Creating HoneyBun Bowls

[Music] hello i'm pauline from pqw and i'd love to welcome you to our youtube channel and i'm going to show you how to make these fabulous fabric bowls aren't they just gorgeous look at them you can make once i show you how to do it i'm just going to go through step by step it's not a full lesson it's just a technique class of showing you how to make these you can make them out of a honey bun roll you can make them out of your own fabric strips that you cut and i'll explain all of that to you as we go through but you can make any shape any size you wish and these are great for gifts for people they they're great home deck items to have around your house if you do markets they're great things that you can sell at markets just lovely love them anyway a honey bun if you don't know what a honey bun is this is a honey bun bundle it's just like a jelly roll we all know about jelly rolls a jelly roll is normally a two and a half inch wide strip a honey bun is an inch and a half wide strip so comes exactly the same as a jelly roll and they're just beautiful the way they coordinate all the fabrics together so a lot of the fabric companies now do make the honey buns if you didn't want to use a honey bun cut your strips of fabric an inch and a half wide and that's what we've done with a couple of these bowls we just used up fabric from our stash and cut strips an inch and a half wide now in the bowls i like to use the rainbow cotton batting i just find this gives the the bowls nice structure they're nice and firm they're not floppy they don't flop down on you this is cut um to to use with the jelly roll strip so i what i've done is i've cut this strip in half the width of this i just put it down and use my old rotary cutting blade and i cut it in half so now you've got this thin strip of batting whether you use a honey bun roll or whether you cut your own strips when you join the strips together because you will need to join all the strips together please join them on the 45 degree angle you you don't want to cut join that straight across because it becomes too bulky when you start to put the bowl together so join all your strips together on that angle then we're just going to simply roll it back into a ball it's much easier to control if it's in a nice little roll then we're going to lay the batting strip on top of this now the batting will be a little bit narrower than your two and a half inch wide strip so one and a quarter for instance but if it's a little bit narrower it won't matter but what we do is lay that down and then we're going to fold the sides in on both sides till they meet in the middle or thereabouts it doesn't matter if they're not exactly in the middle use your iron and just press a couple of inches that'll make it easy for you to start your project now this is the pattern that we have for the bowls so you can see we've made a big basket we've made different size bowls you can see some of the bowls here that i've got with me in here we give you all the instructions step by step colored photos and then you know by watching the video and having the pattern you'll be able to do any of this we've got all different shapes for you to follow so it's step by step so it'll make it very very easy it'll tell you on the back of the pattern all the other tools and bits and pieces you'll need but many years ago i designed the sacha tools the sasha collection for folding fabric for any purpose for bindings for the edge of the quilts for sashings for your quilting go quilts for making bias so the sasha tools come in all different sizes and shapes for all different purposes when the honey buns become very popular i decided to do the bowls i'd need a tool to help me at the sewing machine i don't want to have to stand at the ironing board for hours and fold my strip all the way through and press so that folds it neatly like this all i do is fold the first little bit then i use the honey bun sacher tool this is the tool i designed for doing exactly this if you have my regular sashes they won't work for this the yellow fluoro sashes that i designed many years ago they have a much narrower split than what this one has because the yellow fluoro ones are designed to put fabric through an iron not fabric with batting so because we've got the batting here because we've folded it like such we've got a double thickness of batting happening so we need to fold this and we need to put it into the tool up and back down and this is what it's going to look like so now we're going to go to the sewing machine and we're going to start stitching but before we do that i want to show you the different feet that i recommend that you use for this process so we're going to first of all i'm just going to put this inside here we're going to first of all use a selection of feet and you can make your choice of which is going to be the best but to start with i really recommend we use a quarter inch foot on our machine so a regular quarter inch foot if you've got the foot the quarter inch foot that has the guide down the side that is a perfect foot to use but i don't have one for this machine that i'm using so i'm just going to use the regular quarter inch foot so that's what i'm going to start stitching with but when we start constructing the bowls and we need to put them together we're going to use a zigzag stitch so i want to zigzag evenly across the two layers that i'm going to put together i find the best foot for that is the stitch in the ditch foot this foot here it has a little guide that comes down through the middle so i don't know if you can see that guide it comes down and pokes through the in the middle of the foot now you can buy these for all different brand machines this is for my bernina but if you've got different brand machines go to your dealer or have a look in your manual to get the right foot for