Easy Fat Quarter Quilt with Half Square Triangles and NO POINTS to Match! - Geometric Garden

hello and welcome to quilt addicts anonymous I'm Stefanie sembène today is a staff from a Stephanie day where we do a brand new fat quarter friendly pattern to help you bust your stache or if you remember the stache and with Stephanie club give you some ideas on how you can use this month's fabric bundle if you're not a member it's a really fun club to join each month we send you 12 pack quarters for the price of 10 plus shipping plus we release a brand new pattern that is free for members 12 dollars if you're not a member that you can download and it uses the fabric that is in the bundle and it comes in multiple sizes most months almost all I think all but two months it came in multiple sizes so that way you can either use just what you got and make something small or you can make something bigger and we've been offering finishing kits for that as well and you get a $10 off a $20 coupon code that you can use to get additional fabric so that way if you really like a line one month you can make something bigger and with that and use your discounts if you join and you're a member for an entire year you get 18 for your it's a fabric if you take advantage of all the discounts plus as soon as you join you get access to all of the patterns that we've released to date that is over a $200 value and you can download that as soon as you join will send you coupon code that'll have everything you need so you can get that downloaded and that includes today's pattern which is geometric garden it kind of looks like a flower coming around and it's just a square triangles and there's no points to match so this is a really fun one and I've come up with a way to put it together to where the flowers from the offset and kind of feed into one another with so being able to assemble in a block like structure so we're going to go over how to do half square triangles today get those perfect points when you're sewing them together and then also show you how to assemble that block and kind of give you a preview of how the quilt goes together so that way you can see that even though it looks complicated it really isn't when it's all said and done let's take a peek at this month's fabric and then we'll get into sewing when I describe our fabric selection over at colt addicts Anonymous calm I usually describe it as bright bold and a little funky in this collection has all of those elements it is called flora by Marisa Ortega for Figo you may not have heard a Pheo before but you certainly have heard of their parent company and that is Northcott fabrics they we were their featured block a month designer a couple of years ago they're very popular and well-known and the this is their modern division that they open just a couple of years ago and to feature more modern prints as more sellers get into the more contemporary designs I really like this one because it has all those really bright and bold golds and oranges but also gets into really rich colors as well and as its name its Laura so you're gonna see lots of flowers as well as these great little like seed prints which make a great little place to give the eye a place to rest and there's just one print that has all these seed packets in it so if you're not super into gardening it's not like you're gonna be super overwhelmed by that it's just gonna look more like a floral print a nice floral but modern floral which is sometimes hard to find in those rich pinks and purples and in this case the deep teals they're just really really pretty and I've really enjoyed working with this collection so the very first thing we need to do is make a whole bunch of half square triangles and I like to do those two at a time for a couple reasons one when we sew we're sewing with the bikes is still attached to the other bodice so it makes for a much neater block in the end it isn't gonna stretch muscle much less on you and I feel like it's more accurate to do it this way plus you get two at a time and that's always fun so what you're gonna do is you're gonna take your background fabric and you're gonna flip it over so that way you've got your pointy ends going up and down and then taking your ruler just line that up so that way it is for going from point to point and then I take either a pencil spine I like to use these friction gel pens though and I just make a mark going from the center out because it tends to slip less when you're doing that and you really want to go right into the corner of that point I find what I'm teaching this in person this is a more critical step than most people realize because if you are off say you're not going quite to the corner a little bit to the outside of the corner you when you're selling it are less likely to make that adjustment to so straight into the corner then to follow the line so you want to take your time at the step and make sure that you are truly drawing from point to point and that will make everything else a lot easier this is a great task to do while you're you know doing a little Netflix binge on the couch I take my portable cutting mat with me and cut and press and I just sit on the couch and I will draw these lines up and then the next day I'm ready to sell so you're going to do that on the back of all of your triangles or you Square and then when we get to sewing we're gonna arrange them right sides together getting your points lined up now I typically do not pin these because I've done probably thousands maybe tens of thousands of these but if you were going to pin what you would want to do is pin across the top like this and then also the bottom here's why when you are sewing this what we're going to do is we're going to sew a scant quarter inch seam down this side of the drawn line and then down this side of the drawn line so if you pin over here say your pins are going vertically like this then these points can shift and so then you go from having something that is perfectly in alignment and you got quarters all lined up to things just moving on you because we're