FAST / EASY / QUILT in ONE DAY !!! Beginner Quilt ~ SCRAPPY CRUMB QUILT ~The Sewing Channel

scraps weighing you down i got the perfect remedy today a fast easy scrappy quilt project that you can make in one day be sure to stay with me to the end where i'll give you my pro tips to up your quilting game hi friends tracy here from the sewing channel this fast easy quilt was super fun to make and i hope you make one too i'm on instagram now the sewing channel look it up so be sure to check that out now my inspiration for this quilt right here well it came from the 1800s but now you'll have to watch this video in order to find out how let's get busy the first step in making our beautiful quilt is to find all of our scraps and be sure to look in every scrap bin that you have and then we're going to give it a quick press but if your scraps are already laying nice and flat skip the pressing stage this is a quick method right here you're just going to take a regular strip of fabric that you might have take single scrap pieces of fabric and lay them along the edge of that strip and then you're going to use a quarter inch seam allowance just like you see me do here i'm just connecting the strip with those pieces of scraps this is what the strip looks like after we have sewed it right along the edge and now you're just going to take your scissors or take it over to your cutting mat and use your rotary cutter if you want and cut up to the slit now doing this gives us perfect little two patches i am just pressing these to the side that the seam allowance wants to go there's no rhyme or reason you're just going to press and let it go where it would like to go here's another method to try take your strip but sew two pieces together in a long strip and then add your singles on top of that and then take it to your sewing machine and do your quarter inch stitch there and then just like we did before we are going to cut up to the seam there and then there you have it we have a couple of two patches again here i decided to just connect these right while i was at the sewing machine so you could see how it's done there's no rhyme or reason like i said you're just going to lay them on top of each other and just sew a quarter inch seam and then let's take a look and see what we have a perfect four patch just like that in seconds now when we go over to iron this one i noticed that one seam allowance one to go to one side and the other the other so what i did was make a small snip and let one go the way it wanted to go and let the other one go the way that it wanted to go and then i gave it a good press and all laid flat when you snip though if you do be sure not to snip the thread otherwise your blanket will fall apart essentially we are just building on top of what we just built but in order to do that we need a lot of these scrappy two patches three patches four patches you name it we need it here's an interesting technique that you can try we are going to do it on the diagonal this time now you see this piece here i'm just laying it down just to see how it would look and i'm coming down from the pink a little bit but i'm going to go ahead and sew that regardless and then you see here i have that flap left open now i'm going to trim it after i've sewn it some people that make quilts actually do the two patch method after they have finished a project and then they stick it in a container or ziploc bag so that they have it for when they decide they want to make one of these scrappy quilts the main goal of our quilt is to get everything connected but i do have one rule now this is my rule it's not anybody else's but i think it's a good rule never ever sew two pieces of the same fabric together not even when we connect it when we put all of our blocks together we want all of them different now you can have the same fabric within the same quilt but just not right next to each other some people use really really tiny scraps now i have small ones and i have larger ones but if you want your quilt to get done quick you need to use your larger scraps what i loved most about making this quilt was that it was so relaxing i didn't have to think and i love not having to think but honestly you really don't have to think if you put your mind to it to not think you are going to find this quilt one of the most relaxing therapeutic quilts you've ever made this piece here that i'm working on has a two patch with a slanted diagonal piece connected to it so you see anything really does go now i want you to notice on this next piece that i'm going to do it's a little big for me that green and purple is just too much so i'm going to slice that slanted right down the center which then now i have two pieces that i can build off of and that's what i do for this particular quilt i actually needed 25 of the same blocks and you see here i'm using a seven and a half inch squared ruler now these rulers are really nice and they come in super handy because they can give you a perfect square of what you would like your quilt block to be as i construct each block individually the seven and a half squared block i look through that clear ruler and i see which side of my block needs a little bit more fabric and which side already has enough and then i'm able to add more to that one corner that needs it and connect it where it needs connected in order to fill my entire block