Friday Fun Day LIVE with Rob Appell 6/14/24

well well well there it is I was a little nervous I was I really was I just got new coffee grounds and they smell a little bit suspect but they taste pretty good and I'm having an early coffee cuz I'm actually trying to slow down and sometimes the coffee helps me slow down hello everybody I'm Rob appelle the Carefree Caff quilter from Stitch in Heaven out in equipment Texas welcome to Friday Funday live I am your host and um I want you to notice I'm appropriately dressed to match the set today isn't that fun we're going to talk a lot about the quilt behind me we've actually been talking a lot about the quilt behind me in the past um so I'm coming on I'm making sure everybody can hear me okay I see folks are coming in from New Zealand and California and Vermont and Texas that's awesome looks like the audio is doing well here and I've got all my cameras up and so we'll just go ahead and start the show everybody I've got a big project I'm excited excited to start this afternoon and so uh at the end of today's show I'm going to go ahead and sign off and put on my grubbies and get back to it but we'll talk about that as part of the Grateful list actually today we' got a great show for you I've got a fun show in tell I've got some I want to start doing some more question and answer some more Q&A from some of the things we're seeing on YouTube throughout the week as bringing our community closer together speaking of community we do have 58,000 subscribers right here on YouTube make sure you are one of those subscribers if you haven't done so hit subscribe today smash the like button and most importantly please help share by letting everybody know across social media your quilt guilds your friends all of those different things uh that Rob AEL is here I'm on YouTube at Stitch in Heaven a lot of folks I know have been looking at me looking for me excuse me since the man sewing days ended several years ago and uh it's really fun to be back on YouTube and entertaining all of you out there we have a YouTube private uh group as well and we're constantly getting new members I guess I need to update the screenshot we've picked up another 300 or so since then but yeah it's on uh Facebook I think I said YouTube private group I'm sorry Facebook private group so well Rob Appel and just look for that there and um it's a great place again where you can post your photos and I of often when doing what little social media I do I know I often do more there so it's just kind of a fun way to be part of the community and as we get going on through the announcements today uh I've been trying to mention this but I'm putting links in the description because I've got a lot of things I like to share and sometimes I get a little confused and bounce around and go too fast because I'm doing all of this production myself so always feel free to check the description for links to some of the things we're going to talk about as we go through the announcements today so coming up right around the corner um wait June 11th through 13th that was this weekend oh that's an old slide I thought that seemed kind of interesting oh boy am I prepared all right folks coming up right around the corner long arm training event October October 16th through 18 2024 that's going to be an awesome handy quilter training event and we're going to have three full days of information uh focused around a lot of different stuff so the website's got um information up we've got two great teachers coming out we have Karen King and we also have Janelle mes oh I'm probably just gonna ruin your name Janelle I'm sorry um mcer and part of this is I have all of these notes so small that I uh need my glasses on so Janelle I know I ruined your last name I'm sorry I have not met you in person but I'm hoping to get to be there um in Texas when the handy quilter event is going on this is a great way for training this is also a great way for those of you who are considering purchasing a long arm or a mid-arm in the future to get out there put your hands on and try it if you've already purchased one or are considering purchasing one I believe we have a coupon where if you purchase in the near future you get the event for free so check our website that's uh stitching heaven.com read all about it there and make sure uh you get ready to participate kind of fun we were talking about long arming although this was done on the domestic the last few weeks we've been putting up a few of the skill builders this is the uh real easy um project I did this was the uh easiest Log Cabin ever and just doing some basic free motion machine quilting all over the place with it and having a good old time and so that was last week's video that I posted and I got a couple of great comments that are going to lead to the Q&A towards the end of today's video as we bounce through now coming up next week so on next Wednesday and again if you're new here to the channel again please subscribe uh but also Wednesday's the recorded content that I'm doing here at YouTube and then Fridays are these fun lives and we sneak something in every now and again when we can so coming up next Wednesday we're back into the block of the month series it's Arabella 5 and you can see those here on the sidew wall I've got these wonderful um these are the four different blocks that we made for the Arabella block month number five now in month number four was really cool we assembled the blocks and then the jewel blocks but then we also put together the center from Arabella so most of us are at about this point right now or getting to this point over the next couple of weeks and starting to put together and we're going to now work around the outsides and um really excited about the way this is coming together it's a