Lori Holt's Granny's Garden Quilt Sew Along

hi I'm Cindy Cloward with Riley Blake designs and we are ready for the next so along with Lori Holt so welcome Lori hi Cindy I'm excited about the so long cuz it's all about florals in its granny chic fabric that's right and it's the granny chic garden no granny's garden quilts that's right so let's talk about the flower the inspiration behind all the designs I mean look at the waterfall of colors in this yeah well it's no secret that I like a lot of color in my fabric collections and this collection was inspired by my grandma and her sisters and their homes and how they decorated them and of course it's all the floral on the China on the curtains on the aprons on the sheets just everything and I love this floral very you know you do the vintage floral but a little updated so let's look at some of the prints these ones are not actually in the quilt but they're set great companions to all the prints I had to some to you because this was inspired by handkerchiefs yeah I thought this would be really fun to do like tide quilt we did a lot of those you know in the day besides just hand quilting you know let's undo it and show it a little bit so you've got your vintage handkerchiefs they're just a little bit smaller and that would make it a perfect tied quilt because you have all your corners so that would be really easy it'd be fun to do a little doll quilt with also but I'm in a peace mind together like it's it's pretty easy to seam up together like you would wall paper or something and I'm gonna do it big quilt for my bed oh that's gonna be beautiful now this is another print that we love because it's just a lot of great florals on there but I love the pattern on that it's almost yeah this this one has all of the colors in the collection all together in one print and that just comes in one color way for each of those will show another couple unique things because we need a lot of prints for this quilt so there is three bolts of fat eighths in different colorway these are fat six so I call them scrappy six you got make some 12 inches tall so you have a little bit more use out of them but you can see there's three on this side and three prints on the other side and that just allows us to do a little bit more variety in our appliques for our flowers for the quilt and then I did want to highlight that there is wide backs on this hotel tell everyone the inspiration behind the these right bags okay very special yes this is really fun this is my grandma's collection that she gave me years ago of her vintage embroidery patterns so I just kind of put them all together into a print so that you could just use it as the print it would make a great background or you can actually embroider on it so that's what we used for the back of the granny's garden teapots you've got the owls the kitties these are just so iconic to that generation I couldn't do granny chic without doing some embroidery so and I it comes in three colorways yeah this is the colorway that we did put on the back of the quilt so we'll highlight that but just a fun embroidery print that you can use it as an embroidery pattern or just use it as a key I have a lot of fun ideas to do with this that we'll be doing a little bit later so let's let's talk about this beautiful quilt back here okay so the granny's garden quilt was inspired obviously by my grandma's garden and her sisters they always had beautifully tended Gardens so what I wanted to do was I used this my shabby cloud fabric for the background so that all the prints would show up and so all of the appliques are on a circle right here and so that makes it really you know kind of fun so that you can lay it on a floral and it's just like like you said just all florals it's all about the florals plus I thought the circles were kind of like looking down on a flower pot you know with the flowers coming out and so some of the some of the blocks have a few little buttons here and there and some of them don't also another thing that these blocks have in common is I've used the same print the same fabric which is solid yeah solid for the stamp and so it's a pretty fun quilt to do because you're just playing with flowers then you applicate the circles onto your squares and then you just sew your squares together and then we'll be doing the applique border as well which is not as hard as it might look I promise it's really not hard and it's just so fun because it's like you're creating each flowers I got to work on this quilt a lot of people did and it's just so fun to make each of the flowers and see how they come along I did want to show the backing of the quilt so that's just one of the white backs and I love the color with this so that's so let's talk about the first clock okay so this is block one right here and it's all ready to be appliquéd and I love how you use hearts for the petals that's that's so cute it just takes three so simple shapes for this block and let's go through all the things that are needed to make this quilt the first thing you'll need is the so long guide which is on the Riley Blake Designs website download the guide and this is really handy how you have it yeah what the so long guide is is so you have all of the cutting for each you know piece of fabric if you want to cut ahead you don't have to cut ahead but you can on this page it tells you the schedule of what blocks we'll be doing and all