me where to move. - [Lilly] It works out really was. - I was trying to take a nap though, I was so tired that day. - [Lilly] If you want a picture, - It's a global picture. - [Lilly] YouTube members got to see some other behind the scenes
pictures of the photoshoot. - It was me trying to take nap. Well was actually ordering Kevin lunch, I was so exhausted. Okay, so these are 24 inch pillows and we put 26 inch pillows
inside so that they're puffier, that's how Lori likes to do
it, of course you can put a 24 inch pillow form inside also. - [Lilly] Alright and let's see. We have a super chat from
Susie Clary for 2499. - Thank you. - [Lilly] Thank you, Susie. And we also have a new
YouTube member, Ashley Mass, Welcome Ashley. - Thank you. - [Lilly] I'll wait for Super
Piggy to fly off the screen and then give you your
confetti cannon, yay. All right, and Jennifer
Daniel Johnson's asking what is the Starbucks
you're drinking today? - Oh, it's what I always drink, it is a black, unsweet iced
tea, extra ice, no water. So there's some other new Laurie
items coming that we have. The first one is baked with
love, which is right here. So I'm not gonna take it off the ladder, we're just gonna zoom in. This is a pre like a
kit that's put together in a little box from Riley Blake and it is using vintage chappy
fabric and it's little ovens and that should be
coming in the next month. And then the other one is right here. It's called good morning
mugs, table runner and it also comes in a cute little box. And those are coming soon,
they're just packaging them right now and those
also use vintage happy, which is the collection that is in the quilters cottage book. So there's that and we
got those for photography. So I thought we should show those since we're borrowing them and
we're gonna send them back. So by the time the kits come
in the quilts will not be here, so I thought I would
show them ahead of time. They're on our coming soon page and you can click to be
notified when it arrives. Are there any questions? - [Lilly] We have a new YouTube member Virginia Matthew's, welcome Virginia. - Thank you. - [Lilly] Yes, like I said
there's just a few extra behind the scenes pictures
there for members this week as the perk, we had a lot
of fun at the photo shoot. - Okay, so ModaBlockheads is a new free sew along that Moda is hosting this year. It's gonna run through February of 2021. They're gonna be giving
you 56 free patterns there's gonna be a six inch and 12 inch and then some of them are
gonna have different sizes. And I decided to go ahead and start mine, it's completely free
and all the information would be on the Moda blog and it links to the different designers and that's where you
will get the patterns. So you can refer there and I am going to, there's a lot of free
finishing patterns available on that blog but I'm gonna use Laurie's form girl vintage two finishing which is right here. So I'm going to be using this finishing with the ModaBlockheads. So I'm gonna show you and I'm gonna be doing it row by row. So these are my first three blocks. So block one block,
block two, block three. So I'm just going to be
making the harder blocks in the 12 inch size and the easier blocks in six inch size. And one thing that I'm
doing, I'm gonna give you a little tip, you don't have to do it. If you read her book it's
gonna tell you what to cut, to add the sashing. I cut my strips bigger and
I'm trimming my blocks down with the creative grids seven
and a half inch square ruler, CGR seven and the CGRSQ 14. And this is the 14 and a half inch ruler. So I am just adding my sashing
much larger trimming down and that's how it looks so perfect, because I didn't make it perfect, I trimmed it to be perfect. I know you're gonna email me and tell me that wastes fabric, I'm sorry I know it does, but I would
rather have perfect than an extra fabric. So let me look and see if
I have some notes in here in my little quilting journal, I'm just keeping track of how many blocks I've made that are six inch, how many I'm making that are 12 inch. I am using 44216-11 for the
sashing for my 12 inch blocks, 55195-19 for the sashing
for my six inch blocks. I am going to be making 20, 12 inch blocks and 30 six inch blocks. I'm using mostly Mackinac
Island from Minuchin Simpson and then just a ton of scraps, or just you know, stuff
in my stash that I have I just went through and
pulled all my creams so that I have a lot of creams and this is gonna to be really fun. And then what I will be
doing any applicate block that comes through or maybe a block that just doesn't fit my style. I'm going to be using blocks
from Vintage Christmas, Spelling Bee, Farm Girl Vintage One and Farm Girl Vintage Two. And I'm just gonna pick traditional blocks or blocks that I like
so that it can be really a Kimberly quilt and I don't have to feel like I have to applicate
if I don't wanna applicate and I don't. I'm also using the cream
Moda mixed fat quarter bundle that we sell and we put that
together just for this quilt. And we have some shout outs of people that are stitching the ModaBlockheads. So we'll show those, so you can see kind of what other people are doing. This one's really cute,
this is Amy Milan Milan. Yeah and she is using little
snippets by Bonnie Camille, which is an older line and that's great. That's the way to use the older fabric you don't have to buy anything new you can just use what's
in your stash already. And this is Nancy Rogers and I love hers. I'm not sure exactly what fabric this is but I think it's Moda. And I like the little fussy
cut leaf in the center. And then Jolyn Cattiedge,
anyone following ModaBlockheads3 here's my week one block. My plan is to use scraps from
projects throughout the year, and I'll use six inch and 12
inch and I'll have a quilt representing all the projects
I completed in the year. So that's a great idea. And this is Susan Castonguay
and so you can see that she printed out her pattern and she put it on the
Laurie Holt bookstand that we have a couple of left of and then that way she
can cut and then piece with the bookstand, standing up. And Sandra Jacob, this is block three. And she said she had a bit
of a struggle with fabric selection and she loves
that Queen Anne's lace. So I think Queen Anne's lace
is the fabric collection or the design. And then Mary Anne Levenson
Lambert, here's the first two blocks of ModaBlockheads
looking forward to every Wednesday. And I think she's using Holly
Taylor fabric from Moda. Yay, so I love that
everybody is doing that, but it's a great way
to get a free pattern, feel like you don't have to buy anything, have something to look forward to. They release the patterns every Wednesday. So and I've seen a lot of the
blocks they're super cool. - [Lilly] All right, we
