HUGE Strip-Pieced Diamond Quilt Block with NO Y-Seams! Fat Quarter Quilt Pattern

hello and welcome to quilt epic anonymous i'm stephanie subbing today is a stash from a stephanie day where we come out with a brand new backwater friendly pattern that's been inspired by this month's fabric collection that we sent out as part of our subscription club if you're a member of our subscription club and you signed up last month you've got this either it's arrived or it's coming soon in the mail if you are not a member or you signed up this month you can get next month's bundle by signing up today before the end of the month so what is included in the club before we get to it is this pattern for free plus a whole bunch of other ones so make sure you head on over there all the patterns that we've designed with stashing with stephanie are free to download for our members plus you get exclusive discounts on my book fat quarter workshop which features a bunch of the patterns that are now only available in the book and we've got a new one coming out soon i don't have all the 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anonymous.com if you sign up before the end of the month then your first bundle will ship around the 20th of next month if you sign up after the first of the month then you've gotta wait sometimes six weeks if you sign up on the first you have to wait until the 20th of the following month that's so that we can prepare the exact amount of bundles for the folks who've ordered them and then you get the best opportunity to get more fabric when you uh get your bundle in the mail and you love it you want to get some more i will say i'm really in love with this month's block it is the biggest block we have ever designed i'm able to do a large flap almost a twin with six blocks yes six blocks so this is really fun it does go together rather quickly it feels like you're sewing a long time until you get to the blocks put together and then it goes really fast and we're strip piecing so it looks super complicated but it actually is really easy when we break it down and we're going to do that in today's tutorial the pattern by the way is called tree star all right so let's take a look at this month's fabric it is called summer's end by allison jensen for figo fabrics figo is a modern division of norcot fabrics which is more well known in the traditional quilting community we use them a lot because i love them they come out with great designs and they work with some great artists and hopefully we'll have an interview with the designer later on this week all right so this as summer's end is kind of a fall theme but i feel like it's not like reading exactly fall like i feel like you could have this out a lot of time during the year because there are prints like this where we obviously have some falling leaves that are green and orange and a little bit of a taupey grayish but they're not all like that you definitely can make this work for many of the year here we have some birds migrating and i really love this colorway and we're going to make real good use of our light fabrics versus our medium and dark in this month's pattern that way we can use them all and not have to worry about things contrasting with the background this is a beautiful golden leaf that's just swirling around really pretty now sometimes in order to supplement colors and also to sort of round out the collection a little bit we'll add in a few of the basics as well so this is called lucky charms basic from figo and it's i thought it worked well because it's got a clover and it's very organic looking and the colors are going to work perfectly for the center of our star blocks all right we've got some nice greens in here they're really pretty this is a great supporting print it's just it almost looks like a little four leaf clover in here and it looks very organic in the way it's been placed and it is really pretty now i think these could be pumpkins or they could be ripe tomatoes i think either one would work it's really fun and it ties in great with some of the browns and oranges we're going to see in a little bit now i'm not normally a fan of browns i gotta really love a collection if we're gonna bring in some browns but i think that this is a great combination of it because we do have a little bit of brown but it's not a drab brown and it is paired with almost like a peachy tan and some orange and white and it really makes these florals come to life now i have to say the whole quilt addicts anonymous team was drooling over this stripe it's got purples it has oranges greens and some nice tan and some of that peachy it's really pretty this would make a great bias binding we're going to use it in a way where it looks like it's on the diagonal in the quilting in this quilt this is another one of the basics that figo has it is in elements but i felt like the brown and especially the way some of this looks like a tree ring works really well with this very natural collection i just love this floral it reminds me very much of like a fall bouquet we've got really pretty oranges and purples and peaches and it really just does a good job of bringing in almost all the colors in this collection into one print we just have the green that's missing from it i don't know about you but last year i had a lot of fun going to a farm stand to get my fresh produce because i didn't want to get it from the grocery store with all the craziness that was going on with koben so i bought everything like direct from the farm stand