Donna's New "Mix & Match" Quilt! *************FREE PATTERN*************

hi everyone i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics i've just finished working out a new pattern it's called mix and match we're going to take charm squares and we're going to mix them up and then we're going to stitch them back together and we're gonna make them all match this is a free pattern and you can get it by clicking the link right below the video that way if you'd like to make it along with me at home you can so let's get started for the size quilt that i'm making i'm using three sets of charms so there's 120 charms here these are robert kaufman connect the dots and they're kind of a wide range of bright batiks but any charms will work you just want to have some color changes in your set the only other fabric we're going to need is two yards of whatever background you want to use but we're going to play around with the background a little bit later so what i'm going to do is separate these into stacks of four and all i'm going to do is try to get four different colors in the stack it doesn't really matter which ones you use just try to get four unique colors if you can it's okay if you have two reds in one stack but try to get a nice variety here are all my sets of fours and let's take the first stack and head right to the sewing machine first step is to take the two darker ones we'll just say those are the darker ones and then take two lighter ones and put them on top we want to put them right sides together now you know with batiks it's sometimes hard to tell which is the right and which is the wrong side if you can't tell then it really doesn't matter you can go ahead and use either side we're going to line them up carefully and stitch down two sides so i'm doing a quarter inch seam down the one side and then down the other side then just do the same thing with the second pair next step is to cut each of these in half there you can see the seam allowance is a little better we're going to cut it in half this way so i like to line it up on the cutting board so that the edges are on the lines here and i'm going to put my ruler two and a half inches from the edge of the fabric here because that will cut it right down the middle and then i'm going to cut a half inch off of the length here so again i'm lining this up on the half inch line there and i'm just trimming off half an inch now i'm going to do the same thing with the second pair now we'll take these pairs over to the ironing board i want to iron these open now with the seam allowance toward the darker fabric so the easiest way is to put what we called the light down and then peel this open so the seam is nice and straight and then give it a little pressing now we're going to take these right back to the cutting board now i've got the dark fabric up here and i know that these aren't much darker than these but we decided that these were dark and we've got the seam allowances all ironed like this now i'm going to take this block and flip it over so that the dark is on the light and the light is on the dark and again it doesn't really matter what color they are but look my seam allowances are going in opposite directions that that is what matters i'm going to line these up the seam allowances are nesting and i'm going to do the same thing here they're right sides together seam allowances are nesting and now i'm going to cut them on the diagonal now they're going to get cut on the diagonal but in opposite directions so this one's going to go this way and then this one's going to go the opposite way so let me show you i'm just going to line this up from corner to corner here and cut and now the other one i'm going to turn my ruler facing the opposite way and cut now we're going to take these triangles here and i'm just going to switch them around that's going to go with that guy and that's going to go with that guy same thing here this top one is going to go with that and this one's going to go with this now we've got four pairs i've got all four pairs over at the sewing machine here so i'm going to take this first one this is exactly how i had it stacked over stacked up over at the cutting table and i'm going to stitch along the diagonal here now it's easiest if on this pair if i start at this end because when i stitch here these seam allowances are going down they're both going the same way they're supposed to be going the same way they don't nest they both go down so just line up your points there and stitch along the diagonal here and i'm just going to leave it on the machine and grab the next pair now this pair i'm going to start at this point so that those seams again go away from the way i'm stitching so even though they're not nesting they tend to stay together when you have the seam allowances pointing away from the needle so to speak same thing with the next two pair now i'm going to take these back to the ironing board and i'm going to iron each one exactly the same way so i like to put the little triangle here and peel this open this way and then press it and then just make sure the next one is facing the same way and open it up and press it so i'm being careful when i open it up that i don't stretch this and i don't make it curve up or down that's why i say peel you can kind of roll it open [Music] and then the last one [Music] the next step is to cut off these little dog ears that's these little pointy triangles that are in the corners of the blocks and they add bulk and they make it so it's hard to get everything laying nice and flat now we're going to trim these down so they are exactly four inches so i'm going to trim a little bit off of these two sides that don't have any seams in them so trim off of these two sides the easiest way to do that is to get your ruler and put the four inch line right in this corner and then just trim a little bit off of that side and a little bit off of this side now to stitch them together all i have to do is put these right sides together these right sides together and stitch down here the nice thing about these seam allowances is that they are nesting right here also these seam allowances here are going in opposite directions that's going this way the back one's going that way so it's very easy to get this whole thing lined up and it'll be very easy to make those intersections move you can feel if they're lined right up because they just butt right up when they nest they're going in opposite directions