How to Make the Best Design Boards for Quilting

hi this is kit we are here today to make design boards to help you organize your pieces when you are cutting pieces to make blocks so today you can see here that i have the blocks for a quilt that had many many different pieces i was even able to use some stickers to label those so i'm you can see that i'm using a couple different sizes of these boards so let me show you how to make some of these we're going to be working on lori holt design boards these are boards that i use when i'm piecing quilt blocks i will cut my pieces and put them on the the square and then i can take this over to the sewing machine to the iron and keep my pieces together and i know what i'm working with this is an example of one of the blocks in lori holt's farm girl vintage 2 and i think this block has 30 something pieces in it so when i was cutting all those little tiny pieces out it was good to have a board i could lay them all on and keep them all together so that's what we'll make so this this particular design board is easy to work with and easy to make most of the things that are in it you'll have in your studio at home you won't need to to buy anything i'm using it's got batting on the top of it which helps to keep things from sliding off and and running away from you and a two and a half inch strips that um you cut and sew and i'll show you how to do that and then the only other thing that i had to purchase was the core board so this is um foam core board that we will cut here together so this is a 15 by 15 inch square i've already cut these 10 by 10 because i want some smaller ones because i'm going to be doing some six inch blocks with that particular quilt that i'm working on so i'm going to be working with those but what did i do with my foam core board oh here's my board okay so let's start with how to cut the form board the core board so that you can attach the batting and the borders to it so what i've been doing is because i want mine to be 15 by 15 i then this ruler is 15. i am going to put this on the board and line up the second ruler to it and i have a particular rotary cutter that is not my favorite and it is a 660 millimeter so i use this for the core boards and that's pretty much all i use this for i'm i'm very partial to my olfa for the everything else so we start by pressing and cutting at 15 inches and nothing has to be perfect or exact but it's a good way to know that this is a 30 inch board and if i cut 15 inches i get i'll get two of them out of this and then i will go through the same step again putting my 15 inch on the board butting my ruler up against it and this will allow me to cut all the way through the board so now i have two pieces hopefully there you go and any little edges you can you can just rip off okay so next we're going to cut the other side of the 15 inch um so we'll do that from this side and i'm going to have a little bit of waste here on the side but i will save that for my grandson for other projects so that will get used at some point and again line the ruler up and cut through and then again any of the little scragglies that's going to get covered up with the the two and a half inch strips that you're going to put around it anyway so that's one of the 15 inch strips and i'll cut this other one a little bit later so now that you've got this cut take a piece of batting these are scraps of batting that i had in my stash you can take a piece of that and lay it on there and we will bring the glue gun over i've had this on make sure the iron is on for one of the next steps so just put your hot glue along the edge and then lay your batting on it give that a minute to to dry and you're going to when that dries a little bit you're going to put hot glue on the other side and kind of stretch that on there so let's start putting that on there and nothing has to be exact or perfect and these boards will never turn out perfect every time i've done one i've had something that i would have done a little differently so but the batting really goes a long way in making sure that the things you put on it won't fall off when you're going from the cutting board to the sewing machine to the iron it'll all stay in place and then once you get that on go down the other side and lay that down and one last side okay i'll bring the board over so i don't get wax on okay so now that that's on there you can let's see if this will work and if it won't we'll use scissors just use something to cut that batting away looks like i've dulled the blade let's see if this one will work okay so we'll just trim this batting on all four sides okay all right so the last step is to put your border around the edge you can see here i used fabrics i had my stash at the time so let me show you how to cut that border take some fabric from my stash and cut this so i'll straighten this up and we don't waste tula pink so we'll make sure okay and i want two and a half inch strips and because this is a 15 inch block i need 60 inches and i know that this is about 44 so i will cut two strips and stitch them together like i would a binding okay so we've got these two strips i would go over to the sewing machine and stitch those down hi welcome back my iron wasn't on so we've turned it on and it's heated back up so while i was waiting for that to happen i walked over to the sewing machine and i took the two strips and sewed those together like i would a binding so right sides together turned at a 45 degree angle and stitch so now i'm going to use a ruler to trim off the seam allowance from that and that will cut off the little knobs all right so now i will use the iron to to press my seam allowance and then once i get that pressed i will show you how to prepare this two and a half inch strip to go onto the the design board so you fold it in half long ways and you just keep going from one end of the strip to the other to get a nice seam in the middle of the strip and you're going to use this this line for the next step of ironing so we'll go down the whole strip and keep going and i do the when i piece these two together i did piece them together at an angle like that because it it really helps not to have too much bulk in one place because when you use the glue gun to attach this to the design board i got that a little bit when you use the glue gun to attach this to the design board you don't want there to be a bulk there that doesn't want to lay down because if you'll notice in one of my boards from a previous time where i was at the end it wants to stand up it doesn't want to lay down flat and i don't want to have that that happen any more than it has to so by cutting it at a 40 by stitching at a 45 degree angle i eliminate some of the bulk that might otherwise happen so we go through this and again these design boards are very