How To Make A Starlight Quilt - Free Quilting Tutorial

hi everybody it's Jenny from the Missouri Star Quilt Company and I am super excited about today's quilt first of all look how darling this is this is a pattern called Starlight and it's by Fran Gulick from cotton and joy and when she put it up on our Instagram I was right on that messenger saying can I do a tutorial on this I just loved how it came together and the fabric that I had to work on was Tula pink and so today I'm going to show you how to do this and it's super quick and easy and a very fun pattern [Music] oh [Music] all right so to make this quilt you're going to need one packet of 10 inch squares and we have used everglow by tulip pink for free spirit Fabrics such a great line you're going to need some background we have used one and eight yards of background right here and that's our white that's in here now the pattern is not written with a border but I could not not put a border on here so if you put an inner border on here right here you're going to need an additional half a yard of your background but look at these elephants I had to do this border out here it's so dang cute and so for the Border you're going to need um the outer borders one yard and it's a five inch border this quilt is only 55 by 55 so it's not huge Tula came out with this backing right here right here and it's a 108 and so you'll need two yards of that and you're going to have some left over on that as well and then of course whenever there's a cute stripe in the line I love to use it on the binding and so I use this little stripe on the line so let me show you how to make this because it goes together really great [Music] originally wrote this pattern as a fat quarter pattern which you can do and I asked her I said can it be done in pre-cuts because I had this awesome pre-cut and I wanted to use it in this and she said oh of course and so she figured that out added it to the pattern and so now you can choose whichever you want to do so the first thing we're going to do is some cutting and out of your background we're going to need some three and a half inch squares and we're going to need some three inch squares as well so I'm just going to cut a strip of both of those so here's our three inch strip and we're going to cut those into some squares right here and I'm just going to cut off my selvages and my fold and then I'm going to cut my three inch squares and I just like to cut a stack of these so I have them handy and I'll work until my stack is gone and then I'll cut some more that's kind of how I do it all right so now we have three and a half inch squares as well right here and I'm going to line these up on the line to make sure they stay nice and straight and Let's Line that up again and three and a half so threes and three and a half of these and she has this great cutting diagram in her pattern so you won't get lost at all and so then what we're going to do is we're going to cut a layer cake and we're going to do the same cut we're going to do some threes and some three and a halves look at these two wraps oh it just makes me smile I just love this so much all right so we're going to go with three and a half's first for I am hoping to catch a giraffe head in my Square because I think it would be ever so cute and then we've got three inch squares right here and then what we're going to do is I'm going to cut these up into their right sizes as well so I'm going to cut three inches right here I'm going to have to move this over a little bit so I can catch his face because I need that little face in there this is fussy cutting we are fussy cutting a giraffe face I love it Tula is so clever all right so there took it a very long time to get that one three inch square the rest of them no faces so I can just sail along and cut three inches and three inches right there all right so this next one over here is going to be three and a half and I'm just going to go ahead and cut this strip as well now there is you don't use everything in this uh in this pre-cut so there is a little bit of waste well Tula fabric is never a waste but you have these little pieces left and I am sure we are going to save them and use them for something amazing so the first thing we're going to do let me show you the block this is the block we're working on right here it kind of looks like an m and it's this corner of the Star right here right there look at that lion face oh my anyway it's going to go in here like this and that's how that block is going to fit so what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and lay out our block but the first thing we have to make two half Square triangles so we're going to take our three and a half inch um print blocks and regular blocks and we are going to draw the line on them and sew on both sides of the line and make two three and a half inch half Square triangles all right so let's sew on both sides of this this and one on the other side and one more all right so once you get your little half Square triangles uh sewn we're going to cut them in half and we're going to square these two three inches all this all the blocks in this little block all the little individual blocks in this little block are going to be squared to three inches except for our one rectangle which is three by five and a half and so we are going to go ahead and have these ready to go and we are going to square these and I'm going to use the clearly perfect slotted trimmer so I'm going to delay my seam line on theirs right here and we are just going to trim around this and for this you actually don't have to iron open first I got a little ahead of myself right there and um but they'll be ready to go anyway all right here we go line my seam line up on their seam line trim and trim and you can trim up those little points if you'd like and then this one trim and trim and this one because you are going to use all four of these for your block all right so then we've got four of these in our block and we need one rectangle and honestly right here I had my three inch strip and I really only need one three inch square and I could have gotten my three by five and a half inch rectangle out of the other piece but I made a cutting error so don't do that but you do have this other piece in case you make a cutting error so I'm going to put my ruler here on on five and a half we're going to do it this way first I'm going to come over here with this one and do five and a half five and a half right here by three so here's my three line right here and I'm at five and a half so I'm just going to trim this right here and across here so we need this piece we need our four pieces we need one single piece and then we need two plain three inch squares so let's let me show you how to put this block together now once you make one you'll want to keep it right by your sewing machine and you'll want to make all the blocks the same so that uh so that it all works and it all goes and I know myself how confused I get so I keep one block close by and I make them all the same all right so we're going here our top row is a white block our colored block with our fabulous giraffe face and our half square triangle block with the color to the middle like this then we put our long Block in our rectangle then we put another half square triangle and it goes up like this on our bottom row we've got two half Square triangles one up like this and one down like this and then this white one finishes up our block in the corner so let's go ahead we're going to sew This Together by rows and then we'll put our rows together so I'm going to start with these two right here and and I'll add that third block on right here with my color to the middle now this block isn't harder than any of the other blocks it's you just have to think a little more and they're sizes that we're not real familiar with you know we usually tend to stay at four and a half and two and a half and this is three and three and a half so it's just a little bit more attention to detail all right so these two I'm picking up they go together and make that long Diamond unit um but it's not any harder and gosh I love how it looks I love clever people and Fran makes clever patterns so you'll have to check her out don't forget she's cotton and joy all right so now these three go together like this and I'm just gonna put my Square lining up and these two are the match this first seam doesn't match anything but the last seam does and then one more row here and this one lines up and this one has nothing but only one seam that you have to kind of worry about all right now let me show you how these go together now I made the baby size but it's a little bit bigger because I added the Border and so we're going to put four of these together now to make the big star so let me show you how that goes so what I how I remembered how to do this is that all of my plain white blocks came to the center like this and like this so you're going to sew these four together and it's going to make a star just like this and I just made nine of them they came together one two three four five six seven eight nine the layer cake will actually make ten and a half stars but that's not enough for another row so I stopped at nine I added an inner border to make it a little bit bigger and then of course I couldn't resist putting this elephant pattern on the outer border it's five inch border the quilting pattern that we've used on here is called Time Warp and it's just a fun modern pattern it's just so great I'm so glad that Fran gave me permission to do a tutorial with her pattern so we hope you enjoyed this tutorial on the cotton and joy Starlight quilt from the Missouri Star Quilt Company hi everybody it's Jenny from the Missouri Star Quilt Company we hope you enjoyed watching this video if you aren't already part of the Missouri Star Quilt Company family be sure to subscribe so you won't miss a thing and if you click that Bell it'll 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Length: 12min 49sec (769 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 30 2023