GORGEOUS FLOWERS!!! "ROSE CROSSING" QUILT TUTORIAL!

hi i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics today i'm going to show you how to make a quilt and it's called rose crossing now the quilt on the cover of the pattern here it's done in really nice muted earth tones but rose crossing makes me think of flowers and i actually just got in this beautiful collection of prints from riley blake called exquisite now this collection is just full of beautiful floral prints we've got a lot of big roses we've got little roses we've got leaves a nice blend of colors and i'm really excited to see what these prints will look like made up in the rose crossing pattern this is a pattern from the quilt factory designed by deb grogan and it makes an 80 by 80 inch quilt and all we need is either two and a quarter yards of assorted prints or layer cake and that's what i'm going to use the layer cake three and three quarters yards of background i'm going to use a nice white and then we need a yard the yard will be used as an accent and the binding so that's all we need to make the whole quilt top the first step is to cut the layer cake squares and what's nice is they're all cut exactly the same way so i'm going to cut about six at a time because that's what i'm comfortable cutting now i can't give you the exact sizes i'm going to cut them to because it's not my pattern but there's a very nice diagram in there that shows you exactly what cuts to make so all the cutting on the layer cake pieces that's all done now and we can move on to the background now one thing i don't talk about very often is how often do you change the rotary blade i change mine about every few months now i quilt every day so you probably won't need to change yours that often but any time it starts to feel dull you want to put a new blade on it really makes a big difference it's actually much safer if you use a sharp blade because you don't have to press quite as hard so these blades are pretty easy to change i would say the hardest part is getting it open and you do have to be careful that you don't cut yourself so it comes in this safety thing here i'm just going to flip it out take that old one carefully put it into the safety container put that there put it back together put that little washer on and it usually comes with a little bit of oil on it so i usually take a scrap here and rub it just be real careful that you don't cut yourself roll it around get that oil off of it then we're going to throw this away and it's safe because it's in a plastic container and you won't hit it in the trash we're ready to go with a nice sharp blade [Applause] okay these are all the pieces we need to lay out the basic block for the quilt now the pattern comes with very detailed written instructions for laying out the block but it also comes with a really nice diagram and i'm finding that it's much easier just to follow the diagram to lay out the pieces so that's what i'm going to do there that's the whole block and you can see the pattern but remember the block is not symmetrical so the bottom is not exactly as the same as the top this is not exactly the same as that side so follow the diagram to make sure you've got everything in the right spot now i'm going to take this and put it near my sewing machine my table is not big enough my table that's attached to my machine i can't set this on there so i'm going to put it here you might want to set up a little temporary table next to your machine you can even put it on the floor near you but that way you can sew those rows together i'm just going to pick up this first row in order and take it right over to the sewing machine now i find it useful to lay it back out kind of in the same order so i'm just going to spread it back out so i know what goes where so that's the order it's going to be in and i like to start at this end and add pieces in that direction so we'll take this one and the next piece and put them right sides together and we'll slide this right over and i'm going to finger press all the seams in this first row to the right so this is going to go here so there's that next piece we'll just put it right sides together there bring it on over and i'm going to keep pressing to the right so i'm just going to keep adding pieces until the whole row is done there's the last piece now i'm going to put it right back where i got it goes right there and i'm going to pick up the next row and i'm going to sew all those pieces together but this time i'm going to finger press to the left then the next row will go to the right so i will keep sewing rows together and i will keep alternating the directions of those seam allowances there's the last row and you'll notice that there's not very many places where we have to match intersections most of the rows have no matches at all so where they do come together they're all nesting and they're all going in opposite directions so i'm just going to take these first two rows put them right sides together they're exactly the same length it's very very easy to stitch these up so i'm going to stitch all the way down here and i'll just keep adding rows until the whole block is done the block is done now to iron this i actually find it easiest to do it from the back side first i did finger press it and it's pretty flat but here's how i like to iron this i've got those seam allowances all pressing away from me so i'm just going to smooth it out a little bit then i'm going to take a dry iron and i'm going to kind of hold the patchwork down here with my iron and