Cotton Rainbow Quilt + Bonus Border

hi i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics today i'm going to show you how to make a quilt called cotton rainbow this is one of cozy quilt designs patterns and it's really fun and really easy so i picked out some nice bright grunge fabrics and I'm gonna use a black background not the light background that's showing here and we're gonna make just a beautiful rainbow color and quilt [Music] I've picked out a whole lot of the grunge fabrics I picked out 30 different fabrics so this is what motive calls grunge it has a little bit of color variation the red here has a little bit of purple the orange it's got a little bit of light the green has some blue in it so I've got 30 different fabrics and we cut them my husband Matt does the cutting so he's got a strip set here of 30 different fabrics and they're all a variety of colors of the grunge so I'm going to open this up and lay the strips out and then we'll pick some color flights to make our quilt out of for this pattern we need five fabrics in a range so they've done a reddish one and a blueish one and a brown one and each color grouping has five fabrics so I'm gonna need to pull these apart and group them in sets of five so I know I'm gonna have a green group and I know I'm gonna have kind of a tan gold Brown rust group here those five will probably be one group right there I'm going to have a purpley group and I'm betting that that's the five let's see one two three four five those look really good I think these blues will go together so I'm just gonna sort this until I get five in each group will have a pink group so they're not perfectly sorted in the strip set you have to take it apart and decide what's going to go where so we're going to put them in color groups and then we're going to sort each group light dark here's the six color groups that I have picked out each group has five fabrics and each group very gates from light to dark so the light fabric has a couple smaller pieces and all the other fabrics in a group get cut a little bit longer so I picked these light to dark but I also picked fabrics that look nice next to each other so all of these groups are going to go on this black background the grunge has this distressed sort of look I really like that look the nice thing about grunge is if you decided that you didn't want this much going on in your background you can just use the other side so the other side is completely solid the fabric is reversible so you can use whichever side you like and that same thing holds true for the strips if you didn't want so much color variation in your strips you can just use the back side so I'm going to work with one color group at a time and I'm going to cut it into the sub cuts that I need to make the blocks we want to work with one color group at a time so I've got the blue teal color way here now the smallest pieces are going to be cut from this lightest print so it gets cut by itself and then the rest of them are all going to be cut exactly the same so what I'm gonna do is put them on my cutting board and line them up so I'm gonna line up with one of the lines here and I'm gonna cut them all at the same time now you'll have to read the pattern to get the exact sizes of the sub cuts but all of these can be cut at the same time cut this guy separate so do one color group then move those aside then do all the other color groups alright I've got all the pieces cut and they are laid out in order here so these are different color groups and we're gonna take these over to the sewing machine and we're going to get started sewing here's all the pieces I needed for one block there's just a few backgrounds and here's our nice purple color way so we've got a handy sketch up here to show us how to do this but the block stitches up really really fast so I'm going to lay it out here ahead of time so we can see what goes where and we're just going to add the background to each strip here as we go around to make the pieces a little bit longer a longer and longer piece of background and I don't want the backside showing so it'll look a little bit neater once we get it stitched up because you can't get the whole puzzle put together when you've got your seam allowances added but basically we're going to start here and then add this one in this one then we're going to add this one in this one so we're just adding colors on each side as we go we're gonna start in the corner here the nice thing about the cotton rainbow pattern is that every block is made the same there are different colors but the procedure is the same no matter what color it is so we are going to be pressing the seams to the right and to the top so that one went to the right now we're going to add this piece down here well after we sew it we're going to press that seam allowance up so every piece will fit on exact if you use your quarter inch scenes and it goes really fast so this seam allowance is going to go up so all the seam allowances this way are going to go that direction and all the seam allowance is this way are going to go up and that's going to help us a lot later on when we put our blocks together because our seam allowances will be going in alternate directions and it'll make it really easy to get the intersections to match this is going to go on the bottom here now we need to sew the background on to this strip before we stitch it on to the unit that we've already made so I'm just going to stitch this onto here and all of these can be pressed towards the background now this will fit right on there I don't usually use the ironing board until I get to pay off all the way stitched if you feel like you want to