Join us for AccuQuilt Live with a tutorial featuring our GO! Ready for Spring Patchwork Tote Bag

hey quilters welcome to accu quilt live i am pam heller a quilts cutting expert thank you so much for joining us on this wednesday morning okay quilters here in omaha nebraska yesterday the temperature was like negative 47 or i guess on monday um so we are having rolling power outages uh to help conserve energy here in the midwest so if you lose if we're gone we still love you okay our website to order is off-site so you'll still be able to place orders even though christina and i and the team aren't here okay so just be aware that we're having power outages okay christina is in the house how are you my friend mildly warmer mildly i know it was 10 this morning when i got in the car he was like dang i don't think i need to wear a coat no it's like a heat wave i know it was great okay now we're talking about upcycling today and you did the cutest thing for oscar tell us about it i made him this cute little pillow bed um with some little charm squares that were minky and i stuffed it with the scraps like the tiny little scraps from all the quilts i've ever made yeah stuffed it for him and clearly he loves it that's as close as he's gotten to it she has tried for like a week now right yeah like put him on it it he won't try catnip yup everything won't touch it that's great so that is oscar we always talk about oscar that is our sweet friend oscar okay so where is everyone watching from today okay first of all huge shout out to shirley who is in austin texas she has no power no water but her laptop is working and she's watching us today shirley thanks for watching us today um who else oh we have susan from maine lots of people are without power today yes um down in the south so stay warm um all of my friends in california sent me that meme about the foot of sunshine i don't know it's 80 degrees all right so thank you for joining us today all right quilters yesterday we had our lunch party christina wasn't it so fun it was so fun i loved the dinosaur surprises and our special guests yes our dinosaur was hilarious and um did you have a favorite was coffee and tea or the dinosaur is your favorite while i'm a big coffee fan i love the dinosaurs they're so cute yeah super cute super cute um it was a roaring good time and we released two new dies our go dinosaur medley die do you wanna hand me those right there mr mike thank you um here is our dinosaur medley die it has three shapes listen you need to watch the show because i told all sorts of dinosaur jokes they were hilarious and coffee and tea medley so these are our two new dies they're available at accuquilt.com or from your local signature retailer if you missed it you can watch our show on our facebook and youtube channels now we got to give some props to christina because she this were the very first packaging she designed good job congratulations i asked her i know we should stop i asked her if we should send some to her mom so she could put it on the fridge yeah i'm almost 30 and my mom still puts myself i'm totally sending them to your mom christina's mom i'm sending you packaging for these okay all right thank you all right today is one of my favorite photos of the day this is called madame x it is this amazing quilt by this amazing quilt artist lou caines and this actually quilt actually lives in the accu accuquilt permanent collection it is here in our home base we love it we see it every day and the whole reason it's the picture of the day is because luke used completely recycled fabric and and materials to make this and so many of his other quilts right christina yes um it's just such a beautiful beautiful quilt so this is madame x whenever covet is over and you can come to the facility you want to make sure you check it out and in just a few minutes we're going to talk to the amazing locains i know via zoom isn't technology wonderful okay so here's my question of the day so we're talking about upcycling and recycling and we want to hear what projects you've made with recycled projects with recycled fabrics so besides oscar's little pillow have you made anything else no that's been the only thing that used up a whole bag i had of scraps which i didn't i couldn't i felt bad throwing them away even though they were tiny strips and strings but i felt like i had to make something with it yes and you sprayed it with catnip and everything yeah and he still doesn't love it nope okay so in the comments section today what kind of items have you made from your recycled fabrics all right now we have a few photos from some folks that shared their finished projects thank you for sharing with them first we have april w okay this is such a cute project this is our leaping frogs die and my all-time favorite shape half square triangle so april good job i feel like it's so cute for spring right i feel like we don't see enough quilts made with that cute little no i like the frog i like the frog okay next we have okay i hope i see your name right alicia s and look she's done curves don't be scared of curves quilters we have notches to help you line up those curves look how cute that is and finally nicole k okay first of all nicole k who is that cute little girl in the corner because she is darling and the quilt is nice too okay so we're glad you shared with us um i feel like she shared on social media i feel like it was her granddaughter yeah quilters we would love to see your finished projects you can share them with us on our facebook page so you can be part of our