beautiful project from Wing in a prayer design it features um the Arabella boutiques that are from Timeless Treasures and really cool instructions if you've been following the the series I'm learning a lot about Patchwork and some of the ways that we can press or cut in advance it's like being a really good billiard's player at quilting and thinking about a few steps down the road and how just some of these little changes in the way we press or trim can actually help for bulk and and seam management and accuracy if that kind of stuff is important to you so that's pretty cool been having a lot of fun with that out there um and so at any rate uh I did get okay so here's this the wonderful quilt we're building at Arabella and then I got this comment so I'm going to jump a little bit into the Q&A we're going to do a pre Q&A here so at any rate do you have tutorials available for each month I'm starting off this is my first project and would love monthly tutorials so right now at Stitch in Heaven we are considered the block of the month headquarters we are the experts in block of the month and block of the month kits however we do not have a tutorial for every project every month because we'll do six to eight different block of the months starting each and every month sometimes those will run 8 to 10 months sometimes those will go 12 13 months so at any rate it's something that I would like to do I'm trying to pick different block of the months that are coming down the pipeline that I think will either be great information or like the next one I've chosen already is one that Charisma Horton and I have planned for it's her design with my fabric so of course that'll be a lot of fun I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a shorter version version of a block of the month as well or something that was very very focused on skill building after skill building after skill building because I think the block of the months could be great for that as well so currently no we do not offer a full tutorial each and every month for every block of the month we do but it is on our wish list for ourselves and I would really appreciate it if you sent me some emails um directly or in either Rob stitchin heaven.com or info@ stitchin heaven.com let us know what tutorials for what block of the months you would consider important it will help us narrow down and we really do read those emails and comments it really does help us as we go through so I thought that was a great comment and I wanted to say thank you very much for sending that out so we'll have a few more of those at the end of the video but first it is show and tell time that's right so thank you Michelle Michelle is a constant viewer and or emailer and she has sent in a couple of her quilts this week most of them or excuse me two of them we're going to feature panels I really like this one of course because we were in the Patriotic theme last week and here is another one of Michelle's projects thanks Michelle and just another real nice fun one and then of course this one here I did crop the photo a little bit because it's on a second story railing to show how ginormous the quilt is but I did not quilt uh excuse me I did not crop out the gentleman in the corner he looks like one of those wonderful oldtimers he's got a little bit of something to to say about everything to me and I mean that in a loving way there Michelle I hope he's a family member he reminds me of one of the gentlemen from up in the loft of the Muppet Show and I have a feeling that's his quilt because he has dressed to match so at any rate wonderful quilts Michelle I love them ginormous this one is as well so uh pretty cool thanks for sending those in if you'd like to see your quilts on my show uh send them in show and tell us what we're all about uh you can send them over to Rob stitchin heaven.com and uh often I'll crop the photos just to make them fit the screen a little bit like I said there um but you never know if you send me the photo you never know what I may do with it so feel feel warned and encouraged all at the same time of course um at any rate uh let's go ahead and do a couple things I want to talk about this quilt now you noticed last week I was talking about the patchwork I think some of it was up on the wall it is now officially quilted and bound in Black which you can't see up here uh this is the glowing checkered star so there's kind of a dark green star in kind of hidden I like quilts that have hidden stuff in there of course a couple different Checker boards the checker board on point which was originally a question I was asked how do you do something like that Rob and so this is going to be our virtual sewalong and here's our save the date let me just step out of the way and drink some coffee there you go September 14th 2024 our goal is and right now what a goal because we're writing up all the information is to put together this wonderful where's my button there it is put together this wonderful virtual SE along so I'll come on live with multiple cameras multiple angles going so you can see everything and teach you all how to make this step by step 9:00 a.m. Central Time On That September 14th we will have preut kits available for you all and at the moment this is one of the questions I'd like to know obviously oh it's not a mystery obviously my goal is to sew all day and I think I can get it all done for you now I spent a couple of days working on this in a few hours a day because I was distracted with other me distracted of all things right but I'm pretty sure it can all be done in roughly eight hours however you'll notice these are half Square triangles here right and there's lots of them and they're all of the same I made them by doing two squares cutting them and trimming them down to