your machine it's well worth investing in but if you don't have that foot and you have an open toe foot use this foot because it will allow you to see where that ditch is where the two pieces of fabric join together that you need to zigzag and the aim of this is to get your zigzag even on both sides so that it catches both strips of fabrics so that's why i find this foot is the best one to use for this technique so let's take you to the machine now and get you started with your sewing because it's going to really excite you i hope so we'll come on over so now at my machine i don't know if you can see but i always sew with the sew slip mat on the bed of my machine because i find pushing this through particularly when we start doing the bowls we're going to have a bit of bulk moving through and we want the bowl to slide nicely as we start to shape the sides up so i just find having this sew slip mat on the bed of the machine it has a sticky back to it when you put it on the machine pull your bobbin thread up through it has a cut out in it so you can have your feed dogs up the feed dogs are up just pat it down because you don't want it to move as you stitch now we're going to put the quarter inch foot on the machine to start with but as i said if you've got the quarter inch foot with a little guide down the side it is a much better foot to use come in close to the machine now if this was a big roll that you had i would suggest you put two baskets on the floor put your fabric roll in one and your batting roll in another so that they're down on the floor coming out evenly we've got these all laid together and i instantly have them all tangled so that's why it's a good idea to put them in a bowl now we need to pull this little tool which we call the honey bun tool we need to pull it down about six inches to and it's when we pull it down it's going to fold the fabric for me we're going to roll this in half so the folded edges out here the raw edges here put that under the machine and put your needle in the down position because you want the needle to stay down in the work to hold it in place one doesn't want to go down so pop the needle down now i use the titanium top stitch needles now they're by superior i use them because they're much stronger metal they don't go blunt because we're going to do a lot of sewing through this batting and a lot of thicknesses i find that a lot of people when they do this sort of thing the one complaint that they have is that the machine skips stitches so use the titanium top stitch needle they're a gold needle they are absolutely wonderful i never get skip stitches so now we've got that anchored under the needle of the machine we're going to pull with this tool now that holds the fold in place for us perfect and we're just going to roll this over and we're going to start stitching so i'm keeping the edge of my foot on the edge of this fabric where i've folded it over you may need to increase your stitch length up a bit you may need to go up to from a 2.5 to a three whatever your machine is going to cope best with set it up so pull this down now if i wasn't using this tool i would have had to iron all of these edges in i would have either had to pin it or clip it all the way through which takes a lot of time but using the honey bun tool it allows me to keep all that fabric folded nicely while i stitch so we can come down a bit closer to that tool and and this can get quite boring so this is where i suggest you put a good movie on or some bopping music and just stitch along to it but as you can see just line your batting up fold in each side pull down but just make sure your needle is always in the down position because that will hold the tension on the fabric while you pull with the tool so you just keep going along and stitching all of that so you get the whole lot done in the pattern we'll tell you about how many strips you need to join together and stitch like this to make certain size bowls so it's all there for you so that's just the ease of stitching this i call this the string the batting string and you can see how it's just stitching that beautifully for me so the needle's penetrating through nicely i'll show you the needles in a moment so you continue on to get that whole amount of strips sewn like that that you need for the bowls you know and if you make too many and you've got some left over just make some smaller bowls to sit on the coffee table and that it's just wonderful to have that around so now when you get it all done i really strongly suggest you roll it into a ball if you don't roll it up you're going to have fabric string going everywhere it'll be tangled up all under the foot of your machine around your chair you might trip on it so roll it up into a ball we're going to put the stitch in the ditch foot on the machine now or your open toe foot whichever one you have pop this one on we're now going to set our machine on a nice zigzag so i'll just go to my number two stitch which is mine the zigzag i like we may need to in open the zigzag up a little bit we may need to change the width and length so you just need to do a little bit of adjusting here on your machine to you get it to the width and the length that you would like it so now i'm just going to come back to my work table because i just want to show you a little trick of getting started with this to make it really really easy because when we make the bowl we need to start with a tight circle now if i just go to my machine and try and hold this into a nice tight circle and zigzag as i stitch i'm really going to keep running onto my fingers so what you're best doing is i'm going to use the what i always use my roxanne glue baste it i'm going to just put some glue oops we'll go to this end and we suggest all these things in the pattern to you so that you can remember that put little dots of glue along