accu-cult live events all right your accu-quote family we love you of course we have a promo for you it's a accu-quote live on wednesday so for today only until midnight central time you can take 25 off your order when you spend 100 or more okay 25 off your order spend 100 or more the code because one day it will be spring 25 s-p-r-i-n-g 2-5 but christina tell us about free shipping so if you spend over and 150 dollars which you're already spending over a hundred to get the deal today so right add another guy yeah um it's free shipping to the contiguous united states there you go okay no code required you just get it no code we're just gonna give it to you okay but you got to use the code spring25 to get that 25 off your order today and that includes everything right like mats and dies and all this stuff it just doesn't include like the new dies yeah not those nudes but those are listed on our website so all the exclusions are on you can just shop at accuquel.com live there you go accu-cool.com live all right so today we're going to make these super cute um totes and in honor of that we're going to give away a three and a half inch strip eye to one lucky viewer all you have to do is share a video on your personal facebook page for a chance to win uh morgan's gonna pick the winner christine is gonna announce it and we will all clap yes at the end of the show so three and a half inch strip die it's one of my favorites christina i use it a lot i use it for like borders and when i'm making squares and stuff i really like three and a half inch strip it's one of my favorite i feel like most people have a two and a half inch trip listen if you don't have a two and a half inch strip five five zero one seven put it in your cart so you can get twenty five percent off if you spend more than a hundred and then when it's twenty five percent off it's only sixty seven dollars oh see there you go and get you a new mat okay because christine what happens if you try to use the dive that i'm out not a darn thing not a darn thing okay okay so today we're gonna make these super cute uh spring patchwork upcycled totes our good friend stephanie jacobson who's part of the omaha modern quilt guild she designed these for us wrote that cute pattern made these cute things um so we're going to talk about ways that you can upcycle fabric and jeans and all of that kind of stuff so be sure and download the free pattern at accuquilt.com read all of the instructions not just some of them before you get started okay this bag is going to go together super fast and i'm going to show you the super cool trick on how to make those patchwork strips using our three and a half inch strip die okay so the first thing i'm going to do is these are some old jeans um that were at the heller house i don't know who they belong to but they now belong to accu quilt okay so there were old jeans and um i chose jeans that were kind of um lighter right christina some jeans are pretty thick so um i chose these jeans and i'm going to show you this really cool trick that luke showed me real quick on how to kind of cut your fabric up i spent the whole day with luke one day and i was his good helper and i cut fabric up for him okay listen this is the only time i give you permission to use a rotary cutter okay so what you want to do is you want to get rid of this thick part here this thick seam and the cuff so i'm just going to take my little clear plastic ruler okay i've kind of started it here boy keep your fingers away because you got to kind of really um go hard okay and then here it is that cuff is tough oh i rhymed oh while you're cutting that uh nicole's actually in the comments and she said she was our last image she said that's her daughter she picked out the fabrics and it was her first quilt nicole congratulations she's darling she's four and a half now oh soon she'll be six like oakley and know everything okay so now look so now i have viable fabric okay and i'm not going to cut this part because as i'm cutting my three and a half inch strips um it's going to be really easy to just use this section and this is why i chose the legs another great way is to use the sleeves because sleeves have lots of fabric yeah yeah okay all right so let's cut some fabric because there's a die for that okay now i only need two strips of um my denim and i'm making this cute bag for oakley look at this is half of it okay um oakley is taking indoor swimming lessons because it is 35 degrees below zero outside and she just needed a quick tote bag that she could throw her swimsuit in and her goggles in and that's it it's not like our summer bag that has toys and stuff okay so just a quick bag and this one is perfect because it's small enough she can just grab it if it gets wet it's okay because we can wash it okay so think about those kinds of things okay so remember i only need two strips so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna line up oh hey i have an overhead camera i'm going to take the edge right here where that seam is and i'm going to line it up right here on the blades the three and a half only has three strips or three blades right there these are just for reference we'll talk about them okay so i just want to make sure my fabric goes here now since it is denim i'm only going to cut one layer and while i cut christina tell us what people have made i'm excited to hear this let's see sharon says that she makes pet beds for animal rescues oh good job that's where i got the idea to make the bed for oscars oh there you go marianne says she makes pet