and i really got used to eating fruits that were fresh in season and it's so delicious and one of the things that we really loved having was fresh pears they were one of my baby's favorites we would make pear sauce and it was one of the best things so a nice fall pair here and with this nice dusty purple in the background oh it's so pretty here's another one of those basics that again just rounds everything out nicely look how well it coordinates with that main print so that just goes to show you when you're collecting fabric sometimes you don't have quite enough to do what you want to do with the pattern like for this specific one we needed 11 lights or no 11 medium darks and four of the light prints and we wouldn't have been able to accomplish that if we just had the colors that were in the original collection so we added three and it looks fabulous and beautiful so the importance of having a good stash of some solid basics from the fabrics collections that you like to get so like figo is going to have a lot of coordinates that go with its collections it's always good to have some figo basics on hand but you can mix and match from the other companies as well here's that little leaf print again that we saw at the beginning just this time it has that little medium purple tone in the background this is one of my favorite colors and we saw this in a green earlier but now it's in a really deep purple really pretty really pops in the quilt design so for this pattern it's very important that you have a equilateral triangle rubber or 60 degree ruler that has all three points some of them have a blunt tip so it's just cut off at the top it's nice and straight instead of the point and that math is very different than one that has that point at the top so make sure our pattern is written for one that has the point at the top we use the clearview triangle ruler you can get them on our website but if you don't have one that has the tip you need it for this one all right so i'm going to point out something that's very important when you're cutting your strips so you need to cut them into different ways depending on whether it's going to be going is a single or strip piece set of two all right this is demonstrated in the assembly instructions to go along with this and the pattern again is called tree star but if you are going to be cutting this to be going as a single diamond or as a set of two this is how you're going to arrange your ruler you're going to arrange it first with one of the inch lines even with the bottom of your strip and the point even with the top of your strip and then we're going to cut off that corner [Music] in some patterns you need this and this one we don't so we can just go ahead and toss it now to cut a diamond what i'm going to do is i'm going to flip it over like this and this is how you're going to cut your singles so i'm lining it up so that the left edge of my diamond is even with the tip of the point that i just cut and then the bottom tip here is even with the bottom of my strip so i'm going to go ahead and give this a cut all right for all the singles i'm just going to keep working my way down i don't have to flip the ruler again i can just keep moving it down lining up the left edge with the point i just cut making sure my inch line is even with the top of that strip and the point is even with the bottom and just cut my way down all right so you're going to keep doing that until you cut all the diamonds you need to from a strip so i'm going to go ahead and move that to the side now if you are going to be cutting one that is going to go into a set of three instead of starting with the point at the top and the inch line on the bottom you gotta flip it this may not seem like why would you need to do this but you you really do so in this case your inch line has to be at the top and your point has to be at the bottom so you can walk around to the other side and cut you could do like a weird thing like i'm about to do here and give it a cut to get it started or you can flip the whole strip around and instead of starting from the left edge you can just start from the right and then you can cut a little more ergonomically which is what i did for all these so you just have to arrange it so that any strips you're going to include in your strip sets of three your angle is pointing down from the top left to the bottom right any of them that are going to be single diamonds like this one or in a strip set of two needs to be going from the bottom left to the top right when you're cutting your angle that's critically important or your strip sets are not going to fit together right on your diamonds and you're going to be searching out more fabric so just it's easy it's not hard just pay attention to the way the ankles are going in this video and then also in the diagram that goes with the cutting instructions we tell you exactly how many strips you need to cut in both directions so that way you are set and as long as you follow those directions you're going to be good to go i'm going to show you one more thing while we have everything out now we are not going to be cutting triangles from the main fabric they're only going to come from the background but this is how you would cut a triangle all right so we've got this cut off already let's assume it's the side all you're going to do is you're going to line it up so that your inch line is even with the bottom and even with the edge and then your point needs to be right at the top as well you want to make