How to Make a Panel Quilt | Timber Gnomies from Henry Glass | Heidi Pridemore

[Music] welcome to the whimsical workshop today I want to talk about working with fabric panels we designed tons of quilts each year focusing on these panels which are just there all over the industry this is one called tumor noemi's from Henry glass and they make great centers for quick and easy projects for kids adults they come with lots of stunning artwork these little guys are so cute on the fabric but then they're just even cuter when they're blown up into a panel but these panels can be kind of tricky to work with a lot of things can happen from the time the artwork has developed to the time you get it in your hands at home and they can just they can be distorted from how they're rolled on a bolt sometimes they're printed a little bit different size than what we get when we design patterns this was a pattern I designed last year using this collection and so what we do here in the studio to make it easier for you when you get this at home is we always will put a cheater border around the panel and some of you may have done these panels in the past and wonder why do we cut a border put it on to the center and then trim the whole piece down and the reason we do that so is so if the panel comes in a little bit smaller or a little bit larger we can adjust in that first border and make it match up to whatever piece border goes around it so today I'm going to demonstrate how we do that here in the shop in the studio and then walk you through cutting the panel putting your first border on and how to trim it up so like I said we're gonna work with timber Domi's this is a beautiful line by Shelly Kaminski I love her artwork it's so cute and whimsical but this is the timber noemi's panel so the first thing you need to do is when you get your pattern this is a free download at Henry glass calm is the first direction is fussy cut the panel so my panel is 23 by 27 before I cut the I always take a tape measure and measure it just to see that everything is matching if it's not matching slightly you can adjust cutting your panel to match to make it look pretty and then we'll trim up the outer border or if it's a lot you may need to check the math and see how you can adjust that first border so first things first I've already measured this so I know it is what I'm cutting is 23 by 27 and on this one that actually worked out to be exactly where this black printed line is so I don't have to really worry about measuring I can just use my straight edge on the black line and print it if you didn't have that to work out so pretty you could make sure you measure from Center out if you have a tape measure you could then put a pin on either side so if this is 27 inches I could put a pin right here and then measure 27 inches put a pin on this side and use the pins as my guide for my straight edge or you could fold it in half though that that gets a little trickier so I would recommend measuring it with a tape measure and using the pin or measuring it first to see if there's actually a printed line that you can use as a guide a lot of times we will try to be a quarter inch outside the black line on the black line or courage inside the black line when I designed the quilts we're always looking at what's the easiest way for people to be able to cut them when the power comes in usually we're designing these quilts months before the fabric comes so that's where the distortion in size can occur and that is how why we put that border on so I'm going to lay my ruler on the black line and I'm gonna cut Frost and that's the first cut now I always like to cut the short sides first and then the long sides because then I don't have such a big long piece tonight again lining up the ruler with the black line on the panel and then last we'll do the two sides if you're not familiar with Shelly's work she does all kinds of adorable bunnies and bears and different jungle animals and then this is our latest line with the nose and it's just really really cute I know she has a couple more lines coming out with nose but her artwork is definitely leans towards the panels because then you can really see how cute her characters are all right so now that we have this all cut the first thing we'll do is we're going to put our first quarter on and you'll come back and trim it but to put your first borders on always pin your borders you can measure you can cut these two lengths like the pattern says it says cut them 27 inches for the sides I tend to just lay it on let me show you how I do a border this is because we do so many culture here we do her 100 quilts a year so I do take some shortcuts and this is my shortcut for borders I start at one end and I pin it in place you want to always pin your borders because when you go to sew it if they're not pinned the bottom fabric goes through the Machine faster than the top fabric and if it's not pinned in place to hold it you could end up gathering the fabric into the border and then that's why you get a ripoli border so to avoid rippling borders we always pin then I trim off the end now if you were always taught to measure your border do so if you want a shortcut you can try this method if your perfections do it the way you like because we all do things differently but this is how I do my borders and it's quick easy and we get them on there and they usually are just the way we want them so I'm gonna go ahead I'm going to sew these borders on set the top and bottom borders on and then I'll be back to show you how to trim it all up alright so we have our floating borders on the quilt and now we need to trim this up to size before we add the border blocks around the quilt how we do that is we measure the panel with borders and this measures 27 inches and we need to trim it down to 25 and a half so you could fold this in half aligning your two edges make sure they align 25 and 1/2 take that and divide it by 2 so 12 and 3/4 is what you need each half to measure so you could do it that way and take a ruler and measure 12 and 3/4 and square it up that's one way to do this another way to do this is the 27 inches which is our finished width minus 25 point 5 which is our desired width and then divide that by 2 and you know you have to take 3/4 of an inch off each side so that makes it a little more accurate because right now these measure two and a quarter minus 3/4 means we are trimming them up to be one and a half inch finish so what I like to do to double check before I cut anything is put a pin in there I always measure twice cut once so you don't up your quilt because that can not be fun you'd have to take the borders off and redo it so two and a quarter minus 3/4 is one and a half so let's measure one and a half from the panel stick a pin in and then take the tape measure and