Accurate size hey notice how nice the points are right folks so here's my question to you with this let me just show you a fun other view of the quilt here while I'm drinking some more coffee would you like in your pre-cut quilt kit those half Square triangles to be cut the exact size so you have to be decently accurate with your quarter inch seam allowance or would you rather do it like me and have the squares now with all of those squares I can tell you it will take roughly an hour to trim them down but sometimes taking a break from the machine is good we could be snacking during that periods um so at any rate that's where I'm at right now I'm trying to figure out the best way to offer these are done as strip pieces this is a solid square but these half Square triangles we can serve you in a multiple different ways but I hear feedback and so I'm asking the feedback from you all when it comes to a half square triangle in a kit do you want it exact with the engineered corners and everything but then you've got to sew it perfect or do you want it a little large and then trimming it down a few more steps but you you're responsible for the accuracy at the end I'd like to know at any rate so this is coming up this is going to be really fun signups are not yet quite available because I just got The Binding on yesterday but we're getting close folks and like I said I was emailing right before I jumped on camera today and we are getting everything dialed in to make sure oh it's fun it uses my new Fabrics as well so I'm having a lot of fun with that as well as we bounce through and I guess it is time for me to take a sip of this coffee real quick and um oh thank you everybody Stephanie I appreciate that and looking at the comments going through I see a lot of my fun fun new friends from the quilting cruise that I met a couple weeks ago so blessings to all of you thank you very much for joining me here again we talk about this as a quilting community and we use that word intentionally because we support each other all all of the time and I'll actually mention that I was talking to my support group well I'm surpris we call each other that a support group but yeah the quilting marine and the combat quilt and myself uh are definitely a support group and uh I was getting their support a couple days ago as we dive into the Grateful list now with the Grateful list this is something I encourage us all to do just remind ourselves daily what we're grateful for it make some of those aches and pains go away and so for me as we dive in today I'm going to encourage you to write down some of those things you feel free to put them in the comments below if you'd like it's always fun for us all to see what we're all grateful for and you can see right here again I'm kind of doubling it up but cruising but with a fun New reason why cruising is my number one thing on the Grateful list so this video right here let me tell a quick little story before I play this video many of you have mentioned we have brought on board a new cameraman uh and editor named Elijah he's a young gentleman who doesn't have any quilting experience or didn't have any quilting experience but he's super eager to learn and he's very artistic and one of the things we've been dying to do for all of you is show you what it's really like on a quilting cruise and so the fun for me in this video I'm about to share with you all is Elijah went on the cruise the week before I went neither of us had ever ever been on a quilting cruise with Stitch in Heaven before so I couldn't give him much advice uh or Direction other than I said just have fun with the folks and make sure you get as much captured as possible so I've watched the video and some of you maybe have seen the video as well and I feel like Elijah you've done an amazing job of capturing every moment of the fun the excitement he even got the gentleman and it's a different guy but the guy playing the piano in the elevator as well so the moments that were captured he put it together in a beautiful video so my Cruisin thankful grateful list is actually for Elijah in this beautiful video enjoy folks he [Music] [Music] [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] wasn't that great didn't he do an awesome job and I think I can see uh at least I saw Ste um uh Stephanie's out there and ingred I believe is out there as well wouldn't you g agree that he really captured what we all just experienced I mean even with the group t-shirts and the time we could kind of spend out enjoying the sunsets and all the ziplining and the mini golf and the water parks and oh man great so anyway super fun and I just really appreciative that our again our team is growing we're blessed at stitching Heaven uh mostly because of all of you and all of the support so it's just fun to see this all coming together now it's funny you probably noticed because I can't make the Grateful list come in one at a time working on that Tech but anyway so number two is my wife and this is funny because while I was putting together today's show this popped into my email and it was from um Shutterfly and 11 years ago today apparently I was on a cruise and now this was another quilting cruise up in Alaska with my lovely wife there that's Jenny my wife and so funny enough um I was telling my support group before we left for the cruise guys we really should you know consider dressing nicely on the cruise and they were thinking I was kidding but see every now and again it's fun to get dressed up and go out and have a good time like that and so at any rate that was formal night 11 years ago oh my golly now number three on the Grateful list and this is also for my wife because I'm so for grateful for my wife is um remodeling so yes a couple of days ago I was able to send my friends