Finishing my Kantha-Style Quilt for the CABIN!

hello YouTube Friends welcome back to the last homy house or welcome to the last homy house if this is your first visit I'm Kate and I live here in the north of England and I like to make things and share them with you now a few weeks ago I started work on a my style of canther quilt and I'll leave the link to that video in the description below if you wanted to go back and see number one in this series but I've started to put the three layers together now and in the video that follows you will see how I got on with that I do change my mind a few times about it and so what I'm ending up with is a bit of a hybrid but watch and you'll see I'm making some progress with my canther quilt I looked at all the squares I'd put aside and I was trying to decide what kind of design I wanted so first of all I laid out some quite random shapes but then I thought I don't actually like them in that random way the the Fabrics themselves are pretty random and I think some sort of regularity actually works really well and so I cut what I could of the colors i' chosen into five and A4 in squares and now I'm I have them here piled up and I'm sewing them together in that webbing way that I like to do so here they are and I just like how they look and I'm pinning a number to each column this one's column number three and that's the next one that fell off and I'm just going to pile these up then like this so that that will be stitched onto columns number one and two so I think we're going to call this a hybrid caner and I think I'm going to really like how it looks at the end [Music] [Music] [Music] so this is column number four I like this way of [Music] stitching mostly greens few little pinks in there [Music] I've shown you how I've done this webbing before but just to recap we have um each of the piles numbered and they don't need to be pinned together they just can sit there now I'm working on pile number three at the moment and so I've got one and two stitched together I'll just twist you around so you can see what I'm doing and so I've got one and two here and then I get this next one here and open that out you can't get it the wrong way around so I get this next one here and open it out and then the one on the top of pile three goes here and I've already designed it so I know that they're all going to work together it's very random I haven't done a pattern but this would keep a pattern in order if you were making a pattern and the next one here this one I cut all of these to 5 and 1/4 in because that's how many I could get out of one of the squares [Music] open it out get the next one and all you have to do is make sure that you don't run out of thread so if you run out of bobbing thread now then um the pieces will get you know the pieces will come apart because you aren't sewing them so just keep an eye on the bobbing thread you only need to do that once and you'll remember never to do it again [Music] so now I've sewn everything together in one direction and now I'm going to turn it the other way I'm not going to iron it I'm just going to kind of finger press each of the joins as I get to them so now I'm going to sew in the opposite direction so here it is finished I'll hang this on the design board and I want to get on with laying out the double G and the less pretty fabrics for the inside of the can quilt so let's just hang this up here so all of those quarter inches all add up don't they and you lose quite a lot in the size of the thing so it's cinched in quite a bit but it's still going to be a very useful size so let me show you what I'm doing on the table so I've laid out this lovely lovely green double G and now what I'm doing is I'm taking these squares these these are the squares I identified from the stack that I got from that company as not very nice squares nothing that I would use these four so I'm just going to lay them out now in a a double layer I thought so these are just colors that I don't like and don't think that I will use they're not beautifully printed and uh you know I just can't imagine me using these in any of the projects that I want to do so they're going to be the the almost like the the wadding for the middle of this can the quilt which is very traditionally what these quilts wear layers of cotton sari fabric all layed together and then stitched now I remember saying in the video the first video in this uh uh uh series I remember saying uh that I would probably pin it together like a quilt and I think I definitely will do that so I'm going to lay these now slightly overlapping uh until the whole double G is filled so now with my quilt top I'm going to very carefully lay it on here so as not to dislodge any of those pieces that I've just put down and yes I've laid them a little tiny bit bigger than they need to be which is perfect and so I'm going to put this quilt top now over these little canther squares yeah that's a lovely thickness so then I'm going to pin it and start stitching trying to decide what to do with the edges H I'll think about that while I'm pinning it out as I'm pinning these I'm kind of mindful of the fact that this is not how you make a canther quilt this is going to be a a quilt that has Indian block printed fabric for the batting wadding which kind of makes it a bit canther and it will have that lovely canther Stitch when I get round to doing that but this is definitely not the way to make a canther quilt so it's um it's a my version of how I'm going to end up with a quilt for the cabin that I'm really going to like so bear that in mind this is not how to do it it's lovely good fun though I've kind of devised this way of smooshing it out pinning it very very regularly and then rolling it I'll show you I'm pinning it fairly regular intervals because of the the the pieces underneath I'm not quite sure where they meet I don't want them to shift when I'm sewing it and as I roll this up I can smoosh it out seems to be working okay okay so it's some time later now and I've put this away for a few days and got it back out again now and I'm going to start doing the stitching on here I've pinned it all out uh the quilt top that I made and the layers in between here of all the um fabric I