this for a few inches then roll this into a tight ball so we're just going to put it down now the best thing you do here as as you roll it get your iron and press because this will the iron will set the glue for you it'll set it up for you so just keep gluing oops my glue's popping because i didn't get enough heat in there so as you do it you might like to use some pins and i don't know that i've got any pins here with me but we'll just check in my drawer yes i do so just pin into your ironing board because we just need to get that glue to set because it's well worth doing this at your ironing board before you start stitching because it is going to make the first part of your stitching so much easier so i'll just keep gluing along here and i'll just glue a couple of rounds but you're getting the idea of how that's done glue it press it and while that's just setting i'll just explain about the needles for you and show you the needles i'll just do a little bit more put another couple of pins in and then it can set while we explain a few more things so some more pins there we go and it truly is well worth doing this oops no i've ran out of pins so i would possibly glue one more round then that's going to allow me to get my i'm not going to have to have my fingers in under the foot of the machine and run the risk of running the needle through my fingers but these are the needles that i suggest you use the titanium coated superior top stitch needles they're a size 80 12 they've got a very very big eye and i'm using a nice fine thread because i don't want the thread to show up too much but having the big eye the fine thread runs through it beautifully and it won't split and i shouldn't get any skip stitches using a much stronger needle i actually use these noodles to do my quilting my applique if i'm going to sew through stretch fabric like my top i use the one needle to do absolutely everything and i probably think that needle that's in my machine's probably been there probably for 100 hours of stitching so i'm getting lots and lots of good quality time out of the one needle where out of our nickel plated needles i probably get probably eight to ten hours of stitching then i've got to change the needle so that's my recommendation of needles so let's take this out now all we're going to do is go now to our machine and we're going to start zigzagging this so i'm going to start working on this one then i've got another bowl half way which i'm going to stitch it in a minute in a moment because i want to show you how to start bringing up the edges of your bowl so we have our machine set up with our zigzag once again have a bowl or something to put this in because it's going to run everywhere if you don't so we'll come into the middle we're going to put that groove of that foot right in so the that little ledge that's on that foot is sitting between the two layers of fabrics right in the groove and that will give me an even zigzag catching both sides of the fabric so we're going to stitch around here and just take it slow to get started you might have to lift your foot and come around the curves so you'll keep going around until you get out a bit further and my zigzag is much too close so i need to open it up a lot so it's just very slow and tedious at this first little bit and then it gets much better as we get out and around so i'm going to switch to the other one now so that you can see um as we work out what's going to happen i'll take that one out from under there and you may be able to see the stitching here my zigzag is just still a little bit too closed up so i just need to adjust that a little bit more to make it more open make the length wider and that will adjust it up to where i need to be but this is one that we've already started and you can see how we've started and we've stitched all the way around now i want to do a little bit more and then i want to start to show you how to build up the side so you can get the side of your bowl happening and it depends how quickly you want to come up how deep do you want that bowl to be how slope do you want it to be and it might take a little bit of experimenting to start with but you'll you'll soon get the gist of it that's better zigzag so that that guide is sitting right in between those two layers so i don't know if you can catch that there there is my guide right there there's the piece of fabric there and a piece of fabric there i just pull them together and the guide sits in the middle so don't watch your needle as you stitch watch your guide because it's going to take you exactly down through the middle and keep my eye on that now one of the problems that can happen when you're making these bowls is that you can stretch the fabric you can stretch this part here so just let it glide through your fingers you don't want to stretch it so you can see how i can do this one hands on the bowl just curving it as i go the slippery mat is helping it slide this is just running through my between my finger and thumb now i want to start going up so i'm going to start lifting up the side and in a moment you'll see how this has all started to started to lift up at the sides so my fabric's twisted have to untwist that and every now and again you may just have to realign to get out a bit further because on this curve that little guide can have a few challenges coming around but if you can't use that foot i'm going to change to the other foot just so you can see how it works and operates so we're going to put the open toe foot on now just you can see the difference oops [Applause] oh it doesn't want to go on there you go now i don't know if you can see here but my bowl has already started taking shape because just simply holding it up like i was it starts to push it out to the sides so i'll pull this thread back a bit back to where i stopped now using this foot i've got