LEARN TO MAKE A "MEDITATION" QUILT WITH DONNA!!!

hi i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics today i'm going to show you how to make a quilt it's called meditation and this is a cozy quilt designs pattern and it uses a jelly roll and i really like the colors that they used in the pattern these nice reds and blacks but i've picked another color to make my quilt i have a nice calm blue combination here from moda fabrics and it's called sister bay so that's what i'm going to use today so the pattern includes instructions for five different sizes now i'm gonna make the twin today so i'm gonna need 25 jelly roll strips three and a third yards of background and a quarter yard of an accent so for background i'm going to use a solid it's a nice really light eggshell color and for the accent i'm going to use this almost solid dark blue let's go ahead and pick out the 25 different strips that we're going to use here so most of these will look beautiful make a nice quilt but i'm going to want to pick out the darker ones some of the really light ones i might not use so i'm just going to go ahead and sort so that one won't show up against the background we won't use that and i'm just going to keep sorting and picking until i get a nice variety of 25 different strips so there's the 25 we're going to use and the first thing we're going to do is cut each of these in half along the fold so i'm just taking the whole strip and right where it's folded where it came off the bolt i'm just putting my scissors in the middle and cutting each one in half the next step is to cut out our background it's always a good idea to steam press your fabric nice and flat before you start cutting that way your cuts will be very accurate now this is going to get sub-cut into several different sizes and i can't give you all the sizes because it's not my pattern but the instructions are very clear and easy to follow [Applause] there's all the background pieces we need and now we just need to cut a little bit of accent okay everything is all cut out the next step is to take some of the strips over to the sewing machine i'm going to take two strips at a time and make a strip unit so i'm just going to get two different colors it doesn't really matter which ones you use just a nice variety and we're going to put them right sides together and then we're going to use a careful quarter inch seam all down this one side here so i'm making an effort to not stretch either one just lay them on top of themselves here and then stitch all the way down [Music] now i like to finger press the seam to one side this step helps a lot so i've got the seam facing that way and i'm going to open it up with my hands here and then i'm going to anchor it with that finger and i'm going to draw this finger tip or finger nail right down the seam as i open it up this makes the next step of ironing really easy so this step is critical i think it makes the sewing and ironing go much better even though we finger pressed we still need to iron these up so i like to put them on my board flatten them out with my hand and use first a dry iron and then a little steam these strip units are going to get sub-cut so i like to line them up on one of the lines on my cutting board here and then go ahead and make my cuts and that way they are 90 degree cuts and they're nice and accurate now let's take all these back to the machine and we're going to stitch them together two at a time so i'm just going to get two that have different fabrics put them right sides together and most of the time the seam allowance in the middle will nest it's okay if it doesn't every time and just make some little four patches so i'm going to take each one and press the seam to one side just with a little finger pressing and i'm going to go ahead and do the whole stack like that now let's give them just a quick press so they're nice and flat now we're going to take these our accent squares and our small background pieces over to the sewing machine here's how this block goes we're going to take four of these and one accent in the middle and then four of the backgrounds let's start by making this top row these are all the same size so it's pretty easy to stitch them together and i'm going to press all the seam allowances toward the background so this one's going to go this way and we'll add this and again press the seam allowance toward the background and now we'll make the next two rows now we've got three rows and the seam allowances are all going in opposite directions so we can stitch them together very easily now i have all of the first block done and we're ready to move on to the second block now to make the second block we're going to make strip units so we're going to take the rest of these guys and a couple of the background strips to the sewing machine the first strip unit has five printed strips so just pick five different ones and stitch them side by side so keep in mind as you're sewing to not stretch either one of the strips and then your strip unit will end up nice and flat and i'm going to finger press all the seams in one direction so i'm going to press them all this way there's the first strip unit now i'm going to make one more just like that with five printed strips then i'm going to make two strip units that have four printed strips one background on the edge and then i'm going to make one strip unit that has the background down the middle with two prints on each side of it and i'm going to iron all of the seam allowances to one side now we're going to slice each of these strip units into two and a half inch strips so line it up on one of the lines and then use your rotary cutter and your nice straight edge here and just cut all the strip units up into these two and a half inch wide pieces so now i have three