a photograph that said nothing is better than starting your day with the shovel indoors and uh yeah we had this old vinyl floor I put down the peeling stick like a dozen years ago and I thought box tape was an appropriate uh solution for the corners that were breaking and chipping but instead I got out there with the shovel and started going away and so just a few short hours later we've got some new floor that's going to look like that going in and you'll notice here on the Grateful list that the last thing on my grateful list is that Pro quilter status now Pro quilter status may be self assigned but after a couple of short hours of physical labor like that on my hands and knees carrying all that material around doing the thing I'm telling you folks I'm pretty glad that I consider myself a pro quilter and not a pro remodeler because uh my goodness it can get a little bit tough on the back and the knees and all that I'm actually feeling doing pretty great having a good time with it and really excited I have one challenge today that I'm up against um and so that's what I'm going to do after I sign off on today's video I've been thinking about it for several weeks I think I have the design in mind but we have an old kind of builtin cabinet bar system and I'm going to try to remove part of it um and so just wish me luck I know I've got a lot of praying types out there you can say a prayer for me if you'd like as well I'm probably going to need it of course uh but that's pretty fun so at any rate um oh now about the quilting Cruise I'm sorry I forgot to mention a lot of times when we talk about our quilt and cruises and you go to the quilt and cruises page you might see this sold out please just keep scrolling they're just in alpha or numerical order on the calendar but you'll notice that as soon as we get into 2025 we have openings for sailing with us in 2025 I just believe we only have one left in 2024 coming up here in August that's the Legacy quilt Cruise uh August 9 my wedding anniversary through the 16th so at any rate um don't be discouraged if you ever click on our travel page for the cruises and you see sold out just keep scrolling down same weather at Retreats a lot of times scrolling down because they're often in sequential order based on the calendar and even though they're sold out they're still in a space holder on the internet um as we go so let's dive into some of these questions and answers I realized I was starting to wrap it up a little bit and um and when I said Pro quilter status the other thing I wanted to play a little bit was kind of this fun video and being a pro quilter status is also being part of a company like Stitch and Heaven that allows me to do great videos like this they help fund a lot of these great projects and encourage all that we're doing to build that community so this happened I believe on Tuesday e yes so Tuesday was official employee goof off day and uh all of the better we certainly enjoy having fun and playing together making each other smile and wowing people that's our mission statement and we do it we train together constantly um in our work environment and our play environment uh the way we communicate together it's really great a great blessing so Deb thank you for culturing or creating that culture in our workplace it's great being a professional quilt maker at Stitch in Heaven so so um I want to dive into a couple of these question and answers I think they're going to actually cover the screen so I'm just going to push them up real quick as I start going through and um we'll get them answered so this one right here Rob can we get a pre-cut quilt kit with your Fabrics Patty absolutely as a matter of fact I have links in the description there is the bird of paradise there is the um dazzling dots there's a double tumbler and then the one on the table right here this is called the synergy remix quilt kit and I started talking about this maybe a couple three weeks ago but this is the normal backdrop quilt kit but it's the new one and this actually is so if you're purchasing now you get it and it has the benex shadow blush and the rapel New World by bench so the whole quilt is made and it I believe is considered a pre-cut quilt kit there and um that is available even with the finding and everything so that is the answer to one of those questions the other quilts I actually had on the cruise with me and I shipped them in the box from Galveston back to stitching Heaven instead of here so I had to show you the photos today those are all photos from the website so of course you can go to stitch in heaven.com you can find the photos like I said the links are down there there are also just patterns available and there are some that are not considered pre-cut quilt kits and I just want to talk about that real quick when we say pre-cut and sometimes you'll see this symbol here um so like on this one this is made using like 3 and 1/2 in and 1 and 1/2 in strips so those strips have been pre-cut down for you on this one here when it says pre-cut the background squares and rectangles have been pre-cut and then also the applique itself has been prefused and uh cut down for you also so the shapes are pre-cut so um a couple of different things when it comes to pre-cut it does not mean it's going to be a 5x5 or a 10 in x 10 in or 2 and half inch strip based quilt that's pre-cuts uh from a that's old school pre-cuts these are new pre-cuts these are ready to sew for you cuts um all right let's see I've got a couple more of these questions to answer now um okay this is great um hi I'm new to quilting my own quilts I finished a quilt top with a Christmas Motif it's embroidered on some squares and blank on others how do I quilt on the embroidered squares and not hide the embroidered designs this is