beds for the shelter and donates projects there she also donates some of the pieces for fidget quilts for alzheimer's patients oh very cool that's lovely um aydah says that she makes jean rug quilts oh very good yes okay see i feel like so many of our quilters do charity stuff yes i think so too i saw someone mention project linus in here too so that's another awesome place to use your scraps okay i'm using my go big today because i can but all of our strip knives fit through our go fabric cutter as well so as it's gone through the cutter the static is built up oh it's so dry in here okay but it is warm okay so i'm gonna slide my mat don't lift so you look at all the static that came off but look at this try to cut denim with your rotary cutter that slick okay a daria okay so i need two of these and then i'm gonna cut um i just used fat quarters because i feel like fat quarters um i have so many of them in my stash do you have quite a few fat questions yeah yeah i kind of can't resist them yeah i know you think oh i need those and then you're like oh what did i need those for okay so i'm just gonna lay my fat quarter um i just kind of sub cut it all right oh there's a ghost in the dream studio it's making our machine work there we go it's okay it doesn't like it when you push it it's like teenagers don't tell them what to do okay so while this is cutting all right remember you can always cut six layers of good quilting cotton but again with my strip with my denim i'm only gonna cut one layer at a time okay [Music] give it some love slide that mat don't lift okay all right um okay and then what you need to do is in order to make sure you're all ready so here's my two strips um you need a four and a half inch by um 16 and a half inches yes um for the bottom and again i just used fat quarters because i have a bazillion of them okay and then this the only other time i'm going to let you use um your rotary cutter you need to cut two pieces of lining so look at how fun doesn't this look like the pool yes i just wanted it to be bright okay um 15 and a half by 16 and a half inches use your rotary cutter and your uh go mat okay all right join us on march 2nd 12 noon central time all good things happen at 12 noon central time for our next live invitation event it's all about why we quilt so christina it has been quilting not very long just since i started here just since she started here and i've been quilting 20 years or so and we're here together in the same quilting journey but how we got here is completely different so we're going to talk about why we quilt and we're going to have some new quilters on the show i wonder who that would be christina i don't know i don't know and we're going to celebrate the art of quilting now this is a live event you need to register for it why do they need to register christina so that they are eligible to win prizes we give away stuff yes all the time and that's how we pick our winners yeah so the link is in the comment section all right so now that we've cut some strips and we're talking about upcycling let's get luke haynes on the phone i'm so excited i saw him here just for a minute this morning and we're gonna chat with him about his quilts hey luke can you hear me okay i can can you hear me i can thanks for joining us this morning um i understand you were in miami where it was really warm oh my goodness i know i went from uh sunburn to snowed in welcome to the midwest um luke lives in kansas city and so we're excited that he's going to join us today so luke talk to us a little bit about i talked a little bit about madame x and how she's made completely from upcycled uh fabric how did you kind of get into that and and why did you use that as your medium uh quilting or upside down material uh both ah well i mean because i i could talk about all of it all day and i know you know not everyone's got all day to listen to me rant about it so i wanted to be specific yes um you um recycle the materials for a couple of reasons one because um i have it around whether i think i do or not i've always got more clothes in my closet than i need right so just sort of access to material um it's affordable you can get to from the goodwill you know go to secondhand stores you know you whoever your partner your whomever has extra of something i'll tell you that right now you've got plenty of fabric laying around so there's a benefit there uh but mainly it's because there's a story to the fabric so i find that using reclaimed fabric gives you this kind of uh uh entry point into a quilt based on what it's made out of you know people so often come up to my quilts and say wow i had that sheet or i had that shirt or that reminds me of my grandma and uh you know then i get to say well it might have been your grandma's right i bought it in a pile from goodwill yeah wonderful and how long have you been on your quilting journey let's see since probably 2002 is that right so coming up on 20 years i guess 20 errors that's awesome that's awesome and do you have a favorite um upcycled fabric that you like to use do you like to use denim or do you like to use cotton do you have a favorite fabric that you like to use when you're quilting well you know favorites are always hard to decide in the sense that it depends on the project but i love a woven shirt because often you get both sides of it will have you know the color on it so i don't have to worry about remembering front to front back to front upside down it just comes out fine and you know you quilt it and it's all fine it's all good and you don't