sure that the tops are very pointy because if they're flat at all then it means it's going to take up extra width and your blocks aren't going to fit together quite right all right so now we've cut a triangle and now we just have to keep flipping it every single time we do a triangle so i'm just going to flip it over this time i'm going to line it up so that my inch line is even with the top my left side rulers even with the edge i just cut and then my point is even with the bottom [Music] all right so i would just keep flipping that ruler until i got all the way down to the bottom and i've cut all my triangles now when you're doing this you're going to be doing it with a width of fabric it is totally okay to leave that folded in half the way it was when you cut it off to do your strips in the first place that is not matter for this project all right so you're going to cut all your diamonds bolt from two sizes of strips and pay attention to light medium dark that's super clear in the cutting instructions now we're going to show you how to strip piece which is the key to making this quilt go together really fast alright so i am just going to demonstrate this with a strip set of two but the process is the exact same when you're making strip sets of three just you're going to add one more strip and the angles will be going a different way but what you do is going to be the exact same all right so we're going to pick two that we like to go next to each other these look really pretty because we have similar dusty purples in them and the oranges are the same so this is going to be real good pairing so what i'm going to do is i'm going to flip these guys right sides together and i'm not just going to flip it right side together like this because that's not going to work out what i want to do is i'm going to flip it right sides together so that my point is extending just a tiny bit past that it's going to be about a quarter of an inch you certainly don't have to mark this but if you want to do it to kind of get the hang of it when you're getting started then you certainly can so what i'm going to do here is i'm just going to line up the quarter inch mark of my ruler even with the edge of that strip set and i'm just going to take a marking tool this is a friction gel pen it goes away with heat and make that mark so that gives me a really good indication of where this should be meeting the fabric below now when i stitch this and i flip it over i'm going to have a perfect 60 degree angle going all the way up now if you're off just a smidge as you get started and learn this process no big deal we're going to be able to trim that up but you want it to be as close as you can so you're not wasting too much fabric so you're able to get enough of the strip sets out of this staggered strip set it's really cool because we're going to be able to cut diamond rows straight out of it so instead of having to sew together hundreds of different diamonds together we're able to sew together a handful of strip sets cut them apart and then sew them back together to complete our block so it goes a lot faster all right so i'm going to line this up just like i would any other strip piecing the only difference is since it is kind of at an angle we're going to have one point coming out a little further to the side the other is going to be coming down but again i can see i've got my little pink line here that i drew and i'm going to start stitching right in the valley of where those two meet and that way i'm going to not lose anything and have that nice straight seam and i'll be able to have a great strip piece unit now whenever i'm strip piecing i never pin all i do is i kind of lift up my seams put them together and then just hold them gently and put my hand at the bottom and just let the feed dogs pull that up and then when i can't go any further i will realign it and repeat until i get to the end of the strip now because we were offset at the beginning we're also going to be offset at the end so i'm going to go ahead and lay those right sides together and keep my fingers where the bottom strip ends first and then we get to about this point where i'm no longer able to hold on because it's coming down i still want to maintain a nice straight seam allowance i'll just put my hand to the side and help guide it through now you absolutely can speed up this process by chain stitching all you're going to do is you're going to line up your next set of two you're going to lift up your press foot put it through and keep on sewing now i almost always press my seams open especially when i'm doing anything with diamonds or triangles you get a lot better join and a lot flatter seam so what i'm going to do is i'm going to start with my fabric with the wrong side up then i'm going to take my fingers and open that seam up and finger press it just a little bit now i'm going to put the tip of my iron and put it straight down that seam and i keep three or four fingers down ahead of the seam that kind of finger presses it open gets it ready for that iron to go straight down all right this is looking great we have a nice straight seam all the way down if you have a little wiggle in there somewhere it means there's a pleat on the other side you need to take care of that because it's not going to be the right width you'll have eaten up too much of the space plus it's not going to look good when it's all done all right now we're going to flip it over and i'm going to hit it with my spray mister a little bit and press it