sewing on a bias things move sometimes and so if you pin there then by the time you get down here this could be all out of whack and then your corners don't meet and then your triangle points are not going to work out right and it just doesn't work very well so if you're going to pin pin here and here once you get more confident with it and you've done hundreds or thousands like I have you can skip the pitieth step now typically when we so what we do is we line up the edge of our fabric with the edge of our presser foot just like this and you're going to sew your quarter inch seam now when we're doing these we're going to pretend that this line is the edge of our fabric so we're going to line up our presser foot so that the edge of it is right even with that line and you're going to sew scant corner it seemed first on this side then we're going to flip everything around and then we're gonna sell all the way down this side as well I'm gonna sew a scant quarter inch seam on my sewing machine for my machine all I have to do is move my needle one space to the right and that from the quarter inch stitch and that will give me just a little bit smaller than a quarter inch stitch which is perfect for this type of triangle unit if your machine will not do that instead of having your foot right next to the line like this just scooch it over so that it is a little bit on top of the line and that's another way to do it just you know have it over just a little bit more you can absolutely chain stitch at this step that's what I did I went down a whole bunch of these all at once doing first one side then when I had all of them done I flipped it around handed the whole other side and it just makes things go super fast and super quick and that way you can get to the actual block part faster which is the real fun part of this quilt all right let's get sewing all right so I've already got my machine set up to so that scant quarter-inch stitch and I've lined up the side of my presser foot so that it's even with that line like I showed you before and I'm just gonna sell all the way down keeping everything nice and even pull that pin and now when it gets to the point here it's kind of hard to hold it from here so what I do is I move my finger to the side of the presser foot that way I can keep everything going nice and straight all the way through and then when I'm done I would lift this up feed the next one through and chain piece and do all of this side then we're going to flip it around and do the other side one tip here that I noticed when I taught someone in person is they didn't like to use their presser foot to sew so what they were doing was using the start/stop button on the machine that's not a good idea for this project because you need to be able to slow down when you come to those points so that way you can maintain that consistency a quarter-inch seam all the way through to your point or you're gonna end up with triangles that look more like smiley or frowny faces so you want to plug in that crosser foot you want to be able to slow down when you get to those points and be very deliberate in what you're doing so when you get through piecing or sewing down on one side I'm just going to pull your bits a little bit you're going to turn it and you're going to still line up the presser foot with that line and then you're just going to start sewing down the side again and this time you're just going to sew this the corn seam down the other side so repeat that till you've done that for all of your half square triangles if you want to make the job seem a little shorter or you know break it up a little bit try doing one fabric at a time and that will make it seem like you have more accomplishments as you go and you won't have such a pile of half square triangles to be that are all tied together with those little bits so this thread is fairly light but I've got it going down both sides of that drawn line and if I were to measure this this is going to measure a little bit less than half an inch which it does we're just a hair under half an inch when I measure from that seam over there we will measure it from this side I think you'll be able to see a little bit better on that darker purple but when I line up the edge of my ruler I am just a hair under that half inch which means I've successfully sewn my scant quarter inch seam if it is at half an inch you should be fine if it is over half an inch you have done something wrong and you're going to need to pull those seams out and redo it so this is your first time doing task square triangles like this I recommend you do one make sure you have it right and then do all of them otherwise your you might cry we don't want you to cry and sewing it's supposed to be fun all right so now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna flip this over and I'm gonna line my ruler up on that line that we drew and if it's not exactly on it that's not a huge deal because we already had the accuracy from sewing that scant quarter inch seam but what you don't want to have happen is get a super skinny seen so you want to be kind of straight down the middle but if you're not super on the line not the end of the world so now I'm going to take my rotary cutter and I'm just going to slice down the center and what you're looking for is now when you pull this apart we're going to have two half square triangles that were able to press open and square up and basically what you want to make sure is that you've got a good quarter inch seam between the edge of your fabric and where that stitch line is if you get to a sieve and inch or less like say one side you had a really fat seam the other side was really skinny if it's less than an eighth of an inch you're gonna need to redo that because that compromises the scene that makes it too skinny so with wear and tear over time as a quilt is used or even sometimes just putting it on the long arm and having it get pulled tight so it can be quilted those seams can pop so when you're doing this again straight down the center if you can if you're not perfectly on the