Donna's SWEET "Hearts and Pinwheels" FREE PATTERN Quilt tutorial!

hi i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics i've been working on a new quilt pattern it has hearts and it has pinwheels it's very nice for Valentine's Day so this is just my rough sketch but I made some of the blocks I've got a few hearts I've got a few pinwheels and I think this is gonna turn out really nice so I'm gonna show you exactly how to make this so let's get some fabric and get started now for this pattern you're going to need either quarter yards or fat quarters I'm gonna use quarter yards and I have this very nice group of fabrics from Riley Blake it's called love letters so we need six quarter yards that are colorful and three quarter yards but you would consider a background that are almost plain or very light for this quilt we have two blocks we have a heart block and a pinwheel block now we're going to start making the heart blocks first because part of this block that's left over goes to make the pinwheel blocks now I'm going to take the three background fabrics these light ones and set them aside then I'm gonna take each one of these quarter yards and cut it in half so if you're using fat quarters you're also going to cut them in half but you'll be cutting in the opposite direction so we're gonna cut them all in half and Reese tack them up so we've got one of each print so this is all we need to cut our hearts out of so I'm gonna get all six fabrics here and then these that I'm setting down over here we're going to use for our binding now for the cutting it's gonna be a lot easier if you get the free pattern it'll be the link right below the video the first link then you can see exactly which sizes I'm using here so I'm cutting the body of the hearts so I'm going to cut a six and a half inch with the fabric here and I'm using my weight to help hold down my plastic ruler because it keeps it from sliding so I've got a six and a half inch wide piece here and then I'm gonna cut one strip out of this extra and it's one and a quarter inches wide and this is going to be a little border on our pinwheel blocks now we're gonna take this six and a half inch wide piece here and I'm going to cut it into three and a half inch sections and we need twenty-one inches this way which we can get from our fabric but you do have to be careful that you don't cut a lot off at the beginning here now we're going to work on the background fabric so I'm going to use up the whole quarter yard here if you're using fat quarters yours won't be shaped like this it'll be wider but you can fold it in half and then it'll be this shape so I am going to cut some three-and-a-half inch squares and some one and three quarter inch squares now that we have all the pieces cut we're going to take our light squares here and we're gonna draw two lines on the backside of them so first we're going to draw one line from corner to corner so you might have to move your ruler over a little because the pencil has a little bit of width and we want that line going right from corner to corner I like to use a pencil there's chalk pencils there's a lot of good marking tools but just a regular pencil works fine now we need to draw another line a half inch away so this is the easiest way is with this little half-inch ruler here if you don't have a half inch ruler you can simply take your big plastic ruler and move it over half of an inch of that also works but I find this is handy-dandy so we're gonna mark some of them going this way and the other half going the other way so the first line is always gonna go in the middle it's that second line so this second line needs to be on this side on this block here I've got all the pieces I need for the first heart so we have two bigger rectangles we've got this one drawn up to the right and this one drawn up to the left and then we've got four little squares which we will use afterwards so I'm just gonna set these here so I know which way they go and I am going to stitch right on top of this pencil line or a little bit to this side of it a little bit towards the corner and I'm gonna turn it around I'm not even gonna take it off the machine I'm not even gonna trim that thread and I'm gonna stitch on the other pencil line we'll do the same thing on this second corner here again we're stitching a little bit to the side of the pencil line the side towards that corner there no we're going to take these little squares so two of them are gonna go on the top here I'm gonna line them up and I like to set both of them on here right now they fit right on there they're exactly two of them are exactly the same size as that when you put them side-by-side and I'm going to stitch this way and this way now I didn't mark these with pencil but I have a piece of painters tape on my machine here it's going straight from the needle hole straight down and if I put this corner at the needle and this corner on this line here like this as I sew I will have a nice straight line that goes from corner to corner and that saves a lot of time because I didn't have to draw all of those pencil lines so put this corner right at the needle and then line this up so you can swivel it put it so that the corner is right on the tape and as you stitch you keep it on the edge of the tape so we're going to do that for all of these guys the next step is to iron these up so I always iron them flat first just the way they were stitched now we're going to peel this over so it's folding right along its stitching line give it a little pressing and then this corner also and then this is going to fold back like this I always like to fold it back an iron first because then I can make sure I have it sewn correctly so if I folded it over and it was for instance facing like that that would mean I didn't stitch very straight and I would have to take that stitching out so if the corners meet everywhere that's good now we want to cut off the excess so we've got two extra layers