stop in the middle and iron that's perfectly fine usually if I finger press a little as I go it keeps the seam allowances facing the way we want them now we're going to sew this onto here and then that will go onto the unit and we're going to continue on putting background on to the colors until we get the whole block done here's the last strip now once this is stitched on I'm gonna take it over and iron it but before I do that I'm gonna check for threads that are sticking out in the scenes within the block since I didn't chain piece these blocks I've got a lot of long threads on the backside so I like to check for those right now so these are the ones I'm talking about I don't get these very much if I'm chain piecing because I don't have long threads but this one it's got a lot of long threads which is fine back here but I find it saves a lot of time if you just check your block as you go and make sure none of those threads are sticking out here here's another one okay I'm gonna give this a nice steam press and we have a lot of people ask about the iron we use so we use a Rowenta this is a German company that makes these and they've been making them since 1919 is when they made their first electric iron so the nice thing about this is that the water reservoir is here in the base not in the handle so the handle is really light but you can see the steering goes about six feet out so I can really give a good pressing here so we've got these seams going up and these seams here going to the side and that will make it really easy to put our patchwork together because the blocks will then have seams going in alternate directions look at how nice that looks so I'm gonna get it nice and flat so I like to press it first just with no steam so that I can make sure that my seams are not distorted and then once I get it the way I want it here then I'm gonna use the steam you can see the color variation here from light to dark and the colors look really good with a black background here's another one of the blocks already stitched up the pink one and then I've got an orange one over here so I've got these colors still to do and you can see how different it looks from the pattern when you use the dark background since every block is made exactly this way and this block went really fast we're going to be able to finish the quote really quickly now I haven't found any fast way to chain piece these I really found it's best to make a block at a time because otherwise you can get confused with what piece goes where so I would recommend making them just a block at a time you're going to be making three of almost every color I think just two of the color flights you only need two blocks of because we're making the throw size which takes a total of 16 blocks so we're gonna make three of I'm probably gonna make three of all of them and then lay the quilt out and put two of the extra blocks aside so I'm gonna take the scraps I have a few little scraps and leftover pieces I'm gonna make some sort of a piece to order I don't know what it's gonna look like yet but I'll be sure to show you when I get it all done I've got all my scrap pieces here from the cutting and I figured out something that I'm hoping will make a really nice pieced border so I've got them still in the color piles that we cut them in so I'm just going to sew these together into a piece so I'm gonna grab one from each pile I'm just gonna put them in order I'm gonna pick up 24 here so it doesn't matter which one I pick cuz I want kind of variety assortment but it's gonna be one from each color pile here until I have 24 so there's six then I'm going to sew them into a strip unit and cut a couple of borders out of it now I'm not going to cut these to any particular length I'm going to sew them into a strip unit and then cut them because they're all different sizes right now and I think it would be a lot of work for me to line them all and try to get them all cut one size so I'm going to just sew them into a I'm gonna line up the top and sew it into a really really long piece then I'm gonna iron it and then I'm gonna cut it afterwards and I think that's gonna save me a ton of time now the first thing I'm gonna do is use a really small stitch length because I'm going to stitch all these little seams and cut afterwards and I don't want those seams coming apart so I'm just going to stack them up so I'm going to start here and then put this one right next to it so the tops are relatively straight I will be re cutting it but I'm going to just line everything up at the top there and use a quarter inch seam and we will press these all to one side so I'm going to just line this up and it doesn't matter if there are different lengths so I'm just gonna keep sewing so I've got 24 in one long row this is the last piece here that's going to go on and I'm going to be cutting this really narrow but before we cut it we want to steam press it really really flat so let's take it over to the ironing board here's our strips and I'm going to cut two borders out of this so I'm going to fold it so I'm not lining up all of the seams so I'm not going to have extra bulk whatever I cut but it's just easier for me to get it really accurate if it's not quite as long all right now I'm gonna line this up on my cutting board here and I'm gonna line it up on a line I'm not going to cut on that line I'm gonna move it over just a little teeny bit so I'm gonna use a sharper blade and I'm gonna cut two borders that are one-and-a-half inches wide so I don't need I only need three inches but you can see some of these are really going to be close so I think what I'll actually do is just slide this slightly over this line and