so now this guy same thing again seam allowance is all going in opposite directions so it lays nice and flat now i'm not even going to trim these apart i'm just going to leave them strung together because it helps me not get anything mixed up i'm going to open this up and press this seam allowance to my right and then open this up and press this seam allowance the opposite way now we just do that one last seam and again everything is going in opposite directions making it easy to stitch and easy to match now when we open this up you can see we'll finger press it a little very nicely matched all the way around and these ones here that's not perfect that's because when we sewed this the seam allowances weren't nesting but these don't show very much if they're not perfectly matched it's these guys that you want to match and right here and they came out just exact i've got all the blocks done and now it's time to make a difficult decision i need to pick out a background color now you can just lay out your blocks right next to each other like this and you'll get some very interesting secondary patterns as you go but i think for this quilt i want to highlight each block a little more and one way to do that is to put these blocks on point with some blank space between all of them so when you lay out a quilt like this the background is very prominent and the color you pick can really change the appearance of the quilt i've picked out four different choices here and i think what i'm going to do is just lay some blocks on each color and see what it looks like see which one we like the best now of course you can use white as a background white always makes a nice background and the patchwork they really pop off of this nice bright white black is another good option i use black as a background a lot of times and it really makes the patchwork show up very vibrantly now we're getting a little more wild i've got a nice bright orange here that really changes the appearance of the blocks it's very cheerful this is a batik and it's got just a little bit of watercolor pattern showing there the blocks again look very good on that bright orange now this is a little bit different i've got a print here it's a batik and it has some little teeny swirly leaf things on it and i like the effect of having a little bit of a print i wouldn't want to get a print that was too busy because it might fight with all the patchwork but this one i'm pleasantly surprised at how good the blocks look on that nice background now all of the backgrounds look very nice but they're all very different and i'd be interested to know which color background would you pick if you were making this quilt leave a comment down below and let me know which color you like the best but for me today i think i'm going to go with the black i'm really excited to try this with a colored quilting thread in these plain squares and that will show up really nicely against the black now here's a question we get in a lot of emails when you're putting a quilt on point like this how do you know how big to cut out the background now there's basically just three sizes we need for the background there's these squares that go in the middle there's these side setting triangles and then there's four corner triangles there's going to be a smaller triangle that goes in each of the four corners of the quilt the first thing we're going to cut out is the squares now it's very easy to figure out how big those are they're the exact same size as our patchwork squares so for our quilt they're seven and a half inches so these guys will fit right in these empty spots here now we just need to cut the side setting triangles and then some little smaller triangles to go in the four corners and figuring out how big to cut those triangles is a little more difficult the easiest way is if you're making someone else's pattern they're going to tell you exactly what size you need to cut so we're going to take an 11 and a half inch square and we're just going to cut it along both diagonals so just put your ruler from corner to corner slice it and then you can turn it this way and give it another slice the reason we cut it along both diagonals is so that we will have a straight grain on all these long edges of the triangles and it is important to have this straight grain on the outside of the quilt because it helps the whole quilt lay flat and if you're going to stitch some borders around here or even just binding it won't stretch along the edges now if you're making your own quilt on point with a different size block there's a pretty easy way to figure out how to cut those side setting triangles first you want to measure your block so my block is seven and a half inches right now now that's the unfinished size because i haven't stitched things onto this so the finished size of this block after we take out those seam allowances is going to be seven inches so you're going to take the finished size of your block and you're going to multiply it by the square root of 2. now that's that number right there but you can always find that on your calculator you can just do 2 square root and it's 1.414 you don't need all those little numbers so for our block we're going to go 7 times 1.414 so let's just multiply by 7 and that's going to give us 9.8999 then we need to add a little bit to that because we're going to have more seam allowances so i'm going to add an inch and a half so just add 1.5 and that's going to give me 11.3999 i'm going to round it up to 11 and a half inches and that is exactly how big we cut our blocks and then remember these blocks get cut on both diagonals and that gives you these four triangles that came out of here and that's the exact size you need for your side triangles now when you're cutting your triangles be sure to always round up cut them to a little bit bigger if you've got a decimal in your calculations there and that's because if they're too big it's just going to hang off the edge here and you can trim off the excess if you have it a little too little you might end up cutting some of your patchwork off the last thing you need to cut is these four corner triangles for our pattern all we need is a six inch square and you don't have to remember all these sizes this is a free pattern so you can click the link right below the video and then you can have all those numbers now this square only gets cut one time so we're just going to go across one diagonal the reason we only cut