Easiest Quilt Ever – The Coin Quilt

quilty quilty is brought to you by Baby Lock baby lock sewing and long arm machines from P Singh - long arming for the love of sewing our fill our fill Italian thread perfectly suited for all your quilting projects dear Stella a unique fabric brand with modern style Fairfield together we can make beautiful things hobbles sewing cut to the point with hovels sewing Moda make something quilty with Mota fabrics Northcutt Cotton's that feel like silk omni grid providing quilters with specialty rulers and accessories for over 30 years hello welcome back to quilty I'm Mary Fonz and on quilty on the show and in the magazine we do kind of an unofficial series of quilts called easiest quilts ever and these are quilts that are just so basic that really they're great for the beginner they really are made for you and so there's a very old pattern very old kind of quilt called a coin quilt sometimes you'll see it called the Chinese coin quilt and there's so many different versions of these and they're all really lovely and beautiful there great scrap busters and today in the modern age they're great for jelly rolls and so looking quilting magazine for the easiest quilt ever coin coils we have a version of a coin quilt here this may be the one that appears in the magazine it may be a different one you know these things sometimes get juggled around but we're going to talk about coin quilts and today and I'm going to show you a little bit bit about about them so this is a lovely quilt table made by my friend Heather Kenyon and she said from start to finish this took her about three hours and 45 minutes from jelly roll to quilt top okay we were going to talked about doing a baby quilt she just kept going because it was so easy so plain quilts are and I'm going to show this one more time just to analyze it it's rows of coins rows of little different fabrics scattered together sewn and sewn in rows with these borders in between almost like sashing you could say in between so you can have big coins you can have little coins but it's always kind of this the same idea so let's take a look at how to do this and I've made a coin quote before and yeah you can make little coins like I said or big coins and I usually go a little bit smaller than this but um but it's really really the same thing so this is a jelly roll strip cutting them in half you've got you know the width of fabric here is it's best you get more variety if you cut your jelly roll strips in half because then you can scatter them more you could sew and you could sew really really long strip sets but that's kind of harder the longer your seam is the more apt you are to veer off into crazy territory so if you cut these in half pull these in here you have a little bit less to work with and you're going to sew one strip to another this is one line like I said from a jelly roll so you don't have crazy different contrast when it's from the same fabric line you have contrast but less than if you're pulling solids you know out of your stash but there's still sort of a method to the madness try to go in an orange in this case orange blue yellow blue orange blue try to get darker ones next to lighter one so you can see your coins you want to be able to see them so you sew a strip set together I did press toward the dark darker okay so you do that and then you kind of keep going you keep going with your strip sets and you get I would work in groups of four now I'm going to press this because I want you to see when you're pressing a long seam you need to be careful so let's do that this here and I'm going to come over and set the scene that's always the first thing we do and I'll press it toward let's see what we've got I think I'll press it toward the orange I think I will do that so open it up this way and I'll press it this way now what I would do is with my iron I would take this once I've set it set it and just give it kind of a cursory beginning scootch I'm scooching it and then by looking at the bottom and being very mindful I'm going to open the seam like this okay because and I'm not smashing I'm lightly lightly rubbing a little bit because the thing is when you have long strips like this it's very easy to you know get the fabric a little bit out of out of whack you know because you if you so long to open it up and you can get lazy too so don't don't do that so up and down really set your thing okay and then you sub cut your strip set so you bring it back over I believe these chunks are about eight and a half one two I lay my ruler down and I over cut just a smidge working with jelly rolls is pretty great you know you have very straight edges on on the jelly rolls so you're you're going to be pretty accurate unless you really get nuts so I'm gonna be doing eight and a half on this particular quote go to hate quilt e-comm by the way for all your pattern and magazine needs so this is garbage and I've got this nice chunk and I would work in groups of four on something like this um you don't have to do it that way but I think I would and then I've got some more coins done here this is what I mean by contrast this is an orange to an orange better I'd say to do something like that okay and then I would I would do the one long coin row and then the other long coin row again I'm going to flip this one just kind of getting variety in there um and you do your coin rows like that and then add your sashing again being very careful when you sew those long seams check your sewing make sure you're doing a quarter inch seam you're not going to narrow or too wide and I think was two and a half yards used in this quote to get those borders and that's a coin quilt and it's very simple and it's very fun and you can do that once you have a quarter inch seam down and you know how to cut properly this is a quilt a beginner can absolutely tackle I'm a said tangle you can tangle with this quilt and you can tackle it you can tango with it you do all kinds of T things thanks for watching quilty and join us in the magazine on the show we are here for you beginner quilter bye quilty is brought to you by Baby Lock baby locks sewing and long arm machines from P Singh - long arming for the love of sewing our fill our fill Italian thread perfectly suited for all your quilting projects dear Stella a unique fabric brand with modern style Fairfield rather we can make beautiful things hobbles sewing cut to the point with hovels sewing Moda make something quilty with Mota fabrics Northcutt Cotton's that feel like silk omni grid providing quilters with specialty rulers and accessories for over 30 years quilty

Channel: Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting

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Length: 7min 50sec (470 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 04 2015