How to Make the One-Derful 60 Degree Diamond Quilt | a Shabby Fabrics Quilting Tutorial

hi I'm Jennifer from shabby fabrics just look at this beautiful lovely quilt behind me made with the 2016 Regent Street lawns from Mota fabrics now if you're not familiar with what lawn cotton is it's actually a weight of fabric it's a lighter weight fabric that's ideal for summer dresses anything that is just kind of a lighter weight it just is a fresh lighter weight so you know in the wintertime here in North Idaho I don't want a long cotton I want well I want flannel I want warmth but in the middle of the hot summer the long Cotton's are ideal and isn't this just a beautiful quilt we marry up that beautiful collection with Marty Michele's wonderful one patch templates it's a 60-degree diamond and I'm going to show you today how to make this quilt it's available as a kit and it goes together surprisingly quick and I'll show you how I'm using a spinning mat today you'll see why that's so helpful I'm going to be using the full outside portion of this template but do note all these lines you could get as small as a two-inch diamond all the way up to a four and a half inch diamond and when I talk about inches I'm talking about the strip width not the distance from point to point because that's certainly longer then let's see your longest diamond is over five inches point-to-point left to right but this template makes multiple different sizes of diamonds so you can really get whatever size quilt you want onto that whatever size diamond you wanted that now today I'll be using a layer cake that's what I use for this project because I wanted a big variety of fabric now out of one layer cake if you're going to be using the full template I was able to get three strips now in this particular quilt we had a lot left over to make even maybe a smaller quilt so I think you could probably make as big as a twin maybe even a bowl on a one layer cake and of course you need quite a bit of the yardage that's in between each of the what I call kind of diamonds or jewels so the first thing you want to do with this is as you would expect you're just going to cut around it now to save time you could either cut single or you could stack up multiple layer cakes or even take one layer cake and simply fold it in half let's do that and I'm just going to begin cutting around that I'm going to get my glasses on and you're going to see why the spinning that is so helpful is you don't have to disturb your piece if I wasn't on a spinning mat let's just let's just play this out I was not a spinning mat this cut and this kit cut is fine but this is just dangerous and it shouldn't be done and that and if you if you don't have a spinning mat now you're rotating your fabric rotating your template things become a little bit they shift and you don't want that so let's take advantage of this technology we're going to use our spinning mat today and I'm just pressing down now I want to mention one more thing before I cut Martis templates come with this paper backing and it will it will peel off and I'm just going to start peeling it off here but what I do find is the template can be just a little bit slippery on my fabric so unless you have a reason to take that off maybe you're going to fussy cut you want a very specific floral motif that you maybe can't see unless that paper was removed leave the paper on it just gives you a little bit more grip so again I'm going to go ahead and just start cutting notice how Marty's templates have this beautiful engineered corner it's not doesn't come to a point but it's rather blunt there you'll see shortly why that is so handy cut that away love this spinning mat I have to admit that I was one of those people that would like cut under my arm thinking I'm gonna be okay and I definitely nicked my arm one day and I have been kind of very nervous about doing that ever since and I bought myself a spinning yet so don't just don't even be tempted just get it and get it over with so now I've got that ready to go and then with this you'd simply open this up place that along the lines you just cut and you'd be able to get your next one so you get the idea you can get you just continue cutting you can get three out of each layer cake square let me tell you about the download go to a shabby fabrics home page at the very bottom they'll be a link that says free downloads you're going to look for the 6-degree diamond quilt again six degree diamond quilt two pages here one's going to show you how everything lays out and then at the very end how you finish up the quilt which we'll get to shortly so once that's downloaded it shows you how we have a diagonal piecing of the rows coming together but what I want to show you is how these beautiful engineered corners how clipping those points and how Marty Michele's templates make this so accurate so once you lay everything out we just got and I don't have a design board at home so we just kind of laid everything out on the floor you lay things out and again you're working in these diagonal rows right with your creams every other one that one's got a little bend in it put that there you get the idea lay everything out make sure you love it where these long Cotton's are so soft they're just like there's like butter I love them so you lay everything out just like this diagram shows you once