How to use delicious leftovers to make a Floating 4-patch block - Quilting Tips & Techniques 177

hello today I thought we'd have a little bit of fun with their leftovers pantry we you've seen my leftovers pantry before I've got some drawers here that I've marked and I can pop different sizes in so today we're going to make a floating full-patch blog using some of our leftovers in particular we're going to be using some two and a half inch squares and some five inch squares that we're going to cut in half and of course there's other ways of doing this block and other sizes and things but this is what we're going to do today so in my two and 1/2 inch and draw here I have actually already pre sorted some squares but I've got some two and a half inch squares ready and I need four because I'm going to make the four Pech in the middle here so I'm sure you all know how to make a four-pitch but will quickly run through and do the full patch I mean you so this is a slightly disorganized quilt in that I'm not matching all my fabrics there's other ways of making the quilt but this is the way I'm doing it so I'm just going to Train pistes now I'm going to quickly press those scenes because we want everything to sit nice and flex and I'm just it doesn't particularly matter which way you press them but they do need to be going in opposite directions but when you join the next seam up so if you've got a way that you're trying to position them and perhaps you've got slightly darker squares or something like that but as long as they end up being opposite so now I'm going to join those two that way because my seams are now going in opposite directions and that's so that we can buck them together or nestle them together nicely and for the next scene so now I'm going to go back to the Machine and join up that for pitch fallback just don't take very long to make which is a really good thing not that everything has to be done in a rush as well as been good for for using up leftovers this is a really good quilt to perhaps make if you've got a group of people that want to make a quilt and maybe in a club or just a smaller group of you that are all trying to participate in the one quilt just going to put compress this seen Haven and because as you'll see later when we nearer to finishing the block we're going to be trimming the block down so because what you find when you make group quilts is that like your handwriting all our seam allowances just vary a little bit so sometimes blocks can come out different sizes when you've got different people and making the same block for the same quilt and sometimes that can cause a few little problems if the blocks are of different size and but surely you'll see how we can take away any of the worry of that so now I'm going to get my five inch squares from under the five inch drawer from my little leftovers pantry gear and I'm going to use four different ones as I've used in this block here these are similar colors but for different fabrics because I'm using leftovers you could make them all matching so you would just need two five inch squares of the same fabric but because I'm using the leftovers or odd ones I'm going to do it this way so out of four or five inch squares you will actually get to surrounds the two blocks so today we're just going to make the one block but I'll have enough triangles left to make another pop but the same sort of surrounds or you could just if you've got lots of similar colored fabrics you could just cut them in this randomly use them around so I'm just going to cut this in half diagonally just right through the points and now what I've got is these triangles I'm not going to need those for cuz there for another block so here's my four patch and here's my triangle so these are going to just sit around so what we're going to do is pop them on opposite sides first so there's no hard trip with lining these up because I'm going to flip that over and where the point sits it should sit if you can see this it should line up with the center seam of your for patch it's not hard to position it you could if you wanted to do a little finger press there to line up at that scene but it's not really necessary because if you're lining up that straight edge there and pop your point on this scene there it's going to be sitting in the right place for you then you can flip it over and we're going to just sew that seam there so just using quarter of an inch seam allowance or time select such a delicious plot using those delicious leftovers and as I said when you've got if you've got different people working on it it works fine so now I'm going to show the opposite side on before I take it back to the iron depress and the same thing so just flip this one out of the way now your next triangle along the opposite edge line up your point with the same and same thing flip that over and take that to the Machine and do that seam so I didn't want to press it until I've done both of these and I'll show you why in a minute but you could with these surrounding triangles you could alternate lights and darks or if you've got specific colors you like could have blues and reds this would work in all sorts of different fabrics you could have brights you could have maybe some reproduction fabrics that you're trying to use up anyway so I've sewn my two triangles on here so lay them nice and flat flip it over and now we're just going to trim these points off at this stage before we do any pressing so just line it up with the edge of your four-pitch and you can just run through and trim those two points off and the same on this side as you don't need now so now I'm going to bring the iron across and we're just going to press these two press them out towards the triangle but in order to get that to sit nicely I'm going to lay one down and I'm going to pop the iron on that one was pressing that one over now don't stretch anything you must remember at this stage that this little seam is on the bias so even when you're sewing it just be careful that you're not stretching it at all but this should all just sit in quite nicely for you so I'll flip the other one over now so now we've got this nice elongated shape we're going to pop the other triangles on the other two edges of your four patch now and so just the same thing we're going to be lining up that point and with the center seam of your four Goetsch and your