of the supplies we need and then it goes into the fabrics of what to cut from each fabric and then where that piece of fabric goes in each block so you could get design boards and if you don't happen to have 42 design boards because that's how many blocks there are then you can just use the flock baggies and just label them with a sharpie and then as you're cutting you know if it says okay this goes in block 32 put it in your 32 label bag by the time you finish cutting you have all of your blocks all kitted and ready to go and that's and then it shows you all the box yes instructions on sewing the quilt together at the end but of course I'll go over that on my blog as well I love that you have note pages just an extra bonus yes we always need to take notes Haydn's but and then this granny chic just extras yeah I designed some clip art so that you know you could maybe decorate your binder or just use as you know tags for your friends or quilt shops could use them when they're doing kits with granny chic fabric so like here's a little bookmark I did and so there's just extra yeah maytag's like this see and glue them on so these are just pre-made tags that you can buy like at the craft store and then I just cut out the pieces and just glue them on there they're ready to go and you also use a little of your rickrack yeah this is the small vintage trim so very good so once that's downloaded you've got that organized these are some of the other supplies that you'll need you're gonna need lots of your sew in interfacing so you're gonna also need your bias tape maker and this is the smallest size right yeah that's a quarter inch size and that's all the stems are going to be the same size so daily glue you have your turning tool by clover you know also this is probably almost a must to have it is a carry you Andy all all four of those sizes several times so the circle rulers if you've purchased these in the past pull them back out because you're gonna use them all these are a great tool to have not only for this but just to have in your as supplies in your sewing room of course you need the granny's garden so simple shapes and as all the simple shapes including that scalloped border yes that's important to have there's an extra piece in there too that we'll be doing a fun little surprise project at the end of the so long oh good so granny chic thread from our fill now the buttons now this time you can get out your old jar buttons but we have created just a little pack of buttons just for granny chic and you can put buttons wherever you want on this quilt that's right and I'll show you every week where I'm putting buttons on each block you're trim up rulers again these are one of my favorite things that Laurie has designed to trim up your blocks right before you're ready to assemble your quilt so I think this is kind of another must-have and really nice to have in your sewing this is the 5 inch size 10 that's what our blocks are going to finish at 10 inches so we're going to trim them up at 10 and 1/2 and then you can never have too many of these no I have a lot of these as I mentioned before but most people don't have 42 yeah but that's right grab a handful well you know I just use them to cut all of my blocks out and then I just stack them up and I haven't been a big stack and then I take him to my machine and just you know one by one yeah okay let's talk about the first block okay so this one it really just takes three of the so simple shapes so first you need your circle that's the largest circle ruler which is a nine inch circle and I talked about that on my blog a couple of weeks ago so on the be prepared post and they're all the same you need 42 of them you can see how the interfacing is on the back so for the leaves we use two of the i-64 the petals or the hearts six of the I 14 and then for the cute little Center circle we use one of the I 21 now it tells you in the guide how many you need and what size to cut your fabrics and everything like that but I just wanted to go over it so that you know so that your understanding so the first thing that you do is you take your interfacing and you just simply lay that on there take a pencil and trace around it I like to use a mechanical pencil because I like the thin line I don't like how when you use a regular pencil how the line gets wider and wider and wider so yeah so I like to use that so this is this one is traced the circle and then you've got your heart as well traced so this that after you trace them you lay this right on top of your fabric right sides up and you so right on your line I start about right here and when I come around get to the point and I over so about a half an inch or an inch so that that secures your stitch so you don't have a lot of bulk by back stitching and you know that's just and then I just feed another piece into the machine so I'm just constantly clotheslining it through and it makes for you know fast sewing you can do all six pedals you know really easily so I use a regular stitch length you can find if you're having problems or you're worried about it you can maybe shorten your stitch length a little bit if you want to but I wouldn't make it too tiny because you don't want to gather your pieces and you don't want to make it too long because that would gather them as well so after you're doing that remember just right sides up with your stitching line up you just place it on there