then I'm going to use that line right there so I'm going to use my clear ruler put it on the line I'm not cutting off much and I'm gonna put my weight on the end here because that's gonna help me hold it now I like to use the plastic ruler over what I'm cutting so that it doesn't move and I'm going to check right now to make sure we did get everything in that we don't have any shorts parts here because it was pretty skimpy but it looks like we're okay there yep we got it all okay so now I'm gonna move over one and a half inches I'm gonna use my weight again and give a good cut so this is our border here I'm gonna cut another one but this is going to be our border by the time we get our seam allowances it's going to be just a teeny tiny strip of color and it's gonna have black grunge on both sides of it so I think that's gonna give a nice pop of color so I'm gonna cut one more out of here then I'm gonna do the same thing again and then I'll have a total of four borders we'll get those on the quilt and then we'll get it on the quilting machine I finished putting the patchwork border on you can see it here and here so the patchwork was the same size as my patchwork quilt part and then I just added a little teeny bit of the black and grunge to make it the right length so this has just cut the same one and a half inches right here it's hard to see cuz it's all the same color just a little bit extra there so that I didn't have to make the patch sure it go all the way to the corners then I added one more two-and-a-half inch black a grunge border and I think that flame frames it really really nicely now for the back of the quilt I picked another grunge so this is a newer product that Mota is making its grunge but it's dotted so it still has these distressed areas of different colors but it's got the dots to quilt this particular pattern I wanted to use a bright color thread so these were some of my choices so anytime I put a quilt on the machine I have to pick a thread color and so what I normally do is get out some options reel off some thread onto the top of the quilt so let me show you here's the green and I thought that would actually be a little bit too bright so I've decided to go with a darker purple and I've got a little bit lighter purple for the back so here's the thread here that I'm going with so the purple is going to show against these lighter colors it's also gonna show some on the background and that's what I wanted I wanted the thread to show a little bit I've picked an abstract pattern for the quilting and if you come on over here I'll show you I always try out a new pattern on the edge to see if I like the quilting pattern and if I like the scale of it so I really like the swirls here against the geometric mists of the quilt so this is what I'm gonna go with but it was a little too large so I've shrunk it down just a little bit so I'm gonna tell the machine to start and you can see what it looks like I've got the pattern all programmed in so I just need to tell it to start this is the joy of having the computerized machine I can program it to do the size row width and height and it'll come over here and if it comes to the spot where I do want it to start all I have to do is press go [Applause] the cotton rainbow turned out really bright and really cheerful I'm really happy with the quilting on it I get kind of a swirly abstract pattern and it isn't taking away from the patchwork but it's giving a little more movement so you can see the pieced border here a little better and here's where I filled in in the corners with the black it's about 55 inches finished it's a nice throw size its square I don't often make square quilts but this would work really well for a wall hanging here is the grunge on the back that's the dotted grunge a little bit of lint there and you'll notice that I did the binding in the same grunge that's on the front a lot of times I will use a different color on the binding but this quilt probably would have been too busy if I had to come back with another color on the binding so I will often plan on using something for the binding I was planning on using purple or green but I like to wait till the quilt is all the way done and then give it a good look and say does it look finished does it look like it needs to be I have a bright color binding or a contrast binding so this one looks better with just the solid binding now the bright colors are really cheerful it's a really happy quilt but this does not have to be made in bright colors so I've made another smaller version here and this is all in boutiques so I've only used two different colorways I used a greener one and a browner one so you can just repeat two different colorways throughout your whole quilt this is just four blocks and almost looks like a wreath I'm pretty sure I'm gonna take this one home use it on Thanksgiving and put the pumpkin pie right there so this is a great project to use your strips on again you need five different strips for each set of blocks so I've got the five here in the purple and it makes three blocks so each set of strips will make three blocks so I used 30 strips here you could make a twin you can make a queen I think the twin takes 50 and the Queen takes 80 so it was a really quick fast quilt to make thanks for watching our youtube tutorial today on the cotton rainbow be sure to leave us your comments and your request for quilts you would like to see us make i've got a long list but i am just having a lot of fun going through that list and making up new quilts for you 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Length: 22min 2sec (1322 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 05 2017