Crumb Quilting Adventure - New Piecing Technique - Easy Tiny Wonky Blocks | Ep. 6

hi everyone it's me Darlene I was not going to have a video tonight but I am very anxious to show you this new way of putting crumb blocks together I am calling it the wonky crummy 8 patch I think that's a fantastic name for a block once again it's like a starter block that you can put together to start building some crumbled blocks if you are new to this series please go check the playlist I'll have the link in the description box down below and also in the pinned comment and you can catch up on this series this series starts with me just putting together some scraps on the way I have been showing you techniques that I come up with to make this process easy and fun and we're going to go right through to me making I believe a small quilt that's the plan so far but I will take you to the end what you need for this is scraps of fabric but look big scraps I told you guys that I was going to show you how you can make pieces that look like they were made with little tiny scraps but we can use big scraps to make it all easier so just take two different fabrics for this block you want four different fabrics in all so try to get scraps that kind of are the same size and if they're not we'll cut them so let me start with these two these are pretty much the same size we want right sides together and you can decide if you want to go this way or this way we're doing something very unique I'm going to go this way if you want you can you know make sure you have a nice clean edge to begin with if you want the first thing we're going to do is just sew right along this edge the right edge just like we would any two blocks going to turn this around and I'm going to leave I would say an inch to maybe an inch and a half space and I'm going to sew down this way and I don't know if you noticed but I went wonky and that's okay I know this thread is almost impossible to see let me get my ruler so I can show you okay so here's the first line that I sold I sold that one just straight because we're right on the edge this next line is wonky see this would have been straight but I turned it this way a little bit it's still a straight line but it's just at an angle so now we're starting on this end again we're going to leave again an inch inch and a half we're going to come back down now this wonky line is going this way if I wanted I could make the other one go out or we can go straight let's go straight for the heck of it it's really up to you I'm gonna go wonky again so I'm going to start here instead of just going straight down I'm just gonna go out a little bit if you really wanted to you could take a ruler and Mark your line with a pencil or whatever but you'll get used to it soon enough take it out I'm going to turn now we're going to be sewing one more line because I have room when you get near the other edge ask yourself do I have enough room when you sew the last line you want about an inch left over so if I were to so here I've got enough left over I'm just going to sew a little bit closer to this seam that I did but you want about an inch left over look at that hands-free sewing love it so that's it for that snip I know you can't see the seams but this was just so easy you saw I didn't even have to hold it if we were doing individual strips you know you have to hold those this is just up and down up and down I'm going to try to do it this way you're looking at it like I'm looking at it I'm going to draw on those seams so you can see them hang on I guess I can ruin a block for the sake of a tutorial I'm sure it won't ruin it okay so you can see this is where I started on the edge then I have this line going kind of at a slant this one's kind of straight up and down kind of at a slant kind of straight up and down this last line that's where we want you know anywhere from like 3/4 of an inch to an inch left over this line is good we're not doing anything to this line this stitch line we're going to cut to the right of it about a quarter of an inch or less if you want to get a little closer so I'm just cutting to the right of that now I'm going to do the same to this I'm cutting to the right of that line same on this same here now I'm going to go press all these open now we have these awesome strip sets that were so incredibly easy to make and some of them are a bit wonky which we love do love so what you're going to do is you're going to go ahead and just continue making these you grab two pieces of fabric and you put them together just like I did in no time you can knock out a whole bunch of these strips and it doesn't matter if they're you know long or short all that gets trimmed after the fact so let's some just do this one more time together I'm taking these two strips they're kind of the same height but one is longer so I'm going to go ahead and trim that just so I know I'm not sewing off the edge of anything and here we go again start just like normal I'm just going to go down this edge turn turn turn go wonky if you want I can't even see where I've so I actually have to feel okay turn you know if you wanted you could draw a lines first if that would help you and just sew right on the line that would be cool you can do it with the chalk or with any kind of uh you know fabric marker and I have them to go one more time no easy so easy alright again I am skipping my first thread gee whiz I can't see it oh all right I'm going to cut to the right it's always find your thread and cut to the right of it all right I'm going to mark these again I mean seriously