do have some questions. Deirdre Powell asking about
the extra Luarie Hill quilts we had on set, is asking
if those are reservable? - They are, you just get a notification when they come in stock,
we're not reserving them or pre-selling them but
we have a ton on order so I don't think we're gonna sell out. We might sell them out
within the first two weeks but not the first day. I say that now, but I mean,
we ordered a lot of them. - [Lilly] All right,
Laurie San Tamara says, what size triangle paper was used please about your ModaBlockheads? - Oh, I used a bunch. So this one I used one
and a half inch finished, right here for this one. This one I didn't use any. And this one I can't remember. But I did use triangle paper for this one, I think it's one inch,
here I can look right here I have a ruler. One and a half inch finished. So these are the same, so I use
one and a half inch finished so far, but I'm gonna be
using anytime there is a half square triangle I always
use triangles on a roll. And then I just figure out in my head how to figure out what I need for that. But I do think, making the blocks and one of the things that
I hear over and over is oh, you know I made my block it's, I'm supposed to be six and a half but it's six and a quarter. That's why I make my sashing
bigger and trim it down. If you're somebody who
doesn't like to waste fabric don't do it. But what I did is I'm
just making big strips and then just cutting, I'm
not even cutting it down into the rectangle, I'm
just cutting big strips, adding them, chopping
them off, It saves time and then trimming down
and that's how my blocks are looking so perfect. And also starching which
I'm gonna talk about at the very end. - [Lilly] Alright and
stitch by stitch was asking, if a pattern is only available
in PDF form on your website, can I call customer service and have them mail me a printed copy? I don't have a printer. - I don't know, I mean
that would be really hard 'cause then we would have
to print it for everybody who calls, so I don't
think we could do that. But I mean you could
definitely like save it, go to Kinko's. You could also like just open your laptop and just put your like,
put it on your screen and then just sew from your screen. - [Lilly] Yeah, that's what I do. A few people were
suggesting staples as well and Office Depot as places
you can go print things. You can not print places, I think. - Okay, so I just wanted
to remind you guys that we are doing the FQS SewDown. It is from February 1st to March 31st, all of that information is
on the Jolly Jabber blog. And I just wanted to remind
you all the information is on there, but we are gonna
start with an Aurifil thread. So either like a spool or a cone. So you just take Aurifil and
then you can have a before and after photo and you're gonna stitch with whatever you start with from February 1st to March
31st and kinda see like, can you use a full spool
or a full cone by then? But we do have a coupon and that's what I was gonna remind you of. The coupon is one, five
SEWDOWN 15 sewdown, all the information is on our blog and today is the very last
day to use that coupon for 15% off any Aurifil thread. And then we have some
people that are gonna join us with that. So I'm just gonna show you
some cute little popups of people that are sewing along with us. - [Lilly] Wrong one,
give me one sec, okay. - Evilolive_quilts, okay so she's getting this Aurifil 6727, yay. And then Pat Broe is using,
let's see if we can figure out what color that is. No, I can't figure it out, let's see. Oh, 2020 color 2020. No, that's sewdown 2020
- [Lilly] That's what I was gonna say too and I was like no that's the year. - Yeah, I don't know what code she's using but it's a good one. - [Lilly] I feel like it's 2021 maybe. - Yeah, I bet you're right. And then auntmoa, she's
gonna be using color 2024. Yay, okay so I wanted to show last year we did a free pattern that uses the H100 triangles on a roll. It is a free pattern on our
blog called patchwork pinwheels and it's all finished. And what I did was, I used
leftovers throughout 2019 and put them into a quilt so that I didn't have as much leftover. Super cute and it was quilted by Gina Tel of thread graffiti. And here's the back, on the back I used this print from Laurie Holt, it is a home deck print and
we are currently out of stock but more will come in
stock in March, April. It just sold really fast. And so that's super, I'm super
excited that Gina quilted it and super excited that I'm done with it. So again, completely
free pattern on our blog. And that was what I did last year. And you can see that from that quilt, there was a ton of pieces. And so it ended up being a
little bit of a chore to use up all those pieces because it
was taking me forever to make those tiny pieces. So I decided for 2020 to
do something much easier so that I wouldn't be
spending so much time on the after. So these are the blocks
that have done so far. I'm just gonna show you some. I'm using the log cabin paper, six inch it's back in stock. It's by it's so Emma
and that quarter shop, so this is some Mackinac Island
that is gonna be leftover from what I just showed you,
which is the ModaBlockHeads. - [Lilly] And we do know that
it is pronounced Mackinaw for those of you who told us, were good. - Yes, sorry. And this is early bird and
this is leftover from a quilt that I'm about to show you, that's next. It's early bird. What?
- [Lilly] At home? - Oh, sorry it's called At home. But it's Bonnie Camille,
leftover from the quilt that I have below and
then this is leftover from Holly Berry, which
I used on the quilt for Cory Yoder's next book
called a very Yoder Christmas. And what I have found useful
is using the add a quarter ruler and the seam, quick seam press. And I did a video with Laurie
that will come out in a couple of weeks, I'm showing how I use it, but this really helps
with the sewing them. And I'm using color 2000 that
I always use with Aurifil. So I kinda keep it in this little box and it goes in my drawer
and then I just pull it out as I need it and then you can see that I've got like this
pad already pulled off. You know what I mean? Like it's all ready to go. So let me know if y'all
have any questions on that. It's been a lot of fun
because those are a lot easier to do than last year's. I think I cut off a little bit more than I could chew last year. I was like, oh my
goodness, what a bad idea. - [Lilly] Sharon Bergermeyer's says, how many pinwheels were on that quilt? You know? - Yeah, I do. We're gonna get the pattern,
but yeah it's on the pattern. - [Lilly] Okay and then just
coming from Deidra Powell she says, shout out to y'all
for the ultimate beginner quilt series, I can't thank you enough, taught me a lot and
really gained confidence. Thank you Deidra. - Yay.
