How to Quilt As You Go: Make an Easy Daisy Block With a Square Ruler! (Beginner Friendly)

turn these four squares into a daisy block using just a square ruler this is my miss daisy quilted to go pattern she looks fresh with a white background and stunning with a black background in this video i'm going to show you how to make one daisy blog but if you're interested the pattern is available as a pdf purchase on our website you can make any size quilt that you like this quilt here is a lap size quilt i've used 16 blocks behind me is a single bed quilt and i've made 30 blocks and you can also make a double bed quilt using 36 blocks now believe it or not this quilt is perfect for a beginner because there are no tricky seams that you need to match up it's quilted to go so you're quilting each square at a time and it just has simple straight line quilting that anyone can do with a walking foot attached now if you are a beginner i do recommend starting with the lap size quill to make one daisy block take four eight inch squares you want to have two of the same color and two background and we're going to stack them all on top of each other this is very important they must all have the right side facing up just like that now the next step is to mark where we want our daisy petals to go first of all we want to mark where we're going to slash through our squares now we're going to start at one corner and we are going to make a mark that is half inch away along this edge and then half an inch away from this edge on the opposite corner make some marks that are three and a quarter inches away from the corner along the top edge and three and a quarter inches away from the bottom edge next take your ruler and we just want to connect those marks that we've made and we're going to cut through like that and we're going to make another cut aligning our other two marks next take the two top background fabrics which are our white and place them on the underneath just like that now what that has given us is four layers that we're going to now sew together with a quarter inch seam allowance to sew the pieces together thread up with a neutral coloured thread i have a size 70 needle on and my quarter inch foot and i'm going to sew the pieces together with a scant quarter inch seam allowance so we often hear that term a lot of scant quarter inch and a quarter inch is basically just you know a little tiny bit smaller than a quarter of an inch so to do this i'm going to take my first two pieces from off the stack i have a side piece and a center piece and i'm going to put them right sides together and i'm going to align the very corners at the top and at the bottom edge like that and i'm just going to sew now with my quarter inch my scant quarter inch as i mentioned i'm going to sew all the way off to the bottom and i'm just going to continue sewing all of these pieces this side edge together so once again i have a pink center and a white on the outer edge lining up my corners at the top and at the bottom and when i sew my scant quarter inch seam all i'm doing is just holding it back slightly from the guide on the edge of my quarter inch foot i'll now separate them all and then i'm going to place them back in order again open them out i'm going to have a white on the bottom another white in the center and then i'll go back to my two pinks in the center so what i'm going to do now is i'm just going to turn the block around and i've got my pink in the center and i'm just going to sew all of my side edges onto my center again so basically that's going to give me um two squares with pink in the center and two squares with white in the center press all of the seams towards the darkest fabric now the trick for this is to press the seams so they call that setting the seam and then flip over and press so my seam will be going towards the darkest color so in this case all of my seams will be going towards the pink press on the dark side and flip over making sure that we don't have any creases in our seams this is going to give you two funny looking squares with white in the center and two funny looking squares with pink in the center your pieces should now measure slightly more than seven inches so we're going to trim them all to seven inch squares and to make a little bit of a shortcut i'm going to trim two at a time so i'm going to take one with a white center and then i'm going to take one with a pink center and stack them on top of each other and you'll see that they just link in nicely because the seams are facing in opposite directions then i'm going to take the ruler and just position it with the number one in the top top right hand corner and just locate where your seven inch line is and you'll see that your piece should just be a little bit bigger than that so that's going to be just a fraction of each edge that i'm going to trim so just popping my ruler on top like that trimming the side and if you can manage trim straight across the top now spin your piece and position it so that you have your straight edge on the left hand side and on the bottom edge and then all you need to do is locate your seven inch line on your ruler and line that up with the trimmed edges and same thing again trim up the top and trim across the side and that gives us our two seven inch pieces trim the other two pieces in exactly the same way now arrange your four blocks to form a daisy shape next step is to join those four pieces together so we're going to separate we're going to join our top two together and then we're going to join the bottom two together press the seams towards the darkest color you can set the seam if you like now so the top and bottom together aligning the center seam you'll see that they'll be positioned in opposite ways and so we're just going to pin that together before we sew the seam so this time when we press our seam we want to still press towards the darkest color so on this side we are going to press towards our pink and then on this side we're going to also press towards the pink so our seam is going to have a twist in it and then just press flat in the middle and then that will give you the twist on the underside there like that so that's the start of our daisy block something i wanted to mention is when you are trimming up your seven inch square you're not actually lining up with any of the seams you're basically just trimming a seven inch square because as you can see nothing actually really needs to line up now what we're going to do is we're going to cover that center with a circle and i'm using a yellow fabric for this one there are different ways to make a turned edge applique circle i'm actually just going to go the old fashioned way and use some cardboard from a cereal box and the pattern has got the template shapes in here so i've just found a mug that is the same size and this one here is going to be a quarter of an inch bigger all the way around the edge so what i've done is i've cut a circle in cardboard in the smaller one and then i have cut a fabric circle using the larger circle what i've then done is i have just stitched a running stitch around the outside edge of the circle so the stitches they're close to the edge and they're about an eighth of an inch apart and now what i'm going to do is just simply put my cereal box circle in the center and then i'm just going to pull on the thread so pull that up nice and tight and then just finish off with some stitches sewn close together we just want to be able to knot that off so i normally just do three stitches over and over and that makes quite a nice little secure finish once i have that i'm then going to just give that a press with the iron and then once that cools i'll take the cardboard