line that's okay but make sure your seams are all at least an eighth of an inch large when you do this I really come to love pressing my seams open for a couple of reasons and the way to do it is you just open it up with your fingers and then place the tip of the iron straight down that Center and as long as you have three fingers down ahead of the iron then that will open that seam up enough to where you can really easily press that seam this should be nice and straight there should be no Wiggles or anything that means you have a pleat on the other side and when you flip it over it should again be nice and straight and most importantly flat if it's not flat or if it looks like there's a bump or a ridge that means you've probably pressed a pleat in on the other side and so I usually hit it one more time from the other side as well just to get it nice and flat before I start trimming down but I really love doing this for a couple of reasons one sometimes when you're doing half square triangles and you're flipping a seam to one side it will actually reduce the size of the triangle because your thread takes up some space and your fabric takes up some space so if you've ever been trimming and one side seems bigger than the other and you press to one side that's probably why it probably had nothing to do with how you sewed it it probably completely had to do with how the pressing happened and the other part is is when you're sewing it together it makes it really easy to get really perfect joints and they lay really really flat and so we'll be showing you how we do that as we assemble the block here so trimming is probably the most important step in doing any type of triangle especially when you're doing triangles from squares because this way they're going to be the exact same size as all those other squares that are in the block so everything's going to fit together be nice and flat and also you know even though we sewed we sewed on the bias so things are going to move a little bit on it on us we want to make sure there good to go so here's how I trim first of all I'm going to make sure that the 45-degree line of my ruler is nice and even with this seam line we want that to be absolutely perfectly down the center if you are off a little bit like this then it means that your point is never going to go to the corner because you have not trimmed it to the corner so you want to make sure that this line your 45-degree angle is absolutely dead center on that note ifs ands or buts about it then I'm making sure that I've got a little bit of fabric hanging beyond the measurement I need to trim too and then also beyond the sides of the ruler I'm right-handed so for me that's on the right and the top side so I'm going to go ahead and cut up the top or the side and the top and so I've got this nice and trimmed you can see I'm going straight to the corner which is great so now I'm going to flip this around and this time I'm going to line up the left and bond sides that I've just trimmed exactly with the measurement that I need to trim to I still have that 45 degree line going straight down that Center the way it's supposed to and I'm gonna go ahead and trim now that I'm happy with where everything is at and you can see we really have not taken off that much but it makes a big difference if I scooch this to the side and I bring this one over this is my other half you can see that there is a difference this is a tad bit smaller it definitely looks a lot cleaner and it's going to be the exact same size as all of my squares that I've cut to go on the block as well which is going to be fantastic when it comes to point everything together so make sure you do this don't skip this step it makes for a lot better piecing when you're putting everything together so there are two types of blocks that we're going to be making for this quilt I'm going to show you the larger of the two because once you know how to do that one you'll know how to do the smaller of them as well this is a big block we are not able to get all of it on camera but you can get the gist of it here it kind of travels around where you've got your triangles going this way then this way then they come up and then they come back around so it looks like a giant to me like geometric flower petal and which is perfect for the flora fabric to go with it as its all flowers and Gardens and we'll see packets and I just love like I kind of describe our fabric choices of quilt addicts anonymous is bright bold and little funky and this just fits in every way with that and it's the background fabric from Figo also looks really cute with this especially with the little clovers it really fits really well with the theme and it's not too late to where you have to be afraid of you know getting it dirty and never clean again but it definitely blends and lets everything else sort of steal the show so what I'm going to do is I'm going to sew this entire line together and then I'm gonna come back and lay them out and then I'm going to sew this line together add my third row and then join my row so I'm going to sew my entire horizontal row together first before I press a thing and so you guys will kind of see me do that on camera I'm going to kind of move everything a little bit so you won't see this exact layout but first I'm gonna start just sewing these columns together and then always always always I lay everything back out in between when I've sewed it and then when I've cut it back apart to lay it out especially with a block like this because you do not want to accidentally get these guys going in the wrong direction because you will be able to tell when you get your whole quilt together and it really stinks to have to like cut out you know get your seaming Browz because you you know turn this triangle the wrong way and you can it's very obvious and you just have to get like do surgery and get one out and get it going right way it's much easier to just sort of quality check as you go which is what I always do and it helps me keep everything straight so let's get sewing so I just flip these guys