one more time from this side this will make it super flat and have fabulous diamonds and fabulous results all right got a little bit of spray mist on there it is just water in there you could also put your favorite spray mist alternative that's fine and i just make sure to go straight down there and man it's that flat that is fantastic it's going to make it perfect when we do things next all right you can see i've got a nice straight line here that should be a perfect 60 degree angle so we're going to be able to cut our diamonds out of there next all right so for this next step i like to angle my strip so that it's going on that same 60 degree angle that way i can cut straight up and down like i'm used to i also like to switch over to my 6 by 24 inch ruler for cutting because i can use the 60 degree lines on there to help make sure that i'm keeping the correct angle for my diamonds and so we're going to show you how to do that next so most of your 6 by 24 inch rulers are going to have some degree lines on them this one is 15 30 45 and 60 which is the one we want to use today so we have 60 degree diamond so i want to make sure that that 60 degree line is even with that seam allowance always sometimes you're going to get off a little bit you need to adjust but that is super important super critical it's going to make sure all your diamonds are coming together in the right way so we always want to make sure that is on there first now what i'm going to do is i'm going to move this over and i'm pretty sinking straight here i'm going to be able to cut this to the measurement i'm not going to say it here on camera but it's in your pattern you're going to cut this to that measurement and i want to make sure that my measurement is even on the side here which it is all right so once i'm even here and then also um got my 60 degree on that seam i'm good to cut now if this weren't quite straight it would just be like over cutting anything else you would just go a little bit beyond the measurement and then you would flip it around and trim it up later for that first piece but i'm pretty stinking straight on here so we're gonna leave it be [Applause] all right so i've got my first strip set of two ready to go here and i can just keep on going up that strip from here again i'm going to just keep lining up 60 degree first and then my line here now i'm going to cut off here on purpose because i'm going to show you how to fix this if it gets off so we're just going to cut a funny little chunk out of here and so now i'm going to line it up and you can see that when i have my 60 degree lined up that i'm going super crooked here so if that happens what we're going to do is we're just going to square that up again so i'm just going so that all of my pieces here are beyond the measurement that i need to cut to which is right there and that that 60 degree line that is your rock you have got to always measure to that that's going up that seam so now i can give it a cut i can flip it around get that 60 degree line back up with that seam this time line up the measurement i'm supposed to cut to to the left edge and then i can cut off my extra now this is an extreme example so that way you guys can see what to do at home usually you just get off a teeny little bit you don't want to get off like a significant amount because then you might not end up with enough strips and you might be scrambling to find a little bit extra fabric so use it judiciously try to waste as little fabric as possible but everybody's going to get off a little bit i did as i was working on it it just depends on how straight you're pressing which is another great reason to press seams open because i find it stays a lot straighter when you're just going straight across than if you're constantly pressing up when you're pressing the seam under for strip units all right so that process is the exact same if you had a strip unit of three but you just have a third row so you're just going to pick one seam to line that 60 degree angle up with and just keep on going but that's the exact same process and now we're ready to start assembling our block so pretty easy right we didn't have to cut a bunch of tiny little diamonds and sew all the tiny little diamonds back together we sewed some long strips together we pressed them we cut them open and now we're ready to rock and roll all right so we are making a block that is made up of six wedges and there are two different components to that wedge so we're going to start off with the diamond the diamond you can see goes up here down and then of course down this so we're going to first start by making one of these so the first thing i'm going to do is i'm just going to arrange these right sides together so i grab my pressing mat so you can see a little better because this is almost the same color as the table so it's just going to be like when we were sewing those strip sets together and there was a little bit of an offset i'm going to move this out of the way because we don't need it just yet so when we flip this over our diamonds are going to be pointing in opposite directions so you've got a point going this way and a point going this way now if we want to make sure we're lining this up so that it is exactly a quarter inch seam what you can do just like before is you can line up and move the diamond out of the way you can line up the edges with your quarter inch mark on your ruler and just make a little hash mark there just something to give you a nice eyeball and then that is where it