"GEESE IN THE LILLIES" QUILT PATTERN!

hi everyone i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics today i'm going to show you how to make a quilt and it's called geese in the lilies this is a pattern from debbie maddie of tiore designs and it's got a lot of fun things going on in the pattern i'm really excited to get started with it now these here these are the geese blocks those are made with flying geese blocks then this part those are the lily blocks and they're made with a combination of patchwork and some applique and there's a lot of different steps but each step is not very difficult i don't want you to worry because i'm going to show you how to do each part of the quilt the quilt pattern comes with four different sizes we have a lap a queen a twin and a big king now something interesting about this pattern is the lap and the king over here they look exactly the same but it's made bigger by making each block bigger instead of just adding more of the same block the blocks get bigger with each size now i'm going to make the queen size version so for that size i'm going to need two layer cakes quite a bit of background three and three eighths yards then i'm going to need two accents one of them is for the circles and stems that's for these appliques here and the other one is for these corner and center squares and then after that we're going to need some other fabrics for borders binding backing but we'll worry about that later these are the fabrics that i'm going to use i've got a layer cake called a zula these are batiks from robert kaufman we've got a lot of different shades there and then i've got two blues for my accents and white for the background now the pattern shows parts of the flowers in gold i'm not going to use a gold i'm going to use all blues but i'm going to use some lighter blues for the flowers and keep the darker ones in the flying geese the first step is to select the layer cake squares that we're going to use for the flying geese blocks all i've done is separate out the light squares those will be used for the flowers then all of these dark ones here they will be used in the flying geese blocks now these are all going to get cut down a little bit and i can't give you the sizes because it's not my pattern but i have made a lot of debbie maddie's patterns in the past they're very easy to follow now i need to cut some background blocks the next step is to draw a line on the backside of all of the background squares from corner to corner so i like to use a pencil and you can just draw a light line it doesn't need to be real dark especially on this white i've got my big squares and my background squares and i'm heading to the sewing machine we're going to take one of the blue squares and then we're going to take two of these background squares and we're going to place them right sides together i'm putting one square there and another square here and this is a no waist flying geese method so we're going to be able to make multiple flying geese at once all at once so we want to line up this line so it's making one continuous line between both these squares and i find that if i pin it right here that's enough for me you may find you want to put a pin here or here but really if you pin it in the middle and hold it here that'll be enough now we're going to stitch down both sides here so i'm going to take it over here and my presser foot is a quarter inch so i can put my presser foot right on that line and stitch all the way down here now when i get to the middle i'll take the pin out and i'm going to make sure that this last square is all lined up and just keep sewing once you get to the end you can flip it around and just stitch down the other side the next step is to cut right along that drawn line so i'm just going to get my blade and my ruler and i'm going to put it right on that pencil line and i'm going to cut now we have two very odd shaped pieces that we're going to take to the ironing board now what we want to do is iron these pieces away from that dark triangle so i'm just going to kind of smooth them and press them with my hands first so that i know that seam allowance is going away from the big triangle then a dry iron then some steam so now we have this very odd heart-shaped piece now we're going to take these right back over to the machine now take one of these guys and one of these squares with the line drawn on it and we're going to put it on like this so the edges are all lined up and i'm going to stitch again on both sides of that line a quarter inch away from the line now you can see where i stitched here it came out right where these two fabrics meet right in that corner now when i spin it around that corner that's where i'm going to start stitching this time again we're going to cut along that drawn line and now instead of having some odd heart-shaped piece we've got two flying geese blocks now i'm just going to iron toward the corner again now i've made this method of flying yeast blocks before but every time i do it i'm just amazed at how easy it is and how there's no waste i don't know how someone came up with this method it's just a genius now the blocks come out slightly larger than we need so we're going to square them up we're going to trim them just a little bit and i'm going to use my spinning cutting board here you don't have to but if you have one it saves a lot of time i've got all of the flying geese blocks stitched ironed trimmed those are going to be going around the edges