different kind of strip units here one with all five prints one with the background on the end and one with the background in the middle so we're going to take some of these and we're going to put them together to make a block so we're going to take two of these guys we're going to take this one with the background in the middle it's going to go in the middle of the block and then these with the background on the corner that one's going to go on the bottom corner and then this one's going to go on the top corner and now all we have to do is stitch them all together and we're going to make six blocks just like this now most of my seams are going in opposite directions so they will nest but i'm not going to worry too much about that i'm just going to make sure things have a nice blend so this strip see you could turn this around if you like the look of that better you can also turn these two around now the ones on the end you can't turn around because you need to make sure that you have the accent block here and here but other than that you can spin them around and get a nice blend and scrappy look i'm going to press the seam allowance here to one side i'm going to press all the seam allowances all the same way all to the right we've got both of the blocks done now and we're ready to lay out the quilt now these blocks are going to be on point so it might look a little more complicated when we lay it out but it's really not so we're going to do three blocks in the first row here and i'm going to leave some space between them then we're going to take the other block and there's going to be two of these blocks in that row now back to the first block three again and then we've got two more of this kind of block and these accent excuse me the backgrounds those three they're going to be pointing they're going to be going down the quilt like this so you want to make sure you have this turned so those three are facing that way now there's definitely conspicuous space between all of these blocks and we are going to fill that in so remember all these pieces that we cut out and we haven't used yet these are what we're going to use to fill in all of these empty spots so let's start with the cornerstones these go almost everywhere between all these blocks here there that's all the cornerstones that we have now we're going to fill in these empty spots with some sashing now there's three different lengths of sashing and we're going to start with the shortest so this is going to go between all the squares now i didn't memorize where all these pieces go i'm following the pattern because it tells you exactly what piece fits where it's kind of like a jigsaw puzzle it's very fun to lay out and the more you get the easier it gets to keep going so i don't want you to worry that it looks kind of complex because it's a lot easier than it looks just trust the pattern there that's all the short sashing pieces we need now the medium size they're going to fill in everywhere we're missing one except on the corners so i'm just going to go around fill in with these that's all the medium ones now the very last longest pieces they go in the four corners so these are longest in all four corners that's all the patchwork pieces we've still got those missing parts around the edge and that is what we use these side setting triangles for so the bigger ones they go all along the sides that's all the sides now we just have those four corners so these are the corner triangles they're a little bit smaller one in each corner there is the whole quilt laid out now because it's on point the rows don't go perpendicular to the edges the rows are all diagonal that's the first row this is the second row so the first thing we're going to do is ignore these triangles and sew these pieces onto this patchwork here i think of this as sub sewing the row because we need to put these pieces together before we can finish up the whole row now this is exactly the right length and i'm going to press all of the seam allowances here toward the back so each piece we're going to put on it's going to fit exactly for this stage of the game so we don't have to do any trimming we just stitch on [Music] now we're ready to stitch these triangles on so they are cut extra big so they're going to be sticking off here and that's fine we're going to line up this edge so you can put it here and pin it if you like it helps so that you don't get anything in the wrong spot and then we'll take it to the machine so line up these two corners and stitch down this side and just let the excess just let all the excess fall off the end there's that first patchwork row now it's best if you trim off this excess fabric right now so you can take it over to your cutting board or if you have a little cutting board you can just put that right here and all i'm going to do is line up this with the edge of the patch and just trim off that excess there that way you won't get a lot of extra bulk as you build your whole quilt now i'm going to go ahead and make the next row so it's the same procedure it's got different pieces but you just do all the sub sewing so that you can get all the patchwork done then add your corners then trim off the extra keep doing that until you have all the rows made i went ahead and finished the top and i put the first border on it's looking really good and if you look at the pattern there's that little first border that i did but right here there's a patchwork border so let me show you how we're going to make that the pattern had me cut the border fabric into two different sizes so i'm going to take the narrower width here along with three of the leftover jelly roll strips back to the sewing machine what i'm going to do is make a strip unit using two of the border pieces and one printed piece in the middle