How to HAND-TIE Your Quilt AT HOME With Matt and Donna!

hi i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics let me show you something this is one of my bins of ufos now a UFO is an unfinished object so these are quilts that I have not finished yet and if you've been quilting for any amount of time you've probably got some of these you really want to finish them up so today I'm going to show you a good method for finishing your quilt at home without sending it to the long armor without any special tools I'm going to show you how to hand tie a quilt with yarn so now I do all of my quilts on the quilting machine we've got all this stitching this quilt here was made by doing individual stitches with yarn and hand tying them now it's not just for looks it's not decorative these are useful functional quilts that you can sleep with wash we use these with all four of my kids when they were growing up and they're really puffy and really comfortable this is the UFO that I would most like to finish up it's a pattern called around the world and I must have made it maybe 20 years ago these fabrics are from Concord country florals Concord fabrics is no longer in business but during the 80s 90s 2000s back when I had nice big permed hair these were prints that we used for quilting so if you've been quilting for a long time you probably recognize some of these prints so these color cards are what they would send us so that we could order fabrics and we ordered a lot of them so these prints here these are actually in the quilt that I'm going to show you how to hand tie today the first thing we're gonna need is a backing so I'm going to use this nice navy blue print here now my quilt is 81 inches and it's square and my fabrics about 43 44 inches wide so two widths of it will give me enough to get my 81 this way so I for the length I'm gonna cut it about 86 inches so I've got a couple extra inches on the top and bottom so I'm gonna cut to pieces 86 inches long I've got my two lengths right sides together here and all I'm gonna do is make one big long seam here I'm going to use about a one and a quarter inch seam allowance to make sure that I get beyond any of this icky selvage portion there now we're going to want to press this seam open and I'm just gonna finger press it so I'm gonna pull it back across my machine here and then I'm gonna open it up and just pull my fingernail or the tip of my finger right down the seam it'll lay nice and flat now we're gonna take the back and we're gonna lay this out right sides up on a big ol new table here so I'm just gonna spread it out nice and flat now we're going to put the top right sides together on top of the back so you have to be a little bit careful as you do this that you don't wrinkle up your back so just carefully go around and straighten the top out keeping that back nice and flat once you've got it laid out nice and flat I'm going to leave this whole side alone I'm not going to do anything on this side but these other three sides so all the way over here along the bottom and up the other side I'm going to put pins in around the edges about every six inches on pinning it about a half-inch in all the way around these three sides now we're gonna take this whole thing right over to the sewing machine we're gonna stitch all the way around those three sides that we pinned so starting right here I am going to back tack so this doesn't come apart and I'm going to use about a 3/8 of an inch seam allowance here and I'm just going to go all the way around I'm on the last of the three sides here so I'm going to go to the end and backpack now on this fourth side here this side here I am going to take this I'm going to start at the other end and I'm going to just stitch all the way along here so that none of these little seams come apart these little stitching seams here come apart as we're working with the quilt so I'm going to stitch it's called stay stitching and I'm gonna go 3/8 of an inch from the edge now for batting for the quilt this is 100% polyester batting and it's bonded that means it's been heat-treated on both sides so that it won't come apart it's gonna stay together inside your quilt even if you just tie it every few inches it's gonna stay together through washing and it's very very durable so I got this in Joanne's and you can find it at most craft stores just get a nice puffy one now I got 48 inch batting you probably won't be able to find it as wide as you need if you're making a big quilt so we're going to have to see this together so let me show you how you do that I've got two lengths and I'm laying them one right on top of the other now we're gonna stitch along the edge here we're gonna stitch this by hand so I've got kind of a medium size needle here and I'm gonna use red thread so that you can see what I'm doing I'm just gonna use one piece of thread so I'm just gonna start off with a couple of stitches here and pull it through and I've got a big knot on the end there now I'm gonna take a stitch about every inch here you can do two or three stitches this is an overcast stitch and then just pull it through I don't know if you can see me pulling it through but don't make it too tight just stitch it fairly loosely so just keep going till you don't have much thread left and you see I'm only using one layer of the thread it's just folded over here and when you get to where you're almost gonna run out of thread you can just take it off the needle pull it a little bit tight spin it around your finger and then roll it down and make a big knot like that then just rethread and finish up the rest of the seam now we're going to open this up so we've got one layer and we're gonna lay it nice and flat on our table here and let me show you why we didn't want to have our stitching too tight where we put these two pieces of batting together we want these two pieces to lay flat just like this you can see the stitching but it's not poking up and making a ridge we don't want a ridge so that's why we wanted it kind of now we're gonna put our quilt which is front to back on top of the batting so I'm gonna put the back down so the patchwork is up and I'm just going to carefully lay this out so that I make sure that my batting stays nice and flat once it's laid out nice and flat we're going to want to trim the excess batting and backing and you can do it all in one step so just trim the batting in the backing so that it's just even with the edge of your patchwork quilt we're gonna do this on all three sides the three sides that we stitched front to back now I'm coming to where the seam is here in my batting so as you get close and take a look if it looks like you're gonna cut through your stitching there you might need to retie that knot so that that hand stitching doesn't come out so just take a look that looks like you cut you're not open find some loose thread there you'll because you cut it and then tie a new knot now we're going to use the same hand over cast stitching method we used before when we stitch to the batting together to stitch all these layers together so I'm gonna take stitches I'm I'm within the seam allowance here so you can see my stitching where I sewed it front to back I'm gonna be stitching in here and my stitches are gonna be a little bit closer about every 3/4 of an inch and a little bit tighter and I'm gonna go around all three sides and this is going to anchor my batting to the edges of my quilt I've got it stitched around all three sides and this last side is completely open now for the next step you really need to have two people so grab a friend I'm gonna grab my husband Matt hi everyone I'm Matt I hope you're enjoying this video so far back