edge with your now longer edge so you should have just enough sitting out at each end for your seam allowance that should all fit quite nicely don't panic if it's just slightly out because that's where it's going to be trimmed away and you notice any difference but your point should line up in the center so that everything is sitting fairly central so this is a no-stress spot so that's one side on and the same as before I'm going to now pop the other side on flip that one out of your way lay that one on again nine your point up line your edge up everything should be sitting quite nicely there back to the machine and back to the iron a little bit closer this time and same thing they leave one laying flat while you press open the opposite scene there turn it around open that one out and there you've got a nice thick press block which at the moment is going to have a funny measurement because we're actually going to trim that block and that's where it doesn't really matter too much of hair seam allowances are slightly out because it's slightly oversized and we can trim it down we've got a little bit of room to move on that so I've got a square ruler here which conveniently has a 7 inch line on ER we're going to be trimming the drop down to two measure seven inches it's probably somewhere around let's have a look seven and a half fish at the moment but I think just to make sure everything's sitting nice and straight we'll trim to seven so to do that I'm going to position it so you want it to be nicely centered so halfway through because we're going to trim it to seven inches halfway through is going to be three and a half inches so you want to line up your three and a half inches with the points if you for patch so I'm not sure if you can see this well on the video or not but I put my diagonal line on the ruler and that's going straight through this central line of the four patch here and I've got my three and a half inch mark here and I want that to be right in the center of that four patch so that everything sits nice and central and so then I'm going to make sure that my three and a half runs up through the points and it's doing pretty good job on that with the four patch so I'm just going to hold that down and you can see I just got some little rough edges here just going to trim those off just do two sides and then turn the block around so that it's facing you and this time we're going to line up with this sorry the 7 inch line so if you've got a ruler that doesn't have a specifically strong line at 7 inch you may want to pop a little bit of masking tape or that clear colored tape on it to help with that positioning if you're not too sure about just doing it with the line that's there but because I can see now clearly that that's lined up along my 7 inch I've got a similar amount to trim off the other two sides as I trimmed previously which is another indicator if you've got a way different size you may want to check that everything is sitting okay trim off those bits we don't need that so not a lot of waste and now that measures 7 inches so what you're going to have when you finish the block is a six and a half inch finished block so if you're trying to work out some calculations we've used for two and a half inch squares and we've used either two or four five inch squares cut in half and we've ended up with a measuring 7 inch block finishing at six and a half inch when it's sewn in so I'll just pop these up here on my design board just to show you how that's going to look when it's all done so you can see I've already made a few blocks here there's different colored surrounds put that one up there and I think that's quite fun so you can organize it a little bit more like these two a little bit organized we've got two blue squares here in two light squares and here we've got two light squares and two red squares and so you could do that and you might want to alternate like I have for those two or you might just be doing randomly piecing or you might be doing a bit of everything and it's really a choice of how you'd like to do it but I think that's quite a fun block using some leftovers using it as a group quartz block and I'm just going to show you another quilt that a friend of mine has made you the same block but it's slightly smaller so here are sort of quilt made using this same block the floating fall patch but it is a slightly smaller quilt block but this has made by my friend Janet Thank You Janet for the loan of your delicious quilt and she has made the block a little bit smaller and it was some time ago in the sign group that I'm part of we were all making this block but I don't have a quilt but the other girls all have got their quilts and things and this is so this is Janet's janet has been rather than organized with her using up her leftovers she's got all fourths triangles around in her square the same and she's done two and two with her four patches but nonetheless she's used penny Brandon fabrics again using up leftovers so I just thought that was a really good example of how you might use the block and so it could all be the same surround all or as in my blocks that I've just been showing you I've used similar colors but different fabrics because I was just using up some squares and things so I just thought that was a really good example to show you how you might put together a flashing full patch there's lots of different ways you could alternate one block being light one being dark so that is almost a checkerboard effect you could have all similar colors that it's just endless the possibilities just go on and on forever so use up some leftovers use some new fabrics make some quilts send me some photos and that was the fledging full patch so the instructions I've given you for this spot that's up here with two and a half inch squares used in the full patch and half of a five inch square put each of the corners on the surround and you're going to end up with a finished six and a half inch block when it's sewn into your quilt so enjoy the floating four patch thank you you

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Keywords: quilt, quilting, patchwork, sewing, craft, leftovers, cutting, squares, 2 1/2inch, 5inch, floating, floating 4patch, block, piecing

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Length: 15min 3sec (903 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 09 2015