so i'm going to use a quarter inch seam and press all the seam allowances toward the print once those are stitched and ironed we're going to sub cut these to two and a half inch widths just like we did with all of our other strip sets you'll notice that the pattern had us cut a few more of these narrow pieces than we needed for the strip units there and that's because we need to do some sub cutting on here so we can finish up our patchwork here is how these pieces are going to fit together we've got five of these patchwork sections and then we're going to put a plain piece on each end but we need to stagger them so these first two will get stitched just like this this next piece is going to get slid up so that the intersection lines up there and the next one again like that all the way up and then this one just fits right on the end there so i'm going to sew them all in a row and press all the seams to one side so the pattern had me make four of these and now that they're ironed nice and flat we need to trim them so the trimming is really pretty easy i'm going to put it on my cutting board and i'm going to take the two inch line here and i'm going to put that right down the middle of the patchwork so i'm just lining that line up with the tip of all of those blocks and then we will trim all this off and then we'll turn it around and you can either line up the two inch again in the middle or line up the four inch line right on the edge you're going to get the same thing either way now we have a nice four inch wide piece of patchwork and let's just trim both ends off so that they are nice and square and now we have a nice patchwork rectangle here's how these fit onto the quilt the first piece is going to line up with the edge here and all you have to do is take this extra border and stitch enough on so it's as long as the quilt and stitch it on to this side you do the same thing on the far side then we're going to take another piece here and we're going to add a little square on the end of it again add as much border as you need so it's as wide as the quilt stitch it onto the top and the same thing onto the bottom all right i'm going to get that stitched onto the quilt and then i've got one more border that's going around the outside then i can get it loaded onto the quilting machine the quilt top is all done it's loaded on the machine and we need to pick a thread color there's lots of different blues that would work even this really light one would work so when i look at this i think this is actually blue but it's kind of an aqua so this is one of the threads that i pulled out because that's going to be really light on the background and it's not going to interfere with those dark colors this is actually the color i thought i would use it's a medium blue and that will show up more in the background but matches very nicely we could use this oatmeal color so this is going to blend not show in the background at all and really not fight with the dark color now navy would be an option if you want your quilting to show a lot because there's just a large contrast there and it won't show in the dark what i'm going to go with is this aqua color because i think that's going to look best for the quilting pattern i wanted something with flowers rose meander is really nice because all of the flowers are about the same size and it makes a very even quilting pattern so that's what we'll go with so i've got the whole meditation quilt completely quilted and bound i'm really happy with how it turned out it is very calm it's got a lot of nice plain areas all this negative space here is really nice the quilting shows in those spots but with this light blue thread it doesn't overtake the pattern so i really like the patchwork border here of course the patchwork is optional on the border you could do a plain border but it really didn't take very long to do that and i think it enhances it a lot now on the back side i just used a coordinating blue print you can see the quilting just a little bit you can actually see it a lot better in these areas here now it came out 75 by 92 and they call that a twin size but it's a really big twin one thing i want to note the pattern does give you instructions for using quarter yards of fabric so if you don't have a jelly roll you can cut strips from quarter yards and you can even use fat quarters here also now if you stand back and look at the quilt at a distance you can see the accent so my accent blends in pretty well it's not a distinctly different color also my accent is the same color as many of the patches in here so it just is sprinkled throughout there but if you had done a red or a really bright aqua or a brown you would see the accent a lot more but i like the way this is just all blending together thanks so much for watching our tutorial today on how to make the meditation quilt we hope you enjoyed it now we're going to do a giveaway this is a pattern called shadowbox let me see it's upside down so shadowbox has got big squares with a shadow behind each one so it almost makes it look like those big squares are casting a shadow or they're popping out of the quilt a little bit now we've done a video on how to make this one it's pretty easy and i used fabrics here called nocturnal from moda so we've got owls and all kinds of night forest creatures got this pretty foresty print on the back side and it's very easy to enter the giveaway just click the link right below the video that says giveaway and all you have to do is put in your name and your email address and we can send this quilt to a winner anywhere in the world so 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 you

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Length: 23min 40sec (1420 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 17 2022