a really important question folks and I actually want to take the time to answer it and we're going to use a couple of examples to get our our minds ready let's use this quilt actually as the example to begin with in this particular quilt I first started by not quilting any of the black and white and after I got a couple of rows into it I thought no it's going to need more so I in these whites here I did a real easy Arc from corner to corner filling it in and I was actually on the long arm so as I kept going I actually went back and did the last row at the beginning I also determined I could do the same Stitch a little bit larger inside of this unit so now that being said I want you to hear this you can quilt different squares in the same quilt with different designs if this Square here was your embroidered Christmas Square well maybe you could do Holly or Christmas balls or something like that in the area that is not the embroidered square and then when you get into your embroidered Square let's go to example diagram number two here and we're going to go to our overhead and let me get myself squared out and then it'll hold still a little bit I'm going to try to lock my focus in there perfect okay so here is uh what I thought maybe you were referring to as your embroidered Square that's a Christmas tree by the way with two presents and on a Christmas tree skirt in the middle of a square and then I was practicing to see if the blue and the black would show up on camera today so again I was just showing here this is a great way to practice folks I was practicing doing an arc and an arc and an arc and an arc without lifting my pen okay so in these squares maybe in the sashing or whatever you could do whatever else but when it comes into something like this the embroidered design what I personally recommend that you do is you go ahead and you do some machine quilting that is considered what's called Echo quilting so you're going to go around your embroidered design one time because this is going to help that embroidered design lift up a little bit when sometimes the embroidered designs might be crushed I know I lift my pen all of you judges out there I know I left my pen it's okay I'm drawing right now and I did it so I could move my hand to the other side of the page okay there's my beautiful outline stitching and then I don't want to do any distraction from the beautiful Christmas embroidery Motif so now I'm going to start up in a corner maybe after I came off of that sashing and I'm just going to start to stipple I'm just going to do basic stippling in the background because I want to crush down this background but I don't want to make notice of it I just want to stick stipple my background so that it holds it down and allows that embroidery to pop out does that make sense I just going to stipple in that area as I go around like that now let's talk about order of operations we still want to deal with each Square as it's a square so starting at the middle of the square in the middle of the quilt if it's an embroidered Square I'm going to outline first then stipple then I'm going to address rest my corners and my sashing and I'm going to go like that square by square so let's assume right now this is my middle Square in my quilt I'm going to go from here and I'm going to go embroidered design standard quilting embroidered design standard quilting and I could also be radiating out but anytime I hit a block I'm going to go to the center of the block with the embroidery first and Stitch around it so once I get to that block I'm going to move from the center out to capture it I don't want you to push quilting into that embroidered design because it could really cause some puckering at the embroidery okay I've got one more question to cover folks see I'm hoping you're liking this I'm having fun and I thought these were some wonderful questions and I really appreciate all of you taking the time to be out there watching the videos sharing the videos and writing in so I wanted to take the time to answer a couple of these got one more for us today um and this is a question so uh my history degree 2013 had actually asked me the same style of question twice over the last couple of weeks and what I realized was there was another question that had a bit of a typo let's slow down here a little bit it was a funny typo actually in my opinion because the word SE had been swapped for sober and being that I am both I thought that was pretty funny but one of the reasons I get afraid to do my live videos and one of the reasons I don't like doing this comment thing like this is I don't read really well and when I start to read when I'm nervous and embarrassed it's one of the reasons I don't always call you out by name folks while you're watching it's one of the reasons I don't read all the comments it's a challenge for me and I'm afraid I'm going to embarrass myself many of times I've been called out for misspellings typos and misspeaking when I'm doing those things and so I've often avoided them live videos so I almost went ahead and started making just of the typo and I realized no let's talk about some of these things and I'll just let you all know why I don't do this very often and as I scrolled through more of the comments I realized that my friend out there had the same question again and she'd been asking it for a while or they had been asking it for a while and so I wanted to make sure I tried to answer it so here's the question from a history degree out there is there something you can do by hand uh oh sorry sorry is this see I already did it is this something you can do by hand this was in reference to my Straight Stitch quilting video I have a weak little machine that's the most basic thing out there and she really or they still really