EASY ON POINT CRISS CROSS QUILT!!!

hi i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics today i'm going to show you how to make a quilt called crisscross this is a pattern from cozy quilt designs and it's a strip club pattern that means it uses a jelly roll and i'm going to use this really nice one from riley blake it's called meadowlane and it's got really nice pinks and greens aqua and a little bit of peach one of the things i really like about cozy quilts patterns is that they come with multiple sizes included i'm going to make the twin size today so it's going to take 26 of the jelly roll strips then it's going to take two accents and i think the gray and the pink grunges here will look good a background i've got this nice white and then some setting triangles this light gray grunge will just be perfect the first thing we're going to do is pop this jelly roll open and then we want to pick out the 26 strips that we're going to use now all of these look good color wise so i'll probably use most of them because we have some duplicates the only one i might not use is this really light one it's beautiful but they there might not be enough contrast between this and my background okay these are the 26 that i'm going to use these are the extras so we were we will set these aside for now i might use them for binding or i might use them in another project now the strips here they're all going to get sub cut to some different lengths now because this is not my pattern i can't give you all the cutting sizes but i've done a lot of cozies patterns and they're very easy to follow now when you start doing your sub cuts you do have to be a little bit careful the pattern tells you this but you're going to need 42 inches of usable fabric here so be careful you don't cut off too much on your selvedge edge when you get ready to make your sub cuts i've got all of the patchwork cut out all the fabrics except for this light gray and that's going to be used in these side setting triangles and i'm going to cut that after we have the patchwork done because there's a particular way it gets cut so that we can lay out the quilt properly there's only two different blocks in the quilt and these are all the pieces that we need for the very first block we need to take three squares and we need to mark along the back side of them right on the diagonal so i'm going to use a light pencil because that will show up on my white and just make a very faint line i don't know if you can see that let me draw one that's a little bit darker just so you can see it you just want to go from corner to corner now we're going to take all these pieces to the sewing machine we need to add one of these squares to each one of these strips just on one end so i'm going to put it so that that line is going from this bottom corner up there and i'm just going to sew right along the line now this piece is going to get folded over right on that line and i'm just going to finger press it right now and then i'm going to trim off the back so that i have a quarter inch seam allowance left and that's what it's going to look like again i'm just going to finger press it right now when i make all the blocks i'm probably going to take these over and iron them but the finger pressing really works quite well now we've got the pieces we need for the block so we've got these three guys in the middle a white one here and a white one here and we're just going to sew them together now one caution about pinked edge jelly roll strips they will vary in width so you always should measure them before you start sewing so these ones from riley blake they are about two and a half inches from the very outside to the very outside some other manufacturers might cut them a little bit wider so you need to be aware of how wide they are before you start sewing all these strips together so what i'm going to do is put this on top of here now i know that the one that i cut is two and a half inches and see these zigzags are going in a little bit you can see a little bit of the background showing so you want to stitch a quarter inch away from that background so always check each new jelly roll before you start stitching it so your patchwork will come out the correct size let's finger press this one away i think we press all of these away from the center and i think it will lay nice and flat that way now the next piece is going to go here and put it right sides together and this piecing is really quick and [Music] easy now there's the first block it's pretty easy to make and if you want to double check after you make one so that you know your seam allowances are correct you can check this way this is cut ten and a half inches if i fold this on the diagonal here right in the corner there i don't have it ironed yet but this should be exactly as long as this one now mine's a little bit short so i'm gonna have to make sure that i make my seam allowances slightly narrower when i finish the rest of the blocks there's the first block that's this one right here to make the next patchwork block we need to make some strip sets these strip sets take one accent and one background so let's start with the pink one here so i'm going to put the accent on top of the background and i'm going to sew right along the edge with a quarter inch seam now we are going to we're going to be sub cutting this so if you want you can make your stitches a little bit smaller and that way when you cut them you won't have any of those seams come open now i'm going to finger press the seam allowance toward the darker fabric and this finger pressing what i'm doing is pulling it open and then drawing either my fingernail or just the pad of my finger even all the way down that seam so i'm pulling it open as i go this step makes it so much easier to iron these strip sets now we need to do the same thing with the gray accent again keep the background on the bottom and the gray on the top and i'm