Christmas in July!? Ponderosa Pines Quilt Full tutorial

hi i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics today we're going to make a tree quilt all we need is a layer cake in greens [Music] and a layer cake in solids a little brown for the stems and a little red for sashing so grab your supplies and let's get started here's all you need for this quilt you need at least 20 different green layer layer cake pieces these are 10 by 10 and you can use yardage if you want you don't have to use a layer cake but a layer cake is a really easy way to get a nice variety you also need 10 inch squares in your background cut them yourself if you need to this has 40 we're only gonna use 20 of those you just need even a jelly roll strip of a brown will do all of the stems for the trees and about five eighths of a yard of the red we're going to use that for sashing and then you need your tree template let me show you how to get the template and the pattern this is our website jordan fabrics com and we have a tab here that says free patterns so if you run your cursor down over over that all of them will show up and I want ponderosa pine so I'm going to click on it and there's the quilt now download the PDF now you can see the pattern and then you want to print that off once you've got all the pages printed you're going to want to take the tree applique page which is the last one here and that's what we're going to use to make our trees so you can transfer this to plastic template material you can just cut around it whatever method works best for you let's pick out the greens we want to use for the trees this pack has some greens and blues and we want to pick out the 20 that we would like to use for our trees I'm probably not going to use that one because it's really solid but that would be good that would be good I like that I like that that one's a little too blue that's way too blue now you could do some blue trees there's no rule that says you can't but I'm just going to be picking the greener ones and I'm going to use the bluer ones for some other project here's the 20 greens that I've picked out these will all make really interesting nice trees so since Hoffman folds these I'm gonna press them nice and flat so I can cut the trees very accurately I have four layers of fabric here and that's a good amount for me to hand cut with my scissors so my tree is gonna go right here and even though these are cut straight I like to cut this bottom edge off with my blade to make sure I have a really nice straight starting right now the bottom is cut really really straight so I'm gonna just put my template down here and I'm using a white chalk pencil there's a lot of different kinds of marking tools but this one works really well on these dark colors and I'm drawing around to the outside of the template so when I cut I'm gonna remember that and I'm gonna cut on the inside side of the lines that way even if I veer off here when I'm drawing I know that I'm going to cut straight because I'm cutting on the inner side so I like to start at the top here because I can cut both sides here nice and straight and again I'm cutting on the inside part of my drawn line and then just keep moving around I like to do those first then I'm going to come over here and cut up here just to the point and then cut over keep going here's the trees here's some stems now the numbers are on the pattern but there are two inches by one and a quarter and then these are my background squares 10 inches and we are going to put the tree onto one of these guys so you have a couple options here you can measure up an inch and a half I happen to have a little ruler that is an inch and a half so I like to just put that there and this is going to go right on the bottom there and it's actually 3/4 of an inch which is the inch size it's in 3/4 of an inch from each side you can eye that up even and then we're going to put the stem underneath here so the stem is going to be even with the bottom of the background and I'm just going to double check that I've got it centered also so and all these numbers will be on the pattern but that's all you have to do now there's another product I like to use this is a little glue pen for fabric and it it won't gum up your machine and I'm not gonna glue the whole thing on because I find that it's real easy to applique this without gluing it but I'm going to put a little on each of these corners especially this side they tend to move when I'm applique and this you can still take these off if you don't like your placement this isn't a permanent glue but it helps hold it in place while you stitch so I'm just gonna put some little dots down and this will work instead of pins now it's already 2 so I'm going to be using my little singer machine which has a zig-zag stitch on it so I can adjust this stitch that I use on this machine it's got a lot of different stitches but I'm just using the regular zigzag and I'm doing almost a satin stitch so I've got it really tight so there's a lot of stitching if you use other methods for your application stencil fuse this onto your background you can use some of these decorative stitches you could use a blanket stitch but if you're just going to put it on to the fabric like I have you want to have a really tight stitch now you also need some sort of stabilizer there's a lot of specialty products there's something called stitch and tear but I'm just using copy paper copy paper I always have it and it works just great so I'm gonna put that right behind the tree here and you can see the copy