so around and then you just trim around it by about a quarter inch you want to trim that why not happy I'll just use these little scissors to trim this little circle and so I just go around you know maybe not quite a quarter of an inch you can go as large as a quarter of an inch but I don't like to go too small because I want to stay away from those stitches so I've trimmed around that then you can trim the leaf you're gonna clip your little yes while you're turning a leaf I'll show you this is the only piece that has an area that you need to clip the other the other pieces are all outer curves so you never need to clip anything like that but the heart right here if you do not clip from here down to here which is the little cleavage area or the little white area it will not lay flat when you turn it so you simply take a pair of scissors and don't cut like this you just just take one snip right to that line not into the thread obviously not past the thread but just right there then you can pinch your piece apart right here or you can use a little seam ripper but I kind of pinch it apart so I'm only getting the interfacing and then I cut a little X or just a little slit so that I can you know turn it right-side out so it just kind of looks like that and then I just are these I just kind of do one half at a time so when you turn it right-side out it looks like that and you're like how's that you know that's not gonna work so this is where this handy-dandy tool comes in that I love so much this is the point point turner by clover and what I do is I use this point and I like it because it's it's kind of rounded so you're not going to poke through your fabric unless you push really hard but you don't have to push hard you just have to gently work around like this and I like to keep my interfacing facing me so that I am just pushing on the fabric itself now when you have a point like this I kind of like to turn it sideways and just push that out a little bit it's a little bit point here and I just work my way around it only takes a minute that just makes the perfect little heart even if your stitching was not perfect you can just ease that fabric in well and sometimes you have like little flat spots or points and I just kind of work them back and forth a little bit like this because it's a hundred percent cotton and it has a give has a memory and so you can kind of stretch that out just a little bit and that's all you need so it still needs a little assistant assistance after you shape it and what you want to do is you just give it a quick press don't iron it just press it you know I mean you could take the time to just press it down on the edges but I just I kind of like to just push it down and then that's as flat as I need it I don't want it really SuperDuper flat because I want that nice dimensional look to it but that's how I do the pieces I'm just finishing the curves on this sometimes I'm circles yeah I just go back and forth you you're doing it just perfectly there we go no I'll give that a quick press so once you have all of your pieces assembled there's a little circle here and I make you know ready to go and you've got your pancake or whatever you want to call it or a cookie yeah I'll go for a corn tortilla I don't know but it's a circle and then you know we're going to lay them out here and applicate them onto the circle and then then we've mo on from the background after so this is a really really portable easy to do you know applique is portable anyway but now this is even easier but let's talk about the stem first so this stem right here you'll need to press under one end by one quarter of an inch and then this end you can just leave raw edges because it will tuck under the flower at the top so here's where it's tender and then there's where else so for block number one you'll need to cut this stem six inches long so I'm going to show you how I prepared my stems now in the so long I have you cut six five eighths by width of fabric strips and that's what I cut my strips to go into this quarter inch bias tape maker so I'm going to show you how I do that but I wanted to show you that I just put all six of my strips I prepared them all at once and put them on this vintage trim spool that was empty when I used it all and just wound them all up there and it's going to be great so then I can just candy to make it all at once so you can just get to making your flowers that's right and with each block I'll tell you how long to cut your stems so then you can just cut them from there I'll tell you when you need to press under an end when you don't you know that kind of thing but let me show you how I do this so you need the bias tape maker here is what one width looks like but just for the purpose of this I'm just going to show you half you can do all of it at the same time this length if you want but I like to take one end and just trim a point okay and then in here in this cute little spray bottle is some starch as well it's water and starch so it's not full on starch but I like to just kind of missed it here especially that point I kind of like to get it wet right here and then I put that down there and then let that tip kind of dry and the starch makes it stiff and so that's easier to start but I want this kind of you know damp a little bit so then I start right there and I just put it in the top you can use a pin whatever to pull that point up now when you