- Thanks a lot. - So the pinwheel there's 440 pinwheels and 1,760 half square triangles. That's too many for a left over quilt. So yeah, and it's a
completely free pattern. Okay, so coming up we have
the charming baby book by Melissa Corry. It is coming out in a month or two and we're gonna have a sew
along, so on the pop-up we can show the sew along dates before I show the quilt so you can see kind of what we're gonna be doing. That's the cover of the book. And then this is gonna be, we've already got this on our blog. So if you need any of
this just go to our blog, but we're starting on April 7th
and it's got all your fabric requirements and anything
you would need to know we have put online. And now I'm gonna show you the quilt. It's ginormous. So I'll just kind of rotate it. This is using the at-home
collection by Boney and Camille. And you can see that those were
some of the log cabin blocks were leftover fabrics from this. Super, super cute and big
shout out to Gina Tell of thread graffiti, she
quilted this one for me and it came back. Oops, last week, super
fun, super big quilt. And on the back, we have
instructions for a piece backing, and this is how the piece backing looks. And I put in a label from
the Sweetwater label company in there and I just kind of fit it in and it just has my name,
it doesn't have the year or anything. So that's just totally optional. So that is that. So let me know if y'all
have any questions on that. I know I've shown that before, but I thought it was
really cool that it's back and I'm gonna take it home. It's so cute. I think it's the first
quilt I've ever made that's red and green. - [Lilly] Any Shaw's
asking where's Skylar? - Oh, we didn't have as many quilts, so he didn't come today,
sorry he's downstairs working. He's probably sad, he misses me. No, I don't know. Maybe he might even be
off today, I don't know. I just literally, is he here? Yeah, sorry, no, I don't know. I think it's, I don't know. I just show up a new video (indistinct). - [Lilly] I just show up
for the video, that's funny. - Or try no to think
of anything else 'cause it gets in your head,
you know what I mean. Like, I don't know. - [Lilly] Marilyn Monroe
says, will there be courthouse step paper like log cabin. - Yes - [Lilly] All right and then
I think we had some shout outs for log cabin as well. If we want to go back to those. - [Kimberly] Oh, that's cute. So she used different fabrics throughout. I really like that one,
that's urban_quilts. That's like a mix of
modern and contemporary. I like that. And then seekelliquilt, that's super cute. And so you can see that when I did mine, I kind of used the same
fabrics and everyone here is using different and so
that looks really good. And then cskuse2, that's cute I think that's all Sweetwater. And then Susan Castinguay, that's cute and then she's got a little
frame that holds the papers. I need that, let me get me one of those. And then Michelle Raiola that
is sugar Creek, super cute. Oh, pinkaville, Jodie
VanDine Griffin, super cute. - [Lilly] look at the
little ducky pin holder. - Oh no, quack, quack. - [Lilly] That's a little quack quack. - [Kimberly] We were at
an antique store yesterday and Laurie bought something
that she's gonna make into a pin holder. 'Cause I was like, what is that? She's like, I'm gonna turn
it into a pin cushion. I was like, oh cute. 'Cause I would've never thought of that. And then Kim West, oh my gosh. She's got a lot done, 24 blocks, yay. And then Angela Mingie Bollinger, and Amy Kamieski. So I'm so excited, okay
and see hers looks more like a courthouse step because she's not using the light and dark,
she's just using random. So that's the way that you can make it look totally different. And then Anna Keyes,
super cute and she's using 12 inch, that's cool. - [Lilly] Back to the beginning. - Yay. - [Lilly] And I believe
we have a few questions. Kathy Cracker says, what
size triangles on a roll for the pinwheel quilt? - One inch, each 100. - [Lilly] And then Ann
Marie McCalsky was asking, is there a hashtag to use
for the log cabin blocks? There is, let me find it real quick. Oh nope, there it is. - Yay. - [Lilly] 2020 Log Cabin Quilt. All right, funny comment
from Jennifer Daniel Johnson. She says, when you held
up the baby quilts, she said perfect size for all the grown up babies in our lives. - I know really. And that's what we wanted
to do with the baby quilt is because sometimes people
don't want to buy like a baby book because you might
not have a grand baby or kid, like all my kids are older. So I really liked that we did the so long because then it kind of gives
you a reason to buy the book because then you can do more
with the book than just. And when I was categorizing
my books yesterday, I was kind of doing like a baby section. You know what I mean, like modern. Anyway, I was organizing
my books and there's really not a lot of good baby books out there. So I was kind of like, Ooh,
this is gonna be a good one. - [Lilly] All right, and
then a few people have been wondering what the pillow on your left is? - Oh, I'ma do that next. - [Lilly] Okay - I'll just do that now since you asked. Okay so Pillow Talk is a new book that we published for a data star. It's super fun, it has 25 pillows in it. And we've been doing a
pillow fight on our blog, which has been a lot of fun. So you can visit our blog
and each week it's like, a basketball bracket, that's
the only way I can think of it. It's like you vote, and then each week, you vote and then you advance, and then at the end there's
going to be a winner. So these are the pillows for this week and you can still vote. So this first one is by Melissa Corey, who is the author of Fat Quarter Baby. Not that quarter, baby charming baby. And this is the Chevron pattern and she just used low volume prints. So cute, I really like it,
and so see, you can see. Like the effect she did of all the colors. And then this book I can
tell this is Tilda fabric, Sherri Falls of This and
That Pattern Company. This is the Mother's Day pillow, and she used the Old
Rose collection by Tilda. So you can vote to see
which one you like better and see who advances. I like all of them, they've
all been really original. And then on this one, let me see what kind of applica she did. She just used fusible few sit down and didn't put any stitching on it because that's what a lot of people
are saying on like Facebook and my Facebook group
can really stick to word. A lot of people are saying, they're just using a
fusible, sticking it down, and then like Gina tells, talking about it and just not quilt, not
doing stitching on it because it is just a pillow. And a lot of times you
switch out your pillows and you're not like sleeping. It's more decoration,
you don't like need it to hold up forever like a quilt would. Which is really good, and
I think it's like really, I think Gina really encouraged
other people to do that and not be so scared of applica. - [Lilly] Okay, Shelly Stuart is asking, where do we go vote? - On the blog. So go to The Jolly Jabber
and it's one of the most recent posts you could
even search Pillow Fight. And then you can see like
all the other or Pillow Talk, you can see the previous pillows. That one I lost y'all did vote for me. - [Lilly] Yeah, well it