even I couldn't see that I just used a pencil this time is my line cutting to the right side of it and to this one too always to the right always to the right okay I'm gonna go press those open and we have all of these now I always press to one side and with Crum quilting I don't care which side it goes on I know there are some that they insist on opening the seam you're going to have a hard time when you're working with small pieces too you know just do that it's a lot you know the pieces are made so quickly you don't want to spend a whole lot of time pressing them there's nothing wrong with pressing to the side as a matter of fact it makes for a much stronger scene when you press a seam open your threads have nothing behind it it's just threads there when you press to the side you have more support for the threads and in the olden days they would press to the side so the batting would not come through the hand stitching that you didn't know that but they did because if it was open the batting could come through and it just made the threads weak now you can stop here if you want you just learned how to make a whole bunch of strip sets quick and easy with big pieces of fabric and you're making it look like you started out with some smaller strips but I'm going to go one step further for you take two pieces we'll use the two that I just made put them together anyway if they're both wonky and these kind of are there's a wide bottom here a wide bottom here match narrow bottom two wide bottom and then narrow bottom two wide bottom it'll make a more square kind of square or rectangle going to sew those together we have this let's do this again with all other prints so let's see I'll use one of these oh and let's use one of these which way do I want to go I want to go this way a little bit more even now what you could do is just you know sit and put two more together and pass them through and don't catch it put two more together pass them through just do some chain piecing you'll get so much done so much more quicker and it's just so much easier so now we have this happening now this is not as tall as this one hmm this one is much narrower I was not prepared for this we're going to do something different instead of doing a wonky eight patch we're doing a wonky maybe ten patch we kind of want these pieces to be the same this way first of all put your rows your strips whatever going this way and this one too so you can see we don't have enough here we have something else that's narrow alright we'll add one of these here because we're just coming up a little bit short so let's throw this guy on here so we want to put two blocks together now this way we want the stripes going this way and also this one you can trim one side if you want just to make it easier let's put these two together like this we're going to do the same thing but we're going to do it on our matched up strip sets so I'm going to sew down the edge I'm going to turn and I'm going to leave a little space I'm going to come back going to turn leave a space and come back and I'm out of bobbin thread okay I'm back I'm going to stop there so we just did the same exact thing only we did it with strip sets that's my handy-dandy pencil so I can mark these lines alright I can see them again always hold the finished edge to the right this is your open end on this side that first line of stitching we ignore that we go to the second line and we cut to the right of it and we do that again cut to the right of the next line and cut to the right of this line and we'll go press those open and look how cool is that you can trim your edges if you want I don't generally trim right away I trim when I use it you know these pieces might be put in a box and not used for a while why trim now I trim as I go but I'm just letting you know yes certainly can trim it if you want then when you have like a bunch of these made you can start putting these together you could make an entire crumb quilt with just little pieces like this it's more of a postage stamp quilt and you can use this same method of making strip sets with big pieces of fabric like you could take long quarters and you could sew on those just like we did on these and then just cut and then open and press and you have a whole bunch of strip sets it's an especially good method for wonky because you don't have to worry if you're you know sewing off-kilter you actually like that wonky is perfect for scrappy quilts and crazy quilts and crumb quilts all that and four wonky strip quilts so these are the first ones that I did I happened to have pieces that were about the same width so it made an 8 patch one two three four five six seven eight now these are a 10 patch one two three four five five six seven eight nine ten I love that and then like I could put these two together just what a fun way to make blocks especially if you want to make a quilt with like just some three inch blocks in no time you can cut a 3 inch block out of that so anyway I hope this was helpful I will come back with as many tips as I can the next time I hope to have enough made that I can cut some more blocks and it won't be long I will be thinking about putting them together and we will come up with a fun way and easy way to do that too so please go watch the playlist and please subscribe so you don't miss any more of these videos thank you so much for watching and I will be back with more soon bye you

Channel: Darlene Michaud

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Length: 14min 59sec (899 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 24 2017