helpful i know um lori holt what talks about even when she's going to sew with friends or going to a sewing class she will cut her things and put them on the boards and then put a board face down on it and put a rubber band around it so that nothing gets lost when she's taking her her stuff out so i haven't do done that especially since pandemic days everything's been here at home so in my home studio so okay so this is folded in half and there's plenty there will be extra but we're going to go across then and the next thing now that i have a center seam in it i'm going to lay it down and i'm going to fold it over towards that center fold each side towards that center so just put the iron on it and just keep going down okay so i'll go all the way down the strip pressing that to one side and then i will i will turn it around and i will do the same thing on the other side so just for this demonstration purpose i won't go all the way down the strip because i've got one ready to go so i lay that down and now i can press so you're going to press it all the way down and then when you're done pressing a little tangled up here when you're finished pressing you'll take it over to the sewing machine where you have pressed press it in the middle and then you press both sides towards the middle now you've got a smooth strip so when you've done that all the way down you'll have a smooth strip you take that to the sewing machine and zigzag that down all the way down and you will end up with something like this so it's just stitched down there's a zigzag stitch there on the outside a little bit decorative you can't really see that because i kind of match the thread to the fabric so now we will move on to the final step which is actually attaching this to the board now when lori holt does this she will attach it and i'll show you that in a little bit so we're back to the glue gun so bring this back over all right so we're going to start don't do a lot of things with the glue gun so all right so we do that and we take this and right on zigzag stitch you want to attach it to the board and you want to give it time to heat up so that it's firmly attached and you just go around the board all four sides doing that and you'll go all the way around and then i'll show you how to finish it on the final side okay okay all right and then we fold this over and again just making sure that zigzag seam since it's right down the middle of the fabric if you make sure that you've got your zigzag seam right along the edge of the board i'm not getting much glue out of here at the moment there we go get it to pick up a second all right like as you can tell it doesn't have to be perfect um like i said i've not used the glue gun a whole lot in my crafting so you want to get it on there relatively quickly before the glue dries and then just give it a chance to to cool off um you can see here let's add a little more glue here and press that up the side now we're waiting for that to dry i'm gonna move this to the other side and if you feel like gluing is a little slow and you're afraid your glue will get dry before you're ready you can go ahead and press it down do half of it and press it down and then and then go on and do the other half it's very forgiving project so okay almost there okay so this is the the side where we're going to finish this up and i've seen this done where you bring this around and you snip it off and fold it under but as you can see from this one this doesn't want to lay down very well so i am going to try and this first time i've done this so i'm going to take a pair of pinking shears which i almost never use and cut it with that because this isn't going to fray it's not going in the washing machine so let's try and then put the last bit of glue on this end and fold this over okay so now the next step is simply to glue it down on each side so that um so that you've got the final step of the board so you can take the board and come along here and put your glue down from one corner to the other and very quickly lay this down put it on my fingers and give it a minute to seal if you get concerned that you're going to burn yourself with the glue gun you can definitely use like a stick or something that will get you away from the heat of the glue gun i find that i don't usually have too much of a problem but i do keep it close at hand in case i need it for instance when doing the corner i want that corner to stay down and so i will use the hot glue gun to hold that down and if you let that dry just a little bit without drying completely you can come back and pull that excess glue away you just have to kind of be careful that you're you're letting that cool but not totally cold okay all right now let's go down the next side and again we're gonna go all the way down okay and get this pressed and you can take the stick and rub it along the edge just to make sure everything is stuck give it a minute or two to to assure that it's stuck and we're going to try putting a little bit on this corner and a little bit on this corner at the same time see we have a little less mess this time so we fold that down and pull that over okay hold on to that and so we're going to go all the way around the board and then when we're done going around the board we're going to turn it around to the back and do the same exact thing and when you're done with all of that then your board will be done um let me do a little bit more so you can see one more corner okay hold that down all the way to the end and like i said you can use the stick to keep everything down let that cool and then there's one more side here on the front and i am going to put a touch of glue where these two overlap that's probably more than a touch and attach that and then come back and do this last side and then very quickly lay all that down and tuck down this last corner i do have a little extra glue there let's tack a little bit more down here okay so then we'll do the back side the exact same way so this is one of the design boards like i said i'm going to do a couple of these for the quilt that i'm working on there's quite a few 12 and a half inch blocks and these are perfect for that especially when there's a lot of pieces it gives you room to put all the pieces down and then the 10 by 10 boards i think will be good for the six and a half inch blocks so i hope that helped if you enjoyed what you saw and if it was helpful don't forget to subscribe and like the video and if you want to be notified as i um upload content please click on the bell so that you'll be notified so again this is kit from pinkhart quilting and embroidery and i appreciate your time and thank you very much you

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Length: 23min 27sec (1407 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 21 2020