then pull this a little bit and i am moving my iron the same direction that those seam allowances are pressed and again press it here with your iron pull it a little bit and just kind of gently pull away that's making sure all those seams are nicely opened up and that the seam allowances will stay facing the way that we want them to now we can flip it over and i think i will spin it around again so those seam allowances are pressing away from me smooth it out with your handsome and i again i'm going to use a dry iron and i'm going to pull it a little bit more this is making sure it gets really flat once i think it's nice and flat and stretched out then i'm going to add the steam doing it this way that's the steam really sets those seam allowances exactly how you want them to go and what you can do is if you see something that looks like it's a little wavery you can pull it a little bit like this and then re-iron so i like to do it like this and then i might even turn it sideways because if you have that directly facing you you can see if these seams look straight or if you've got something going a little crooked you can fix it up with your iron okay i've got all the blocks done now and i'm ready to lay out the quilt now the way to know if you've got the blocks correct because remember they're not symmetrical is to keep the single print one on the right and the single background one on the left so we're going to lay them all out like that there the whole quilt is laid out and it is symmetrical the top is the same as the bottom the two sides are the same and the pattern had a very interesting way that we could achieve that effect all we had to do was on these blocks that are on the right side of the quilt i just left off this one row right here so that this block ends with the single background square and that's exactly the same as the far end so it's exactly matching then on the blocks that are on the bottom of the quilt we left off this row here so that i end with dark patchwork here just like i do on the top of the quilt now for this very last block in the corner here the pattern had me leave off one row of patchwork on the side and the patrick on the bottom so now the entire quilt is completely symmetrical now the instructions show you how to make the different blocks but they're really exactly the same except for the row on the right and the row on the bottom i've got the top all stitched up i've got it loaded onto the quilting machine and now i need to pick a thread color let's see burgundy white pink maybe gray one of these will work now when i'm picking a thread color i usually have in mind do i want the thread to blend in or do i want it to show now on this quilt whatever i use that's colorful it's going to show in the white so white would actually be one of my choices here i don't often use white thread so i'm just going to wonder what's it going to look like in the very darkest one it actually is going to look pretty good now this is a very light gray so now we will get a little more of it showing on the white but not much it's still not going to show there now this would be extreme this is going to show a lot in the white section i think with the pattern here that that's going to fight too much i don't think i'm going to use something that dark but i could use a nice light pink even though this is pinker than the pink that's in here this is kind of a corally pink this would still blend in really well let's see i think i'm going to go with the light silver for the quilting pattern i had to pick something with the roses the prints in the quilt have those nice beautiful roses and this is really pretty i like it it looks like it has petals and i really like the shape of that leaf there the rose crossing quilt is all done i'm very happy with how it turned out i like that you can see the crosses very clearly and you can see those little diagonal pathways it's a very pleasing overall pattern the quilting that i used the thread for the quilting it was that gray silver color and it's nice because you can see just a hint of it and you can really see the roses and the leaves but it doesn't take away from the baldness of the pattern now these crosses here that's the accent fabric they're in every one of these crosses and that same fabric that's what we used here on the binding and that makes a nice frame because it's darker now the back side it's a teeny little overall gray and white print binding looks good on that side as well and you again can see just the hint of roses which is very pretty the quilt turned out 80 by 80 inches it's a big square quilt and it was nice to make because each one of the blocks was pretty big and so when you got done with one block you've made a lot of progress towards getting the whole quilt done so it seemed to go together very fast thank you so much for watching our tutorial today we hope you enjoyed it now we're going to have another giveaway this is a nice big quilt called hint of fall this was made with patchwork and then it's got leaves that are appliqued on top of the patchwork we did a video showing how to make it so of course you could make one for yourself but today you could win it and it's very easy to enter our giveaways all you have to do is click the link right below this video that says giveaway and you put in your email address and your name and we can send the quilt to a winner anywhere in the world so good 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Length: 16min 1sec (961 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 10 2021