should be hitting your diamond so when we put these together we are almost right on track there and so you can see that right here is where we're going to be sewing in and also right here now you don't have to pin this i've done so many of these that i don't pin i don't mark i just line it up and go and it usually works out just fine actually like 99.9 percent of the time works out just fine but if you're just doing this for the first time probably a good idea to do some marks just until you get the hang of it of making sure that these points are offset just a tad bit all right so i'm going to start again right in that valley and i'm just going to stitch that corner and seam now again you can and should chain piece all these that way they just go through super fast and you're able to get through this part pretty quickly so just like before we're going to press these seams open it's really going to make for flat joins when all those diamond points come together just open that up first and this time i do a lot of lifting and pressing because we've got some seams that we don't want to push over going the other way all right this time i am going to press from the front side but i'm not going to spray it i'm going to wait till i get this entire unit done and everything is looking fantastic we can see we've got really straight points here which is what you want if you don't then you got your offset off just a smidge you've got to figure out where you went wrong here and then this is just super super flat because we're pressing those seams open there's no bulk in there whatsoever which makes a lot of options when you go to quilt so i'm not a fan of pinning and i'm not a fan of taking time to mark everything but sometimes it gives you really great results if you take a little bit of extra time and it definitely will in this case as well you can see i've got my this bro of two sewed onto my large diamond now i'm ready to sew my row of three to it to complete that diamond unit it's going really fast right but i'm going to take a little bit of time to mark a quarter inch seam on the wrong side of both this part here and this part so i know exactly where to pin and then you're going to have a really perfect join where these come together whereas i maybe would have been off with the eyeball before but oh my gosh almost every single point was absolutely fabulous and perfect when i took the time to do this when i was making the quilt so i'm going to recommend you do the same i'm just going to flip these over so i can see where these are going to go together and i'm just going to mark a quarter inch in and i'm marking right over that seam line where those come together you don't need to mark this side because it's not going to be joining into anything it's just the wide open diamond there all right so i've got a mark here and i've got a mark there so what i'm going to do is i'm going to put these guys right sides together and again they're going to be offset just a smidge you can see i got a point coming a little past here and a little past here that's what you want and you can mark that as well too if you want i'm not going to in this case but i am certainly going to pin here now i always use a double penny method whenever i'm pointing any triangle together pinning pointing pinning so here's how it works and it works great results i'm going to put my pin right in the middle of that seam right where my point is and then i'm going to eyeball it on this side and then find and make sure that i've got it in right on it on the other side which i do so that's great now i'm going to line up my tops and with my thumb and forefinger i'm pinching that so that it's going straight through the fabric just straight up and down and then i'm going to take a second pin and i'm going to pin right across where that seam joint is and the reason why i do a second pin to go across is because if i were to rock this one i would move my top fabric forward and my bottom fabric back and then those points won't be right on top of each other anymore and we won't have as good of a join but this way it's going to hold it right in place i've got that mark to aim for and i'm going to have really fantastic joints all right so i'm just going to stitch down and when i was doing this what i did was i marked all of my sections i pinned all my sections and then i chain pieced all my sections so it went super fast i had i think 36 to do for mine because i only have six blocks again in my quilt it goes super fast and so it really has gone very quickly even though it's a large quilt that looks super complicated but it isn't all right i'm going to slow down as i'm coming to that point and i am sewing like as close as i can get to this needle i want to almost be right on top of that needle before i pull it out because i really want those points to be right on and the only way to make sure that happens is to sew right up to that pin all right so now i'm going to line up the rest of the diamond and sew down and just like before we're strip piecing once we get to the point where i can't hang on anymore i want to still make sure i've got a really accurate quarter seam all the way down so i'm going to move my finger to the side and help maintain that quarter inch stitch all the way down again you can chain piece to your heart's content on this all right just like before we're going to press this open so i'm going to start just by opening that seam and we're going to do a lot of lifting and pressing because we have a lot of seams