and down the middle now we need to work on the lily blocks i've gone ahead and cut the three different background shapes that we need and now we need to take these lighter layer cake squares that we set aside earlier and we're going to cut a couple different size blocks out of these everything is all cut out and i've gone ahead and pulled off all the pieces we need for one block so we've got five squares here then we've got some pairs we have a background and a print background and a print background in a print two prints in a pair then we've got a couple of background rectangles and a couple of big background squares the first thing we're going to do is work with all these pairs and we're going to mark the back side of the lightest fabric so with these that's going to be the background and with this pair here it's going to be the lighter print here so i'm going to draw a line from corner to corner on the light piece of each of these four pairs we're going to take our pears right over to the sewing machine now we're going to make these pairs into half square triangles so all that means is we take the first pair here line everything up and stitch a quarter inch away from that drawn line on both sides so i'm going to carefully go down the one side and then just spin it around and go down the other side now i'm just going to slice this right along the drawn line now all we have to do is iron these open flat so i like to kind of peel that and roll it open because i'm trying to make sure that my seam stays straight and i don't make it bow or bend at all and i like to keep the seam allowances all going towards the dark then once i feel like it's flat dry iron and a little steam the half square triangles also need to be trimmed up and squared now to trim these down be sure to have a dog ear over in the corner and trim off these two sides the pattern tells you exactly what size to trim to and this particular pattern does have you make your half square triangles a little bit oversized and then you trim them to an exact size now this corner i'm just going to trim off just the dog ear there so different patterns have different instructions and some you need to trim all of them some they come out exactly the right size to begin with so be sure to read the pattern and follow the instructions for that pattern so that your blocks will all fit nicely when you're making your quilt now i'm ready to lay out the first block so the big backgrounds are going to go in the opposite corners here and then we've got some rectangles here and here this guy goes here and then we've got some light blocks here and here half square triangles a couple more half square triangles a couple more half square triangles and then these last two go like oops upside down so you can see now you can see the lily that we've got showing here but we don't have the stem we don't have those circles and the stamens there and those are going to go on these blocks and we're going to do those appliques then we'll be ready to stitch the block together there are several ways to put your appliques onto your quilt blocks i'm going to use a product called heat n bond light this is a fusible product and this allows me to fuse my applique pieces to the background so they won't move at all while i'm stitching them so the fusible products like the heat n bond here they have two different sides one is a paper side which is very flat and smooth that's the paper side and the other side has glue on it and it's kind of bumpy so we can draw on the paper side so i'm going to put this down on top of my circle and i'm just going to draw around it and i have multiple circles so i can draw them all at once or i can draw just a few so i'm using the circle size for the queen but the pattern does come with different size circles so you want to draw the size that you need for the size quilt you're making i'm going to start just with three of the circles and before i put this onto my fabric i'm going to make sure my fabric is nice and flat and i'm going to steam press it once it's steam pressed nice and flat you can take your fusible product here with the glue side down and i've got the wrong side of this fabric up so i'm putting this onto the back side of the fabric and now i'm just going to put it on with a little bit of an iron just to kind of stick it where i want it now i'm going to cover it up my fusible only takes two seconds some take longer some take steam you have to look at the directions for your particular fusible once you've got it on there now we can just cut around these circles and i think what i'll do to make it easier is just cut a little bit of the fabric out here so i'm just going to cut right along these lines and try to make it nice and smooth once you have them all cut we are ready to peel off the paper part and then we'll be left with just the glue part before you try to peel the paper off make sure that this is really cool otherwise it's hard to get off and it helps on a circle if you go kind of not on the edge of a straight grain right in the middle here and then you can kind of wiggle it a little and it will loosen and then you can peel that right off see how that shiny all the adhesive is stuck to the back side of the fabric now now for the straight pieces for these long stems and the little stamens they're all straight and it's a lot easier to take a big piece of the fusible and just put it right onto your fabric and then fuse it and slice with your rotary cutter it's really hard to