was you versus (indistinct) - Okay show the backs please? So this is Sherry's and below back. And same thing here and below back. And it's funny cause they look the same. Oh that's totally random, but
yeah, they're not the same, but they look the same, they're
one's a little bit lighter. That's crazy that they
both use the same backing. - [Lilly] All right, Jamie M was asking, is there a chart of how
many log cabin paper blocks equal various size quilts? - No, but that's a good idea,
we can do that for the blog, that would be a good blog post. And we have six inch size and 12 inch and we could use it like as a guide, we could do a little blog posts on it. We can't do it within a
week, but I bet within two or three weeks we can put a blog up. And then I am going to,
what I'll do at around June when I have enough blocks,
that's when I had enough blocks last year to design,
is I kind of laid them on the floor and I'll come
up with some kind of design, that's not just four by five, I'll do something a
little bit more creative. And then that will be a free pattern, just like patchwork pinwheels was. But that'll be later in
the year as I see kind of how my colors come together,
that kind of thing. I have to kind of see how it's looking. - [Lilly] All right, and
then we just got a Superchat from Susan Macallan for $5. Thank you, Susan. - Yay. - I love watching his little Cape flop, that's my favorite part. - He's so cute, he didn't wanna go to, he didn't wanna get up this morning. And so I was like, Piggy, come
on we gotta go to daycare. 'Cause I talked to him like
he's five and he would not move. And I had to like pick him up and I had to carry him in daycare. I was like he doesn't
really wanna be here today, but he was still asleep,
he was so good in the car. I didn't get my lap, he was
so good, he was so tired. I don't know why he was so tired. - [Lilly] Sleepy boy. Lots of people said that
they voted for your pillow, Kimberly, just so you know. - Oh, it's fine, I'm good. So I'm farm grown vintage, we're still stitching along with that. That is of course Laurie's
book, Farm Girl Vintage 2. And the blocks for this week, the first one is the Maple leaf block. Theresa Williams make both
of these, this is week 27 And the milk cows block, which is week 28. And for the eyes she did,
can you zoom in Lilly? I think it's really cool how she did it, she's a really fat French
knots, like really fat. And then the button she
see the little buttons. So she used some Lori's
cute little buttons to put the little nostrils. So that's cute. So I think we have some pop-ups of things that you guys have sown,
which is really cool. So we kind of moving everything off, 'cause we're gonna move
stuff on in a little bit. So this is the Stay at Home Quilter, I really liked that name. And so there was are
week's blocks, super cute. And then said with love, that is cute. That is older Sweetwater fabric, wow. That's a good pull them from your stash because I like both, I like that. And this is Eider Ferreiro. Every time I see her name, I
think it's like a fancy car. I think of like, I don't know somehow. - [Lilly] Like Ferrari? - Yeah, or like there's another car, that's like some funky name - [Lilly] That reminds me of foreo roshe. - That, that's what it,
what does that mean? - [Lilly] It's a car. It's was we had the photo shoot. - Oh, okay, I didn't mean it. And then Gina Quilts, super cute. That's a bonding Camille fabric. And look Valerie and stitches, Oh my gosh, that looks so good. Looks so good, and then
Wendy M Darling, super cute. I like the, what are those called? Yardsticks. - [Lilly] Ooh. - Yeah, do you see them? I was like what do you clean with that? And then Grammy's girls and more, Oh, cute little bees. And then Patsy Wheeler, super cute. Hummingbird thread, so it's fun how to see like
how everybody's blocks, how people are keeping up, how their blocks are all coming together, and then we're back to Brown one. - [Lilly] Theresa said,
"I wish I could sell as well as Theresa Fat Quarter Shop. - Oh, yay. - [Lilly] That's funny
because I have the same name. And then a few people were wondering since the one of the blocks had the
button sewn on it already, is it a good idea to
sew the buttons on now or wait after quilting? - It depends on your quilter? Most people do the buttons at the end, like if it was me because I use, when I use Gina Tell to do my quilts or Mike I put the buttons on after. But if you're gonna have somebody
do the PA not pantograph, but like free motion, then
you can put it on before. It's really up to your long
arm quilter to be honest and what they're comfortable
with, that kind of thing. And if you're home, if
you're quilting at home, what you prefer, so total our preference. And I'm probably one of those like people that like at the end, forget
to put the buttons on, so that would beat me. - [Lilly] All right,
and we do have another new YouTube member, Christine Martinez. Welcome Christine. - Thank you - [Lilly] Woo oo. All right. - Yay, okay, so we have
just a couple more things to show you before I
show you my starching. So this is a brand new
bag that came in stock and Lori brought me one. So I thought I'd show you. It's like a shopping bag, it
says sewing mends the soul. It's cute right, and its
kind of like the bags you get at home goods. Like what is this texture? It's like plastic, but not, yeah but it's like, user-friendly. - [Lilly] It has a name, I
can't think of it right now. - It's got a name, but
it's cool and I like it and I'm gonna take it
with me this weekend. So Lori brought me this so I
was gonna show this to you. And then these came in and I
hadn't got to see them yet. Okay, this is amazing. These are gift bags sets. And we're selling as like a big set. So these are Christmas bags,
I'm gonna just open it. So there's 24 in each, so that's a lot. Oh, look there's an opening at the end. So in there you get how many of each, six? Eight, I can do the math, right? I'm CPA actually. So this is one and then
they're really nice. Look Christmas, okay so there's one. Anyway, I'm taking this home because, I never, ah, so cute. - [Lilly] Hashtag, oh so cute. Oh no, look it's a snowman. And yesterday when we went
shopping, she was like, where's your snowman section? And they were like, we don't have one. I was like, how can you
be a Christmas store with no snowman section? So anyway, next year this is
gonna be all under my tree. I'm gonna take this home, cute right. So you get eight of each size, 24 total. So this is the Christmas gift bag set. And these again are Lori hold
and they all have a little tag to from. So there's that one, but then this one look at this, this is like me in a candy store right here. Okay, look, it's got a
little sewing machine thing. So that's the small one. It's a sewing machine. These are gonna be gone
by tomorrow I think. Sewing machine with a little quilt. Like the quilt is coming off. And then this is one of her fabrics from vintage happy two. And these are really good quality and they're pretty, oops. This one, it's like a shoe string and the insides are all colored. So like this one's red, aqua, yellow. So of course everything, it's fancy right. - [Lilly] I love that. That's so cool.
