FANCY "PICKET" QUILT PATTERN WITH DONNA JORDAN!

hi I'm Donna Jordan from Jordan Fabrics today I'm going to show you how to make a quilt called picket this is a pattern designed by Robin Pickens I love her patterns and it uses a layer cake or a fat quarter bundle I'm going to use a layer cake this is one that my husband Matt just cut it's not even packaged up yet but these are all batiks from Hoffman in foresty Greens and Browns and fall colors the only other things we need are a background and I'm going to use this light hint of a print batik and an accent and we'll use this tortilla colored 1895 watercolor for that so let's go ahead and get the cutting started the first step is to pick out 16 of the layer cake squares for these larger pieces so I'm going to pick out the prints that have a larger scale because I think those will show better in big sizes there those should all look nice for the center of the Big Blocks they're going to get trimmed a little these are going to get trimmed to smaller sizes and I can't give you all of those measurements because it's not my pattern but Robin Pickens patterns are always very easy to follow foreign is done the next step is to take one of our big printed squares and four of our medium size background squares and we want to draw along the back side of these four squares we're going to draw right along the diagonal I like to use just a plain pencil and make a nice light line right down the center the block we're making is called a snowball block we're going to put one of these on each corner and it's going to make it look kind of round so all we have to do is Stitch right along the line that we drew earlier foreign and we'll just do that on all four corners each of these Corner squares gets folded right along the stitching line and then pressed down the last step is to trim off these back two layers I like to use scissors right here on the ironing board but you can certainly take it over to your cutting board and use your blade if you like when we trim this off it reduces the bulk in the corners and it makes the quilt not so heavy and it also makes it a lot easier to get your blocks stitched together without a lot of extra bulk in those Corner intersections once those are all done we're ready to start the next block we need four matching pieces here one accent square and four of these smaller backgrounds and we're going to take them to the machine here is how this block gets laid out this is in the center and these four are going to go around it but these are not actually Square they're a little bit an eighth of an inch actually longer than they are wide so I find it easiest to have something to measure with right here this happens to be on my machine so I can tell very easily so I'm putting the longer way it's longer this way so each one of these is going to be sticking out so it's longer this way the background pieces are square and they just go in the corners like this so all we have to do is sew all these pieces together so I'm going to take the top three and make a row anytime you have pieces that are different lengths you can start all the way at the top like this if you like or you can just start right here and go down it doesn't matter that one's going to go out and I'll line this one up here I'm going to spin it around because it's easier to stitch like that foreign and all the seam allowances are going to get pressed away from this piece there's the third row now this middle row I pressed those seam allowances to the middle so that when these are going outside when we go to sew these together you can see they're going to be going in opposite directions and it makes it real easy to get those intersections matched so I'm just lining up the intersection there and again you can start all the way at the top there or you can just start right here whatever is easiest for you let's press this seam allowance away from the middle which is this way and add that last piece using the same procedure I went ahead and stitched the rest of that kind of block up and I've got them all pressed and they need to be trimmed to trim these it's pretty easy all we have to do is line up probably easier this way our four and a half inch line and it's going to go right down the middle so if you put it on the the line on these two intersections you will have four and a half inches over here and we're going to trim off all that extra now we'll turn the block all the way around and do the same thing so if we've got that four and a half inch line right in the middle and we trim again the block is now exactly nine inches wide and it's centered perfectly centered we're going to do the same thing on these two sides so four and a half right on those two intersections turn it around and make one last trim and we're going to end up with a nice nine inch square block the next block is almost exactly like this but it's just a partial block so we only need three of these one of the accent and two of the background squares I'm still going to check these blocks and make sure that the longer way is sticking away from the center and then we'll put just two pieces there so there's just two rows to make now but otherwise this block is exactly the same as the one we just made all right once those are done and ironed up they also get trimmed there's a little different method used to trim these what we're going to do is we're going to Mark these big squares here right in the middle so that's the two and a quarter inch line and I'm going to use a light chalk pencil right now because this fabric is so dark so just Mark each one of these just in the seam allowance just so you can see it now take your ruler and line it up from Mark to Mark so I'm just putting this right where those marks go right off the edge of the fabric and now we'll line up The Mark with this one and cut that off [Music] and then we've got two more little cuts to make we need to cut this off a little we're we're trying to make this into a partial Square so I find it easiest to put this right here in the corner where my lines start and I'm going to trim it off as if it was a block at nine inches which is how big our other blocks were so you can find your nine inch Mark is right here and just put your ruler on that line trim off that little corner and then the same thing over here so there's the nine inch line I'm going to move the ruler here and now we've got a partial block it looks a lot like these whole blocks but it's just going to go on the side of the quilt so we didn't need all of the pieces there those are all done and we only need one more block for that block we need two of these one background and one accent this just gets these two pieces on two of the sides and one background in the corner and again I'm making sure that I've got the longer this way this one of course is exactly the same as the center there so it's pretty easy to tell if you've got them turned the right way so we'll just sew these two and these two and then put them together to trim these Corner blocks