here's my top two I'm just gonna flip them so that they are right sides together like that and I'm gonna line up my top and my bottom points if you want to pin you certainly can and then I move my sewing machine back to its regular quarter-inch stitch because we don't want it to be the scant quarter inch stitch anymore that's just for when you're sewing your half square triangle so you have a little bit of extra wiggle room because I would always rather have fabric to trim off than have it be a little bit too small alright so I've got that started well usually what I do because I don't like to pin if I feel like I don't have to is I'll get it started like that and then I'm going to line up my bottom corners and just want my finger on top of that and that is enough for me to be able to hold everything together while I sell when I get to the point here where I can no longer hold that because it's gonna go underneath the presser foot I just move my finger to the left and help guide it to maintain that quarter-inch stitch all the way down so now I'm just going to go to the next one in the row and I'm just going to flip those right sides together and line up those corners and sew so like I said I wait to press until the very end when all of my rows are sewn together but I do lay everything back out to make sure everything is going and orientated in the correct direction here so that way I can fix any problems right now before they become bigger harder to fix problems everything is looking good so I'm going to go ahead and sew the next two together and get a set another set of twosies ready to go I almost always work from top to bottom that's just my preference but do what works for you so that way you can keep everything straight all right I know you can't see it because it's off-camera but I've got a fifth row over here that I'm gonna add to my second set of two Z's it's a lot easier to sew one to two than it is one to four so I'd like to get my set of three and then sew my set of three to my set of two so I'm going to do that next and then we're about ready to join the rest of our rows and press these guys open I'm probably missed skip showing you this part because it's just more the same at this point we're just continuing to join our rows together horizontally and then we'll come back when it's time to press everything so if got my blocks on in two horizontal rows and I've double check that all my triangles are going in the right direction and that I've got everything in the right place this is a really good time to fix that rather than after you've pressed because it just gets harder the more steps you've completed since you sewn something together going the wrong direction so quality check make sure that your triangles are going the way they should be according to the pattern and then we're going to press all these guys open I know it looks a little unruly but it will get better here so what I do is I just flip these guys over and I kind of lay the bro so it's going up and down and then just like before I will press with that nose of the iron straight down the middle seam the difference is I'm lifting the iron up and pressing it down that way I don't accidentally press any of these seams going in the wrong direction because we want everything to remain nice and flat as we do this so whenever I'm picking that iron up and moving it I literally am lifting that off and I don't use steam I do so with a 2.0 stitch length and that really helps me just get really nice beautiful joins I don't have any problems with seams popping over when it's been quilted and I do stitch in the ditch and get right into those corners all the time and I know a lot of other quilters do the same where they're pressing it open just because they really like the look of that I think today's sewing machines are capable of handling it more than yesteryears so once I get everything done I'll lay everything horizontally across my crusty mat I just give a little bit of a press from the other side just to help get that nice and flat alright so that is looking pretty good and just so you know you are going to have where your point is about a quarter inch away from the edge of your fabric you want that to happen because that way when we sew our quarter inch seam up it means at that point is going to be right next to the seam of the next one so if you don't see that it means that something went wrong and you should pay particular attention to make sure the edges are nice and even and at that point is a quarter inch away or close to it all right so I may keep pressing all the rest of these until I have them all ready to go then I'm going to show you some real great tips for making sure you get great joins when you're sewing these together alright so I've got everything pressed into this horizon-- a rose now it's time to start sewing them together what I typically do is work from the bottom up so I'll pin these two together and sew them and these two and then I will join that to the end to create a set of three so what I'm gonna do here is I'm just going to show you my tips are pinning now you'll see that even though we have lots of points in this block none of them actually have to come together so typically your point is going to be going to a background square and in this case it's going straight into it just a straight one here so it's gonna be a little bit easier to get everything lined up then if you had two points coming together but we still want to take some care when we do this because we do have some nice straight lines here that would definitely show up with this big bowl print against this light background if say they were offset a little bit like that you would see that in the final quote so we want to take our time when we've Hin I'm going to show you how I pin here to get this looking fabulous so I'm gonna go ahead and flip my fourth row onto my fifth row here and I'm just gonna start over here if you want to you can certainly pin this corner as well and if you have trouble keeping everything lined up when you go I definitely recommend