- So cute, I'ma hide them in my sewing room. I'm not going to put them
where my kids can get them, - [Lilly] All right,
I see there's actually quite a few new people tuning in right now that this is their first live stream. So that probably looks a little funny. We're just like going through our - Products. - [Lilly] Products and gift bags and such but we are a quilting channel. We do a lot of and
tutorials and live streams like the one you're watching right now. If you've watched this for
a while and you haven't subscribed yet, please subscribe 'cause that helps us out a lot
with our numbers on YouTube, it's totally free. And you get notified every time we go live or post a new video, a new tutorial, stuff like that, yes. - And we have a new, the other new thing that we have this week is bumper crop. It is a brand new, Itsalama pattern and a brand new quilt kit. The fabric is Lancaster by Joe Morton, Nova designed it and stitched it. And Gina from thread graffiti quilted it. So there's the front and
the back, it's fancy, right? I like it, it makes like a circular, I don't know, like the
circle doesn't just go here It just keeps going. I don't know, anyway, I like it. So there's that. So let me know if you
guys have any questions on anything because we are going to be, or I'm gonna be talking about starching in a few minutes, so we'll, we're gonna kind of move
everything and then, but I'm gonna answer questions. - [Lilly] Yeah, so we're
gonna have a special starching segment coming up here. (wheel squeaking) First off Linda Path has been asking, how do you send a picture
to get it on shout outs? Sorry, we're moving a table right now, that's what's squeaking. - Yeah, so to do your
picture, what you do is you can just post it on
Instagram, on Facebook, on a Kimberly stitch squad,
some people email them to me. We obviously can't show everybody's. We wish we could, but yeah, we just kind of pick
stuff that we think is fun and we don't want to leave
anybody out or anything. So yeah, just post it. You can even say, I wanna be
featured on the live stream. - [Lilly] Yeah, yeah. And then yeah, so hashtag
Kimberly stitch squad, make sure you join those too. Marshall Baker just reminded everyone to make sure to hit the
like thumbs up button. It's right below the video. There's like a thumbs up, thumbs down. If you like what you're
watching hit that thumbs up, also helps us out a lot,
helps us reach new quilters. And Amy Young had been asking, how did Emma do at her dance competition? - Oh, not so good, I
thought she did great, but her critiques were
not and she was like, my critiques were horrible and I was like it's just a dance, like it's fine. But yeah, we're going to
another one this weekend. So we're gonna be in bass
drop and Christopher is going with us and so and tomorrow
is my 17th wedding anniversary so Kevin's gonna come. - [Lilly] Congratulations. - I know I'm old Lilly, getting old, I was like, oh I'm getting,
kind of getting old. Yeah, so hopefully he can come. It's really close to home,
but it's a hip hop convention, so I told her, I said, I'm not gonna watch because it's just too loud. It's just too much, it's overpowering, but it's gonna be a lot
of fun and it's good 'cause it doesn't start till 8:45 tomorrow so I can sleep in a little
bit, which is always nice. But she does have a class
tonight from eight to nine and then I'm in charge of a
pizza party at nine o'clock tonight, which is my bedtime. So we're gonna see how that goes because I'll probably be half asleep. - [Lilly] Okay, Theresa's asking you, would you consider
kitting any of the quilts from the Kona calendar? I ordered all the fabric
for the January quilt and was wishing there was
an easy way to buy it all. - So if you would just call Elva and say, I'm looking at this one, you know, she would obviously have
to write down your name and your credit card
number and your address and then she could pull the calendar and she could find it on the rack, If it's a Robert Kaufman free pattern she can find it, you know, give her time, she can download it and then she can just figure out what skews and
then just put together a kit for you on the one you want. We couldn't kit all of them, but I'm sure we could
do a custom kit for you. - [Lilly] Okay, so question
here, that's a great segue, Claudia Olivieri, oh, great last name. Says good morning, when
you can please ask Kimberly if she starches her backing fabric and how does she deal
with all that fabric? - Okay, so on backing you're
supposed to starch it, because you start to the front. Half of the time, well 20% of the time I starch the back, 80% I don't
because I don't have time and I'd never really wash my quilts. So it's fine with me, but you should and to do something that
big, you just starch it and just, I'll kinda talk
about it when I do it, but I put it over a,
like if you're backing, say you it's four yards
but you're gonna do a two yard cut and a two yard
cut and stitch it together. I would cut it, starch the two yards, let it dry, starch the next one let it dry and just drape it over
something really big, like a fence outside or you know something where it could really dry. - [Lilly] All right, and I
do need to switch my battery real quick, so what we're gonna do is we're gonna cut to our loading screen and then we'll be right back. - Okay. (upbeat music) - Okay, so I'm gonna kinda
show you what I do first. I want to credit Lisa Bonjean, she's the one that taught me. We have a link to the video
that she taught it to me like five or six years ago, it's amazing, this is what I do first. You should not starch pre-cuts
because they will shrink. So I wouldn't if I was
working on a pre-cut, when say pre-cut, I mean, layer cake, charm pack or jelly roll
'cause they're gonna shrink. Now, if your pattern will
work with that shrinkage that's okay, everything's gonna
shrink about half an inch. It's gonna shrink in one
direction, not both directions. So you just decide what works for you. You should starch the back and the binding if you start to the front,
I don't always do that, but really when you're
quilting or sewing or cracking, do whatever you want to
do, and don't feel like you have to do this, if
you don't wanna starch, don't starch. I'm just showing you what I
do, but you don't have to. This is just, I really want
my blocks to be perfect. So the first thing that I do
is, in my drawers at home, like my drawers, like my,
what do you call them drawers? So I got these boxes like two years ago or a year ago at Target. They're just square boxes and they happened to fit my drawers. And what I do is in
the back of the drawer, I have my unstarched fabric
and then the front of the drawer I have my starched. So this is the fabric,
this is vintage happy two, which is also in the quilt behind me. And I am using this on
the Sherry McConnell, 2020 free block of the month. So I've used these fabrics
'cause I've starched them. So I don't starch, I do
like to starch everything at the beginning of a
project, but I've been so busy I haven't been able to. So I'm gonna show you how I starch, and then what I do after
i starch is it goes in the starch bucket. So that if I'm gonna use
