Corner Pop Fundamental Tool

[Music] hi all welcome to another studio 180 design educational video today we're going to talk about my corner pop tool and if the tools i've developed to work with a technique that I've always called folded corners now most of you have done these before in the past I'm sure it's where you take a small square you put it in the corner of a large square you mark the diagonal guidelines stitch on the line and fold that small square back into place to put a pop of color on the corner of your base shape now it seems easy and it should it seems like it should be right but I know me if I were putting four corners on one would be too short one would be too long 1 would be wonky and what it might actually be right so the corner pop tool approaches this pop of color on the corner of shape differently what the corner pop tool is going to do is they're actually going to trim away a 90-degree corner leave a necessary coordinate seen on the base shape so then I can place an oversized triangle completely over filling the corner and then trim it to a very precise size and shape give me a minute to clear the deck and we'll show you from the beginning how this tool works when you look at the corner pop tool you're going to see it has a couple different sections on it it has two sections that you'll use for cutting away the corner to one of 22 sizes and then it has a section here that you use to place on the stone and press seam to trim it up nice and square and nice and clean inside the set of instructions there are diagrams to help you figure out what it is you want to do but more importantly there's a chart and the chart is there to help you figure out how you can use the corner pop tool with any pattern that has a folded corner process and what you'll do if you have a pattern that uses folded corners whatever they tell you to cut for the base shape whether it's a square rectangle the base shape stays the same pattern told me six and a half I cut this six and a half if I want to put on let's say we're going to put this small triangle on first the pattern tells me to cut that two and a half inches now I know because I do math all the time that a two and a half inch cut square is going to result in a two inch finished replacement triangle but I know there are a lot of you out there that really don't want to have to do math when you're doing your hobby when you're doing quilting what the chart will tell you is the numbers that you need on the tool to be able to make this happen the chart will tell you that a two and a half inch square is going to be a two inch finished replacement triangle that's the size that you're going to use on the tool to do your cut away so we've got cut away lines we've got 22 different size options we've got cut away lines for hole in half and here cut away lines for 1/4 and 3/4 inch years we need to trim away for a two inch replacement corner so what I'm going to do is move this over here I'm going to find the two inch lines that are on the tool place them right against the corner of my block my base square make a cut what I've done is I turned away what I don't need but the quarter of an inch that I need to stitch is still intact on this base square those replacement triangles that I'm going to use are oversized which means I only have to cut one square to get two triangles and not cut four different squares for my corners this I'm not looking at any lines at all on my tool all I'm doing cutting that square in half into oversized triangles the next step is very very simple position that oversized triangle on top of your base square I like to stitch with the base square on top so I can keep a good eye on my trimmed corner and I can keep an eye on those triangle points to make sure that I'm pretty much in the center I don't have to fuss a whole lot but once I've stitched impressed and I would going to do this on both sides I'm going to trim position stitch press do it on both sides you can see how those triangles completely overfill now I get to combat and I'd like to trim down because trimming makes me a better corporate makes me have better units and makes me a better quilter trimmed away for a two inch replacement triangle what I'm now looking at is the two inch guideline on the corner trim down section of the tool those guidelines when I place them over top of the seam placing the edge of the ruler against the edge here is going to give me a perfectly I get in there a little tighter it's going to give me a perfect corner the seam is no longer going to be monk wonky it's placed exactly where it needs to be I'm not trimming anything when I got a couple threads there but up essentially not trimming anything from that base square the edges are clean the seam is properly placed and it's placed so that the distance if it not needs to match with anything else is there to match where it needs to be when I go to add the next folded square into the corner again the instructions will tell you what size to cut a folded square they told me three and a half inches when I look at the chart the chart will tell me that the finished size of the replacement triangle with that size folded corner square will be three inches that's my focus point I'm going to use the three inch line on the tool for my cutaway but the chart will also tell you what size square you need to cut so that when you cut it in half these triangles will be slightly bigger than they need to be so keep that chart handy so that you have all those reference numbers what I would do again for the process is find my three inch cut away lines on the tool place those guidelines in the square corner trim away what I don't need leave the quarter of an inch that I do need on the base place the oversized triangle position the based on top for your stitching and their positioning and when I'm done the corner will be completely filled there is one option that you get with this that you don't have with the folded corner process the folded corner process always had the seams being pressed out and sometimes if you were putting two pieces together it created a bulky intersection the nice thing about this is it's a simple thing I can press it out if I want to but I can also take this seam and I can press it in toward the middle and if I'd like to I can also press the seam open I've got pressing options that I didn't ever have with the folded corner but this the corner will be overfilled when I go to trim it down I cut away for a 3-inch replacement triangle that's the sides that I use on the corner trim down the 3 inch guideline goes there the edge of the ruler lines up with the edge of the block when I make the trim what I'll be doing is ending up with a perfect corner now I've been showing you all right handed trimming but again you go those of you who know me you know that's just as easy to do left-handed I place the tool and unit this way to do right-handed but left handers all you do is place your trim down corner in the upper left hand corner you can use the same tool use the same guidelines and easily trim your piece if you are left-handed so what you'll end up with is a perfect unit with seams properly placed every edge is nice and square and you you're seeing me place colored triangles on a simple square here but I want you to realize you can put a pop of color on any 90-degree corner looking at these two little shapes aren't they fun they are half square triangles put a pop of color on one put a pop of color across the scene as a designer I'm all over this there's all kinds of different things I can do this is these are two units that are from our split rectangle tool put a pop of color on either one of those now I could put those together if I wanted to in a couple of different ways to maybe do some interesting block building they don't have to be squares I can put them on rectangles if I do something like this for sashing oh my gosh what do you have you have stars at your intersections of your stashing you can make Chevron's start with a rectangle put one pop of color on one corner one pop of color on another then this is an example of a V block I make the V block trim it so that it's nice and square then I'll come back with my corner pop tool this one's just placed on there right now you can see what I would do take the V block trim it properly cut away add the oversized triangle come back with this place on the line and trim it to the proper size it's fun to add pops of color to units you can add pops of color to blocks you can keep going and going and going this is one that's on my bucket list it wouldn't that be a fun one to make so think about putting the corner pop tool into your toolbox you can pick those up at your local quilt shop if they don't have them you come check us out at our website studio 180 design net will get these in your hand and you're going to have better success you're going to have less stress and you're going to be making better quilt with your new corner pop tools

Channel: Deb Tucker's Studio 180 Design

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Keywords: Quilt, Quilting, Piece Work, Modern Quilting, Traditional Quilting, Deb Tucker, Deb Tucker's Studio 180 Design, Studio 180 Design, Studio 180, Piecing, Corner Pop, Rapid Fire, Hunter's Star, Lemoyne Star, Wing Clipper, Square Squared, Square 2, Picket Fence, Sidekick, High Low, Square

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Length: 10min 15sec (615 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 08 2017