Flea Market Flower Tutorial - Making a Block for the Flea Market Flowers Sew Along!!

[Music] [Music] [Music] well hello everybody welcome back to my sewing room today i'm going to be doing a tutorial for one of the blocks in my flea market flower sew along and this is what the quilt looks like now i've talked about this quilt in one of the videos here on my channel and you can see uh the flea market fabrics up close and personal in that video if you'd like to see it and i also have a very detailed blog post on this sew along called to be prepared blog post and i will link to that in the description of this video so that if you are new to this so long or want to know more about it then you can go to my blog and find all about you know the notions i've detailed every notion what we're doing with everything and so that you can find out more about that on the blog today i'm basically just going to do a tutorial for one of the flowers and so we are using my flea market fabric so here's some of the yardage needed and then here's some of the fat quarters i don't know how well you can see that but again i've done a video showing all of my flea market prints here are some prints in the fat eights and then this is the background that we're using it's the flea market background called bookkeeping and i really talk about this in the other video but i just want to let you know that there is a lot of yardage required i've had a few questions saying how come there's so much yardage required for this but you have to remember that we're using for the background of every one of the blocks plus we're using it for the outside border so that's why it seems like twice as much as you would really need but i promise this is what you need so it's been really fun to do the blocks on that fabric and then i thought i'd bring these out and show them to you too they're kind of wrinkly right now i need to iron them but this is my wide backs from the flea market collection it comes in three colors right here and so it comes like 106 108 inches wide so that you don't have to piece your backing and with every fabric collection that i design i do three wide bags that go with them so that you you know they match your fabrics but these not only match just the flea market they match a lot of other white prints as well and it's really nice not to have to piece it back and also just because it's you know i designed it for backing does not mean that you can only use it for backing it's for borders you can cut it up and put it into the front of your quilts as well it's very good quality and it feels really nice and makes great pillowcases too as well so that's the wide backs and then also in my blog there's a link to the sew along guide so here's my binder for the sew along and so this is not a pattern there is no pattern i do a tutorial every week on my blog once the sew along starts which is monday january 25th and so it's coming right up and i do a tutorial step by step about you know just cutting and sewing the blocks everything you need to do from start to finish on my blog but for week one i like to do a video so that i can just talk a little bit about a few things and just show you at least one block so here's all the flowers and in the sew along guide like i say it's not a pattern but it is a guide it tells you the schedule you know it tells you all of the fabric requirements all of the notions and then with in each piece of fabric it tells you what to cut from that fabric and what block it goes to here's a cutting diagram for the background the bookkeeping background this talks about how you cut slices using different lines on my ruler which i'll show you in a minute and i'm going to show that to you here on the video how i cut those slices and then it talks about all of the rulers used in this sew along and what size interfacing to cut to use with each size as well as what size fabric to cut with each size and then here's a layout of the quilt specifying how you know the blocks that all the blocks are lettered we're going to be doing block m today and it also says within that what to cut your background fabric and then after it's appliqued what to trim your background fabric up to whenever i applique i always cut my background fabric just a little bit larger and especially when you're doing some larger blocks like this in this quilt because you always have to allow for fraying of of edges of fabrics and just distortion with applique that kind of thing if you cut your background the exact same size as needed guarantee that's going to end up a little bit smaller by the time you you know either machine or hand applique it just kind of ends up shrinking a little bit just because of the thread usage on the applique pieces it just kind of pulls the background in a little bit and so that's why i always cut my background a little bit larger and then trim it up afterwards you know before sewing into the quilt so so that's the guide and here's the block that we'll be doing today so i wanted to show you this block because it's the only one that had like the patchwork center and it also has both size leaves that we use throughout the quilt and all of the slices or dresden blades whatever you want to call them i call them slices because it's my pie ruler and you need 16 slices to make one circle or to make one pie and i designed it to go with another sew along that we had several years ago my sweetie pie sew along but i wanted to use it again to make these beautiful flea market flowers and so that's