these on the remain blocks but I always keep my starched
and my unstarched separate. That's just something that I do. I mean, you can feel it and
tell, but it's what I do. So I'm gonna take this half yard, and to starch I'll show you how I starch. So I will leave it together. Okay, I have a Amazon link to what I use, it is really hard to find where I live. There's been a change in starch company it's now Agra original hold. They also have a heavy
hold or a heavy whatever and it's in all the stores in Texas, but I think it's too heavy. So I actually have to,
from the Amazon link below that's where I purchase my starch because I cannot find it in stores. I wish that I could because
it's really hard for me to find, so anyway this is what I use. And what I do is I take a ironing board and I put a scrap fabric. So this could be like a leftover fabric, or it could just be a coma, but I don't change it except
like every six months. So we just put a white here, so sometimes I use like leftover backing that comes back from the quilter and we're just using white today so that it doesn't confuse you, but I just use scraps, whatever I have but I don't change it very often. So I don't iron I just take
it straight off the bolt or however and this is how I starch. So Willy can get kind of up close, but what I do is I'm gonna
try and do it really fast because I do like it to be smooth and if you start and stop
it kind of won't be smooth and you might get spots. So I'm gonna just kind of do it and then we'll talk through it. So I try to go very even and I go, I just I guess you'll just
have to watch what I do but I go really fast and I never stop when I'm doing it because
I don't want, like I said, if it gets uneven you can get spots. Then I flip it, gonna do the other side, and I won't iron this
until it is completely dry. It takes about eight hours to dry, four to eight hours to dry. I try to do this at
night and then let it sit overnight, so now it's all wet. And then what I do is I
have this little drying rack and I make sure it's
even and I go like this. And I let it dry. Now, a lot of you have said, you know, oh and then I have a rug under it, so in my sewing room at home I got these rugs off of Wayfair. Wayfair is a great place to
get rugs for like 50 bucks. They're just cheap rugs and that way nobody slips in the bathroom
and this sits in a shower. It could sit out on, it
could sit on your rug, you could put towels down, but I would recommend just some cheap rug or Bed Bath and Beyond, you know they always have that 50% off coupon. And I will just starch
now, it's gonna shrink but I'm gonna have crisp results and again Lisa Bonjean is the one
that taught me this. I do not wash. So ask me any questions you have, but I do go through about 12 cans a month 'cause I've counted. - [Lilly] Yes, we have a few questions were gonna let a few more roll in, just disclaimer for everyone too. We are in a very well
ventilated room right now. - Like a big, big room. - [Lilly] Yeah, so make sure
like when you're doing it at home and to have like
the window open and stuff 'cause you know, spray cans and all that. - Yeah, and it doesn't have, okay the one question
that we've been getting is if you have corn in your starch, it can cause bugs and
the bugs will eat at it. Starch is no longer made with
corn from what I've read. And so it won't damage and for me, I really want it to be
perfect but when I die I don't care what happens to them, I mean, nobody's gonna know like
when I'm dead, I'm dead. So like, I don't care if it,
I know that sounds horrible but like, to me it's just not a thing that I worry about too much. I can do another one,
I'll just do another one while I'm talking so I'm
not just standing here. - [Lilly] Yeah, we do have a
lot of questions rolling in. I'm just, okay, cool. - Ask me and I'll do this as I go. - [Lilly] Cool, okay, so
if say you had something like the Bloom Topia kit,
would you starch that or not? - Yep, and there's plenty of, if you ever buy a kit
from Fat Quarter Shop or a block of the month
from Fat Quarter Shop, there should always be enough fabric for that to happen, yes. And I did make Bloom Topia. The quilt that I made is
on a traveling road show, but I did starch the front and on that one i did starch the back and there's plenty of fabric in the kit. - [Lilly] All right, Alicia
Richardson was asking why so much starch? - It is just what I like. I like it to be a 100% starched. It takes all of the shrinkage out, so that when I make a block and I'm, if you just make a block and you starch it as you go it's gonna shrink as you go. And I like my blocks, it
just gives me the perfect, bring me my ModaBlockHeads. So I'll show you kind
of my blocks and how, and see this gets wet and crunchy. So the one I have at home
is like super crunchy and it just doesn't ruin this. So if you look at my block right here, you're gonna see it's really
all the points are perfect, It's super crisp, you're
not gonna see wrinkles, it's super starched. I just like my quilts to look like this. And that's how Lisa Bonjean quilts look, and she also does super,
super small piecing. She does a lot of, if you
buy any of her patterns or her books, she does
like one inch squares and two inch squares
and tiny, tiny piecing. And she can do that and achieve that look by doing this and this
is obviously her method. So I learned it from the best. - [Lilly] All right, okay. Kathy Newforough says,
why did my mom used to put her starched stuff in the fridge? - Have no, oh okay, so there's a product called safe flow and I
know Peach and Gabriel use it on Kimberly stitch squad
and they've talked about it. And so you have questions on
state flow, it's much cheaper. You can ask them, Gina
Tell whose super nice, she sent me some, I tried
it, It was just not, it was number one too much work, number two, too much
mess and for some reason I didn't like the texture of it. And that's, it's the same
thing with the heavy. It's just too much
texture, it's all about, do you want it, how you want it to feel? And so I didn't love state flow, but it is a much cheaper
option, you can use best press that's more expensive option. I like this because I can, it's aerosol, I know it's bad for the
environment, I'm sorry, but there's no way I could sit here and best press I have
to, it wouldn't work. So this is all, and this can be to me when I think about it, this
can be very controversial topic in quilting. It can be very like
risque 'cause it's like, people are very passionate
about what they do and why they do it and
you should do it this way whether, this is just what I do. People have asked, so I'm showing it but you do not have to do it my way. I'm just, this is the way
that I get the best results. And it's been a game changer for me 'cause I used to starch as I went, well then you have to wait for it to dry and I can just starch
and this thingamajig, drying rack, sorry. It folds up, so when you see
it you can get a lot on it. And I also have on my bathtub. Now this is a room I do not use, it's the spare room, I
don't use the bathtub so you don't have to worry about that. But I use all of this and then I use pipe, someone in Kimberley stitch