just going to keep making these strip sets until i've used up all the accents and all the backgrounds even though i finger pressed them i'm still going to want to iron them all so i'm going to lay it out on my big board here smooth it out a little and i like to use a dry iron first that way i can make sure it's nice and flat and then i'm going to use some steam now it's really flat i like to cut multiple strip units at the same time so i've just got them laid out on the cutting board here and i can cut four at a time so i'm going to line up my plastic ruler and i'm going to use my weight here to help hold it down and i'm going to do my sub cuts now all we have to do is take two of these guys turn one around and stitch it together so the seams are going to be nesting they're going to go different directions so it's real easy to match that up and i'm going to stitch all these up and press the seam allowance to one side once these are ironed up we will have all the parts we need to make our second block all we need is one little accent square four matching rectangles so these are going to stick out kind of like spokes then we've got two of the gray accent squares now put the accent towards the middle and then this goes on the opposite corner again with the gray in the middle then the two pink accent squares again pink in the middle pink in the middle i'm going to start with the top row here just put everything right sides together and i'm going to press the seam allowance toward that middle rectangle now i'm going to add the next piece so i'm going to put it right sides together take it over to the machine so this is just the whole top row and i'm going to again press the seam toward the middle that's the way the seam wants to go because we've got these extra seam allowances sticking this way now we'll do the middle row now these seam allowances are going to go away from the middle and that's the opposite direction that we press them on the first row and now the last row these are pressed just like the top row with both seams going towards the middle now when we come to sew all these together the seam allowances are going to be pressed in opposite directions and it's going to make it real easy to match them up there are both blocks these are all we need to make the whole quilt so i'm going to finish up the rest of these guys and the rest of these guys then we can lay it out and see what it looks like both blocks are all done and this is my favorite part of making a quilt when we have the parts and pieces done and we get to start laying it out because then you can see what the pattern looks like so these are going to be on point now i used to worry about about making quilts that were on point because i just wasn't sure how to put them together and it seemed kind of intimidating but i have made enough of them now to where it doesn't seem so hard and i'm going to show you how we're going to cut the corner setting triangles to make it real easy to put the quilt together now all the blocks are laid out the way they're supposed to be if i see too much of one color in one spot like way over there there's quite a bit of the same peachy fabric i'll probably trade some blocks around and now you can see we've got pink this way gray this way and it alternates throughout the whole quilt making those accents they make kind of a chain now all we need is we need something to fill in all of these empty spots around the edges so we can make our quilt rectangular so we're going to leave some big squares for the sides so i'm going to square this up and then we're going to cut these big squares across both diagonals and that's so we can get the grain correct so we won't have the bias on the outside edges of our quilt that makes it a lot easier to keep the whole quilt nice and stable so these bigs the big squares here i've got four of them i need to cut right along the diagonal and i need to cut these big squares both ways so we're going to cut it once like that and then move our ruler and cut it once like this and now we have some big triangles that are going to go on the side but they've got a straight grain on all these outside edges now i need two smaller squares and they are going to get cut on the diagonal but only one time so these two squares we are only going to cut on one diagonal because these are going to go in the four corners of the quilt and they already have the straight grain on the outside so each of these big triangles are going to go along the edges here every block that we made every block is square but because it's turned on the diagonal it's that's considered set on point the whole quilt is set on point so we've got the grain going like this which is a 45 degree angle compared to the outside of the quilt but i really want the very outside of the quilt to not have that 45 degree angle that's why we cut these with the straight grain here the straight grain doesn't stretch much the grain here that will stretch and i'd prefer not to have that on the outside of the quilt so we eliminated that by cutting the triangles like this now these smaller triangles that go in the corners they've got straight grains on both the outside edges so when we put this on the quilt we've got the straight grain here which doesn't stretch and then straight grain here straight grain all the way around now this is the part that i used to worry about because i can't sew this in straight rows the rows are all diagonal so the first row is actually that corner and this is the one that we're going to stitch first so this is a row we've got rows all going like that so all we have to do is line up these edges here these edges here and we're going to stitch down here and then we're going to just trim off any little bit extra we have so there is the first row so all i'm going to do is just put this right sides together and i'm going to make those corners meet and i'm just going to stitch all the way down