what we're using so here's the flower i'm just going to talk a little bit about you know the cutting and everything that goes into this flower so let me set that over there now what you'll need for this flower are all the little squares that are cut three inches and they are specified in the sew along guide within each one of these prints and what you'll end up doing with these squares is forming the patchwork center and so this is what i did i already sewed the squares together so it's 16 three inch squares this is what i did this is what it specifies in the guide but you could switch your fabrics around if you have a little bit of leftovers or if you um you know just decide you want something switch around all you need is 16 three inch squares sew them together it's just basic patchwork i do press my seams open i'll move that bottle out of the way so i can okay so i do press my seams open a lot when i'm piecing but especially if i'm piecing and then i'm going to applique that piece because i want that piece to be as flat as possible so what i do with that is i um after pressing it open let me grab these these are the circle rulers that will be using throughout the whole quilt for the centers of all of the flowers but for this circle we're using this largest ruler which is a nine inch circle so what i do with the ruler let me show you that first is i grab the ruler i grab my sewing interfacing and what i'll do let me see i need to put this on a hard surface so i don't know if you'll be able to see this but i'll show you afterwards when i finish it is i'm going to take these center lines on the ruler and i'm just going to make a little pencil mark on those on the outside and i'll show you why here in just a minute okay so you can see those little lines that i added and i went from the lines right here on the ruler and the reason i did that is because now what you're going to do when we go to the machine to sew you're going to be able to see these lines right here line up on a seam and that's how you're going to know that you're going to get this circle exactly centered on your patchwork and then you can just go ahead and stick a couple of pins in once it's lined up like that and that will be ready to sew so that's for cass can you handle this block so that's that is what's going to be this circle right here now for the leaves might as well show you over here for the leaves let me show you that real quick i might need that back in a minute but okay so for the leaves i have these seed rulers let me put it back on here so you can see these are see-through so they're hard to see in the camera but i've got this one right here this large size is going to go on this piece of fabric two of them and then the smaller size that goes on this piece of fabric right here let me put the fabrics down put the rulers on the interfacing and then i think you'll be able to see that and so all i did with that was again laid my ruler on my interfacing grabbed a mechanical pencil and just traced around the outside and then when it's time to sew those i simply the interfacing and the fabric are the same size and you just you know go ahead stick a pin in there if you want and you're just going to sew right on the lines i'll show you more of that about that when we get to that part now these are my slices already cut but i am going to show you how to cut the slices first uh before we go over to the machine so i can talk about that you know a little bit more detail that a little bit and because like i say we are using different lines for different sizes of the flowers and so i didn't want you to get confused on which line was what and that does detail that in the sew along guide but it just kind of helps to have a visual you know for a start but before i do that i want to show you let me move this ironing board over here just a little bit more i've got my background piece here let me turn on my iron get that good and hot so i've got my background piece here in the sew along guide it tells you to cut it 20 by 22 so it's 22 wide i'm excuse me it's 20 wide by 22 long and then i just folded it in half for a crease so that when we go to lay out the block i'll be able to use that crease to center so i've got that and i've got that ready to go so i'll set that aside and i'll set these strips aside for when we talk about cutting the slices and i've talked to you about that talk to you about that what i do want to show you is the stem so what we're going to be doing for this is we cut this the width of the fabric these are all the half inch stems are done out of this fabric and then we run it through the half inch bias tape maker so let me grab that i'm going to show you how i do that real quick so for this quilt we're using two sizes only of the bias tape maker we're using the quarter inch and the half inch and these are the only two sizes that we're going to be using for this quilt and today i'm going to be doing a half inch okay this one's prepared but i just wanted to show you how i actually do do prepare it here so what i do is grab these scissors i cut a point so that's easier to get it started and then i like to spray my strip this is my spray bottle that i use most of the time and it's got a little bit of starch in it and a little bit of water it's the mary ellen's best press that i usually use but i don't use it full strength so i just kind of like to get that wet then i go like this so that i can get the tip dry so that it's not so flimsy feeling when i go to put it through the end