pinning the outside corners as well but I typically start with this seam here and because we press these open I kind of look at it from the top and I'm making sure that my seam allowances are right on top of each other and that they're both going in opposite directions here now if you end up being a little off and this one it will be able to tell as much because you got your background fabric and so if your points off a little bit it's not gonna be the end of the world this next one though you're going to be able to tell because we have two solid fabrics that are coming together so I want to make sure when I'm lining that up that I've got those seams perfectly right on top of each other and that they are both going to the right side there and then I always pin right where I'm going to be sewing so I'm the stitching right through here it's going to be about a quarter inch away I want to make sure I pin right in there because then that will hold everything together right where I'm going to be sewing is if I were to pin down here or across or anywhere else besides exactly where I'm going to be sewing then those seams might shift and so all the time.we pinning this really for nothing because things are gonna move around on you the other reason my pin in the right side of the seam allowance is because only so we're gonna sew down and when our needle is down in this first half of the seam allowance that's when I pull this pin because when that needles down it kind of acts like a pin and holds everything together so you always have great joints all right this one's the same deal where we've got two colors coming together so I want to make sure that I am being really careful and looking at that from the top to make sure that those color sides are lined up really nicely then pin in the right side of that seam allowance and I'm going to take my time with this one to you but this is one where since we've got that plane part in the background it won't be as obvious if your office is snitch now when I'm sewing these together I typically work one block at a time that way I can lay everything out make sure that I have a good mix of prints but if you want to do things to speed things up so what I typically will do next is I will pin together rows two and three and I will sew those all at once and that will help me get the spot together a little bit quicker so I'm going to go ahead and pin these now as well and then we're gonna take them over to the sewing machine one other quick tip as you're sewing and another great reason to press open because you don't always see this when you are pressing them from side to side is in theory when you press these open you are going to have this little triangle dot here where your seams are coming together and it's been pressed open you're going to want to so just one needle with to the right of where that teeny tiny little triangle tip is and that will ensure that you never miss a seam now you're not always going to see them sometimes those are going to end up on the backside like they do with this one here but as long as you have trimmed carefully and you have pin carefully and you have a pretty accurate quarter inch seam you can trust that you're going to be pretty stinking close and if you are bothered by any of them you can just pull that little bit out and readjust and go from there typically I'm able to hit it just about good enough just by doing this but when I am able to see those do you make sure that I'm sewing just to the right of where that teeny tiny little triangle tip is so that way I don't ever lose those points all right so again it's really important that your points are going to line up here because if they don't then this is going to be really difficult to get your point to match when you sew your rows together so if you need to go ahead and pin these corners together I typically don't I typically just hold them in place and get them situated underneath my sewing machine but if that's hard for you then pin the outsides as well alright so I understand I kind of zoom along and then I stop with my needle down in that first half of the seam allowance and that's when I pull this pin because that needle kind of acts as a pin and holds everything together for me then I'll zoom along again and slow down as I come to one of those points so I can make sure I so just to the right of where that tiny little point is so I don't cut off my triangle tip and one other thing to pay attention to is because we have press these open sometimes when they go over this part of the sewing machine they'll get flipped going the wrong way so a way to avoid that it's just to kind of lift it up a little bit and then everything will lay nice and flat once that seam goes over your throat plate eventually you're kind of able to feel when they flipped going the wrong way going over that alright so when I get to this point again you can pin if you want I just line up those corners and put my finger right on top of it then when I get to the end I will just put one finger to the side to make sure I maintain that corner and seam and keep everything nice and together alright so I'm going to go ahead and sew my other one through we'll just chain stitch that to make this go nice and fast you want to be really careful when you're pressing this open to make sure that we're not going to press any of these other seams going in directions it shouldn't so what I typically do is I will start with where this point is here where they've come together and I'm just going to flatten that out real good and then I'm doing a lot of lifting and pressing here so every time I move that iron I'm physically lifting it off the ironing surface and it typically am moving my hand instead of keeping it right in front I'm moving it to that next scene joint these blocks are not small but they are also not super large so that's plenty enough space to be able to move over if you do accidentally press something away the wrong way it's really easy to just kind of flip it going back with your iron and I'm just going to work my way down get the rest of