Bright & Bold 3 Yard Quilts!

do you love bright bold fabrics but sometimes wonder what the heck am i supposed to do with this one well stay watching we're going to talk all about where to place beautiful bright bold fabrics [Music] hi it's donna robertson with fabric cafe today we're going to do bright bold fabrics and they are all going to be made with the three yard quilts either in one of my books or in one of my small patterns now remember you get one free pattern with every kit you purchase or you can skip the pattern and take a book free when you buy three kits that is an ongoing special that we have at fabriccafe.com all you need to do is put the name of the book you want in the comment section when you buy three kits let's get started with the first bright bold quilt that we have stepping up is a great quilt that goes together super fast because it just has one block made in two colors so you've got this block and then you've got this block and then you just arrange them and they go together so fast so it's called stepping up and we're going to put that one up on the table and here's the fabric this is a brand new fabric and a brand new quilt for you so this particular one we want to pick our biggest print our largest print in the fabric grouping will be your number one it'll go in the number one spot of the pattern your light fabric and your dark fabric are compared and chosen just from these two the focus fabric comes out of the equation so you have number two goes here and number three goes here and this will work with any fabrics it especially works with this gorgeous quilt so this one is called sea glass eight zero two one six one four stepping up is the pattern that we're using and it is not available in any book this is strictly an individual pattern so you would get the pattern free when you buy that fabric or skip the pattern by three kits and you'll get a book free this one's called bold blocks bold blocks is a 10 inch square that has an asymmetrical design by putting the shadow on each of those blocks and then they are turned and sewn in a different direction so you have them on the other side for the next row okay let's put that one up here we have a new fabric for this one this is a fun fabric a lot of movement in this fabric but it's very bright and bold and look at this butterfly right here let me turn it around so you can see the butterfly this is cool fabric and we have the focus fabrics going to go here it's going to be bordered with your number three fabric and the number two fabric will be this background so you have your main print you have your number three here and your number two here and these are so fun so this one is free motion eight zero two one six one five bold blocks is your pattern it's available as a pattern it's also available in pretty darn quick now this one is one of our most popular patterns it's town square and town square is the one that has this nice floaty block so you've got your focus fabric that's kind of floating on the surface of the quilt and this is a great way to use case fabrics if you'll notice each one of these blocks is just it's not fussy cut but they're all different it makes it look like you've almost fussy cut or used several different fabrics so let's put that one up here and we have these gorgeous prints so you can see how that how that works out so you've got this particular flower here we're going to go over here see this is where it kind of picked that one up with a little bit of this one and then the next block has a different flower and it just it's great the way it works out with this particular pattern so you've got your focus fabric here your number two fabric is here and your number three fabric is here so this one is a fun quilt it's super easy to make it is again using strip piecing as most of my quilts do 8020690 desert blooms town square is your pattern it is an individual pattern it's also available in the book easy peasy three yard quilts and we've got another one that we want to show you that will be equally pretty in that fabric summertime tends to be the time when we do a lot more visiting with each other and the pineapple is the sign of hospitality this would be a great gift to take to someone if you're going to go visit them for a few days in the summer so we've got our pineapples as our number one fabric that's going to go right here you have the green will be here and your blue will be here so this one is really going to look cool with the pattern town square it is eight zero two one six one six pineapple punch town square is your pattern it is available in the easy peasy three yard quilt book our next one we're going to do pieces and parts this is the nine patch pattern and this is just a a great backup quilt it goes together really really fast and i have had people ask me sometimes why would i need a pattern for a nine patch well you don't really need it if you've made them before you know how super simple they are but what we do with our three yard quilts is we tell you exactly how to cut that fabric so that you can get this big quilt out of three one yard cuts of fabric if you want to make it bigger the books tell you how to do that so you could either make a lap quilt a twin or a king queen just by multiplying your number of yards the nine patch pattern is available as an individual it's also available in our downloadable book quick and easy i'm sorry three yard quilt favorites now we recommend getting a notebook and you can print your cover sheet and put in the front and then just print out your pages and you get the complete