didn't like and the lovely green double gors and the thread that I'm using to do this canther Stitch is um it's this stranded cotton from orail and it comes just like embroidery thread it's stranded so I'm using three strands of this lovely lovely green now this thread I mean you could use embroidery thread or whatever it is you like to use when you're um you know embroidering or doing quilt stitches but I've got this pack of threads uh in my little online shop with all these gorgeous colors already in there so you could check that out if you like so these are the threads I'm using take a little bit of untangling and then what I tend to do is put one of them around my neck and thread the other one up okay so for this Stitch it's the first time I've ever done anything like this I do hand quilt all my quilts and I use fairly big stitches then but these are kind of like bigger stitches on a bigger needle and the needle I'm using it's uh actually oops a daisy just Dro one uh it's called a cotton Darna I just looked at them in the in the shop the sewing shop I was in and I thought they look long enough with a big enough eye so the cotton Darner is the one I'm using now I've done one row of stitches already to see how it would go and it goes through the fabric beautifully but now I'm at this point now of deciding how far apart my stitches Stitch rows should be now canther stitches are often quite close together uh I'm just wondering how far around the bend I'll go if I have to do them really closely together and there's a lot of them but I'm only going to go in One Direction and so I'm thinking that I might do them half an inch apart which would be all very close together how about 3/4 of an inch apart CU this this second one that I do will set the tone for the rest of the quilt won't it so I'm going to do them 3/4 of an inch apart which is there now I'm using this little chalk marker here to I like the choke markers there's all sorts of different fabric markers aren't there and the choke ones it kind of comes off as you're sewing so I quite like the choke markers so I'm going to just draw a line across here yeah 3/4 of an inch we're going to say and I'm going to stick to it really quite carefully so that the lines are pretty straight there we go 3/4 of an inch now at this edge here I folded in the double gors and the top here and just pin them together with straight pins at the moment I haven't quite decided how to treat the edges but I'm going to stitch some of the stitching first and then the edges will come to me I think so I'm not putting a notot in the end I'm just going to start away now when I was in India and I watched these women doing this canther Stitch I talked about this the last video that I did I watched uh these women doing this amazing um so fast and so many stitches loaded onto their needle at one time and I wish I'd s sat and watch them for a bit longer because I I have a bare memory of it but not a really great memory so I've watched loads of YouTube videos of people doing canther Stitch and the the what would I call it the lovely rocking action that people do with the needle which kind of makes this go faster at the moment I'm quilting like I hand quilt on my uh ordinary quilts I haven't got into the way of of doing that maybe I will when I get a bit further in the there are two layers of scrp fabric which would be you know the saris that were in the middle of the canther quilt there's one layer of this lovely lovely double gauze I really like it and then one layer of my top so there's four layers Al together and I was a little bit worried that maybe that it would be hard to stitch through but it isn't it's going through really easily and because my stitches can be really nice and big I'm quite enjoying uh I'm quite enjoying stitching these and I think a three4 of an inch is perfect yeah so I'm going to um Stitch away on here until I get a few more lines in and then I might have a think about how to do the edges so far though this sort of uh not caner quilt I'm really really enjoying how it looks and once we've got a few more lines of this beautiful thread in I've chosen all the ones that tone in beautifully from this pack once we get a few more lines in it's going to look lovely on the back so I'm looking forward to showing you how it looks on the back when I've done loads of it and the thing about these cabin quilts I'm calling them because this is going to be down in my cabin I just want them to be something that I've never tried before a new type of covering or quilt or this maybe just go around your shoulders when you're a bit on the cold side or over your knees uh and I'm wanting to try things that I don't usually do so not traditional quilts really and so that's why this one so I'm just going to enjoy sewing these together now what I've got on the table here and if you go and visit the new website it's a all new website that my daughter-in-law Rita my daughter daughter-in-law Anna and a web designer we all put it together they're four of us and what we decided to do was put a lot of things in there that I use daytoday so the thimble that I use for instance the scissors the chalk markers the threads all sorts of things this has been invaluable as well my little square all sorts of things are in the shop now that um you when you see me using something here we've got those for sale in the shop and as always there's a link to that in the description below so what do you think I like it and I think I'm going to really enjoy stitching it too so I'm going to Mark out quite a few 3/4 Ines and put a good movie on and Stitch or some music or an audio book all of that stuff that's what I like to do when I'm doing this kind of thing because it'll take ages but you know that's my favorite kind of job [Music] [Music] so thank you so much for watching I really appreciate you being here and give us a like and a subscribe and a share and a thumbs up and all those friendly things and a comment and I will be able to show you this finished canther quilt uh maybe soon hopefully thanks for watching everyone bye now [Music] [Music] [Music] go [Music]

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Length: 21min 58sec (1318 seconds)

Published: Sun May 19 2024