this but where you really want to pay attention is where you have all these diagonal seams that's where it's really easy to flip something going in a direction you don't want like I did right there so I'm just want you go ahead and hit that back where I want it to be there all right so I'm still gonna press this from this side as well and I'm actually used a little bit of spray when I do that but I really want to show you guys these these joins because they turn out fabulous we really have the point coming together really nicely here and that's just because I sewed one needle with to the side of it so that point can come straight into that seam join and we really don't have that many this is the one I couldn't see but again because we were really careful about trimming to the right size it really came together really well there so there's one more thing idea to get this set lay even flatter and that's I just spray it with a little bit of water or you could use your favorite spray starch alternative and then I'll just go over the scene one more time from the bright side and that'll help it lay super flat before you are getting ready to sew the rest this block together this is one of my favorite non quilty tools it comes from the beauty supply store it is a mist sprayer so when you spray it it like miss the water it turns any liquid into an aerosol so you can put your favorite spray so it's alternative or I just use water most of the time and then I can just go over that and you don't have a little droplets on your fabric but it just gets it just light enough wet enough so you can get really great joins cuz I don't like putting water on my iron because this is not an inexpensive iron I don't want to ruin it and also I feel like over time you matter what iron you use like it will start to deposit stuff on your quilt and you don't want that so I would just much rather leave this dry and go get myself a cheap little spray mister from a hair spice store selling Beauty has them just any supply store that's meant for like professionals go there and you can grab them there alright so I'm going to press my other row together as well and then I'm going to show you my quick way for assembling the rest of this block a couple quick more quality check things you want to look out for as your assembly mess in order to make sure that you have a really great joint is that whenever you have straight edges join me like this that they do appear straight from a distance because you will be able to tell if those are offset and then once you get an entire triangle assembled into the outside that point should come out about a quarter inch from the edge on both sides you can see it over here and then also let's see that's it for that one but these two they're about a quarter inch in and you want to be able to see that because otherwise when we go to sew this to the block that's next to it if this is too skinny one you're gonna have a compromised scene because it's not going to be wide enough or two if this is like all the way to the corner you're going to lose your point and it's never going to look right because this part here is actually going to join into another one of these blocks so do be careful and check for those little bits again a quarter inch away from the edge when you have points coming to the edge of the block and all your seams are sewn in and then also that you've got nice straight lines whenever you have straight parts in the block and that just helps things look a little bit better and more professional as you continue to improve on your quilting all right so I've got a trick on how you can sew these guys together pretty much all at once and pin it all at once so that way it just speeds up the rest of the block as we could sew this together and then so impress and sew this together I'm so impressed but I find it's easier since we just have one here I will flip that one down first I'm gonna pin that in place and then I'm gonna flip this guy up and pin it in place along the bottom then I can sew on this side first because I'm not going to be in the way of accidentally sewing this in then I can open up the block once that seam is sewn and so this guy and then I can press them all at once so pin out once press all at once saves a little time get you moving on to the next lock faster so I'm gonna go ahead and do that and then we will how well for a little bit of what's left in this quilt but at this point you've seen and you know everything you need to know for doing the quilt but there were a few tips and tricks and kind of give you some you know fun bits on how this quilt actually goes together too so that way you can kind of have everything entertained but you still get to assemble actual blocks instead of doing really long rows alright so you can see I've got both sides pinned and I've got this guy it just is the one so it's not in danger of getting sewn into anything if I start with this side so I'm going to start sewing here then we'll unfold the block so the other side and then we'll be able to do everything at once make it real efficient so I've got my blocks them together I need to press this but this is a point where you really have to be very careful when you're pressing to make sure you are not getting anything going in the wrong direction because these squares are smaller than the width of your iron it is really easy to accidentally push some of these going in the wrong direction as you are going over it with the iron so I keep that no straight down the center and then I'm making sure that I am lifting and pressing all the way down so that way I'm not hitting like this seam here and getting it going in the wrong direction as you really want this to be as flat as possible so that where your block lays as flat as possible and because that means it'll be the right size it'll make it easier to quilt lots and lots of reasons why that's a good thing so let me go ahead and finish that row you can see I'm nice and straight those seams are nice and flat press evenly going to both sides this is what you want it to look like