in the late 70s Donna and I used to tie a lot of quilts patchwork quilts and sell them to stores so she's got this prepared now and we're gonna flip it all right so we're each gonna take one hand and we're gonna reach between the front in the back here and we're gonna go all the way down to the far end to the far far in and then grab a big handful of the quilt here with the hand that's inside there we beat you ready oh you got it now we're gonna flip we're gonna pull that out and we're turning it right-side out so now we're going to shake it around and we're gonna keep flattening out the sides we may have to reach back in to poke out these corners once you have the quilt nice and flat you're ready to start tying it so I'm gonna use red heart yarn this is an acrylic yarn this is a nice top quality yarn but it's available almost everywhere we're going to use these yarn Darner needles Matt likes to use the biggest one I'll use the medium ones kind of a matter of preference but you need a pretty big needle to be able to get that yarn through the quilt all right so I've taken the biggest needle here and the way I thread it is by stretching the yarn across the needle pinching it in my fingers and then bringing it back up through the needle just like so and I haven't done it in about 20 years but that was pretty good and then I takes about three pulls of yarn up one two three perfect now before we start we want to protect our table we don't want to damage our table with the needle we also don't want any splinters getting in our quilt so I'm gonna take a cutting board here and I've got it upside down so that I don't damage the surface of the cutting board and I'm gonna put that right here under the area where we're going to quilt the first thing I'm going to do now with this quilt is take a look at the pattern and figure out where I'm going to put my ties I like to kind of as a general rule have the the yarns no farther than about six inches apart that allows cool to be held very strongly and yet show that puffiness that you like to show when you use a lofty batting so for this quilt we're gonna do it every other patch that will give us about six inches of course your quilt will probably be different and you can pick something that will look good with it I'm gonna do my seams across into each square right here but you could I could actually tie this quilt right in the center of these squares if I wanted to because it's squares I decided to go through these seams here it shows the pattern off better and that's the only reason there's no exact way you have have to tie it you could put your ties anywhere you like as little or as light as you want so I'm gonna get started with the time as I think about doing this tying I want to get as close into this seam as I can where all these fabrics meet without getting into the seam because that would be very difficult to do so I'm gonna come about a quarter inch out I'm gonna press down touch the table come back through the other side I went into the other square it is diagonal pull the yarn out now I'm gonna use a finger to hold the yarn down as I bring the yarn through I'm just pulling and holding with this finger down it's all I'm doing and I leave about three inches here that I'm gonna tie with later then I'll go I'll skip a roll which I decided to do in my pattern and I'll hit the next diagonal right here once again a quarter inch down to the table I touch the table I bring it as you can see the needle come out of about a quarter inch maybe slightly more doesn't really matter I'm gonna tie the quilt here just like so I've come to the end of my yarn and I didn't reach the end of where my patter is going to be but that's okay all's I'm going to do is trim it about three inches and go in re thread my needle one good tip is you don't have to cut your thread or your yarn to move to the next row it will help you you can just be much faster and I have an odd amount of squares here so I'm going to come in one block here I'm just going to continue with the same yarn on the second row that's on the first it doesn't and now I will discontinue right down this row putting ties in so we've gone three rows up and that's as comfortable as it is for us to reach so the next step is to trim the yarns so be sure to keep your tip of your scissors up because you don't want to trim into the quilt so I'm just snipping between all of these stitches our next step is to tie the yarns so I'm going to get the yarns about even evenly spread between here you can adjust that and I like to do what I call a shoelace tie meaning across them tying my shoes come down hard and one more time just like so once you have all of the knots tied you can trim them so I like to trim the yarns to about one inch you don't have to you can leave them long if you like it's entirely a matter of personal preference okay the last step we're going to do is put on a product called fray check we've used fray check through the years to make the knots really tight meaning it's soaked into the fibers this product soaks into the fibers it dries quickly it dries clear and they won't come out through multiple washings it's been a great product for us so this fray check it keeps fabric from fraying so it seals all the little fibers so they will not come undone so this whole section of the quilting is done here and all we're going to do is continue on with the same procedure all the way up to the quilt and then it'll be all done all the quilting and hand tying is all done so now we just need to finish up this last bit here so let me show you how to get that finished nice and neat I'm going to turn it around and I'm going to trim the batting off so that it is even with the top of the quilt now I'm going to trim the excess backing off but I'm gonna leave about an inch maybe an inch and a quarter extra now we want to get this last opening pinned nice and neat before we stitch it up and here's an easy easy way to do that take your batting it's kind of in layers here and just split it doesn't have to be exactly perfectly in the middle and then fold the back over that half of the batting and then smooth out your top and fold it over that half of the batting and put a pin in so keep doing that all the way down the back over a little bit of batting and the top over a little bit of batting and then it's going to look really good on the edge here it's gonna be nice and even all we have to do now is take out the first pin and I'm gonna hold it and I'm going to stitch very close to the edge here so I'm just going to backtrack and go right along the edge about an eighth of an inch away [Music] [Laughter] so the cult is all done and now you know a really fast easy way to finish up your unfinished projects without having to send it to the long armor without having to shove all this underneath your sewing machine to get it quilted look how nice that turned out here's that last edge here and the batting is very securely stitched in there so it's not going to come away from the sides this batting was stitched in by hand so it's finished very nicely all the way around the quilt thank you for watching our tutorial today I hope you enjoyed it we're going to be doing one more thing today and that's giving away this beautiful quilt now to enter the giveaway for this around-the-world hand-tied quilt it's very easy just click the link below that says giveaway and put in your name and your email address and remember this is open to everyone worldwide we can send this anywhere happy quilting

Channel: Jordan Fabrics

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Length: 18min 49sec (1129 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 29 2019