IT'S CHRISTMAS IN JULY!?! RIBBON CANDY QUILT TUTORIAL!!

hi everyone i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics you may not be able to tell on video but it's finally very hot here in southern oregon and every year when the heat comes it reminds me of christmas and that's because like most quilters that i talk to i have to start my christmas sewing in the middle of summer if i wait till the fall to try to get my christmas projects done there's too many other holidays there's too much going on and i have almost no chance of getting those christmas projects finished on time so that's why today we're going to be making a quilt called ribbon candy this is designed by doug lecko of antler quilt designs and it's got these really nice zigzaggy stacks of christmas prints and i just can't wait to get started now this is a jelly roll project and all we need is one jelly roll so i'm going to use this one that my husband matt cut these are hoffman christmas fabrics called joyful traditions and then we need two and a half yards of background and i'm going to use this nice solid white the first step is to open this up and pick out the strips we're going to use now there's 40 included here but i only need 37. the pattern does show a nice blend of lights and darks and so i'll probably take this one out because there won't be enough contrast between that and the background and this one will probably go out so these are the 37 that i'm going to use and they all get cut to the exact same sizes now i can't give you the sizes that they get cut to because it's not my pattern but i've made a lot of doug lecko's patterns before and they're very easy to follow [Applause] so that's all the cutting we need to do for the jelly roll pieces now we're going to cut some pieces from the background this is all the pieces we need for the whole quilt and now we're ready to start sewing now the quilt is just made in rows but the way we're going to get that zigzag effect is by adding different size background pieces to our jelly roll pieces now no matter which row it is in the quilt they all are going to have three of these jelly roll pieces and two of these background pieces so i'm actually going to take these over to the machine and sew up all of those units first start with one of the jelly roll pieces then add one of the backgrounds and all we're doing is using a careful quarter inch seam here and then we're going to finger press all seams towards the jelly roll pieces which is the darker color now add another jelly roll piece and i'm not even going to look and see what color goes where i'm just going to pick three different colors and i know when i come to put the rose together there's going to be a nice variety of colors now another background piece and now we'll add one last jelly roll piece here so what we've got is three jelly roll strips two backgrounds and i'm going to go ahead and do that with all of my pieces here even though we finger press them i'm still going to want to iron those seams so i'm going to flip it upside down and i'm just going to briefly give a little steam to each seam all we have to do now is add some different size pieces of backgrounds to the ends of these units and that will give us our stair step effect that we have in the pattern so there's actually only going to be four different kind of rows and most of them have a piece on each end this first row only has a piece on one end but once we sew these background pieces to the strip unit they're all going to be exactly the same length so i'm just taking this first row along with its background pieces over to the machine and i'm going to set this row on my lap because they're too long to stay up there on the machine so here's the first one we'll take one of these stitch it on and again like we did with all the rest of the seams the seam allowance is going to go toward the dark fabric and it's just the same procedure with all of these first rows here the first row is all done now i'm going to do the same thing with the second row second row is all done i'm just gonna use the same procedure for row three and row four i've got all the rows made and we're ready to lay out the quilt now so let me spread these out real quick here all right i'm going to start all the way down at the bottom because this is a nice big quilt now the pattern has really awesome diagrams that will tell you exactly which go row goes where but basically we're going to get a nice stair step effect as we lay these rows out and the way that happens is by these background pieces getting bigger and bigger as we go now you can see that we've reached the end of this stair step because the jelly roll print is on the outer edge of the quilt and now the steps start going back in the other direction very fun very cool all right the whole quilt is laid out now and i didn't even look to see what row was going to end up where in terms of which fabrics ended up in which part of the quilt and you can trade around if you want you can take two rows that are exactly the same and trade them if you aren't happy with the balance of colors but i wouldn't worry about it too much it's meant to be scrappy looking and i'm very happy with how it looks now to stitch our rows together it's important to pin them together first because they are exactly the same length and we don't want to stretch anything so i'm going to put them right sides together i'm going to put a pin at the beginning then i'm going to go all the way to the far end i'm going