we're going to Mark the center again I'm going to use that white chalk pencil so we can see it and cut from Mark to mark now line up this cut sides this cut side on one of the lines on here and right where we cut this is nine inches wide here you can double check this and I'm going to use the ruler and these lines here to just trim off a little bit of each corner and now these are exactly the right size to fit into the four corners of our quilt one of the best parts of making a quilt when you get enough blocks done so you can lay it out and it's going to start looking like a quilt we put a corner block there then we're going to have three of these side blocks and then one more Corner block then I'm going to start up this long side now that we've got the whole perimeter finished we can start filling in with these other blocks we have a row of the snowball blocks all the way along here then we have a row of these short blocks right here there's going to be three of these and I'm not worrying about color too much right now I'm just trying to get everything laid out in the correct position once we've got it all laid out we can trade around and get the colors balanced the last pieces we need to add are these triangles we cut out these background squares earlier and all we had to do was slice them in half and these fill in these little empty spots right around the edges I can see that I'm going to need to do a little bit of trading because I've got two blocks with the same Fabrics there and also these two here so it's pretty easy just pick some that look different and start moving pieces until you've got them the colors look balanced I like to stand back and take a big view of the whole quilt and see if everything looks balanced to stitch the together everything is in diagonal rows so this is the first row this is the next row all these pieces here so you just make everything in diagonal rows and then sew the rows together and it goes It goes pretty quick it looks complex because it's on point but it actually is just rows and matching those Corners so I'm going to get this stitched up and then we're going to take a look because we have a patch recorder we have a picket fence border we get to make all right we've got all the blocks put together and that went really fast and the next thing we need to do is work on that picnic fence border so here's what we need the big rectangles and the little squares and we can go right to the machine with these we're basically making a flying geese unit but just on one end here that means we need to put corners on both of these we need to put the accent color on two corners there so you have options you can draw a line from corner to corner but this is pretty small so you can just start at the tip here and point towards the bottom you can put the tape on your machine that has three lines if you have a line drawn on there like I do you can just start at the top and then keep this point on the line then you can double check when you open it up everything should meet and it does so I'm going to finger press it a little trim off the bottom two layers leaving about a quarter inch seam allowance there and repeat that process with the second corner so line everything up and just Stitch right across the middle press that one Trim It Off and this is the unit that's going to be the top of our picket fence to lay out the Border it couldn't be any easier these pickets start at the beginning there and then we have a plain piece and then another picket so the pickets line up with these rows here and the big pieces line up with those rows so there's going to be five pickets along here so that's the border that will fit on the bottom and one exactly like that will fit on the top the side borders are made the same way but they're going to have a plain piece added in the corner so that it will be the right length so this just keeps going all the way up once the Patrick borders are on all we have to do is add this plane border all the way around then we can get it loaded onto the quilting machine now that the quilt is loaded on the machine we need to pick a thread color I do almost always pick something light now these will all match this is very compatible with all of the patchwork colors here just a little concerned that I'm going to feel like it's a little too dark on there this also nice warm light brown color won't show much there it's going to show there this is almost an aqua green it matches the green we've got in here and that's just going to be a hint of color that one would actually look good gold would have been what I thought I was and you know I do think gold will look the best because the pattern is called picket it reminds me of a garden and I would love to do flowers for the quilting pattern this is called flower swirls I love those little flowers there and these swirly things that should look really good on the patchwork all right [Applause] I've got the picket quilt all done and I'm very happy with this light gold thread that I used for the quilting there's not a right or wrong choice for picking your quilting threads it's entirely a matter of personal preference I just generally prefer the quilting to recede so I can see the patchwork I do like that you can see these flowers very clearly the pattern has two different sizes it's got a big one and it's got a little one and I noticed that the picket fence on my quilt is very muted because these two colors are pretty close that gold is pretty light the picket fence on the pattern is showing up a little bit more so keep that in mind when you select the colors that you use for your background and accent here I like the background because it or the accent color because it also goes in the middle and that's why I chose that color gold there's a couple of cutting sizes that are a little bit unusual but keep in mind the cutting only takes a little time and because the cutting was very careful these things match up the lines just matched almost perfectly and I didn't even pin it or try to match I used the sew and hope method that's where I put everything together and I sew and then I hope all the intersections lined up but because of the careful cutting sizes everything matched beautifully thanks so much for watching today we hope you enjoyed the video on how to make the picket quilt at the end of every video we like to do a giveaway today's giveaway is a log cabin quilt this is made from one of my husband Matt's pre-cut kits so these are the 12 Log Cabin blocks that he cut out and then I added three borders around it and it's a nice throw size now these are all batiks from Anthology and we've got a nice Hoffman batik on the back side it's very easy to enter the giveaway just click the link right below this video that says giveaway and put in your name and your email address and you might be the lucky winner now if you like our videos and you want to support us 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Length: 20min 54sec (1254 seconds)

Published: Wed May 24 2023