typically make small quilts right you make big large quilts so what's the average size um we were lucky enough to have your log cabin exhibit here in the dream studio or in our gallery um what was the average size of those quilts do the quilts i like to make are 90 inches by 90 inches because that's the size that fits on my bed so for me that sort of fills under the quote-unquote uh quilt category right because it means i can use it even though they go to shows and they travel the world and they're in major collections i still want to be able to use them if i get chilly right and you kind of have a signature where you take quilts and treat them as architect and art right um yeah absolutely kind of thrown them in the beach and you've thrown them in mountains and yeah yeah sometimes i get some uh backlash for where i throw them but uh i mean my big soapbox for the last number of years is that quilts are sculpture um because there's this depth to them you can use them there's a history of utility in a way that's very different than i mean i'm coming from the fine art world and it's very different than a painting because the painting is only ever that you hang on the wall and you either like it or you don't and that's the end of the conversation but a quilt you can hang it on the wall you could talk about the colors you could choose to like it or not but then you can take it off the wall and you can use it on the bed or you know there's a back there's a side there's textures and there's just so much more to it so in order to help explain that i take quilts with me wherever i go and just kind of throw them willy-nilly or or place them gingerly and try to take pictures to help illustrate that oh good now just two more quick questions um so you got married recently last year or two years last year a while ago and did you make a quilt for your wedding and it wasn't a double wedding quilt dubbing a wedding ring no it wasn't a double wedding ring uh i had made i had made about five of those the preceding year and that's a lot nothing is not worth it to make it for my wonderful wife but it's a lot of work to get all those things put together uh so i actually used um a uh more kind of traditional flying geese pattern and then had a picture of her and i from a drawing an early drawing you did from when we were when we were recording wonderful okay and do you have any upcoming classes that our viewers could take and learn your cool method on how to create quilts yeah absolutely and thanks for asking i've got a class coming up on the 27th okay um and it is uh it's going to be a discussion about the backs of quilts actually we've got a a quilt collector coming to have his take on what it means to show the other side and i'm going to show some ways of of making some backs out of sheets and discarded materials so kind of quick dirty ways to make some really interesting stuff after having a really cool discussion about kind of the history of backs and the history of material oh wonderful i'm excited all right well thank you so much for joining us today for our viewers here in our accu-cult live team um they're going to throw that up in the comments sections of the link to luke's class so make sure that you check it out and luke what's your website in the casino our viewers want to go check you out uh luke haynes.com and it has a y in haynes to say jjy there is hey thanks so much for joining us today give your lovely wife a hug for me we'll do it good to see you bye thanks so much okay we could you just spent the whole day talking to your names i just listened to him lecture like always i know he just talks and he just has such great insight about quilts yes i just love it okay we should sew some stuff all right christina what are people making oh so many cool things that i never would have thought of i'm seeing a lot of shoes on like real shoes with ties oh cause it's cold outside it's so cold outside cheryl says that she used to make gowns out of old wedding dresses for like preemie babies oh wow which is very sweet um her neighbor bought fur coats at a yard sale and they made teddy bears oh very oh that's really cute i love that so much okay um let's see carol said that she uses denim for pot holder backs uh listen oh i've never thought about that you could use it on her bold cozy die mm-hmm oh yeah make a little braces i have made so many bowl cozies um annelle says that she makes rag quilts with denim and sheets so she's making like the cathedral window ones love that pat makes pillowcases for crisis and abuse centers oh thank you for all you do quilters okay so see what i'm doing i should have just been chain piecing but i was talking to christina hold on here okay and i want to make sure that i'm cutting these that i'm sewing the right ones because i had just enough left over for a three and a half inch strip see this what i happens when i talk okay perfect okay all right don't forget to share we're giving away our three and a half inch strip die today yes to one lucky viewer okay ooh cheryl also makes dog toys out of socks and curtains really i don't think curtains out of socks but that'd be kind of funny somebody made something really cute out of socks the other day what was that oh gnomes gnomes gnomes out of socks i've always got gnomes on the brain here we have so many gnomes oh that just goes together so easy okay quick little strips there we go okay so what we're going to do is we want to make these strips okay so we need four strips sewn together so here we go now this is the trick i'm going to show you