here we don't want to flip any going the wrong way so i'm just going to again open those seams up with my fingers first lift and press my way down and this is the big payoff we've got a lot of seams coming together here they are you know all going in weird directions but this is a flat flat seam and it looks absolutely fabulous from this side the other benefit to pressing open is sometimes you can have a seam that's like right on but once it eats up a little bit of fabric with pressing over it looks like it's not anymore but this way i feel like it looks fabulous every time as long as you take the time to pin now it's at this point that i'm just going to give the whole block a little hit with my spray mister and then i'm just going to press those seams get it super nice and flat so that it is ready for the next step all right so we're going to need one of these for each wedge six per block and that is part one of the block that we're going to put together now we have some triangles piece triangles to do all right so we've got our diamond now we're going to make our triangles and we're going to have two per block so that way it turns into one large triangle wedge all right so we're going to take one of the single diamonds that we cut at the beginning and then one of our strip piece units of two and we're also going to take three of our triangles that we're going to cut from the background fabric and we're going to layer these together now we're going to start just by joining our triangles to our diamonds so that way we have three rows to sew together now other like the other one we're only going to have an overlap on one side so when i flip this right sides together the points of my triangle and my diamond are going to be right on and i'm just going to have an overlap at the bottom where again i'm going to start sewing that quarter inch should be right about where that little valley is we can do the same for the other side and we're going to sew these together and press them open [Music] all right now we're ready to start joining these into rows the easiest one to start with is by joining our triangle to our single diamond and our triangle here now here's why i'd love to keep the dog ears on whenever i'm sewing these is this little dog here here provides a nice little line up for the point of my triangle so i can just line it up make sure that the tip of this triangle is even with that dog ear and then it's going to extend pass in just the right spot down here so i'm going to go ahead and stitch that together and press it open [Music] all right one thing to point out here is the tip of my diamond is now about a quarter inch away from the edge of the fabric that's important you want it to be like that because that's going to get caught up in the seam allowance it isn't here yet because we haven't joined it to this side but it will be as soon as we do that now just like when we were joining our diamond together i want to make sure that these two points match exactly so i'm going to go ahead and mark the other sides just like i did before use a double pitting method and then i'm going to stitch it through so that way we've got some really fabulous joints right here [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right so since this is the end of the piece triangle i'm going to go ahead and hit it with the spray mister and give it a really good press so that i've got some really flat points that i'm ready to join to complete my wedge all right so now i've got the diamond we completed earlier plus two of our piece triangles and now we're just going to join these one at a time to that diamond and again i'm going to mark these joints on both sides here and here so that way i can really make sure that these points come together fabulously just like these did and then it looks super super gorgeous when it's all done [Music] all right so our wedge is complete but our block is not i need to grab two more of these to complete one block half we're just going to assemble one half at a time and they actually won't get put together until you assemble your rows because we're going to be able to do this with no y seams which is fabulous because nobody likes those so the block is so wide that i can't even fit the whole thing on the overhead camera it is a very tall block very tall it's like 20 some i tuned 26 inches wide by 30 tall there's some fractions in there somewhere but it's a big big block so you're able to get a lot and get a lot of pay off here so at this point everything goes super fast because we're just going to sew this side to this side and then this side to the side pressing in between and we're just going to stop at that point we don't need to worry about the other half because that's not going to get sewn on until we are actually joining one row to another but and at this point too you don't have to do any of that marking because the seams are going in the same direction so as long as the seam joint is on top of each other it's going to be super easy so i'm going to show you how to do that here and then we are ready to rock and roll all right so i'm just going to flip these right sides together and this is the side of me joining so i'm going to flip it so that side is up so here's what i mean about the seams going in the same direction it is essentially the same thing as a seam going up and down in a regular block that has right angles so you're just going to look at it from the top and make sure those seams are right on top of each other and then i always