out now just out of interest you can get the same kind of effect using um you know mylar template circles these are the perfect circles by karen k buckley and that plastic doesn't melt under the iron but as i said sometimes you don't have those things in your sewing kit and just cardboard is is fine to use so it's just a matter now of having a little fiddle with that to remove the cardboard and i'll just snip my thread away also and you can see that's left us with a nice circle with the edges all turned under if your fabric was a little bit stubborn you could also use a bit of spray starch to help those edges stay over to position the circle to make sure that it's going to be centered first of all fold it in half now if you can see the grain line you would like the grain line just to run down the center of your circle fold it in half pop a pin at the top edge a pin at the opposite edge and then fold it back in half the other way making sure our pins are flat just to find the centers on the side edges pop the pins in and then we're going to position that onto the center of the block aligning those pins with the center seams and then we're going to pin pin the circle onto the block now one of the problems we can have if we're going to machines so this circle on like you could hand sew that on if you wanted to but um our circle edges end up being on the buy screen so that's where you have a little bit of stretch so just popping more pins in so one in between each of your pins that's just going to hold it in place while we sew i'm going to sew my circle on with a tiny zigzag so i have my machine set on zigzag and my zigzag has a width of 1.5 and a length of two i'm using a matching colored thread and i also am using a very fine needle i'm using a size 60 needle because a size 60 needle won't leave large holes when i'm sewing i'm also going to say with an open toe foot on that's going to provide me clear vision when i'm sewing and i'm lining up the center of the open toe foot with the edge of the circle now i'm just going to start with a simple little backwards and forward stitch there just to secure it and when i'm sewing the trick is for this is to sew one stitch on the outside one stitch in so it's one in one out this is going to give us more of an invisible look we don't really want to see the stitching we'll see a little bit of it but by having a narrow zigzag and sewing one stitch in one stitch out gives a nice neat finish this is what our daisy block looks like from the front and this is what it looks like from the back now we don't need all of this bulk so we're going to cut that away so to do that just pull that up pull on the circle and we just want to very carefully cut a little chunk out just to get us started and then cut up towards our zigzag stitching line very carefully and now i'm just going to cut away just leaving a quarter of an inch seam allowance time to quilt our miss daisy block now the finished size of the block is 13 and a half inches so to quilt you're going to need a backing square that is the same size so that's also 13 and a half inches and i'm using the easy cover strip method to join my blocks together so check that out if you haven't seen that video yet i'll put the link in the description so therefore with the easy cover strip method our batting is always cut half an inch smaller all the way around the edge to reduce the bulk in our seams and then i'm going to lay my block on top of that so that's my little quilt sandwich you can hold that together with safety pins or with quilt basting spray i'm just going to quickly use a little bit of basting spray to hold my blocks together now to mark up our quilting blocks so to mark up your quilting block make sure that you use a fabric marker that can be easily erased from your fabric today what i'm going to use is a sewline duo marker this is a double pen set and it is like a texture like that but then you come along with the other one and that erases that line so what i'm going to do is but as i promised simple straight line quilting we're first of all going to mark a line that is from corner to corner and we're going to keep it really simple and mark straight through the center of our circle and then we're going to go back the other way opposite corner to corner make sure that all of your layers as in the back and the top are nice and level because we won't actually trim these blocks up again unless they end up really wonky now mark a line that is an inch and a half either side of your side on the side edges either side of the seam so an inch and a half there inch and a half there and then connect those lines so you want to connect one of the lines below the center seam with one of the lines above the center seam and if everything's nice and straight and even we should cross through that center point on our circle if it's a little bit off you can just fudge that that's what i do so i'm going to quilt my lines using this wonderful thread it is a variegated thread it's got a very pastel variegation going through it and if anyone's interested it's color 37 and i'm going to use this on the top and on the bottom it matches my backing fabric quite nicely and i have my walking foot attached i have a size 80 quilting needle and my straight stitch with a length of between two and a half and three that depends on your sewing machine first of all what i'm actually going to do is i'm going to stay with my same colored thread that i stitched my circle on with so my pastel yellow and i'm actually just going to stitch nice and closely around the outside edge of the circle first of all and then i'm going to change to my pastel thread to do the straight line quilting so to start quilting i'm first of all going to bring my bobbin thread up to the top that's just by putting the needle down and up and there's my bobbin thread needle down what that's going to do is it stops that fabric clump when you stop and start with your sewing and now i'm just going to start with some very small stitches this is going to keep it nice and secure so i like to go to either 0.2 or 0.4 and i do seven small stitches close together and then i'm going to go back up to my normal stitch length of three and then i'm just outlining very closely around the edge of the circle not stitching on the circle just close to it and i'll just trim those threads away or you can thread them through your quilt depends on what you like to do and now i'm just going to thread up with my pretty thread and quilt the straight lines if you feel when you're sewing towards the center that you're having a little bit of a pucker just use your fingers to push those little ripples towards the foot so here's our finished quilted daisy block this is what it looks like from the front and this is what it looks like from the back now all i have to do is just come along and remove any of my marking lines that are visible using the special pen that removes the lines so i joined all of my daisy blocks together using the easy cover strip method if you would like to see how to do that you can check out my video on the easy cover strip quilted to go method i'll put the link in the description the miss daisy quilt pattern is also in my book which is called quilted to go with the easy cover strip method so there's five different patterns in that book and the miss daisy quilt is one of them if you enjoy learning with me why not subscribe to our youtube channel we have a new quality to go video coming out every week and if you don't want to miss a video click the notification button thanks for watching bye you

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Length: 18min 58sec (1138 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 07 2021