paper isn't quite as wide as my tips but if I turn it a little I can get the whole tree on here even both the tips and the top there and there's paper behind everywhere I'm going to stitch now I'm gonna start stitching at this point here and go all the way around the tree now some people like to do that stem first but I think it's best to stitch right down here and then do the stem afterward so I'm just gonna start in the corner here make sure that the needle is going just to the outside of that fabric so we want our needle to go just to the outside of this fabric and cover up a whole bunch of the tree so just go right over the stem I'm just gonna go to the corner and stop and I'm not gonna pivot I'm gonna leave my needle up and then I'm gonna lift the presser foot and turn since this is an angle that's smaller than 90 degrees if I pivot there I'm gonna get a really fat crisscross area of stitching that I don't want so I'm gonna move it down just a little bit put my presser foot back down and start again adjust that just now you can see we've got a good we've got a good point but we don't have a crisscross X there now for this inner corner I'm again going to go just a little beyond it and then and my machine automatically stops with the needle up which is very handy because then I can just spin it and I'm being careful not to move it a lot because I don't want a lot of extra thread coming out there and then down [Music] and then start the tree is all done now we just have to do the stem so I'm gonna start this one right here and I'm going to be taking a couple stitches on top of my prior stitching [Music] now I'm just gonna turn it around and do the other side here now you're going to want to trim all your threads because the background is solid cream and these threads which are dark might show through so I'm going to trim every one off then we're going to take this paper off now since we used such a tight applique stitch the paper is going to rip right off so just pull a little it'll come right off now I used thread that matches the trees and I think that looks really good and I used a fairly wide strip you can use a slightly narrower stitch if you like but this outlines the trees let me show you the track again this outlines the trees very well and we're gonna now steam press it so it's nice and flat and then we're going to applique up all the trees now that we have all the trees done I'm gonna lay them out and I'm probably going to mix the colors up a little so it's a little bit light dark light dark so my quilt is going to have four trees in every row and there's going to be five rows and I'm going to put this little teeny sashing between all the blocks and these very small corner stones which I cut from the scraps of my trees but you could do something else if you want so that's gonna be right between everything there and this is also going to go on the outside of the blocks so to stitch all these together think of this as one row here it's going to be just trees and sashing this whole row is just going to be trees and sashing and then the next row is this one here and it's going to be cornerstone sashing cornerstone sashing all the way along once you get all the rows done we will sew them together and it's actually a lot easier to use the cornerstones than to just do a long piece of sashing because you can match everything exactly and you won't get your tree rows moved a little bit now mine looks Christmasy because I've got these red color for the sash and got the red for the satin if you don't want it to look Christmas tree if you just want it to look like a forest use a brown here or use a green so you don't have to put the red in so I'm gonna go ahead and stitch up my Rose stitch up the quilt I'll probably put a border on it get it quilted and then I would love to show you what it looks like here's the finished tree quilt now we're calling it ponderosa pines it's definitely a pine tree you could make it more or less Christmassy depending on the fabrics you use them so even with this little bit of red it doesn't look completely Christmas like so you could use this year-round which is one of the reasons I love it and all these different patterns this is one of my favorite trees right there and I don't want you to be scared about doing appliques I don't do a lot of applicants but this one went really fast and was really really easy the sashing was cut one and a quarter inches so it's only 3/4 of an inch right now and that seems to be the perfect size for the scale of this quilt and these trees I've got a four and a half inch cut border on it again with this print it just looks great the backing almost a plaid but that's a batik really really fun I Atlit I excuse me I quilted this in a pattern it's actually got pine tree and stars in the quilting and that was really fun too now if you want to make this particular one look more Christmasy you could add some little sequins or some little crystals you could really brighten this up my quilt came out 50 by 61 and you could easily make this bigger this is a great size for a wall hanging or for a throw but if you want to make a bed size just make more trees I only used 20 of the layer cakes most layer cakes come with 40 so it's real easy to make this bigger very quickly thanks for watching our tutorial today on how to make the ponderosa pines quilt we hope you enjoyed it now we're gonna have another giveaway 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Length: 15min 56sec (956 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 15 2018