trace all those little straight lines on here so this is a lot quicker [Music] the first piece we're going to fuse on is this longest stem here so this is going to go on the diagonal on the block now you want to be sure that you put the glue side down not up otherwise it will stick to your iron so just put it from corner to corner nice and flat and then i like to take my iron and i'm not going to go off the edge there i'm just going to go in the middle here a little bit and i'm going to point to the tip here so that that part is not on my ironing board because if i go on top of it this will fuse to my ironing board so just go near it right now and same thing in the other corner and once you've got it fused nicely on there go ahead and get some scissors flip it over and trim off this extra fusible part here off both sides of the corner and then same thing over here and watch these little scraps here you don't want to leave them on your ironing board because again if you iron over them they will stick to your iron they will stick to everything once that's trimmed off now you can go ahead and fuse the corners down really well now to put the rest of the applique pieces on the pattern has a little placement guide that you can make you can cut it out of paper or cardboard i just use a scrap of fabric and this will tell you exactly where to place each three of these circles you just put it in the corner then put the circle down oops i think i moved it there and then the last one over here and you can even fuse this a little bit just on the outside of it so that it won't move that'll just kind of glue it in place because we need to put these guys down again remember put glue side down now this one is going to point right toward the corner and you'll find that it doesn't quite reach but that's okay because we're going to trim a little off here so i'm going to just put that guy right under there and then this one again glue side down and it's going to point right towards the corner just put that underneath there and then this last one and once you have them exactly where you want them without moving them the way i did there then you can put your iron down and i like to just put it down a little bit so i know they're where i want them and then my particular heat n bond light i have to put the iron on for six seconds and again you want to be careful that you don't fuse these pieces to your ironing board so just put the tip of your iron here and then we're going to flip it upside down trim off the rest of this fusible part and be sure to throw it away and then finish pressing that down now i'm ready to do the stitching on my appliques now my industrial machine does not have a zigzag stitch so it's not really good for applique so i have my little singer patchwork machine and this does have a zigzag stitch this is just a basic entry level machine but it's got actually quite a few different stitches you can do including a plain old zigzag which is what i'm going to use now every time i do applique work i always do a little practice first because i want to see how wide should the stitches be and how close they should be since my pieces are fused on i could do a real wide stitch but i think it looks better i always like it narrower and i ended up doing this one right here and you can make those adjustments every machine will let you adjust the stitch width and the stitch length to begin with we need something to stabilize something to go underneath our applique stitching so that it will stay nice and flat so i just have plain old all-purpose paper here that i'm going to put and it's all the way under where i'm going to stitch now i'm just going to slide this under here start sewing so i want my needle to hit just on the outside right outside the applique and then cover up quite a bit of the blue so i just sewed off the end now i'm going to turn it around go down the other side all right that one's done now we can move on to the one that's a little more complex here it fits skin on a piece of paper there and i am going to start off on one of the straight edges so i'm going to start off on this one here because this is on the bottom so i want to start stitching here and it's just the same thing it's very easy on these straights now as i'm coming to the circle piece here i'm going to want to stop right when i get to where the circle starts and if you have this function on your machine you can make it so the needle will stop in the down position every time so i'm going to change that so my needle will stop watch no matter where i stop sewing the needle is going to go down and that's good when you want to pivot a lot so i'm going to go slow as i get towards that circle and i really want it to be on the right side there before i pivot now i'm going to lift up the presser foot and i'm going to turn so that i am stitching around the circle now now the the key to the circle is to stitch a little and keep pulling with this hand and this hand over here is pulling also so i'm turning it as i go now you may have to stop periodically and lift the presser foot and pivot a little more so you can make a nice even curve what you want is for your stitches to stay perpendicular to the outer edge of where it's cut so sometimes you have to feed it a little by hand and turn a little and just keep trying to stitch smooth so i went all the way around the circle and now i'm coming back down the other side of the stem and i'm going to stop right where these meet i'm going to stop