okay because some of you are thinking you're quilting head i should just cut squares no if you're going to sew them together you can probably cut them together okay so now i'm going to take my little four strips and again quilters you want to like download the pattern and read the whole thing always not just some of it stephanie did a great job on our our pattern okay all right we're also gonna put her link to her blog in the comments as well oh great she's doing another uh block of the month this year so that's definitely something to check out she's doing half square triangles i believe so yes because that's my favorite yeah i know i should totally do it i finally finished last year's video for triangle challenge yes i haven't quilted it yet but the top is done stephanie stephanie does 87 different quilting projects at a time and um she's a pharmacist so bless her heart out there okay all right so now look i have this cool little strips okay and i am going to turn them i'm going to show you the easiest way to cut them to make our strips okay so what you want to do is i typically do this on my real big iron not my little cute shovel iron okay i'm just saying um just because it's easier to get a good press okay and i'm gonna press to the dark side which right here i'm gonna consider the denim sure okay all right so while i'm doing this don't forget to share we're giving away our three and a half inch strip die and don't forget our code today is spring 25 we're going to take 25 off your order of 100 or more and if you don't win the strip die it's also on sale so it's only 67 bucks there you go and the cutting mats are on sale too listen okay you're watching this is a cutting matter quilter i was at an event and she said pam do you think i need a new cutting mat yes they're 25 they take 25 off if your mat looks like this you need to not use it and get you a new mat and you get packs of two yes two packs why do you need two packs of mats you know just because you go through cutting mats so much faster than i feel like you think yes i do i go through cutting mats so much faster than dies dyes are gonna get thousands of cuts our cutting mats are going to get hundreds of cuts okay so you want to flip them and turn them thanks to who told us to put it in a mason jar okay all right so now i've sewn my strips together now i'm going to show you the super cool trick on how we're going to make the strips so i'm going to turn it this way so you can see so see right here where it says 90 degrees i am going to lay my strips right here where it says 90 degrees okay now some of you are already stressed about this little tail don't be stressed okay i'm only going to run one of these through at a time okay oh i have to tell you funny in just a second okay there's no blades inside her cutter only rollers the blades are in the die okay so i'm going to put this here so um oakley and i over the weekend she was at the house cutting dinosaurs which i can now say yes because we have the new dinosaur die okay so watch i'm just going to run it through and i just tucked it up right next to it okay speaking of that dinosaur um we're almost out of that first shipment of them so if you want them you better get them now otherwise you're gonna get those dinosaurs now yes go get them so oakley knows the rule about she can't you know put lots of layers right and so she was helping me she was having a great time she's cutting out them cutting them out of felt okay look at this look how slick this is because then you're going to turn them like this right and make these cool little strips so i'm going to do the last little bit okay just hang in there with me all right again i'm going to run them at 90 degrees so she was not paying attention and she had some craft foam and she had glittery craft foam because apparently darthouse dinosaurs are made out of glittery craft foam and she ran um uh almost three layers through and we heard that big clunk oh no and she stopped and she said oh i said oakley what's the rule she goes just one i said yep but it was fine she had kind of offset them luckily speaking of we have a question from peggy okay she says what is the rule for cutting cuddle fabric uh one layer yeah and i'm going to tell you if you're going to cut cuddle fabric you want to put fusible or stabilizer in the back first because what happens when you cut cuddle fabric it shreds it shreds you have a little roller on it yeah you start with a piece this big and you end up with a piece this big okay okay so look how cool i made my strips okay all right so i'm gonna tell you that's the fastest way to make those strips all right now don't forget all of our videos live on our facebook page so if you think what did pam say how did she show you um you can just go to our facebook page and watch them again okay so now i have all of my little pieces here and this was truly the trick i wanted to show you and then christina we talk about this all the time you want to lay out your pieces yes how come because you're gonna mess up you are her at least if you're like me no i do all the time i just think what why didn't i listen to myself okay so here's one i'm gonna show you in just a second now this is that um bottom piece that's going to go right here okay and you're going to say to me pam that's not right but remember there's a quarter of an inch seam allowance together okay so quilters ask me all the time why is accu-quilt better than rotary cutting okay first of all try cutting denim with a rotary cutter i mean it's never going to be straight it's