these once is because now we have the straight grain on the outside still and our whole quilt are on the outside edges is going to be straight grained and won't stretch again if you're making your own quilt with a different size block here's how you figure out those corner triangles you need to remember how big your finished block was so remember ours was seven and a half now it's going to be seven finished and then we're going to take that and we're going to divide by 1.414 so for our quilt let's see we're going to do 7 divided by 1.414 and then we are going to add one inch so let's add an inch here plus one equals 5.5 5.95 and that's why we cut ours six inches because i rounded up just a little bit and remember those get cut only once so that they will have the right grain around the outside of your quilt and remember whatever number you calculate you should cut your triangles to you always want to cut them a little bigger than what that calculation shows because if they're too little you could end up not having enough around your quilt if they're too big you're just going to end up with extra around the edges here even if they were way too big no problem you can always cut that off but you can't cut it off if it's too little now that all the patchwork and all the background are laid out on the table here i'm ready to sew everything together now when we sew this into rows the rows don't go across this way the rows are all diagonal so the first row actually just has that corner triangle now the second row has got these three pieces so i'm just going to put a couple of pins in here so i know what goes where and take it right over to the sewing machine first i'm going to put these two pieces right sides together so i'm going to flip this over here and i'm going to line up these corners right here you always want to line up those 90 degree edges and then sew toward the far corner and i'm going to finger press toward the background here now these next pieces here this one if i put it right sides together it's going to go like that again you want to line up these and sew down that way so i'm going to just flip this whole thing over so i can start up at this square corner not at the pointy corner down there again i'm going to press that seam allowance toward the background and then i'm going to take it right back over to the table so i like to put it back right where it's going to go so that i know i don't have it turned around and upside down now i'm going to do the same thing with the next row it's got quite a few more pieces in it but i'm going to sew them all together and then put it right back on the table right where it was we're simply going to use the same procedure here we're going to line up these corners and i'm going to keep pressing toward the background now i have a dark background if you're using a solid white background you may want to press towards the patchwork but these fabrics all really want to go that way because we've got all these seam allowances in here so here is the third row which is going to fit right here so once i have all the rows done then i will simply sew the rows together now this one's real easy you can just center this up which is easy to do because there's a seam there and stitch right along there press it that way now when you sew this row to this row the inner sections are going to match they're going to be nested they're going in opposite directions and we're just going to stitch this on and if you notice you have little extra dog ears here you can trim them as you go or you can wait until the whole quilt is done i've got the quilt all stitched up it's loaded on the machine and now we need to pick a thread color there's so many options that would look good here i really want to use something that will show up on this black background so any of these bright ones they're all going to look just marvelous the orange is very pretty even this blue which is darker it will still show if only i could find an opening here there we go it'll still show but it's more subdued i like this nice pencil yellow the green you can see here the red all of those options will look good i think since i've got a yellow back loaded on i think i'll use the yellow and it really shows up the best for the quilting pattern i'm going to use one called bubbles it has lots of nice circles in different sizes and since all the batiks we're using have those dots i think this will be just perfect [Applause] so i've got the mix and match quilt all done i'm very happy with how it turned out it's very cheerful in these nice bright colors the quilting really shows on that black background but completely recedes in where the patchwork is which is great because the patrick is already nice and bold now on the back i used a yellow batik and you can just see a hint of all those circles which match very nicely with the front it turned out about 50 by 60. very easy to make this a different size just use more packages of charm squares so remember i used three packs to make all the squares here two yards for the background and on this one i decided not to put a border on it just looked like it was done but you certainly could add borders to make the quilt bigger or to frame it in some nice bright batiks now i tried the mix and match pattern out in a different color combination and i just made a little table runner so it's very easy to make the blocks because you only need four charms to make each block so if you have some extra charms left over from your quilt or you just want to make a small item it's real easy to put these together put in those corner and side triangles and make a little table runner thanks for watching our video today i hope you enjoyed it now we are going to do another giveaway this is a quilt called crisscross it's a nice big quilt let me get it on the table so you can see it this was a riley blake group of fabrics and we did a video to show how to make the quilt but today you can win it so all you have to do is go to the link right below the video that says giveaway and then put in your email address and your name and remember we can send this to a winner anywhere in the world so good luck now if you like our videos and you want to support us the best thing you can do is subscribe to our youtube channel that would really help us out happy quilting you

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Length: 26min 5sec (1565 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 22 2021