book and this will keep your pages protected as you go along as i said each one has a lap quilt a twin and a king queen so we're going over here to the nine patch pattern and nine patch pattern is using the strip piece method and you're actually going to make multiple strip pieces so if you were to look at this one we made nice long strip piecing and then we cut this because this is fabric one three and one we have it marked that way then you're going to make another strip set that has three one three so we have this one so we have three one three and that's going to be one side of your block and then this one is the same on the other side so let's transfer these over on the quilt so that you can see them laid out the way they need to be laid out so you've got your one three and one you have your three three one and three fabrics and then you have this one so this is the way they go together we still have our seam allowances on there so they're overlapping just slightly and then we made the other block and put it together which is going to be your 2 1 2 and your 1 2 1. so we'll put that one here and then we will crop this out so you can see it and see how great it looks this is going to be a bright and bold quilt so much fun it would be great for a little girl it would also be great for these big girls like me who likes bright colors so there you go all right so this one is called the nine patch let's look at that fabric up close and here we have carnival is the name of this kit so this is our number one fabric this is our number two fabric and our number three fabric great set of fabric eight zero two one five nine carnival is the name of the kit nine patch is the name of the pattern it is available as an individual pattern it's also available in the book quilt favorites now if you do uh purchase quilt favorites it's 15.99 we send you a code so you can download it if you get three kits and choose favorites as your free book we will send you that code at no charge so you can download that book this particular quilt is called dreamweaver and dreamweaver is in one of my newer books and it is done in a strip piece method and similar to making i'm thinking about making a nine patch you know you've got something like this uh it's not exactly a nine patch but it's just strip pieced and done in vertical strips like this this one is also very special you want to turn this one around so we can show them the backing this one's a great backing lucinda cox is our long arm quilter and she just does such a good job this is a very modern quilt design to me it has your circles and your your wavy lines on there as well really pretty okay let's put that one up there and keep in mind when you're ordering our kits we always give you the option that you can choose backing as well and we will add the backing to your kit whenever you choose that and you order that so this is your number one fabric and our number one fabric kind of looks like paint brush strokes or something i like that one that's fine very modern this is going to go in the number one spot which is here and then you have a number two spot and we're going bright and bold on this one so remember this one was very pretty but it's a little bit softer in colors with those blues the green is going to go in the number two spot which will be here and it makes the background for these other two colors so that they will really pop then your number three fabric goes in this position so this one is going to be a fun one and it is called masterpiece 8021617 dreamweaver is the name of that pattern it's only available in the book quick as a wink so we give you an alternate pattern because any three yards will work with any one of my patterns you get to choose a different one we recommend illusions we think this would look really cool in that pattern so you can take that as your freebie or buy the three kits and you can get the book quick as a wink now this one's called soho soho is a fun one to put together and it looks like a little bit more complicated putting this one together but it's really super easy and it's really based on the nine patch principle so we've just used some different blocks to create this i'll show you how that works out how does this one look on the back too let's share that with them can you see this one she's done swirls so like i said we love the things that lucinda have has done for us on the backing as well okay we'll put that one up here and look at watermelon picnic watermelon picnic this is a beautiful fabric from qt fabrics and this is our number one fabric we ran out of the aqua color so we replaced out of the same exact line we replaced it with this so that goes here we are going to have the uh number two fabric is a white and it's a tone on tone it actually has a pattern in the background sometimes it doesn't come across real well on the camera but it does have a pattern in the background that's going to be going in this section here and then our number three fabric is the watermelon flesh so you get your watermelon rind and you've got your watermelon so this one's called watermelon picnic eight zero two one five three nine soho is your pattern it's only available in quick as a wink but an alternate pattern is it's a snap so you can get that as well now let me show you how to make that block by cropping it out so remember i said it was like a nine patch if you were doing a nine patch you would sew your long strips together and you would create three squares by doing long strips then cutting your units now this one is a little bit different we actually cut