so here's your here's your maker and this is what i do with the point i just put it through and that starch helps a little bit go through until that point comes out and sometimes if you can't get the point to come out here's this little groove here you can grab a pin or something like that and kind of push it out so what i do the instructions tell you when you're using this maker to press it like this so that you can see your folds sides up but i like to do it totally opposite than that and what i do is i get it started like this and i just kind of follow with the iron as i go along and i try not to touch the iron to this metal part because eventually i'll burn my fingers if i do that but what i do is i'm just trailing along following the iron you need to have a good hot iron that's why i like these vintage irons they're hot and they're heavy i do also have another video about my vintage irons and how i use them and why and where i find them and what to look for and all that kind of thing so i just continue on i'm trying to keep this within the screen of the camera so i'm just going along and i i do try to do it slow just to make sure that i get it pressed down and because i have a little bit of starch on here it kind of helps keep that keep that fold and then i just continue along and normally i will not be moving you know this as i go i keep it all in one place but like i say i'm trying to do it in short segments here so that i can show you what i'm doing i'm using one of my little portable ironing boards with my uh decorated weight fabric on it one of the prints and i do have a tutorial on how i make those in all different sizes as well and all about my decorator weight fabric and i do have six new prints of my decorator weight fabric coming out soon so i'm pretty excited about that okay so once that's run through the half inch bias tape maker then i just kind of let it cool so i don't want to stretch it out or distort it and i know you know so this is called a bias tape maker it's by clover and this was not cut on the bias i do cut my fabric on the bias when we're going to do a curved stem or anything curved but all of the stems and all of the flowers of this quilt are straight so even though i call it a bias tape maker it's just across the cut across the width of the fabric so it's actually straight bias but i think this fabric is really fun makes really cute stems okay so the stems are ready to go and then in each one when we're laying out the block in each block tutorial i tell you how long that you need your stems cut and everything like that so there's the stems i'm going to move my iron and put my cutting board here so i can show you how i cut the pie slices so let me clear this off real quick so this block here let's unbury this block again so i can show it like i said all of my flowers in the quilt there's a lot of different sizes this one is called a 13 and a half inch flower because it measures you know 13 and a half inches from point to point so just the flower itself so that's why i named it a 13 and a half inch flower so for the every flower has 16 slices this is the pie ruler can you see that haircast show me an empty that's good okay so there's the pie ruler and see how it has different lines and different numbers and then dash lines so these are an inch apart these dash lines are a half inch and so for this one to cut these right here you're going to be we're going to be using the six inch and the one inch and that's all we have to remember now you can see that that is one two three four five inches and so we're going to cut so these are all measured five inches tall and we're going to cut our strips and this says everything in the guide i'm just telling you i don't want you to think that you have to memorize everything i'm saying i'm just showing you what we're going to be doing okay let's move that out of the way so because you need a fat quarter of this fabric you're going to cut two strips i have two here on top of each other you're going to cut two strips five inches tall across the width of the fat quarter which is approximately 21 inches and so i have two layered on top of each other because i can cut two at the same time and so what i'm going to be doing is grabbing my ruler and i'm going to be placing it you know i'm going to turn well you can i can't turn this mat over because it's yellow on the other side and then you really can't see the fabric but i'm just telling you right now that on this one inch right here that's going to be the top of the fabric right there so you may not be able to see it but i can don't worry about the lines on the on the mat you're just going to be following the lines on the ruler so here's the six inch line and here's the one inch mark and i'm just going to keep that down there i like to keep my pinky finger on one side of the ruler to help stop it from slipping and i simply make my first cut along that ruler now this i'm going to have to turn around so that i can cut the other and again make sure every time you move your fabric or your ruler for this size flower you're putting it on the one inch and the six inch line and then i'm just going to go ahead and cut those two so i've got two slices right there okay so now is the time when we flip our ruler back and forth and this saves on fabric and you're going to have to do this in order to have enough fabric you don't want to cut them singly like just fuzzy cutting you're going to have to flip your ruler up and down so that you can not waste any of