from this side and then from the other side too you want to look nice and flat there shouldn't be any pleats or raised beds it should just be really super nice and flat alright so this is one of the two types of blocks that we're going to be making for this quilt and this is the other this one here is essentially the center of this block it's basically the center of it here so we only have three vertical rows in this case and the way it's gonna be assembled is it's going to do one of these guys obviously I probably wouldn't put this next to it because we've got those polka dots right next to it so I'm probably gonna pick up another one to go right next to that one but when you do this that way you're going to have this little offset piece so that way every you will see all the full stars when it's finished but we're able to sew it together basically in rows of five by five blocks and then in rows of three by five blocks so that makes a little easier when you are putting it together because you have a set amount of these blocks to make and a set amount of these blocks to make depending on what size you have chosen for the geometric garden and that way you can focus and have piles and it's just a lot easier and you can wait to assemble until you're all done as opposed to having to kind of go as you go along or have a space where you have to keep everything out this just makes life a little bit easier I did there searching fabrics in this line and I believe there's 14 or 15 in each one of these blocks so what I did is I tried to evenly choose all my half square triangles from the available fabrics and then whatever was missing I filled in in the center and then that way I only had to repeat a couple of fabrics so obviously this is a repeat within this block I'm sure there are others in here as well but that way you can have a nice mix of it all it looks scrappy it's fun and you can always if you want to do more than what we choose so that we never have to repeat then that's totally fine and up to you so there's one other thing I want to show you in terms of constructing this quilt they may be a little bit different than your standard setting so because this is tiered in order for us to have the blocks sort of meld into one another it means that these are kind of stepping down and it means that we're not going to have a straight four by five block layout it and so what you're going to have is you're going to have part of one block on top and printer one block at the bottom I'm going to show you what that means so here I have an entire row of the quilt and because it is tiered and it is going to need to fit in with the other ones like say this one you might go next to it and you can see that it's even with the top here and but we only have half of a block here so we have the bottom three rows of the block at the top of this row for the five by five and then we have a whole one starting here so what we'll do is we will go all the way down to the bottom so here you can see the bottom half of the block which fits you know it's at the bottom of the row it would have normally fit up here but because we have this tiered layout in order to make the setting work it got split up now this may seem a little complicated when you're looking at it on the video but it is all laid out in graphic format and the pattern to go along with this and it will tell you exactly how many of these you need to make and you're still essentially making full blocks you're just not selling them all together because in this case part of the block will go on top of the row and Haribo at the bottom so again that's all detail out in the pattern it shows you exactly what you have to make and how many based on which size you are doing and you'll be able to see your layout diagram so that it's very clear for you on what you need to sew together to make this quilt work for you and it really is a fun setting in order to have all this cool geometric flowers going across and this way you're sort of cutting down in the white space but it still is enough of it to sort of give the eye a place to rest to make these geometric flowers really pop so I hope you've enjoyed this video tutorial again the pattern is called geometric garden it is available at shop quill Thomas comm we are offering kits for this wall supplies last also at shop duck eggs and I'm is calm and there's a really fun one but this fabric is not reorder Bowl so when it's gone it's gone and we got a lot of it so we'll see how long it lasts if you are a member of stash with Stephanie you are able to get this pattern for free along with your subscription along with over two hundred dollars worth of patterns that we have released to date with the stash most stephanie program so if you join you get access to all that immediately and then you also can get this kit if you want and go with that and then you'll get your bundles in the mail each month going forward I really hope you enjoyed this again if you're not a member of stash with Stephanie so get the pattern and you can get that kit if you want just for this so you don't have to be a member of the clubs you get that but I hope you've enjoyed this video tutorial I really had fun with this one it is kind of a gluey January when I'm working on this and so this was been a really fun right quilt to work on in the winter time and it is just I've really been giving in to indoor house plants and I'm excited to garden outside this spring so I'm pretty excited about just you know seed packets and flowers and things in general and I know that a lot of you guys cards as well because I hear about it about how you sometimes cut back on your quilting in the summer because you're busy out in the yard so if you also love flowers this is a fun one to do you bust your stash with it or you can get the fabric from us again this is flora from Vito thanks so much for finding and there's a next time happy quilting [Music]

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Id: fd42SXuoakU

Length: 40min 49sec (2449 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 20 2020