right off the end even though that triangle is a little bit bigger than the square now we'll finger press this to the outside and then we'll add this triangle so again flip it over make those edges meet and then we can either spin it around and start from this end or we can flip the whole thing upside down i like to do that because then i know these corners are meeting and then stitch down here i do like to iron each row as i go i think it helps helps me line up all the blocks and so now we want to trim these guys so i'm going to put it on my cutting board and i'm just going to line up my ruler with this edge here and cut off those little extra bits there now we're going to put it right back where it came from so that's where it's going to go and now is a good time to add this little triangle so i'm going to put it right sides together and i'm just going to eye it up so i've got the same amount sticking off of each end there and i'm going to put a couple of pins in and then stitch this on so this triangle is also cut a little bit larger than we need and that's okay it actually makes it easier to make the quilt if all the outside triangles are a little bit too big because we're going to trim them all straight when we're done so this is also going to get finger pressed to the outside now i'm not going to trim these little bits right now because when we get the whole quilt together we're going to trim off some of the excess of the light gray here now we're ready for the next row so i'm going to pull these pieces out and we're going to again line up these corners but i'm going to pin all these together so i know what goes where this row is stitched ironed and trimmed so it's going to go right about there and this one now matches up perfectly so i'm going to go ahead and sew these two rows together so i'm going to put a couple of pins in so i can make sure everything matches up so what i'm matching up is the blocks i'm matching the intersection of this block here with this block here i'm matching those seams right there makes it real easy they're ironed opposite directions so it's real easy to get them to nest and then just gently smooth this gray out these corners it does help if you pin them so they don't stretch now we can start to really see what the quilt is looking like so all i'm going to do is keep making rows trimming off the little bit extra triangle and then adding that row to what i've already got going once i get about halfway done i will start at the other end and then work on that half and then put the two halves together it's a little bit easier to make the whole quilt that way now once the whole quilt top is done we're going to even up the edges and that's so that we can have all of these pieces that are not exactly perfect nice and perfect so all we're going to do is put our we're going to put our ruler a half inch beyond the corners here and then we're going to trim it nice and straight once it's trimmed nice and straight then i can add my borders and get it onto the quilting machine i got everything trimmed up i got the borders on and it's all loaded on the machine now we need to pick a thread color this is one quilt that i might actually like in white thread i almost always favor a color over the white but the white is going to blend in almost everywhere i can't even see it on the gray i suppose it'll show a little bit on this dark gray but not much we could also use this nice silver again not going to show much anywhere but i really think that the pink is what i want to use it's very very light you can just see it there it's going to blend in almost everywhere else but i think the pink will look really pretty for the quilting pattern i definitely want to use a flowery print or a flowery pattern and this one is good because it's even it's overall and it has some flowers and it has some little leaves and that's going to look nice [Applause] [Applause] the crisscross quilt is all done very happy with how it turned out it really didn't take very long i really like how the accents make those chains of little squares in different colors so the gray is going this way and then this way and this way the same thing with the pink it makes for a very interesting quilt now when i trimmed around the edges i trimmed off a little bit extra of this gray and i really like how we've got each one of these points floating here the square is pointing is floating so that the point won't get chopped off even if your seam allowances are not perfect the outside border it brings out those grays and pinks from the middle looks really good now on the back i used this pink and white print because it seemed to echo the colors even though it has nothing to do with the prints that are on the front and you can see if you move it around you can see those flower shapes and leaves very satisfying pattern to make thanks for watching our video today on how to make the crisscross quilt now i hope that that gives you a better idea of how to put a quilt together when the blocks are on point because i was a little hesitant to try it now that i've done several i've got a lot more confidence and this would be a good one to start on if you've never tried it because there's not very many blocks now one more thing we're gonna have a giveaway this is a quilt called double dipping we did a video on this and the pattern made two quilts at once and this is one of them it was really fun it was made from a jelly roll it has very interesting batiks nice pretty batik on the back side black for the accent and it's very easy to enter all you do is click the link right below the video that says giveaway and enter your email address and your name and remember we can send the winning quilt to any address 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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Id: I27V-iML7jA

Length: 25min 36sec (1536 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 09 2020