squad gave me the idea and Kevin and Payton made them
for me a couple of years ago. It's like PVC pipe and then
you put it on the bathtub. And so I dry in the
shower and in the bathtub. Oh, she told me to sit
down and I sat on my box. - [Lilly] There's a box. - Sorry. - [Lilly] All right, yes
we have a lot of questions, so we're gonna get through them. - And you know, don't feel
like just because I do it, you have to do it or I'm not
like preaching to the choir. You do you, do whatever you wanna do. - [Lilly] All right, okay, oh
yeah for those of you asking for the brand, it is faultless
and then it's Niagara. That's what it says on the bottle. The fault was Niagara. - It's Original hold. And I have heard some people
different areas have it in their Costco, which is, I used to use a different brand
that is no longer available. And I always got it at
Costco and it was cheap. And so I'm spending a ton
of money on this starch 'cause it's more expensive
'cause I have to get it from Amazon and all that, but it works. - [Lilly] All right,
Cherry Game was asking, do you typically leave the fabric folded when spraying and drying? - Yes, if it is a backing, I don't, because that's just too big. If it's a backing, I'll
just pull it all open and then just put it
all over the whole thing and just let it roll over
the top of the shower or outside on the fence. - Like when I wash my
quilts, which is very rare, but I will wash it and then dry it. I will just hang it over a fence outside because to me it's like
it dries it better. But you can do that with the backing, just put it on the fence
or put on your patio or you can starch outside if
you don't wanna starch inside, 'cause you can put the drying rack. It's super easy to put up and down, 'cause when my in-laws
come, we pull all this down, clean the shower, make sure all the fumes are out of there, all that stuff. - [Lilly] And you do have
a link to the drying rack that we're using on Amazon? - Yeah, I thought about it on Amazon, and somebody gave me the idea
from Kimberly stitch squad. I copied someone's idea. - [Lilly] All right, for
people using best press, would you still do what
you just did right now? - Yeah, but your fingers
gonna fall asleep, I would maybe try to go to, first of all, it's gonna
be really expensive, but you could go to Home Depot
and see if you get like one of those things you can put in
the can that's used for paint and it turns it into an aerosol and you could do it that way. - [Lilly] Yeah, I believe
that's how Tula pink does her starch stuff. She talked about that during
our live stream with her. - And I'm not real good with
any of that kind of stuff, like anything like Home Depot. I did go to Home Depot, I will tell you a funny Home Depot story. I'm really bad at like
anything like paint, anything I'm just horrible. So I went to Home Depot the other day, no, I went to Lowe's and I
needed to get four little like, the little glass fixtures. So I got them but I got
one that didn't match, and Kevin was like, do
you know that you got, I'm like that's why I
should never go to Lowe's or Home Depot by myself because
I don't know what I'm doing. - [Lilly] And a lot of
people are wondering, when you get to pressing
your starch fabric, do you use steam or not? - I do because it's already shrunk, but I let it completely dry, so like when I say completely
dry, I mean completely crispy. And you can see when I
cut, I cut out of a corner. You can see each of these, I bet they're all at the same corner. I just cut out like a corner,
I just cut as little as I can, and then that's how I keep my fabric. I don't know, I'm just
kinda cut a little piece so that it's not that
messy when I go back to it. And with this quilt, I'm making
the blocks six inches less to show them in the last week
one of the last live streams. I'm gonna try to use my leftovers as like a patchwork backing, 'cause it's gonna be
more of a small quilt. And I think that because
I started with half yards, that I'll be able to get
six and a half inch squares and put them all over the back. That's my plan anyway. - [Lilly] Do you starch to pre cuts? - Okay, so I starch layer
cakes, but they shrink. So your pattern has to be for something that's nine and a half or smaller. I starch charm packs but
you got to have something four and a half or smaller. So if your pattern uses the full pre-cut, you can not starch. I always starch by quarters,
I always starch fat aides, but the truth is I always
try to starch everything, but if a pattern calls for it, you can't, because it's gonna shrink
half an inch one direction. So you just have to see. But I also don't, I never use Jelly Rolls, that's just a secret, I
don't know why they're messy, they get everywhere. My favorite pre-cut is a layer cake, but I waste a lot of fabric doing it, but you should not prewash a layer cake charm pack
or mini charm pack. - [Lilly] All right, will the
colors run from the starch? - Mine don't, but I
also, good quality fabric from like a quilt shop should never run, you should never see like
green or red on the pipes or blue or anything like that. If you do, then you
shouldn't use that fabric 'cause it's bleeding. - [Lilly] Okay, is there
an odor to the starch? - Yes and that's the one thing that I don't like about this fabric. This is called Dura
Fresh Scent Technology. It smells like flowers,
I'm not a fan of the smell, but I've gotten used to
it and now my sewing room just smells flowery. And the old product that I used to use didn't have a smell at all, and I loved it 'cause I don't really,
I don't wear perfume, I don't like all that. Like the other day we went
to Chili's and I was like, that guy has on way too much cologne. We were like, whew. Anyway, yeah it does have
a smell that I don't love. The heavy hold does not have a smell, but I had to weigh would
I rather have it so stiff that I could hardly sew
with it or would I rather have it where I could
sew with it and smell. I did put a little lamp
thingy that you can put the, what is that called where you put the scent in and it melts? - [Lilly] Oh, a scentsy? - Scentsy, but not that brand but like that kind of thing, I think I got it at Cracker Barrel. And then I put that in the room and I turned that on sometimes
so then it smells like vanilla rather than the starch. So that is the one thing that I did do because it was bothering me. - [Lilly] All right and
then if you were to wash your quilt would the starch wash out? - Yes, and people have asked me before, can you see the starch? Not on this brand. Sometimes if you get a brand that flakes, you know your gonna see it, but it just, and then it's super stiff now, like my blocks are super stiff. But you can see when it's
quilted it all just relaxes with the batting and sinks in. - [Lilly] Pauline Silman
was asking, oh Simon sorry. Does that method of starching stop the edges from fraying so much? - I don't know, I never
really noticed fraying, maybe I don't wanna say yes, but I don't really notice a
lot of fraying in my quilts. So maybe, I haven't
not starched in so long that I don't know how
to answer, I'm sorry. If that makes sense. - [Lilly] I think it does a little bit, and keep it from fraying? - [Denise] For me it does. - [Lilly] Yeah. - Denise said yes. - [Lilly] Denise says