get that point out pull it out to about there then you want to take a nice hot iron no steam because if you use steam you're gonna take the starch out of your and out of what you just put in your strips so you want to start that way and you just start pressing now notice that this is turned up instead of this way like most people do it I like to do it this way because I like to press on top of my stems so that I'm pressing out that little fold that wants to happen as you're going along so I just follow along this is still wet from the starch and I just follow real close I don't touch the iron to the metal part or else I'll burn myself and then I just kind of pull it down as I need to at home I have a longer ironing surface so you know you can do it along the whole length of your ironing board or whatever so but with this little starch in there it helps it keep it you know shape so that it doesn't make it too stiff you can still applique it and then I usually just let it lie there and cool now all of these one thing I wanted to tell you were cut the width of the fabric and not on the bias because all of the blocks in the quilt there are no bias stems there's no curves or just straight so you know you you could for another project it doesn't hurt to make a straight stem out of a curve but if you need to make a curved stem you can't make it out of a straight one so but for this quilt we just need straight cuts and then I just take this wind up around we're ready to go and you know cut six inches off for the first block and then how I lay it out is I have my little circle here you can take your circle and press it in half give it a quick press let me let me fold it this way with the fabric out so that I'm not pressing on the interfacing so you can press that in half and that gives you a nice little guideline nice Center yeah so that you know how to put your stem so the first thing I'm going to do is put my stem down and this is where I use my applications these are my pretty pins applique pins and the SU glue right here which I love so much so I do not put the glue on my stem I put it here so on the fabric and I want about 1/4 of an inch up and I'm just putting a few drops out like I don't put a whole line up there and then I'm going to lay that directly on there trying to keep the glue in the center because I still have to you know needle this on both sides and so I don't want glue coming out you can go through the glue but it's just harder too one thing I love about this glue is it is repositionable it's water-soluble you can pull it off but it does not just fall off but if you want it you know so it stays sturdy but if you want if you've made a mistake you can pull it off so I really like that so I've got my stem first and then I just take my petals and you can see right here that there's there's two hearts the center the center goes like this so if you if you let a mirror image yeah and they kind of go all the way up to the top about a quarter of an inch as well so once you just start and they almost just touch each other and I just think this is the sweetest little block thank you I I never get tired of designing flower blogs it's just you know I could just do flower blocks all the time there is a little bit of a space between these two you know just to kind of show the stem once you've got those in place this is where the pins come in I pin them down to where I like like them usually just put you know one or two pins in each one and that's what's so nice about the design board because it can handle yes of course yes obviously I have to put it on the design board I don't want to you know I'm not gonna be able to pin through my table and you don't want to do this on your lap without a design board Krishna likes so I pin them where I want them and I like how that looks so then I take my glue and I just lift up right here and just Dobb a little bit of glue on there and so I'll go around and do that on all of them and then the last one I do obviously is you know I look at it make sure that centered sometimes this can fool your eye you can think oh that's centered but a lot of times I'll just take a little ruler and just measure from here to here make sure that it's in the center there that kind of thing and then I do the same thing with that this is small enough that you really can just put that directly onto the piece put that in there and you know you can stick a pin in before after whatever you want to do but once it's all glue basted like that then I let it dry for you know 10 minutes the glue dries pretty fast let it dry for 10 minutes or so then I remove all my pins and I usually will use the ruler that's the same size as what I'm doing because I have it you know on hand I'll just set a ruler on top of it so it will dry you know nice and flat if there if it's big and big block and has a lot of application I'll take something that's you know heavy and lay on top of it and just let them dry and I just kind of stack my design boards and I'm ready to go and you do your leaves at the same time yes I just I didn't do those right now just you know for so that this video wasn't taking forever for you but yeah obviously you just do they're really same time and that's the freedom of these you can make them go like this down if you want you can bring them up just however you want to do it okay and now you're gonna show us how to applique well okay so now I've got my