pin in the right side of the seam allowance that's because when we're sewing with our sewing machine we're going to stitch down this way and i can stop with my needle down in the first half of the seam allowance pull that pin and then keep on going all right so i'm going to keep on pinning going down again just making sure that those seam allowances are right on top of each other right where those seam joints are and i don't have that many pins to do i just have to do my four little seam joints here and we're good to go now one quick tip to keep you from losing your mind is all of this that we're sewing together right now is on the bias i know that can be kind of a scary word in quilting but when you learn how to work with it it can be your best friend so if for some reason some of your diamonds are smidge longer than others don't worry we're going to be able to make that nice and flat when we press our seams down like you can see right here i've got a nice little bubble here all i'm going to do when i'm stitching is i'm just going to once i've gotten past this bit i'm going to pull and get that nice and flat and no one will ever know that i eased in something once it's all done and quilted all right it is super critical that you're always lifting and pressing that iron back down when you get to this point because we've got a lot of seams we do not want to press those going the opposite way that we want them we want perfectly flat diamonds that look fantastic all right so this is a diamond where i ease in a little bit once i flip that over and press it you cannot even tell at all it looks fantastic all my points are where they should be looks fabulous i'm going to go ahead and hit that with my spray mister and just go down that seam just to get it extra good and flat that looks good yeah you cannot even tell that i used a little extra in it just looks great looks fabulous all right so i'm going to go ahead and pin to the other side and then give you a quick lesson on how to pin when you're joining your blocks and then we're good you've got everything you need to know on this tutorial [Music] all right so here we are we've got our half of a block finished the other half is going to go over here but again we're going to not sew that together until we have all of our rows sewn together i'm going to show you real quick how you're actually going to pin them together i'm not going to sew it because i'm not positive i'm going to have this exactly here when i do the final layout and placement still working on the top myself but it is going so fast i'm at the point now where i'm sewing my wedges together and it is whipping through now that i got to that point it was it felt like a long time getting to that because you had to do all the diamonds and that went fairly quickly but then you had to do a bunch of your pieced triangles and that seemed to take more time because they're stubble but now i'm just like rocking everyone because i don't have to mark anything i can just sew it together and we are good to go so super excited about this really love it and again know why seams so that's fantastic all right so i'm going to go ahead and show you how to pin and then we'll close this up all right so i'm going to explain the why seam for those of you guys who don't know it if i were to sew these blocks together right now i would end up with a giant hexagon and then when i sewed them together i would have to do a y seam to join it to the next hexagon which is a pia we don't want to do that we want it to be nice and easy so instead of sewing the blocks together now what we're going to do is we're going to sew it in vertical rows first and then the blocks are joined finally when the after the vertical rows are joined so all we have to do is we have to match these points and we're good to go we're going to say i'm going to use that same two penny method but it looks a little funny when you put them together especially on a block this large so i'm going to go ahead and have this going this way then i'm going to arrange it right sides together and you can see that i am going in way opposite directions here it is supposed to look like this this is the way it should look once it is all uh sewn together it'll be a nice straight row so you don't have to worry about that now i'm going to show you how i pin this it's super simple after we've gotten this far you'll be a pro at it all right so this is absolutely fabulous we have got three points coming together here we've got a seam here and we've got a seam here and it makes this nice little triangle that should be about a quarter inch away from your edge so i'm going to go ahead and stick my needle right where those seams are coming together and then i'm going to find the tip of the triangle underneath i'm going to put my pin right at the tip of that again right where everything goes together now i'm going to line that up before just like we did before where that pin is going straight up and down and pinching it between my thumb and my forefinger and i'm going to take a second pin and i'm going to pin across again so those seams stay right on top of each other they're held together by this pin and then i can pull that out and in this case those dog ears were right on top of each other they aren't always don't be upset if they don't what's more important is that your pins are on point there all right so you can see we've got a point here and a dog ear those are going to match up nicely you could just arrange this when you get to the sewing