the strip except for just what's left over at the end now for this size uh flower for the 13 and a half you will be able to get eight cuts out of one five inch by 21 and 21 inch and i have two at the same time so because we need 16 all i need to do is cut this eight times and i'm going to have 16 because i'm doubling the cut and this is something i'm going to try to concentrate on while i'm talking to you because i do not want to make a mistake so for instance other flowers you might cut you know you might cut it right here or right here and the tops here and you only have the strip four inches long but i will detail that in every tutorial i'll show you the cutting show the line and it is there in the sew along guide all right so that's what i have left over and now that i have 16 slices cut we're going to go over to the machine and i'm going to show you how to sew these into flower petals and i'm also going to show you how to sew the leaves and the circle so let me get set up and i'll be right back all right so here we go with the machine this is by the way i'm sewing on my new new old featherweight machine this is miss dolly and here i've got the two small leaves and they just have the sewin interfacing pinned to the fabric both are right sides up i want my marked interfacing up right side so that i can sew right on that line and i want to be able to see it and then of course i want my fabric right side up so that when i turn it it will be facing the correct way so what i do is i just start anywhere i usually do not start on a point but i'm sewing right on the line now on this featherweight it has like a little open-toed foot and i always like to do that no matter what machine i'm using so that i can see exactly where my needle is going in i don't use a larger stitch or a smaller stitch than i use when i'm just piecing quilts so whatever that is on your machine just a regular stitch length that you like if you use it too if you use too small of a stitch you may gather up your piece like make it real tight and if you use too large of a stitch you really will gather it up so i just like to use a regular stitch and i haven't had any problems so i just keep going around and then when i start i over sew about a half inch to an inch about where i started and then i'll just turn my piece and sew right off of it and just pick up the other piece and that way i can chain chain sew these when i get to the point i lift up my foot and i just go a different direction now these are very slight curves so i can go fairly quickly when you're sewing my uh this is the same method that i use for my self-simple shapes and some of those are like flower shapes or you know shapes that go in and out then i just simply go a little bit slower and especially on the curves and i just lift up my presser foot when i need to and you know it's not a big deal it works out just fine so then i'll just clip these apart as i go and i've got the larger ones and they do the same thing with that what's nice about this interfacing too is you can see through it a little bit so you can see exactly what it's going to look like on your fabric so you could move your piece around a little bit if you have like a stripe or something like that to make sure you know you get it exactly how you want to get it i'm not worried about these prints at all okay so now that those are finished i am going to take my scrap pieces of fabric and i like to do this to save on time and to save on thread i usually just have either actual patchwork doing a bonus quilt or some scraps of fabric but usually while i'm filming i just use these scraps of fabric and it just makes it easier when i'm starting and stopping okay so now i just remove these pins and a lot of times when i'm sewing smaller pieces like this i don't even pin because i find that this you know the sewing interfacing kind of stays to the fabric and really doesn't slip so a lot of times i'll just grab and start sewing and i'm good to go so what i'm going to do with this is just trim past my sewing line approximate quarter inch seam allowance or a little bit smaller when you come to these points you can come a little bit closer but don't go too close but if you come a little bit closer and trim that off at the ends it kind of saves on a little bit of bulk but it's not too bulky these are meant to be you know a little bit dimensional they're not supposed to lie flat if you want yours to lie flat you can do you know iron-on or something like that but i typically don't use iron-on i don't like to see through my fabrics and it has a tendency to do that i just really like applique and i like the dimension that my interfacing gives so then i will take a seam ripper right here or a pair of scissors so if you're brave you can use the seam ripper if you're not do this pinch it apart so that you're only going to cut just a little teeny snip into your interfacing right there and then i always feel right here to make sure i'm not going to be cutting into the fabric and i'll just cut like a little just a little x right here just big enough you don't need to do it too big just big enough so that you can open that up when i do it with the seam ripper let's see can you see it can i see this castle okay so what i do with the seam ripper i do the same thing i just fill my fabric make sure the point of that seam ripper is not going through there and see i'll just do that whole long thing but it just depends on how brave you're feeling that day because i don't want to cut them and