needle threaded with one single strand and I always want to use a thread that matches the fabric so I you want to match the applique and not the background so that way you can sync your stitches in and they won't show so let me show you how I do a knot I put it right there wrap around three times approximately three times four this is pretty good and then I kind of pinched that between my fingers push my needle up while holding it and then I've got a knot in there okay and that's how I usually start my applique but I like to start at the top like underneath an applique to hide my knot so what I'll do is I'll come up and go just in the interfacing to come and then come out right on the side there that's where I like my first stitch to be so I just pull that up all the way and then I can tuck that long tail in I did leave quite a long tail but you can either trim it off or tuck it in so now I've got my thread out of the side there and I'm going to go right directly into the back I'm not going to go up here or back here I'm going to go right directly so there's just a tiny little straight stitch from here to the back go into the background and then I'm going to travel across the back I'm going to travel across the back and come back out the side piece setting up for my next stitch and then I just kind of set it with my pinky a little bit and go straight back in and come up and take a bite out of the fabric I'm going about an eighth of an inch you with this interfacing in here you really don't need to do your stitches you know close together like you would with needle turn but this is the traditional needle turn stitch that I always do when I'm doing needle turn but since the edges are already turned under it's just very nice and relaxing and I'm just coming up and you know you can stitch a slow as far as fast as you want to I'm stitching this very slowly so you can see my stitches but it actually ends up being a pretty quick stitch and all you're doing is just turning as you know when you're doing a curved piece like this you just turn it like this to set up for the next stitch so this is what my back is looking like see I'm traveling doing all my traveling there and right there where you see those spaces is where it took the stitch up here so when you're actually stitching it's hard for you to see those stitches because they sink right in from this fabric to that fabric and you just don't have a lot of opportunity to see a stitch because you're not dragging your thread across you're just making those tiny stitches probably about an eighth of an inch apart so as I come around I just work around I just wanted to show you what I how I stitch in that little cleavage area so we get to it so that it doesn't you know flip up so that it's nice and secure and this is what I've always done in a cleavage area when I have done traditional needle turn applique so it's just kind of a habit for me that I like to take a few extra stitches okay so when I'm down here you can see that a little bit of the interfacing shows and that thread shows that you clipped to that one thread but you didn't clip through it but you clipped to it it kind of shows after you've pushed it out so I like to just on the applique itself just take three little stitches right there and secure that and I just find it makes my applicator slip a little bit nicer and then I just change directions and I you know continue stitching so I just go all the way around and till my thread is gone and I need to not so I'm just going to show you how I knot on the back so these dots right here are from the su glue see I just pulled it off the background so that I could applique here and it easily pulled off and then I can just reglue it back on so pretend I'm ready to not here I just take a little stitch in the interfacing only making sure I'm not coming through to the front and I put my needle through the loop I like to do this you know a couple times just to secure it and then just like you do with hand quilting I kind of you know go back through so that my knots here might the tail and is here and I clip it that makes it so that if you if your fingernail or something like that touches that not it doesn't undo it because you've got the tail back under there protecting it and so that's what the back looks like and I just keep going all the way around so I'll match my thread to this match my thread to this to this like I would start here at the stem go around here go around continue all the way around to here with the green now that is your hand applique sometimes I'll machine appliqué and I'll just do the same thing and I will just do a tiny zig-zag stitch with the matching thread in the top of the machine but in the bobbin you can just use like off-white or something you don't need to keep changing your bobbin thread so I would just on the machine just stitch around here go around you can do the buttonhole stitch if you want I just like to use a tiny tiny little zigzag that I'm just barely biting into it and that looks nice as well if you want to machine appliqué instead hand applique and that's how I do it and now you know Laurie's method of applique wilt blood so join us August 26 on Lori's blog as we sew week to week to make the grannies and quilts see you there [Music] you

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Length: 32min 14sec (1934 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 26 2019