to put a pin here smooth everything out and i'm going to put two more pins in so i'm going to put one here now you'll notice there's no matching of seams at all all we have to do is stitch this one long seam but because machines can make them stretch as you're sewing it's important to put those pins in i'm going to line everything up start stitching just for a couple of inches now we can go down to that first pin and i'm just going to sort of pull it towards my stomach here line up the edges and keep going now we'll take that pin out we'll feed this down here to the next pin and just keep stitching and this way because we've got them pinned we won't have either the top or the bottom feed in faster we can control it now you may want to put more pins in it's kind of a matter of preference now we're going to finger press the seam to one side it's just easier for me to do it this direction and i'm going to do it this direction with all of the seams in the whole quilt so they will all end up facing the same way so i'm pulling it open with the palms of my hand and then i'm just running my fingernail you can use the tip of your finger if you don't want to use your fingernail right down that seam and that makes it lie nice and flat until we can get it to the ironing board so i'm not actually going to iron it right now i'm going to stitch together one quarter of the rose and then i will iron that section then i will make another quarter of the quilt iron that section make the third quarter the fourth quarter and then put all the quarters together and give it one last pressing the quilt top is all done but before we load it onto the quilting machine i want to talk a little bit about the backing and binding now when you're making a quilt you're concentrating on the top you're concentrating on all the patchwork but the backing it's all over the backside it's just as big as the top and it is as important but we don't spend that much time thinking about it i like to use a larger scale print many times on the back of my quilt this would look really pretty it's big big pine cones and that would look really nice on this quilt here's another option more of a solid but it's poinsett is all over third option would be these pine cones with a light backing so i will just pick out a couple and see what do i think would look good on the back here the other thing we need to think about when we pick our backing is our binding because the binding needs to look good against the top of the quilt and against whatever backing we pick out so we want to have a combination that looks good so i usually use an almost solid for my binding here's a nice black one here's a nice green one and these would look good with these prints here now i don't think i would put the black binding on the red but the green binding on the red would look real nice the green would look good with that one i really like that combination because there's more contrast here between this and the quilt and this in the back than there would be with that black one so i think these are what i'm going to go with for this quilt i've got the quilt loaded up on the machine and it's time to pick some thread there's so many options here and we have that large white expanse so we could do a darker color if we like so let's just look at the options here this dark green one here it's going to show up quite nicely in the light won't show in the dark i like this dark gold because it's going to show in the light it's going to blend in there this one won't show as much it's just a lighter gold it's going to be more subtle there's a couple different red colors that would look good and again if you really want your quilting to show you can pick one of these dark colors any of them are going to look really nice i think i'm going to go with the darkest gold this for the quilting pattern i'm using one called holly berries it's nice and christmassy and it's got these swirls and little berries and that matches very nicely with the theme of the prints we're using in the quilt [Applause] the ribbon candy quilt is all done it will make a very nice christmas blanket i love how the quilting shows up in those light areas you can even see it from far away and of course when you get really close you can see the berries and the holly leaves but the thread doesn't show at all in the dark areas so the patchwork just looks really strong still now on the back side we've got that nice pine cone print quilting just blends right in looks really nice finished size it's about 68 by 74 so that's a nice throw size a nice size to put on the back of your couch or to put on your bed thanks for watching our tutorial today i hope you enjoyed it and i hope that gives you some inspiration to get your holiday stitching started early this year just like me now we're going to have another giveaway this is a panel project this is a moda collection called moody blooms and it's got patchwork all around the outside it's got a patchwork border on it it's a pretty big quilt for a panel project and it's very easy for you to enter the giveaway all you have to do is click the link right below the video that says giveaway and you put in your name and your email address good luck now if you like our videos and you want to support us the best thing you can do is subscribe to our youtube channel that really helps us out happy quilting

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Length: 16min 52sec (1012 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 02 2021