you're sure of that placement you will be now piecing things down these diagonal rows so let's go with this one I'll just do three here and three here the engineer corners make this an absolute no-brainer you will simply bring this right side together like this and you're going to sew a quarter inch seam let's do that real quick together like that and I like to press my seams open I know in most other quilting things I'm telling you to press your seams to one side or the other but with this particular the 60-degree diamond I found more success pressing my seam open therefore you might want to have a slightly shorter stitch length just so there's a little more threads per inch so when you open that seam up which can weaken seem slightly you just have a little more thread holding everything together now of course I would sew this to this and just continue on my diagonal rows again that's what the layout is showing here same here once I have my rows sewn together I've got two here this is where I want to point this out now don't think you know what to do because I thought I knew what to do and I ended up being off on my rows my quarter of an inch what I thought I was supposed to do is of course aren't I supposed to just line up this point in this point and put them right side together and sew them together right that seems logical to me this point in this point we're always lining up points the problem was when I sewed that together and I laid it open they ended up being off they actually end up looking like this so diamonds are a little bit different what that means is you see this little flap here that's going to line up with that point you have to offset this now notice this notice something may flip this over so it's easier for you to see notice how that engineered corner just Nestle's right into that upper portion right there see that that is not a coincidence that is part of the amazing engineering that Marty michelle has put into her product so that you do line that up just like that but I still want to point out how these will not come together but rather they will criss cross and overlap by a quarter of an inch and my visual marker is that seam allowance that's pressed open the tip of that will be lined up with that seam right there all right I'm going to put a pin there and we're going to sew that and we're going to check ourselves and make sure exactly where we want that to be and if it's not where you want it to be need a seam rip just keep in mind the long Cotton's are very light you have to be very gentle with them all right now down here again right we're overlapping by that quarter inch but look at this look how my engineer corner again just kind of Nestle's into that triangle down there I want you to see that let's put a pin but I want to check that point and make sure the tip of that pressed open seam allowance is right at that seam that's on the back side and we're going to take this to the sewing machine and let's let's do this let's press this so it impress it here we go when I use long Cotton's I like to use a little bit of a lighter weight thread a finer needle because the fabric is a little bit finer I'm using a 50 weight cotton from superior threads 75 gorgeous colors it glides beautifully into the fabric and I don't rush this step this is where stuff can go wrong so I'm going to check myself one more time make sure that's where I want to be okay so I like to press things open just like the route that when I join the Diamonds together I press things open press things open again so let's do that and I think I think we're exactly where we want to be and that's a beautiful thing let's look and see how we did let's see how we did I think we did a good job okay so obviously the Rosewood being much longer well this could be kind of one of these upper upper sections now could maybe that's kind of the upper section you will continue piecing everything together in these long diagonal rows and then your quilt will look like this you'll actually have the Diamonds kind of projecting upwards and downwards and off to the side that's when you're like how do I finish this crowd right it just kind of keeps going it unlike ethical it's where once you have the piecing done you just put on basically quilt it put on a binding here you have to trim off the Diamonds what you will do at that point is just like we show here is you find the tips of those diamonds like the tip here measure a quarter inch above that lay your long ruler out let's see I've got a long ruler here you basically just like this that's the tip of my rule that's the tip of my diamonds I'm going to measure over a quarter of an inch and then I'm going to trim off those diamonds and you're going to do that all along all four sides of the quilt then you'll go ahead and have it quilted and bound so be sure to get this wonderful one patch templates from Marty Michelle this is just one of the wonderful projects that you can make with this template the book also includes extra projects so be sure to pick that up

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Keywords: Sewing, Sew, Quilting, Quilt, Diamond, Modern, Floral, One-Derful, 60 Degree, Shabby Fabrics, Tutorial, How to, Free, Beginner

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Length: 13min 47sec (827 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 17 2017