sew them again so whichever one you want to do but especially with these small pieces it is a little bit easier to do the seam ripper because it gets a little bit harder to pinch the interfacing away from the fabric now i will take my scissors and just cut a little bit this way it just makes a little bit easier to turn and then this after we've turned it this interfacing just falls back into place and it's pretty nice okay now before we turn those i'm going to sew up my circle real quick and i just do that the exact same way we pinned it it's all lined up with the lines and that's good to go so i can just start anywhere on the circle i just sew into the line and then i start pivoting around now i need to sew this with this side up and i know that i press these seams open so along the way as i'm going i'm feeling beforehand you can tell when one of your seams is pushing over to one side so i do the best i can when i get close to a seam you can always lift it up just to check it out just so that those seams remain open okay so that's trimmed now i'm not going to use the seam ripper on this because number one it's big enough that i can pinch it across number two i might catch one of the seams under there and number three i do not want to sell this patchwork circle again so i'm just gonna go on the safe side pinch it apart it's always better to be safe than sorry right then once i've got my little clip knowing it's far enough away from my patchwork i can just cut my little x and again you really don't need a big x that's good enough and so then we're just going to turn it right side out all of these pieces and then i'm going to take my little uh clover turning tool this is my favorite thing i hardly ever use this end sometimes i do with big circles like this but mostly i use this and i'm just going to go ahead and turn these and let you watch me shake them all right so i'm using this tool to shape but i just want to point out when we're talking about the points that you just gently push because you don't want to you know put out put a little hole in your points or push out too far sometimes i'll also turn my piece sideways like this and push out a little bit and that really allows that to get that really nice point now ask me how i know this but sometimes if you do poke a little bit of hole usually the fabric will come out and it looks like a little bit of fraying sometimes i can save it without having to do a new piece and how i do that is i just apply a little bit of the sioux glue that we're using in this sew along on there and just kind of turn the frayed pieces over towards the interfacing and let that dry and then i can go ahead and still use the same piece so again ask me how i know that because sometimes i've done that you can also shape with your fingers another thing that really works well i will end up pressing these with the iron but sometimes i mean i use this tool this is my seam roller that i use quite a bit and you would be surprised once you shape it like this how that will um make the cotton crease right there like cotton fabric and it just stays there nice and beautifully and then i usually just have to take it over to the iron and just press it real quick so i do use my seam roller quite a bit and i also use this when i'm you know pressing seams open a lot in my patchwork as well as i used it when i pressed these seams open for the patchwork circle i just didn't want to forget to tell you about that okay we've got one more to go one more shape and then we're going to give them a quick little press with a nice hot iron i do not use steam of course i use vintage iron vintage irons and i don't have steam in them anyway but if i do want to apply moisture to my block then i just use a spray bottle or a mister bottle but i um i don't want to do that after these or so and i don't want to apply moisture to my interfacing okay so that's looks pretty good these four petals along with the circle i'm gonna go over here and like i say i'm just gonna give them a quick press when i say press i'm not gonna go like this all the way around the circle i'm just going to press the edges even though it's very tempting to do that but i just you know i don't think it's really going to distort it that much you see that i just lightly did that just to show you if this was just a circle without interfacing on the back it very well would distort it but because there's some stability with this you know you can have a little bit of leeway with that but really you're going to be appliqueing these edges down so it's not like you want it as flat as a pancake or anything you just want to make sure that your circle edges are all turned out and then with these i just literally set the iron on top and like i say i usually will roll them or iron them or both and i just want to crease the cotton fabric on the edges there cotton has a memory and just by pressing it a little bit around the edges it'll do that crease and it'll stay that way and so those are ready to go for when we lay out our block but so i'm going to set those aside but next up i'm going to show you how to sew these flower petals okay so here we have all of the pieces plus we have 16 of these slices that we're going to turn into a 13 and a half inch flower but i wanted to show you and grab this um i didn't want to forget to tell you that i did cut this eight inches long and then i pressed like a half inch under right there so the raw edge will go underneath the flower center and then that edge that was pressed