machine that's fine i'm just going to throw a pin in here so that way you guys can see what that looks like then we're just going to work our way down the rest of it and you are ready to go this is another reason why i absolutely love to press these seams open because i can see it if it would be pressed to the side it would be harder to see where things are and it certainly would be hard to get a nice flat join when i press these together because this is a lot of seams coming together it's a lot of angles and it would be really hard to get this to look nice and flat and fabulous on both sides if i didn't take the time to do this and press everything open all right guys i've got one final tip and it's a good one then i'm going to leave you to it alright so you can see where all these seams are coming together you can see exactly where this point is and we know that it's right on top of the other point because we did that double pinning now when you sew you don't want to sew to the left of the point you don't want to sew right on the point you want to sew like one needle width to the side of that point so just the side of the seam allowance now if you do that when you press your seams open your points are going to touch just perfectly when they come together and it is going to be fantastic and you're going to love it i do this every single time i do anything with triangles and i get results almost every single time and i bet you you're going to love it too so check that out try that tip i bet you're going to enjoy it all right so thank you so much for following along with this tutorial we'd like to challenge you every other month or so with a design that's going to stretch your skills a little bit it's not hard but you do kind of pay attention a little bit totally doable if you've ever done strip piecing before it's just something that's a little bit different and the results are just stunning it looks way harder than it actually is you saw me do this it was strip piecing it was some cutting of extra piecing and then we did some marks and pins and things together and we're good to go and as long as you follow along with the tips and tricks you'll be able to have yours turn out like this too now if you are a member of stash with stephanie and you've received this bundle of summer's end you can go and grab your finishing kit you're going to want to make sure that you get the same letter finishing kit that corresponds with the letter bundle that you got now if you just joined this month you're not going to get this bundle in the mail we've already shipped it we always ship bundles a month after they've shipped so we can get you exactly the right amount of fabric now one other thing but we do we've got stuff for you and we've got stuff for folks who just really love this pattern but don't want to join and that's a full kit now they go kind of fast sometimes because we've got a limited amount of fabric but you can get a full kit so that you can make the lap size that i made it is almost a twin not quite if you would like to make a full size which is pretty large all you need to do is buy two and or if you're a member of the club you can get your finishing kit and then a full kit and you're good to go two and then you'll have enough and you'll be good to go and you can make it bigger if you really love it but i think this is really fun it looks super complicated but it's not and those are my favorite kind of quilts because your friends can even on and be like oh my gosh how did you do that and you will know that it challenged you a little bit but it wasn't anywhere near as terrible as your friends maybe thought it was and they'll think you're an amazing quilter and you are all right so check out stash with stephanie great deals access to brand new fabric before everybody else they get exclusive dibs on this fabric before everybody else we never know how much is going to be left when we release to the rest of our youtube audience and email list it's 10 fat quarters for 29.99 a month plus they get a free pattern inspired by the fabrics you've got an idea of what to do with it or you can do whatever you want with it you get exclusive discounts and first dibs on getting additional fabric so you can turn your bundle into a kit or just get whatever you want for whatever project you have in mind you get access to all the previous patterns we've released for stash with stephanie exclusive discounts from my book fat quarter workshop which is a best seller on amazon still months after it's been released which is super exciting never thought i'd be able to say that but lots of super great deals we've got a facebook group that you can join to get sneak peeks and know what's up and just lots of fun goodies all right so i thank you for sticking along i'm sure this was a long tutorial because we covered a lot we did two different kinds of blocks but it's super fun i love the results go check everything out over at [Music] shop.foldtxonomist.com [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

Channel: Quilt Addicts Anonymous

Views: 10,152

Rating: 4.9108634 out of 5

Keywords: Stashin' with Stephanie, Quilt Addicts Anonymous, Stephanie Soebbing, fat quarter, fat quarter quilt, fat quarter quilt pattern, Alison Janssen for FIGO Fabrics, Alison Janssen, Alison Janssen FIGO Fabrics, FIGO Fabrics, diamond quilt, no y-seams, easy diamond quilt

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Length: 43min 53sec (2633 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 26 2021