How to Sew Quilt Squares Together Without Sashing

hi this is Bonnie with TLC inspirations and today I'm going to show you how I sew together two quilted squares I've just quilted these with some decorative stitching just so that I could use them for this project and I have a previous video on doing quilt squares with decorative stitching if you are interested in watching that so now to connect these squares first thing you're gonna do is obviously both sides is a right side so you're going to put two sides together and we're gonna just take the two fabric pieces that are right sides together here and you don't want you're gonna fold your batting back and fold your other fabric back so it'll be kind of like that and when you get it pinned together so let's go ahead and do that and pin it to end fold that back so you can see what that looks like okay now after I'm pressing your seam open what I do so that I don't get the iron too hot on the batting is I put a little piece of fabric I finger press may seem open and then I lay a piece of fabric on top of your before I press it open or you can kind of finger press it and then turn it over this way on your ironing board and press it either way okay so we've got the same pressed open and our next thing is our batting and you can see they kind of overlap and we really don't want that bulk I kind of want it just to come together nicely in the middle mm-hmm so I found the easiest way to do that is to bring it pinch it together try to keep your edges even across the top once you get it lined up evenly and you kind of pinch it to the bottom a little bit you can put pins in it along the bottom if you told in place if you wish or you can just kind of hold it as you go and then you're gonna take your scissors and just kind of trim off like so all the way across so that when it lays down it just meets in the middle so that's pretty easy process okay once you get trimmed off you can see how it meets in the middle there's a couple of different ways that you can so this you can take a needle and thread and just kind of hold it together pin it together and then just kind of so you know back and forth just catching the batting all the way down just kind of like you're lacing it up the other way is to pick it up like this push your fabric seam down to where you just have your batting and you can do a very tiny zig-zag stitch across the very edge of this in which I did on this other square previously this time I'm going to sew it by hand I think sewing this part together by hand it will lay a little smoother because it just won't be pulled this tight we want it closed but we don't want it tight and puckering so I'm gonna do it by hand this time okay sewing this by hand hopefully you can see and just taking just the batting picking up the edge on each side and just gently pulling it together whole idea is just to kind of tack it together you know doesn't need to be extremely secure or sewed sewn extremely tight you just want to prevent a gap that's why we saw it shed just trying to make your piece of batting one solid piece basically it's what you're doing now the next step is after you get this all nice and sewn and you can see how nice that lays with the hand stitching on your batting another work and remember the stitching just goes through the batting not through the fabric and okay now we have this to deal with we want to close this up and if you need to trim any of it down then go ahead and do so but this is about right because you want it to overlap about a half an inch you can see because you're going to fold one of them under a quarter of an inch so whichever one bring this one down then go to your ironing board and carefully press a quarter of an inch fold like so and then you're going to sew this down by hand not by going all the way through your quilting but just surface stitching and I have shown how to do that it's done the same way as you know hand quilting or hand piecing your quilts together very small stitches and hidden in the seam so I'm gonna go press this and get ready to do my hand stitching okay I'm sewing this together I'm going to try to come under the fabric with my knotted thread and then I would normally be holding this in my hand but okay kind of right behind the seam edge I'm gonna pick up a little tiny bit and come up and catch the edge so I'm sewing right in the seam basically to hide it and coming up just on the very edge catching just a couple threads give me the stitches small so I'm going to go all the way across and then I'm not gonna film going all the way across because it's easier for me to hold it in my hand and so like so and that's hard to do over the camera that like I said you can watch my previous video on how to piece a quilt by hand so now it's all sewn together this is what was stitched by hand nicely it lays in there it was the reverse side so we didn't go through all of our quilting to make this happen and those are our two quilt squares and then now if you were making a quilt you would continue to do that making your row however long you wanted it and then you would do the same thing all over again as far as connecting your squares this way in the same process I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and stay tuned for one where I will use sashing to connect quote squares

Channel: Knots & Kneedles

Views: 175,216

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Keywords: quilting, sewing squares, how to quilt, seams, quilt squares, no sashing, making a quilt, quilt methods, quilt seam

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Length: 9min 28sec (568 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 27 2016