enjoy doing stuff by hand okay so the other comment was in regards to another freemotion quilting video and it was also asking about hand so I've often made the joke that I consider hand a four-letter word but there's a lot of benefit to working with our hands we have to consider the projects though we don't want to do a giant project and quilt it by hand if we've never done something like that before so if you're interested in doing hand work I strongly recommend things like the English paper piecing uh they're really nice they're small you work in small quantities you can often work on your lap putting them together and then a lot of times the hand stitching is going to be Echo quilting those designs and they're done in a hoop and again very simple and it's very therapeutic um and it's done in more of the traditional quilting method what I was doing by free motion whipping around on the machine and things probably not so easily done by hand or maybe if easily done by hand not so easily done on the size of a quilt but like we were talking about a moment ago as an embroidery really folks if you think about it machine quilting and a machine embroidery or quilting and embroidery are very similar right it's just embroidery is kind of filling in think of it this way quilting is the outline and embroidery is filling it in however we're going to do that and so we can do it all by hand and we can do it all by machine it's what we're interested in doing and what brings us the pleasure so the original question came on a very basic quilt oh that one I do have handy let me just grab it real quick we still have a few moments left in today's video it was this quilt folks the basic straight line so that person was then asking could this style quilting be done by hand and absolutely it could it would just be some very tedious running stitches maybe not so close together um you could put it in a hoop and just you know rock your frame back and forth and that certainly could be done now if I zoom in a little bit more maybe you can see the purple fabric has not been stitched through only the colored fabric so on a quilt like this uh it's not all quilted and a lot of times when you get into quilting density matters so even the quilt behind me isn't as densely quilted as the quilt I was showing in my free motion videos because I just wanted to get it done and hold the layers together I didn't need to show a bunch of different quilting because the goal for this was to be a single day project not a year-long project so again like so many things in quilting there's something for everybody out there and if you're interested in doing hand work because it's what you have or it's what you enjoy then scale your projects accordingly also if you're interested in doing more free motion machine work please folks don't frustrate Yourself by trying to do it on a very small machine or a machine that is out of time breaking needles having problems with bobbin threads it's going to be so challenging that you're going to be climbing an uphill battle both directions and I would strongly suggest either borrowing a machine taking a couple of workshops uh maybe consider investing in a machine I do talk about this a lot this handy Quil excuse me my yeah my handy quilter stitch 510 it is not an expensive machine in the world of sewing machine you can get this thing at full price for, 1500 bucks straight Stitch only it quilts like a champ I could run this machine every day for 10 years without thinking about it twice so if you think about some of the things we're doing out there sometimes having a Workhorse is more important than having a multi-purpose machine or a multi-stitch machine um as you're going to grow anyways that's my soap box for the day at any rate let me go ahead and take a few moments and look through your comments here um and let me see if I've got any questions I should be answering folks if you have questions please put them in right now I'm getting I see real quick some good feedback on the half square triangle questions thank you for that and if anyone's got a question you're afraid I'm going to miss please type it again at the bottom because that's where I'm heading uh did we find acj is Jenny out there ah thank you I saw somebody else mentioned the skill Builder drill I I loved it it was almost the nicest backhanded compliment I think that's what you call them you could ever get it said Angela Walters makes it look easy rob you make it look doable which I make I think that was a uh code for Rob you're a slob and we love you for it and that's okay um I'm glad to see Everyone likes being involved ingred hello everyone's happy to see you out there all right okay unfortunately right now if I had to do a quick vote it's 50/50 on the half Square trimming uh or the triangle methods in pre-cut so folks do take a another moment if you watch this video recorded please put in the comments below if you prefer your preut quilt kits to have half Square triangles that are engineered perfect ready to just sew or if you like them a little big so that you sew them and trim them down according to the pattern as it calls for folks thank you so much for being here with us like I said before if you have not joined our community by subscribing here on YouTube Make sure you do so please make sure you are signed up for the email newsletters at stitchin heaven.com and following along with everything we do on our other social media such as Facebook and Instagram make sure you're checking out chat with Pat we are just having a great time providing all of this awesome content for all of you out there and until I see everybody again with a cool recorded tutorial on Wednesday with that Arabella video

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Published: Sat Jun 15 2024