Choose fabric, and piece a Trip Around The World baby quilt top with me!

often when I'm going to make a baby trip around the world I pick a really cute Fabric and then I go and choose Fabrics to go with it I like to have seven to ten nine is my favorite number so right now I'm looking for blues and I I like to have two or three of each color for this quilt I'm going to go for three so I want to have three blues that can be friends and hold hands and take their trip around the world together I think these three will be a great fit they look nice they are happy together so time to pick yellow as I choose the yellow I'm looking at the lion and I'm getting yellow for his body and I want a darker gold for his Mane and everything I find feels too bright too not what I'm looking for and and so I just want you to see the process it's a little messy you might drop something but I keep the fabric that I want to choose my fabric from right with me so I can see that it's a happy one to do this fabric would have been great it it it just there wasn't enough fabric there I cut my strips three and a half inches and need three of them so I need enough fabric that's the full width of fabric and and that I can cut three and a half inches from and that one didn't have the full width of fabric but it's okay because I have enough beautiful fabric that I find the perfect gold and after I find the perfect gold and this is it then I want one more yellow so because my first yellow is light and the second yellow I picked is darker I try to find one that will go in the middle and that was just easy I found it right away so three yellows and I'm happy after I get my three yellows then I decide what other color I want and do I want black do I want pink do I want to go with the green of the trees it's really a choice and there's not a right or wrong answer so as I look at this and Ponder I have six already I need three more Fabrics I'm gonna go into the black and white family and ta-da I'm not even going to make you sit and watch there they are I picked them so black and white there's a total of nine they look good let's go cut them out before we cut them out however if it's really wrinkly and really awful I like my strips to be smooth because we're going to be strip piecing and so I make sure my fabric is hanging right I'm demoing how I do that to you right there you turn it and fold it and I use my shade cut ruler it's a June Taylor product um I know this is going to sound like a commercial and nobody's paying me but I have found coupons or Walmart is the best place to buy them and some people don't like them they say they're not accurate enough I find them very accurate so it might be user I don't know if you practice with it minor minor accurate anyway pressing I press all the worst of the mess out of the I only do three strips worth because I'm only going to cut out three strips so I don't press the whole piece of fabric one two three I cut three and a half seven and ten and a half because then I pick up my strips and I put them and as you build those strips into a row you start seeing how pretty your quilt is going to be and it is just this happy part of the process so cutting cutting cutting here we go and there they are I am trying now to decide what order I'm going to want to put them in and later I'll show you samples of what I don't like and what I do like whatever you put in the middle that's what you're going to see on the trip that's where your eye goes that's what has the most impact on your brain as you look at it so I want the motif and the blues to be the middle of the trip here I am putting them right sides together I lay them out in the order I'm going to sew them I take twos at a time and I just hurry and sew them in strip piecing the whole strip so that's what you're watching me do and sewing sewing getting all these strips into twos until the end and see that little blue on the ends going to be left out because there's not a friend for it because I have an odd number so I bring them back make sure they're in order because as I've told you before I have a little dyslexia and I don't want to have to unpick so I am careful not the goof so as I get them sewn together what I'm trying to do is make a set I'm making a set of strips and here I am sewing the last part of that set as soon as I get it done then I will have a whole set to look at so that I know I don't mess up the rest of what I'm doing and when you're making a king size quilt this is a really important step when you're making a baby quilt I mean it's kind of important but not as so putting the them there now that I know I'm not I'm going to know exactly where to put them and exactly where to sew them because I've done one strip set and I have it as a reference so you're just watching me pick them up and get them ready to go so when you're sewing strips that are going to be squares and there's nothing tricky in any kind of piecing involved then there's the little secret again that if you don't have an accurate quarter of an inch it isn't going to affect your sewing so much so the trick is whatever size seam you're sewing be consistent with yourself so I I like okay I'm really good at sewing quarter inch seams if I want to but my foot doesn't like it as much so I sew these a little bigger than a quarter inch just because I like to hit my foot in a different place better so as long as I'm consistent with myself these squares are going to fit together beautifully and nobody will ever know and again there really are no quilt police at anybody's house do what you want as long as you're not doing a tricky Quilt Block it's not going to matter just truly choose a seam size and be consistent with yourself consistency is the key to making these all fit together beautifully now that we have three strip sets pieced it's time to press them and I've heard that some people skip this step although I can't imagine but you just press them you press them carefully make sure you can see I'm I'm not distorting but I'm tugging a little I don't want any folds or any inaccurate pressing here so a pressing is something I do really well in really fast if you're not as good at it yet just know that you will develop muscle memory and you will get good at it so don't give up be a good presser and make sure your seams are pressed open you don't want any any problems with pressing pressing really does matter for accuracy so after they're all pressed I get it ready I fold it and I'm showing you now I fold it so that my seams are staggered so you don't want to fold on a seam or I'll make all your seams line up you want every seam to be staggered so that as you cut it see how they're in different places laying you want it to be in different places Lane and I'm using a regular ruler because this was too long for the June Taylor ruler so regular ruler here you come it's your job three and a half inches is what I'm doing so I'm going to cut the strip sets at three and a half inches and what this does is get them ready to sew the other direction and if you've never done strip piecing before this is what makes it look like you have slaved and worked so hard and okay maybe but it's just one of those secrets that quilting has that makes you look so talented