nothing to keep me right so that the zigzag is even on both sides and i find it a little bit more challenging so notice how i'm holding the side up now if we come up really tight to start with our bowl is going to go from a little base and it will go up like a funnel so if you want it to be a gentle curve just hold it slightly up and as you come around and get at the bowl larger you can start holding it up closer to the machine and that's as simple as it is it is so simple to do you know if you've got a friend having a birthday or something make a bowl out of your fabric scraps and fill it with chocolate she'd love it she'd absolutely love it or he might like it whoever grandchildren love them i've made these for my grandchildren and fill them up with all sorts of things and and they have their bowls sitting in their room and they use them for all sorts of decorating ideas so we'll just do a little bit more and it does twist so you'll have to stop and keep untwisting it but i just think there's so much fun to make but remember please don't stretch this string as you sew and it's basically the same way as making a jelly roll rug don't stretch your string as you sew it together so this is only going to be a small bowl because i haven't got a lot of fabric here but it'll just give you the idea now i'm holding it up closer to the machine bed and you can get quite fast at this and we'd love to see if you make some of these bowls we'd love you to send us some photos because we love to see what people make we love showing you how to do this but it's even we get more joy when we see that you've actually achieved something and made something just got a little bit more to go and then we'll you know you can make big shopping baskets like this bags you can make all sorts of things have a look at the different patterns on our website because we've got you know other patterns for bags and everything using the honey bun tool and the one and a half inch wide strips so now because i've come out a lot further i'm ran off there a bit so i just need to go back over and if i had kept that other stitch in the ditch foot on i wouldn't have ran off there because i would have had that guide to keep me aligned so you can probably see this bowl now taking really nice shape and it is a fabulous way of using up all your scraps then when we finish we're just going to angle it down [Music] now you can finish it off by making a loop here if you wish to oops i just need to it's not going to work because it i need to trim off the end but if i need to finish this off now i start angling it in but you're going to see what's happened here and what you'll need to do before you start doing all of this so we'll go back to my work table and we'll have a look at this bowl so here's our lovely little bowl mate so you can appreciate if i had a lot more fabric here i could keep going out and out and out and making it into any shape bowl i want it's not hard it is so much fun and you can see here that this is more of a not such a deep slope on this one so i didn't hold it up too high i just kept it at a gentle angle but this end here this can get quite messy so i want to show you and i've left this till the end but it's taking you right back to the beginning because when we're preparing our fabric to put into the tool let me just cut this off nice and neat here what we need to do is have your batting about half an inch away from the top and we need to fold this in fold in about half an inch and then in and in and then press that now that will make your beginning very very neat so when you're when you're sewing your whole strips together when you get to the other end before you finish stitching at the other end stop about two inches away from the end when you're stitching it into your ball into this one stop about two inches and do the same thing at the other end fold the end in so that you've got a neat finish so you don't end up with this lump of batting sticking out at the other end like here we twisted it as we came around and we've got the little hook on it so we can hang these up in the kitchen or in the bedroom or you can make them as a nice display on the wall as home decorating but that's just a little bit about how we make all of our fabric bowls you know there's been rope bowls out for years where you wrap the your fabric around the rope we just found this is another way of doing them and it makes it so easy i don't suggest doing these out of the jelly roll strips because i find that it's too wide the half inch strip when it's finished makes the bowls go too chunky that's why we like to do them out of the one and a half inch wide strip so hope you've enjoyed that remember you need the honey bun sasha tool to make it very easy at your sewing machine we have the pattern that shows you everything and the batting and don't forget to use the titanium coated needles because that will make it so much easier and there's no skip stitches whatsoever it just gives you a really really lovely finish but remember you can use those for everything so have a look at all of our other youtube videos because we've got some amazing ones out there for you see how to make the jelly roll bag that we've made it's great it's fabulous and the honey bun bag there's we've got lots of things there for you so we'd love you to subscribe to our youtube channel by pushing down on that bell because you'll get a notification every time we put a new video up for you and subscribe to our website to our newsletter w www.pqw.com.oru and have a look around our website because we've got some amazing tools there that we've designed especially for you so till next time happy stitching bye for now [Applause] you

Channel: Pauline's Quilters World

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Length: 30min 56sec (1856 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 28 2021