here i'm going to line up where i want it to connect and where i'm going to run it through my sewing machine and before i do that i'm just going to trim off some little excess fabric there and now i'm just going to show you right there i'm going to connect those two pieces together and iron them down and check it once again to see which side i need more fabric on this clear ruler really does come in handy it is a must-have if you are a quilter you don't have to use a seven and a half inch squared ruler though just so you know they do come in a lot larger size and even a smaller size yet i believe like a 12 inch size is one of the biggest if you would rather have your blocks be bigger and remember the bigger the scraps the bigger the block the faster the blanket here we see that we are almost ready to sew this down and we are going to square off another block here in a minute once everything is squared up and i pull that ruler off i just love the look of that scrappy quilt block i don't know about you but some of these scraps that i had i don't even remember them you see this strip that we just cut off of that block now we can use this strip that's already sewn together on another block a perfect seven and a half inch squared block ready to go but remember we're going to use a quarter inch seam allowance when we connect all of our blocks together in the end 24 more to go here i had an extra long strip of fabric so what i did was i pinned each individual single scrappy square or piece of fabric on the strip and then i carried it over to my sewing machine to sew it all together and the pins just help keep it all connected honestly though this project would go a lot quicker if you just went ahead and did a bunch of strips sitting next to your sewing machine with your iron right next to you you could really knock this quilt out so you can see here that i am getting a lot of two patches out of that one long strip and then with your pile close by you're going to go ahead and take some of those strips and connect them to the other strips making four patches and then six patches and so on and so on and so on the inspiration for today's quilt came out of this american quilt book from the smithsonian treasury this quilt is from the 1800s and they sewed theirs all by hand i don't know about you but i'm not sewing that by hand but i guess back then if i had to i would have so here on this next strip i want you just to notice that i did some singles on my strip but i also went and put some four patches in a strip on there so you can just add as much as you want it doesn't matter and then i'm going to slice those through with my rotary cutter and then i'm going to build on possibly strips that i did earlier in the project here's yet another smithsonian quilt from the 1800s i am in awe of just how beautiful and intricate the work that went into these quilts really was i mean they would use everything from scraps from clothing to feed bags whatever they could find making quilts has been around for a very very long time and i feel honored to even be considered a quilt maker i bet those women from the 1800s would think our sewing machines were magical machines here i'm laying fabric down sewing it together and then i'm putting my square ruler over it to see where i need to add more fabric and i cut off the excess because i feel like i want to put some on the diagonal there like you see me lay it down there just making sure with the ruler that i have enough to fill that square and then we're going to go ahead and square it off once i feel like i have all corners are covered because there's been times where i've cut it and there's just a tiny portion of a corner that's still not been covered so it's best to make sure so we are almost done with this block right here and we're squaring it up and it is very pretty and i am so excited to get the rest of these blocks done here i've placed all 25 of my scrappy blocks up on my design board as they sit on the design board they measure 36 inches by 36 inches squared this is where we make sure that no two patterns alike are touching once you get them where you like them on your design board it's time to sew all of those 25 blocks together take your time your sewing machine has to go through quite a few pieces of fabric because it is a scrappy quilt there are a lot of seams to sew over so just take your time i actually sewed my blocks in four patches and hopefully that makes sense for you i didn't sew them in a row but i'll talk more about that in the pro tip pro tip number one be sure to wind at least four or five bobbins before you start any quilting project i hate running out of oven thread pro tip number two after you've arranged all of your blocks on your quilt just how you want them to go take a picture with your phone trust me on that one pro tip number three instead of sewing your blocks in rows try sewing them in really big four patches that will give you much more seam control rather than sewing them by rows part two of buried alive is up and running be sure to watch it learn how to baste your quilt with pull noodles so be sure to click that link right here on this screen so you don't miss a thing until next time on the sewing channel take care

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Length: 13min 19sec (799 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 06 2021