that is 25 and a half from the pin to pin so 3/4 of an inch off each of the sides will get us that measurement so let's go ahead and take that off so we lay it out ruler on it's a 3/4 inch mark trim it up so either way anyway you do it there's a little math and Bob like I said you can fold it in half divide your finish measurement by 225 and 1/2 divided by 2 is 12 and 3/4 and then you can lay the ruler on the fold and square it up or you could do a little more math but me more accurate cutting it and that is take your actual size your finish size divide that number take the actual science subtract the finish size and then what number gets divided by 2 and that would be what you have cut off but each side in double check I have cut these before and then you have to sit there rip the border off and reapply reattach a new border and then return it so and again why do we do these cheater borders on panels well one we get the artwork six months before the actual panel is printed and things happen there it touches a lot of people touch it after we deal with it so the panel could come in a little bit different it can get distorted if whoever rolls it on the bolt rolls are too tight or it just didn't print the way it should have printed that all comes from the factory that's not the fabric companies that do it is the factories that are printing it so after years of designing these and having pattern panels come in the wrong size we now use the rule of thumb of putting a floating order on all our panels it also makes it easier for us because we do check the panel's once they come in the fabric companies will sometimes send us the panels to remeasure and for us to change the pattern it's a lot easier to change a pattern with the floating borders because all we have to do is change one border and the rest of the quilt is still stays the way it was so again we're gonna check now the other way the other way with our borders on it measures 31 inches and we are trimming this measurement to me 30 and a half so that's nice and easy it's 31 we need to get to 30 in half so we are going to take a quarter inch off each end and that'll take care of that side so it's 31 minus 30 and a half is a half inch / - just take that quarter inch off in this panel we'll be ready to have it's the rest of the quilt around it we also do this with the little square panels you know any kind of thing borders that the borders could possibly come in a different length we will make sure we kind of estimate that in our design to make it fall so much easier for you guys when you get it so if you ever get a panel that measures a little off double check it with our floating quarters and you're probably just fine to cut the panel the way you desire and adjust our border as needed all right well I hope nobody get this all set we're gonna go ahead and move on to assembling the quilt but now our panel should measure twenty five and a half by thirty and a half so we're all set here's our little timber noemi's panel with borders all put on and we are ready for the next step so the next step is to take these squares and we're gonna sew them together into the two side borders one gets sitting here these are just the cutest affix one gets an F square e square [Music] so on this side we're gonna do F e a long D these beavers are just the best there's little hats and noses they're so cute so there's that then we do a C and another F so we'll go over we'll sew this together and that makes the left side quarter and for the right side border we're gonna use an F then a C this is a great quilt if you're just starting out on quilting cuz it's easy peasy just sew and some squares together rectangles to make your borders there's an e followed by another F so we will go sew these borders up I'll come back we'll pin them on and then we'll be ready to do the top and bottom borders alright so now I've got the side borders sewn so we're going to add those on see here this is the right so pin each and Center those on and then we ready to piece our top and bottom all right so we have the top of bottom borders sewn onto the panel and the next step is to put on all of the solid borders these are just strips that have all been cut and there they're going to border out the quilt this one is mostly borders I think there's four more borders or five more borders that we're going to be putting on this quilt and for each border you're going to need to look at the measurement to see if they need to be pieced because we cut all the strips with a fabric so the next border is another solid red border followed by the white snowflakes and filed by the bias plaid and then the red snowflakes these are all the coordinates to come in the line they go with these little gnomes they're just adorable but we're going to need to piece them before we put them on the borders when you have a border that is between 42 and 60 inches how I do the math for the patterns is I usually will figure out that it needs to be a strip and a half for each side if your borders are sixty to eighty four inches then two strips will get you your side borders two strips per side so here I'm showing you how to do a diagonal border which is you put them together at a right angle and you sew from the upper left lower right corner and then when you flip it out you'll have a diagonal seam it is easier for your eye just skip over a diagonal seam over a straight seam so in this case unless it is a striped border I would always recommend doing a diagonal seam so I'm going to sew all these borders together and then in to the right links and then we're gonna go ahead and trim then we're gonna add all the borders to the quilt and we'll be ready to show it - all right so here it is all ready to go to the quilter we're gonna have sue Mitchell quilt this she's gonna do snowflakes all over it I think it's a nice quick easy way to do a basic quilt like this the pattern again is free on the Henry glass website and is called timber no me quilt one will be back in a second to show you the finished quilt here it is back from sue Mitchell all quilted and bound our sweet timber gnomes are all ready for winter we did a snowflake and swirl all over it's great to pick a basic quilting pattern to go with a basic quilt it sort of helps you showcase the fabrics here's a close-up of the snowflakes and swirls as well as you can check out the gnomes and the plaid and just what a great job sue did this is a free pattern from Henry glass it's timber noemi's quilt one fabric should be in the stores June of 2020 and I hope you've enjoyed this video if you have make sure you like and subscribe below so you're notified every time we drop a new video thanks for watching [Music] [Music]

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Length: 19min 23sec (1163 seconds)

Published: Thu May 28 2020