never going to be easy okay so it's just so much faster and it's more accurate i think that's the thing christina right when you're cutting a quilt you want to make sure you're cutting those pieces accurately right absolutely because what happens if you don't it's a mess it's a mess and it doesn't come together and it doesn't work together right okay all right so once you've sewn your sides together okay so it's going to look like this look how fun this is and i purposely um just stitched in the ditch you want to quilt it first okay and i added some backing a little um batting to the back all right and then the one that i just cut today would be the other side all right like in stephanie's now um i'm going to show you the super cool trick on how to make the bottoms okay because see how the bottoms are flat all right they're not just it's going to sit there's a companion set inside buy one today they can get it for 25 off okay so here we go and props to um stephanie because look how cool her little um she did super cute quilting on her love it it's got such a beautiful like texture it's just beautiful do we have to get these back no like we could take one home i don't know okay all right all right so now i'm going to show you this cool trick on how to make flat bottoms okay before i do don't forget to share because what are we giving away christina uh the strip die the three and a half inches three and a half inch strip die and if you want to buy that today how much is it 67 67 you should totally be um figuring out what strip dies you need in your collection and get them all today and if you want to upgrade your cutter that go bigs only 450 dollars and ship it to your free yeah if you're in the contiguous united states you bet and how much is a cube a cube oh i can look look at the green question how much that is yeah if you live in the contiguous us we're going to ship that to you free okay so this is the lining pieces for my bag so let's show you stephanie's stephanie just did um a solid color she just did cute little muslin in there look how cute that is okay but i had a whole bunch of fat quarters that i was totally gonna let oakley um be in charge of okay so what i've done is i've taken my uh 15 and a half by 16 and a half inch squares i cut them together because i wanted them to be the same size okay and then what you're gonna do is you're gonna stitch a quarter of an inch around the side okay don't forget to share we're giving away our strip die okay all right so now i'm going to show you how to make the flat bottoms you're good you can keep going chelsea thank you all right don't forget our blog is a place to find inspiration and tutorials patterns sewing tips and more ways to use and love your go-cutters and dyes you can meet our go-getters this stephanie a go-getter she is she is and you put the little link to the link to her blog in the comments yep yep all right and you can join in the conversation our community is having right now don't forget to join myself and the lovely erica and lynn on march 2nd uh 12 noon central time for our next live invitation event it's all about why we quilt and we have some new cultures on the show and we're going to celebrate the art of quilting and christina why do they need to register so that they can be eligible to win our fabulous giveaways yes that's exactly right okay so let me show you how to make flat bottoms all right what you're going to do again this the only other time i'm going to let you use your rotary cutter what you're going to do is you're going to take your clear plastic ruler and from the corner we're going to cut out a one and a half inch square okay if you want a bigger bottom though i don't know why anybody wants a bigger bottom okay you cut a bigger square okay so you decide if you want it to be a little wider at the bottom a little flatter then make it a two inch square okay it whatever makes you happy okay um for these because these are kind of narrow totes oh here i got to do it the right way or i'll never do it right um i'm going to just do one and a half inches okay so just take your rotary cutter be very careful so you don't cut your fingers christina has band-aids but apparently not at your house so okay here we go i cut my finger the other day on a rotary cutter really bad the other day oh no and i thought i was gonna need stitches oh my goodness and ray my husband's a physician and he said you're fine i said no i think i need stitches and he goes you're fine he put a band-aid on it he didn't kiss it better or anything like a big boo-boo okay all right and you know what he was right i was fine okay so now you're gonna do this once you sew your um outer pieces together you're gonna do the same thing quarter of an inch you're going to bring it right here put that scary thing away okay so the reason we did this is because we sewed right sides together right so now what you're going to do this is such a cool trick i watched videos on how to do this so that i would know how to do this correctly but actually it's a super cool trick okay so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take my opening right here and i'm going to just push one to one side and one to the other my seams okay right there all right and then i'm going to take it to my sewing machine because it's the same on both sides oh where's the pin here i have one the lovely erika has a pin cushion everywhere okay here we go all right i'm going to pin it and then right here i'm going to stitch it and then i'm going to show you this is super cool i didn't think