right there then i'm going to pivot this around and start on this straight one so i'm going to use the same method start on the outside i'm going to go all the way down and then around the circle i've gone all the way around the circle and i'm coming back down the second side of the stem and i don't know if you can see but i'm going to come straight down here this stem comes straight down here and it stops right there because this stem is on top of it so i'm just going to go to here and stop now i'm going to swivel around and do the very last stem and i'm going to stitch right over all of these prior stitchings when i so that's going to catch that it's going to keep those stitches from coming out so i just went all the way to the end there and on the circles you know i went up here all the way around and then i went across the bottom of the stem that's why i've got this little teeny thread right here to trim off and then i went down the far side so you can see here everything is covered up and there's all nice neat stitching along there i've got both of the applique blocks done now before i move on i'm going to take a product called fray check this is like a glue and i usually put this one little drip everywhere i stopped and started stitching and this just puts a little bit of the fray check everywhere you stopped and started stitching and that way none of the stitching will come out this dries clear and it doesn't wash out and that way anywhere i stopped and started none of it will start to come undone now all we have to do is take all that paper off of the backside so it's pretty easy on this long straight one the stitching makes so many holes in the paper that it just comes right off so the outsides those are pretty easy any parts that don't come away you just tear them off the inside you have to scrape a little bit where the stem is here and i don't worry if there's any little bits of paper underneath my stitching it's not going to cause any problems and it's just a little teeny bit of paper there so just pull it away from the stitching and just keep pulling the circles come out real easy the applique blocks also get trimmed down so that they will be the exact size you need to fit in the quilt and i'm going to trim these two sides the sides away on the outside of the circles here are the final pieces so that we can get the block stitched together there's no special techniques no special matching to put all this together basically all you have to do is make a big row there and a skinny row here and then another big row here and sew them together all the big lily blocks are done and i've got the flying geese blocks that we made earlier and a couple of these plain accent blocks and now we can start laying the quilt out so the lilies just get placed like this these plain accent blocks just go in all four corners and then right in the middle then we just have to fill in with all the flying geese blocks i've got all of the patchwork on the table here and it might look complicated to sew together but it's not at all the pattern has you make it in sections so we've got this guy which is already made and then these flying geese will make a section and then that'll go to that so it's really easy to get the whole quilt together then all i have to do is put on a final border and get it loaded onto the quilting machine i've got the quilt loaded up on the machine it's looking pretty good and i need to pick a thread color now the pattern is pretty bold and i don't want to distract from that in these lighter areas by using too dark of a thread these are all threads that match so obviously you could go with the dark navy here but i really think it's going to be distracting in that light area this one also it's about the same color as the blues in there it's kind of a teal blue again it's pretty dark now this light blue this one isn't going to fight much with the white so let's put quite a bit of the thread there you can hardly see it and this one is kind of a green blue this also would work doesn't show much but is actually showing up a little too green i could use white but i'm pretty sure that's going to bother me in these dark ones and especially up here in the border so i really think this light blue will be the best choice for the quilting pattern i've chosen one called emily i'm not really sure what kind of flower this is i don't think it's a lily but i really like the shape and i like the middle part of the flower i like those leaves and this should look really good on our quilt [Music] [Applause] [Applause] the geese and the lilies quilt is all done this was a very satisfying quilt to make there were quite a few of the flying geese blocks then those nice big lily blocks and then when i put it all together it just makes a very nice blend i like the colors i like the pattern i'm also quite happy with the quilting pattern on here i don't normally like the quilting to show much but you can see along here it almost looks like there's a border of these flowers and they look really pretty they also show on the backside some because i used a slightly lighter thread on the darker blue background it's quite large this is a queen size but it's 84 by 108 so that's a very generous large size queen thanks so much for watching our video today we hope you enjoyed it now if you have any questions you can leave them in the 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Length: 33min 5sec (1985 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 16 2021