back here I like to use scissors on these small triangles so I'm just cutting so that I'm leaving a quarter inch seam allowance of there and there now this one here it's a little bit bigger you can use your scissors and cut right in the middle or you couldn't get your rotary cutter and a straight edge and cut right in the middle so this is half of the heart we'll do the same thing over here and then we're going to take this piece we're gonna save all these up and these are what are going to make our pinwheel blocks now all we have to do is sew the two halves over the heart together and for some reason I find it easier to stitch from the bottom of the heart toward the top so I'm going to line everything up so there's the heart block and now we can move on to the pinwheel blocks so I went ahead and stitched up all the heart blocks and these are the part that we cut off of each heart block so I'm going to just iron this toward the dark color and then I am going to trim off these dog ears and these are going to make the pinwheel blocks so I'm gonna take two matching ones so we'll take these two pink then I'm going to take two other ones that have the same color background but have a different dark print and I'm going to make a pinwheel out of these so let's see if I can get this right here you've got to like that and two like that now we just stitch them together the pinwheels are pretty easy to sew together because the seam allowances are all facing opposite directions so this one's going this way on the bottom it's going the opposite way so you can line these up here real easy and we're gonna stitch right down this edge and I'm going to grab I'm gonna leave it on the machine and grab these other two pieces put them right sides together match it up carefully and then I am going to press the top seam allowance or this from the top half here I'm going to press it to the left and give it a nice hard press right in the middle cuz it's thick there and then this half is going to go that way and now it's real easy to get that intersection matched up without doing anything special so I'm just lining up the top picking a quarter inch there and I'm betting that my intersection is just about perfect yep so we'll give this oppressing with the iron now now the pinwheel is ready for some boarders so we're going to take this one and a quarter inch piece that we cut earlier and we're going to cut it into segments like this five inches and six and a half inches and those will go around all the pinwheels now there's not quite enough pieces when you cut this to do all the pinwheels so we're gonna take one or two of the scraps we had left from when we cut the hearts and we're going to cut the rest of the borders and we're going to reserve the rest of these for the binding all the blocks are done and I'm ready to lay out the quilt now I've got a lot more heart blocks than I do pinwheel blocks so we're gonna lay out a lot more of these now when I tried this out earlier I noticed that it really just looks kind of busy with the blocks right next to themselves even if they were all hearts so I went ahead and cut some six and a half inch squares that's the same size as all these blocks here and I'm just going to alternate these and I think it makes everything look a lot better so this is what you can do any time your blocks are quite busy just put in some plain blocks between I have everything laid out now and I'm not real picky about what's gonna go where if you have one color that's very prominent like this dark red here that's what I'm going to focus on making sure it's spread out and balanced but I not gonna worry about it too much it's supposed to have a nice scrappy look so now all I have to do is sell all the blocks together and then I'm gonna put one border on it and I can get it onto the quilting machine I have the quilt on the quilting machine the red border frames it very nicely that dark color that does look really good on here I like that strong border for thread colors we could use white it's going to not show in the big squares it'll show a little bit here we could use blue if we wanted our threads to show quite a bit so that is going to show on here that actually is going to look pretty good I'm going to quilt it in a heart pattern so I think I'm going to go ahead and use the blue rather than the pink which will really recede the quilting pattern is called whimsical hearts and this is nice because the hearts go in all directions so there's not an up or down and the swirls between them all fill in the space nicely the quilt is done it turned out about 46 by 57 it's just a nice gift size quilt those little hearts and the pinwheel blocks they look really good with that plain background color between them and you can see the quilting here there's little hearts you can't see the blue thread very much but it pops up and so it's nice to see those little hearts there now on the back side there's a nice old-fashioned Valentine's print this looks exactly like the Valentines we used to give out when we were in elementary school just like that and the binding the binding is done with those remnant pieces we had leftover and so there's I use three or four different colors around the edge but it makes a really nice binding we hope you enjoyed our tutorial today on how to make the hearts and pinwheel quilt now we've got another giveaway I made a pattern called diamonds you may have seen our video that shows you how to make this but this is today's giveaway so all you have to do to enter is click the link below the video it says giveaway and put in your name and your email address and we can send this to any address in the world so good luck now if you like our tutorials the best thing you can do to support us is to subscribe to our YouTube channel that would really help us out happy quilting

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Length: 14min 52sec (892 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 14 2020