to non-quilters but the truth is you just sewed some strip sets together press them and cut them the other direction and magically mystically I now have strip sets that have nine blocks sewn together ready to rock and roll to make the rest of this quilt the next step in the process is to get the Guide strip so I put black in the middle so you can see but I really want blue in the middle and you need one Center so I have to take off the blue and then it's too long for the width I want so I'm taking off both sides of the ends and here I go I'm going to sew that together and I will have my guide strip for the rest of making this quilt this is a really important part of the process I now have 15 squares on my guide strip so I counted out so that I have 30 strip sets I now sew all 30 of them end to end and make them into little tubes so I cut them apart and get them ready and I'm going to do something now which is a little bit controversial for some people you'll see me do it right I'm using my scissors by right I mean the way normal people do it I'm using my scissors and cutting the chipsets apart in the proper place so that I can lay them out for the pattern however now this is how I really do it I rip them so I rip them because my Stitch length is 2.5 and they rip really well if you support it with your thumb so be careful I've never torn fabric doing it and it's faster and I'm all about speed so rip rip rip yeah I know don't call the quilt please again I really know that this is more confusing than I'm making it look you take four and you keep building the pattern and you have to make sure that you rip between the proper two so take your time with this watch your guide strip and have fun and if you goof it's just a seam go sew it back up and rip it in the right place it won't matter so lay out your whole quilt and watch this beauty come together as you do it I want you to watch how the yellow trips together the whole thing goes around together that's why I like them to have friends they're holding hands and you see them holding hands the blue the light blue almost trips on its own but it's just enough of a friend to stick close to those other two blues that are tripping together and as you watch the colors come together you can see that they trip depending on how they're friends with or not with the one next to them now I pin ipin when I only do this with baby quilts otherwise I'm if it's a bigger one it's different but since we're just learning about baby quilts today I pin every strip set next to each other with the place I need to sew the seam so I do half the quilt and then I go and I pin the other half of the quilt and that is how I get it ready I carry the whole thing to my sewing machine and I sew it this is me teaching you to budge every single seam you have to budge those two seams next to each other and watch I'm pushing the bottom Seam for this one up and the top seam down and then you just they click into place and you budge them next to each other this is me realizing I started on the side I don't want to start on it's not right or wrong it's just a personal preference and in a while I'll tell you and show you why so I started on the other side again because so it looks like I'm doing the first two but it's really the other side and I'm budging them together again I have the bottom up the top down and the if you budge them and if you hold them with your finger cotton because it's a hundred percent you can see there's a little bit extra in the bottom there it just eases into itself and it makes it so it looks like you are seamstress of the year your Corners will just be beautiful when you're done see how nice they look it's it's amazing okay now you're seeing why I prefer it this way see how as it sews the ones I haven't sewn yet are on top and the ones I have son are on bottom I just find they travel better as I sew them together if I do them from that side so that's why I switch sides here you're just watching me budge them some more this is a little slower than when you're string piecing the straight strings because you have to be careful with every single seam some people pin these but I don't find that helpful for me because they all need to be budged and then they all need to be eased so that they can sew together this is my friend calls this reverse budging because I taught her the other way first you put the seam every other one goes the opposite direction because when I turn this over you'll see you want one to go up and then the next one to go down one to go up the next one to go down and as you're watching this also watch how I'm pressing I'm stay I I'm stay pressing over the top and then I'm pressing it flat with my iron so see how the back goes seam up seam down seam up that just helps your quilt to lay flat and it helps it to lay happy and it helps it to be happy now just for those of you who are going to ask yes eventually I will put batting in this quilt and I will put a backing in this quilt but right now I'm just going to make the top for you okay this is where I sewed that other end first and so I have it crossed and you saw me just press over it it is never worth taking anything out so yes if you make a mistake press it it'll work anyway you don't have to worry about it and you don't have to care it just works see it's to the right and there they're happy okay with the magic of YouTube I'm not going to make you watch me sew the other half together I'm just gonna do it while you're not looking what I will show you is I will show you um that I sew the guide strip to half of the quilt and then when we go back the other half will be sewn together and I will finish the quilt so you do this seam whichever way you've pressed that first half you have the seams go the opposite direction and then when you press the second half make sure it's pressed in the right direction to match that guide strips pressing here I am last seam of the quilt and it will be like ta-da magical mystical and the more you sew these quilts the faster they go and the happier they are and you get to just see them come to life here it is done if you want to put a border on it you could I don't want to I'm showing you now how they trip together you can see why it's fun the white kind of trips by itself the black and gray trip together and the black stands out but it still has friends and so it's not everyone tripping separately next I'm going to show you something I really don't like when you do it like this what you see is a plus sign it's not really wrong famous Quilters all over the world do it this way way look on the internet I just don't that's what you see and I don't want to see a plus sign so I'm really careful not to do two colors in the middle of a quilt here you can put one color in the middle of a quilt if you have two colors around it and then see how the yellow didn't cause a plus sign it made the trip look and I prefer that so if you only have two colors and you want them in the middle of the quilt maybe put a center and then do it here is the quilt we made it doesn't have a plus sign I love it I hope you do too have so much fun making a trip quilt stay Merry and creative

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Published: Fri Jan 27 2023