under will show on the quilt so that's how i prepare the stems i will always tell you with each block how long to cut them or how long they need to be finished size you know so so that you don't have to guess so that your block doesn't go too big or something like that so all right let's do these cute little petals the first thing i do is oh let me tell you about this i i will be using a quarter inch seam allowance so i always keep this on my machine anyway even though i didn't need my this is my seam so easy guide i did not need it when i was sewing my shapes of course because i'm just sewing right on the line but i use this for when i'm doing my easy corner triangles i follow the center line and then this one is my quarter inch seam allowance and so i always have this taped to my machine um i want it removable so that i can move around take it off you know when i'm changing my bobbin or whatever but i always have a variety of washi tape and that i do with each fabric collection and washi tape is fun i use it for so many things in quilting and one of the main things i use it in is for to take my seams so easy guide onto my machine but you can just you can tape a lot you can tape a little it won't ruin your machine it won't um leave any residue or anything like that but it's really fun to do like look at this cute little vintage lady one you can tear those off and have a little vintage lady keeping you company while you're sewing your stuff okay so i have that taped on i just line this again up with my needle and that's how i tape it to my machine i use the grid lines here to line up with lines on my machine so that i know that it's going straight this way and not you know kind of ski wampus so when i'm sure it's going exactly straight i test it out then i'll go ahead and sew i'm going to take the widest part of the blade and i'm going to fold it in half so that those points meet i'm going to turn it so that the points are going that way and the fold is facing me and i'm going to run it under the machine at quarter inch right here i'm not going to back stitch there i'm just going to keep sewing but when i get to this point right here where the fold is sorry when i get to the fold not the point i do not backstitch on the point ends but i do backstitch just a few stitches on the on the folded part and i'll show you why when we get to that part and unfold them but i'm just gonna again i'll show you two or three fold it in half points that way fold towards me quarter inch seam allowance no back stitching backstitching just a few and i'll just go ahead and do that with all 16 petals alrighty now we've got these all sewn and now what i'm going to do is take this and kind of open it like this take my finger you see what i'm doing with my fingers i'm just opening this seam and i'm going to flip it and if i don't feel like it got a good enough point i want this seam open i'm just going to barely tug on that but see see how that's a nice point there and this seam is open right here i'm going to do the same thing to all of these petals so this is going to be your finished edges right here and then we're going to sew all the petals together with a quarter inch seam allowance until it forms a circle and then it will all have finished edges and you don't need to use interfacing or anything when you go to applique it's already ready to go so i'm just going to press this over here to the take it over to the iron and i like to turn it this way so that i can see that this straight line is going down in the center and i will just press that and now it's going to stay that way if you're worried about them not being flat enough you could use the clapper if you want but at this point i usually don't use the clapper i will use that maybe while i'm making the flower forming the petals together but this is what i'm going to do for all of them and then i'll chat a little bit about sewing them together all right so as you can see i skipped ahead a little bit and got a lot of them done because you don't need to you know watch me doing every single blade because they're all the same so every petal is now pressed like this and you just start by sewing two of them together so that it looks like this and i press the seams open now when i sew them together i line them up as much as i can at the top like with the point on the bottom right there and if that's sticking out just a little bit that's okay that's how i that's how i sew i'd rather have them lined up at the point in the bottom that way you kind of keep it all straight and then i'm just going to do a quarter inch seam allowance down here now i'm going to start with the folded on the top edge and i am going to backstitch that just so that the you know petals don't fall apart so i do my quarter inch seam allowance when i clip these threads i'll clip it not close to the petals but away so that i have that little string there and from the back stitching and then when it times comes time for applique i just tuck that behind i don't ever clip that off close and that works out fine so then i just bring it over here open it up and press it open and again you can use these clappers if you'd like to sometimes i do sometimes i don't it just depends on if i feel like it needs a little bit of flattening so then after you can see that i've you know have them in sets of four now but you know i just did them all until i had sets of two and then i sewed the sets of two together just like i did the sets of four so basically set that back up there