yeah for her it does. Stitch by Stitch says, so if
you starch, use the fabric, then put leftovers away for years, do you then re-starch it? - No, and I keep my leftovers. I have a drawer for starch leftovers and unstarch leftovers. Everything is always separated, that's why I have them in the box. But so in the box, I have
everything in my sewing room, I'm currently using and
only have so many drawers. So I have to finish those drawers before I can pick something else up. But when it's done, I only have two shelves that are leftovers 'cause I don't like to
keep a lot of leftovers because I like to use it all up, like with the patchwork
pinwheels that kind of thing and I keep them separate. - [Lilly] And let's see, how do the quilts feel once they're done? - Totally normal, totally soft. They're crispy when they go to the quilter when they come back, they're totally fine. - [Lilly] Yeah, so the
quilting kind of helps make it feel normal again. - Yeah, and I can tell you
like my quilters love me because my quilts are
always like pieced good. So I know they love me 'cause
there's not a lot of waviness on the quilting machine. - [Lilly] All right, a
few people are wondering if I starch I'm still
experimenting with that. I haven't tried Kimberly's method yet 'cause I haven't bought
that much starch yet, but I did accidentally
buy the heavy hold version of the faultless and I really
liked the way that smells. I also really like the way the
best press lavender smells. A few people were wondering
what was the old starch and why did you switch? - So the old starch was just faultless and then one day when I went to H-E-B, 'cause I would get it at H-E-B and Costco. It just wasn't there and
I couldn't figure out why it wasn't there and on the live stream somebody said, oh well
Niagara bought faultless and I couldn't find it in the store, so then I purchased something on Amazon and what came was the firm version. And then I was like,
wait, it's really thick. And like I said, like if
Lily wants to use firm great, like everybody should do their own thing. Like don't just do what I say because if you like it do it. And so I kinda, oh Niagara
then they reached out to me and they sent me a bunch
of different bottles to try and this is the one i like. And so now the only source, the only way I can find it is Amazon. When I went to Houston,
the last two weekends we went to Target one of
the days and I did look because it's cheaper at Target obviously. And I couldn't find it in Houston either. So I just order it and I use
that Amazon affiliate link. And I'm always asking
them, where's the link? because I wanna order the right one. But I go through about
12 a month at a minimum. So it is expensive, it adds to the costs. To me it makes it go faster once, I mean, obviously it's
a lot of work to starch, but my favorite part of
quilting is starching and cutting and binding not the piecing. Forget the, I could care
less about sewing machine. I mean, I love my sewing machine, but still like my favorite part is cutting and so when it's nice and crisp, I love ironing, I love all that. Like it would be great if I had a team where they just sewed and I
just starched, iron and cut, I would be like in heaven. 'Cause that's my favorite
part, I don't know why I just love it. Like I just love the,
I think the crispness. - [Lilly] A few people are
asking about Tirol magic. - No, I tried it, no. What it does is it gives
that, it shrinks it up and makes it shrivel, do not do it, I tried it one time and when I tried it, I tried it on like a whole collection and it ruined it. So yes, I thought that too, don't try it. - [Lilly] Yeah, that's more for like if you wanna turn it,
like if you want your. - Crunchy. - [Lilly] Yeah, if you want it crunchy or if you want your
fabric to act like paper, it's used for projects that
would typically use paper, but you wanna use your fabric for. - Yeah, and like if
you use that it'll have like grids or something,
it'll have like stuff on it. But don't do that. And that will be real expensive. - [Lilly] Yeah, it is a lot more expensive than the other starches. Let's see, Vicky on Facebook was asking, does having the fabric starched a lot wear out your machine needles quicker? - No, and I'm horrible
about changing my needle. I do do it every project, but I really should do it like every, like there could be days where I could sew eight hours straight, so that obviously you
should change it that day. Like you shouldn't let it go, but yes, I don't think so at all. And I mean needles to me needles are like, you can just buy like 10
packs of them for super cheap. - [Lilly] But yeah, everyone's saying all the different ways
that they like to starch. Some people use flatter, some
people don't starch, yeah. - So Debbie Taylor who
used to work for us, she uses, it has a different name, but it's in the starch
section at the store. It's called, oh gosh, what is it called? But she used to use
something that was different and she loved it, like she swore by it. I can't think of the name of
it, but it's similar starch, but different, it's like
that, what you just said, but different. So everybody kinda has
their thing that they like, and you should just try it
and if you don't like it don't do it, If you don't, I mean, everybody should
just do what they wanna do. And I don't ever wanna
come on here and tell you like do this or this
is the way, that's not, you can do whatever you want at home. Like, that's the best
thing about crafting. If you start doing something
because somebody else's like, do this and you don't enjoy it, it's gonna take all the
fun out of the project. So you should, you know, I've
been quilting a long time. I used to just starch, not that heavy, but I would starch and
iron and starch and iron and I would be ironing forever. And then when Lisa Bonjean
came up with that method, she happened to be filming
like the very next month. And we did a video on it
and I have never gone back and I always try to credit
Lisa 'cause it is her idea, primitive gatherings, she came up with it, but it's changed my life, It's awesome. - [Lilly] And we do have
a Superchat from Theresa for $20, she put a little,
it's like a big lemon hugging a little lime, it's very cute. - I'm a lime. - [Lilly] And then she
said, gotta feed my fix, keep you running. Thank you, I love that,
we're so appreciative. Okay and we did have another,
you know YouTube member, Susan Summers, welcome Susan. The last name Summers reminds me of. - Suzanne? - [Lilly] Yeah, her name's
Susan or Suzanne, yeah. - I was thinking Susan
Summers from the eighties, - [Lilly] Oh, what? - Oh, it was before your time. - [Lilly] Yeah it was, your right. I was thinking of. - She used to do the Jazzercise. Remember her? - [Lilly] Yeah, I know who
you're talking about now, I didn't realize that was her name. I was thinking of Buffy
the vampire slayer. - Oh yes, see I've never watched that. - [Lilly] Buffy summers. - Yay, okay so you guys
have a wonderful weekend, I will be back next Friday
with who knows what. So have a great weekend. - [Lilly] Bye guys. (Film rolling) (scissors snipping)