we had three squares that we put together a solid square and then a half square triangle here and a half square triangle here then we put that same when we made this strip we also put it over here you just turn it so it goes together very nicely and it makes that cool block in the soho pattern okay the next one that we're going to be talking about let's take a step back in time i can remember my my green bug van it had green shag carpet on the inside i tell you i was i was really grooving okay i still try to groove i just do it a lot slower what does the word grooving mean i better be careful i could get myself in trouble here okay this is a 10-inch block and it's bordered this is the sweet time pattern and it has two different colors bordering each of those blocks so let's look at grooving right along bring back memories for some of us here so see we even have a little green uh volkswagen there my kids love it didn't you john oh we had fun with that volkswagen i think you threw a few paper paper routes with that too you know there's nothing like the sunday morning paper route with two kids having paper routes or did we have three was greg doing a paper route at the same time i think so okay so these are our volkswagens that we're going to put in this uh 10 inch square love all the different colors then we're going to border each one in a different color so you've got green here and you've got the pink here that is going to be cool the way that one goes together and it is eight zero two one six one eight grooving right along sweet times is the name of the pattern it is available in the easy peasy book or as an individual and i would like to point out that we do have camper fabrics and it is called glamping too thank you so glamping two if you want to search for it i'm not going to be showing you the fabric but we do have the camper uh quilt kits available okay the last the next one that we have is uh corner play now corner play is it's been a very popular one i actually designed it originally for the modern uh quilt magazine and then after one year the writes reversed reverted back to me so i made it a pattern and it has just been hugely popular with our customers and your block is basically it turns out to be pretty good sized block when all is said and done the way that you put this one together let's put that one up here this is some gorgeous cafe fabric i um i sometimes tell all here when i first met the cake fabric i actually didn't know for sure what i was supposed to do with it and i went and talked to a friend who had a quilt shop that also sewed fabrics but she specialized in the cape and she said just look like it she said look at the fabric as if it is colors don't see the print in the same way think of them as colors so if you look at this one this particular one kind of screamed green and purple to me but i could see it as the focus because it is your largest print and it's really okay if you cut it up a little so you can see how little pieces of that is in this but you get your contrast by putting these together this is our light this is our dark and it just works once you get over that initial thought of i'm not sure how i'm supposed to put these together here is our information we have 8020686 tropical wonder and it is corner play pattern it's available as an individual it's also available in the pretty darn quickbooks so how many of you have fat quarters in your stash i think we've all bought fat quarters just because we're in love with them but i have a fat quarter quilt to show you and if you want to talk about beautiful fabrics to add to your stash these are them very bright very bold and this is a quilt by friend morgan and she did a book for us and we're going to show you that book the book is called fat quarter quilting fun and these patterns are written in a basic style like we do for our three yard quilts only instead of using fabric one two and three like we do in the book let me pull the book up here and we'll do a little comparison in the book we actually say fabric one two and three the fat quarters use light medium and dark and you get lots of variety they're actually three yard quilts because you're using 12 fat quarters to make each one of those kits so it's all still and purposes it's a three yard quilt so we're going to do light medium and dark so you pick out your fabrics and here's you an example so we have these were considered the lights the mediums and then we have our dark what's really interesting is if you'll take a picture with your cam your phone and then go into the edit button and change it to a half tone or a black and white you will be able to see in comparison which ones are light which ones are medium and which ones are dark so that is the way that you choose your fabrics for these quilts this particular one is called simply steps it is a fat quarter bundle it does not come with a pattern but we still offer the same deal you buy three kits any three kits and you can get this book free when you buy those three kits so it's a very popular book it has seven different designs every one of them is uniquely different okay well that's our show today i hope you enjoyed seeing some bright and bold fabrics i know we enjoyed putting it together so be sure to subscribe and click on the little button so that you can receive notification each time we post a new video so it's donna robertson with fabric cafe have an awesome bright and bold day you

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Length: 20min 18sec (1218 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 08 2021