it would work so i practiced but it really does work okay and you might want to back stitch this just to make sure that it stays in place okay so now i'm going to do the same thing on this side and then i'm going to turn it inside out and show you our flat bottoms and i'm cool okay christina what are people making with their upcycled fabrics there's a great tip from wendy and she says to repurpose the mats to use at the bottom of bags yes i have heard quilters say that such a good idea are six by twelve mats or five by ten mats they're perfect to lay in the bottom you could line them if you wanted to yeah i love that yeah okay and now i'm just going to sew another quarter inch seam perfect okay it makes me so happy when it works i stress about those kind of things at home i get it it's a live show it's hard it's a live show we gotta have good things happening anything could happen okay there we go and look see now your bottoms are gonna be flat i didn't know how that was gonna work but i trusted you super cool trick i know it was stressful okay so then you're going to put your um outer portion that you've done the same thing too okay and you're going to add the handle so i kind of wanted to give you a little tip on the handles um for the handles you're going to cut a three and a half inch strip and then you're going to cut a two and a half inch strip and you're going to say to me pam that's wrong you those are two different sizes and the answer is yes they are okay so let's look at stephanie's real quick so see the wider one okay you're going to sew them together and then you're going to press them flat and top stitch so you know what i did christina i just went back and found some jelly rolls strips remember i don't know when it was we made something out of a jelly roll all the time all the time we make stuff out of jelly rolls so this would be the center for my handles and again you're going to use the denim oh there we go yeah i love how it's got like that little peeking strip on the side yeah is that so cute yeah it's just darling and then what you want to do is add that handle before you sew the whole thing together okay so when you turn it inside out um like back in july when we make christmas documents yeah yeah we have to sew things together first and then turn them inside out yeah okay don't forget until 12 midnight central time you can take 25 off your order when you spend 100 or more use that code spring 25 s p r i n g 2 5. spend 150 you still get the 25 off and free shipping all right and then you would just follow the instructions to um assemble your bag okay and again we're just going to put right sides together stitch along the top leave an opening bring it inside out and then look how cute now stephanie did just a little cute little top stitching along the top here okay and she did top stitching on her handles okay and then ta-da you have a cute little tote and this one i like i said this is perfect for oakley because i can throw a swimsuit in there and the goggles and if it gets wet it's okay i can just wash it it's not a big deal okay all right before we sign off take 25 of your order when you use spend 100 or more use that code spring 25 it's good until midnight central time quilters we would love to see your finished projects you can share them with us on our facebook page and they can you can be part of our acupult live events have you seen some really fun ones lately yes i love like anything our viewers create is always so creative and they're making so amazing it just makes me want to make more stuff i know it's amazing i can't wait to see what people make with like that coffee and that like dinosaur oh yes it's going to be so yes and show us your upcycled things we'd love to see those okay christina um i think morgan has picked a winner yes all right can we have a drum roll please all right our winner is alicia sue williams-lentz excellent alicia thanks for joining us today christina is going to reach out to you and she's going to get you that three and a half inch strip die so alicia if you don't have a 10 by 24 mat today's the day to get one because that's what you're going to need all right next week 12 noon central time be sure and join us on our accu-quote live we're going to showcase that brand new limited edition coffee and tea die right here we have a really fun project you want to hand that to me that's okay um we have a really cute project that we're going to make using the coffee and tea dye and again here's this cute little travel to go mug and cute little um teacups and the lovely christina she designed the packaging for that all right all right thank you so much for joining us today again a huge shout out to the amazingly canes for joining us as part of our accu-quote live today don't forget if you'd love to take his class his uh link to take one of his classes is in our comment section on behalf of our entire facebook live accu-cult live team we have nick upstairs who's listening to a variety of music yeah he's got a lot planned and he's singing he is so nick's upstairs and we have katie and marissa and morgan and leslie actually leslie is in this house but the rest of them are off-site in the dream studio today i have mike and chelsea and chelsea graphics and joe our producer my good friend christina on behalf of all of them i am pam heller here to remind you that at accu quote we help you cut time so you can quote more have a great day we'll see you next wednesday stay warm you

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Published: Wed Feb 17 2021