basically i just line it up the same way i'm gonna make these center seams line up and then again i'll run it through quarter inch seam allowance now these flowers are really fun to sew and i don't want you thinking that you know it has to be perfect or it has to be perfection or anything like that it's just a flower as long as your edges are turned under and it's all going to work out great and then i just go over here and press that open some people who make dresdens um you know they'll press their seams all one direction but again because i'm appliqueing i want to do them all open so that they'll lie flat okay sorry about that all right so now i've got these four segments and i'm simply just going to sew them together until i just keep going and it's all a circle and i'm going to sew them together the same way always putting the folded edge under first and back stitching and continuing on and so i'm going to finish sewing this together pressing the seams open until i have the circle and then i'm going to meet you right back over to my work table and i'm going to show you how i lay it out and prepare for my applique all right now we're here back to the workspace and i have everything ready to go including my flower it's all sewn together this measures 13 and a half inches from here to here and it's got this area in the middle that you could put a smaller circle on it if you wanted to but we're using this fun patchwork circle so i'm going to show you how i lay out my blocks in preparation for applique so i always lay out the background on a design board now this is a large background so i put my design board my large one going you know on point like that so hopefully you can see that i'll kind of move it back and forth if i need to but the gold that we're going for here let me show you the one i already previously had done is with each block tutorial i will tell you how tall and how wide your design needs to be so for this one it's i believe it's 19 inches so we're going to measure from this point let's see can you see that you see that point we're going to measure from that point clear down to the bottom of this stem i don't know if you can see that but clear down to the bottom of that stem and that's 19 inches so you want your entire flower from the points to the bottom of this to measure 19 inches and then you want your flower obviously is going to be you know 13 and a half this way but this way it's going to measure you know straight across oh it's still almost 13 and a half this way and then my leaves right here are about 13. they could go out to 13 and a half but as long as you know your measurement here then you know how to kind of tip your leaves up and down so let's go from there so the first thing i like to do is i pin everything out on my design board that's why i put it on the design board because i like to pin first now when you're laying these blocks out you can see that you can either on this folded line put put your um seam right here on the folded line or you can line it up at the point on all my flowers there in this quilt they're lined up with the seam so i'm going to kind of lay that there i just want to make sure i have enough background fabric going that way i grab my tape measure and this is kind of where i start off just about wow i wasn't too far off on that so i just need to bring this stem down just a touch and i'm going to leave that flower where it is and usually the first thing i do on these flowers is the stem so what i do is i take a little sew glue here and i like to either apply right on the fold of the fabric or right down the center of the stem and i just do a very thin line and i do half at a time i just want to make sure that stem is centered so i'll just fold that back i won't move it because i know it's in the right place i just like to do a thin line because i don't want to have to needle through this by hand or even go by machine even though you can it just you know i don't like to have to so again i just have this crease down the center of my background and now i've got that glued down and now that this is kind of folded up right here this is i'm going to show you where i apply the glue to i just put a dot there and on the intersections on the points and on the intersections and that is all you need and i do it about a quarter an inch away from the edge or a half inch away and then i'll fold it back down make sure that seam is right there now before i do the other half i'm going to grab my tape measure again and just make sure that something didn't get moved it's a little shorter than 19 inches so i can either move my flower up or move my stem down just to touch and so that's what i did this glue takes a few minutes to set up but not too long but it is you know you can move it around a little bit let me move this down i want you to be able to see the whole flower and so then that's what i love about this glue is because it does adhere it you know to the background so that it's not going to move during either machine or hand applique but if you make a mistake as you're measuring and you know pinning and things like that then um you can just kind of pull it off tug it off and reposition it and so that's what i like okay so there's my flower right there now let me we'll let that dry um you can pin that into place if you want to but i don't feel it's necessary i usually just use my pins when i'm placing things so let's see if i move this castle they can see where i'm working with the leaves that's good okay so here's my small leaves and my large leaves and i do want to leave a little bit of stem on the bottom probably about three quarters of an inch an inch something like that but this is where i'll bring in my pins and these are my applique pins these are my favorite ones to use for this and i'll just pin pin down here at the point where i want it to go so that i can pivot this way and i'll just stick that and this pinning right into the design board and before i you know play around with those i want to be able to do the same thing with this so i can make them look kind of nice and even now right now when i'm turning this out and pulling this out with this angle and this angle i think that looks pretty good but the test will be when i measure across here to these leaves can you see that it says okay so these leaves are 14 inches so i can see that that is a little too wide i want them realistically to be about 13 inches across so what i'm going to do is pivot that up pivot that up pivot those up then i'm going to measure across my tape okay just a touch more and i'm good to go and then once i've got them down to where i want them to be across across wise as long as they're not wider than the flower you're going to be okay then i will pin them right into place so they do not shift during the glue basting part now i'm just going to give a quick look to these and make sure it's kind of centered from here to here and i like the angle that they're at and then i'll go ahead and put one more pin in there now while the pins in there now i can grab my glue and just put a few drops here lift this up the side and i don't go all the way to the edge because i don't want to needle it i'm basically using this glue as i would a pin you know putting a little dot where i would normally put a pin and just make sure i get the corners now um i love i love to use this because it is water soluble like i say but it is repositionable if you need to and so it gives me a lot of freedom and even if i don't you know per se really make a mistake but decided i wanted it to look different and change it up before i do the final applique then i know i can move it so speaking of applique you can either applique by hand or machine and these flowers would be great for machine all i would suggest is that you use matching thread for your appliques so you wouldn't have to do that in your bobbin you would just have to have the matching thread on the top so i would use yellow and then i would use greens for these and i just use a tiny little zigzag stitch i will leave a link in the description below a few months ago i actually did a tutorial on where you can see machine applique how i do it and how i do hand applique as well um when i'm using my shapes and so i'll leave a link if you need a refresher on that or if you have never seen me do that before okay so the last thing we need to do is the circle so what you want to do is just decide which way is right side up but what's really nice about this is because you've got seams in here in your um little petals and seams in here you can line those seams up just like we did with the lines on the rulers and now i know that that circle is in the center of the flower so sorry so um if you really need to know you know if you're really worried about it you can take this little ruler i can see that's looks like it needs to come this way a little bit which still lines up with the seams you know so it looks to me like it's an inch and a quarter from the inside of here to the outside of the circle all the way around and so you can quickly check that if you want to but once i get that lined up how i want it then i definitely will put you know like four pins in here just so that it will not shift and again once i get it glued down um and then i look at it far away you know how sometimes you can see it something in a better perspective far away once i glue all the edges and i might you know put it up on my design wall or something or let it dry and then i'm like that circle looks like it's off or something like that then i can always reposition it but it's better to just kind of use your ruler if you're worried about it and do it you know in the first place so we don't have to go back and do that so i hope you've enjoyed this tutorial this little step-by-step tutorial all of the flowers meaning the flowers all the petals are sewn the exact same way there's no difference it's just going to be a difference on how you cut them according to size and so i will detail that on my blog each monday until each flower tutorial is completed and so that's all you have to do to join the sew along you can find a kit by um you know doing a quick easy google search of quilt shop near you or online that you know have some kits left over and just type in flea market flowers quilt kit and i'm sure you know that you'll find one and we'll just be tuning into my blog every monday that's all you have to do grab your fabric grab the three sets of rulers and we're good to go and i hope you're looking forward to growing all these flowers with me and into a beautiful garden and thank you so much for joining me if you like this video please subscribe and you can hit the bell to subscribe so that you can get notifications for new tutorials and videos that i do on my channel each week and i'm so happy you've joined me and i will chat with you later

Channel: Lori Holt

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Length: 58min 35sec (3515 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 22 2021