MADE MY OWN PATTERN! Donna's FREE BEADS Quilt!

hi i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics today we're going to be making a pattern that i think i've got all worked out here now when I make a new pattern there's a couple of considerations I have to always keep in mind the first is we want the quilt to be beautiful but the second is that we want the fabrics the pieces to fit on the fabrics so that we can use them in an efficient manner so that we don't waste fabric we want this to fit in a pre-cut or fit in yardage so we don't end up with a lot of leftovers so I thought most of the math done here and I've even written the pattern out most of the way don't worry we'll have this as a free pattern on the website completely finished with pictures and what this is gonna have is some blocks they're gonna be on point and there's gonna be some big blocks and some little bought blocks and they're almost gonna look like strings of beads hanging down the quilt now I've written the pattern so it will work with fat quarters or quarter yards or fat cakes now I'm gonna use a fat eight bundle I have this beautiful group of fabrics here these are from laundry basket quilts and they have kind of a linen texture it's cotton fabric but it's got a linen look to it and it's in all these beautiful colors we're also gonna need some background and I think I'm gonna use something light and let's see I really like this nice light cream that'll look good the first step is to pick out the colors we want to use I need eighteen of them so I'm gonna pick out the ones I like if I have two greens that are close I won't use that one and I'm not going to use any of these real light ones because there won't be enough contrast it's always a good idea to take any pre-cut that's been folded up and give it a nice steam press before you cut so that your cutting will be nice and accurate once you have them all ironed up take them over to your cutting board and all of the Fed eights get cut exactly the same way so I've got I think six layers here because I'm comfortable cutting six layers you may want to cut a few more a few less and they're all getting cut exactly the same we're gonna cut a five inch strip and a two and a half inch strip now we're ready to cut the background so the background is also going to get cutting strips we're going to cut some two and a half's and some sevens once you have all of your background strips cut you need to split each one in half along the fold now that's all the cutting we have to do we're ready to start sewing so first we're going to take one color and two backgrounds smaller strips and go right to the machine we're going to stitch one of these strips on each side of the big colored piece here so I'm going to use a careful quarter inch seam and I'm going to not stretch anything so so right along the edge but don't stretch the top or the bottom just place them right on top of themselves and stitch right along the edge all the way down now we are going to want to finger press the seam towards the dark side there so I'm going to kind of open it with my hands and then draw either my fingernail or the pad of my finger right down that scene so you can feel if it's facing the right way so you want it to face in open it up press it down and this will make it easy to iron later now this second piece is going to go right here and I like to put it on and then turn the whole thing around and stitch from this end even though we finger pressed it we're still going to want to iron it so I'm gonna put it on my board and flatten it out with my hands and use a dry iron and then a little bit of steam and if you think it might have gotten distorted or curved a little as you were sewing or as you are pressing put a straightedge like your big ruler up against the edge here and make sure it's all lined up and press it again now we're going to sub cut this into five inch segments so I like to line it up on a line of the cutting board cut a little bit off of the end here now we are going to make another strip unit we're gonna get the same color we used here in the two and a half inch and we're going to get a seven inch piece of background we're gonna use our same careful quarter inch seam and we're also going to want to press this seam toward the dark side toward the color now this strip unit is going to get sub cut into two and a half inch segments so again line it up on one of your lines so you don't have it crooked you want to have it straight when you start and cut two and a half inch segments now we're gonna take all of these guys and these strip units the bigger ones and go back to the machine to make our block all we need is one of these and two of these so we can just stitch these on to the outside of this big guy there's only one intersection to match right here and you notice the seam allowances are going in the opposite direction so it will nest and lay very flat now for these seam allowances we're gonna want to press them both going to the same direction so I'm going to press this one to the right and then I'm gonna press this one also to the right the reason I'm pressing them both to one side is because when we layout the whole quilt we'll be able to alternate the way the seams are going in the whole block will lay flatter so there's the first block we can make four blocks in this color and then we're going to make four blocks in all the other colors I've got all of the colorful blocks done and we're ready to lay out the quilt now I've separated these into two color piles so some of my rows are going to have this color and then the alternate rows are going to have this green blue color they're not in any specific order I just tried to put this color not really not close to a color that's really close to it so let's lay out the first row we're gonna take this guy then I'm going to pick up the next color and this is just going to help me get my colors evenly spread out throughout the quilt there's the last block in the first row now when I come to the next reddish row since I ended here the next red row is going to start with this one then I'm going to use that and that and that and then come back here and continue on now we're going to do a green blue row so I'm just going to take the top one and put it here the next one and put it here and continue on up there's the whole quilt laid out and even though I did some different stripes of colors you can just lay out all the colors at random it's totally a matter of preference you get to do whatever you like with your quilt that's one of the things that makes quilting so fun now we need to cut some triangles of background to fill in around the edges here so we need some big triangles for what we call side setting triangles right here then we're going to need just four smaller triangles for the four corners of the quilts so let's do the bigger ones first we need some 13 inch squares once you've got the nice big square we're going to cut it too both ways on the diagonals now I know you can get smaller triangles from a smaller square if you only cut it once but the reason we want to cut both ways on the diagonal for an OnPoint quilt is because when we stick this on to the edge of the quilt the straight edge is going to be along the outside of the quilt and that won't stretch so these fill in all along the sides there now we need to cut the corner triangles and they are only going to get cut once along the diagonal and let me show you why when we cut this on one diagonal the fabric now has the triangle now has straight edges along these short sides and that's what we want in the corner of the quilt so that it won't stretch now this was a seven inch square that we cut into the triangles but all that information is on the pattern it's gonna be a lot easier if you just get the pattern online and you can read that as you cut I have all of the corner triangles and side triangles all laid out and we're ready to start putting the quilt together now since it's on point the rows are all diagonal so this is actually the first row this is going to be the second row and one very nice thing because we ironed all of our seams going one direction when we made these blocks when you come to sew your rows together you can check and see so these seams are going this way for this block they're also going that way but if you just turn it 180 degrees now we've got them going different directions so when you sew your rows together these seams will nest and lay very flat I've got the whole quilt top put together and there's some special things you want to keep aware of as you iron so when you do a quilt on point generally all the blocks are on the diagonal so the straight grain is all going like this so you want to iron with the grain so when iron I'm gonna keep my iron going this way and this way if you try to take your iron straight up the quilt or straight across you will stretch the fabric and you will distort it and your quilt top will not lay flat let me show you a good way to cut your borders so they will fit your quilt nicely I've got two layers here III sewed everything into one big long piece and I'm gonna go kind of in the middle of the quilt not right on the end and I'm going to lay this across the quilt and just smooth it across and when I get to the end I'm going to make sure it's pretty straight and I'm gonna fold it back on itself right here on the edge and then I'm gonna take my scissors and I'm gonna put them right in the fold and hold them up against it and cut now I've got a nice 90 degree cut and the borders aren't exactly the same size as the quilt so I'm gonna pin that on in a couple places on bottom and on the top and stitch it on after that's on I'll take the borders and do the same thing in the other direction I have the border on the quilt and the quilt is loaded on the machine so thread colors now there's lots of colors that would work really well on here any of these are pretty light they're gonna show a little bit on that light background and I would like to use this blueish green because I've got blue on my borders and I think that will look really pretty for the quilting pattern I'm gonna use one called wiggle weave I really like this pattern because it's small and it's even and this will not fight with any of our Patrick clocks because the Patrick blocks are all on point and this is going the other way so that's gonna look really really good [Applause] now that the quilt is done and hanging on the wall you can clearly see those strings of beads that's exactly what it looks like to me is strings of beads hanging from the top I really like the balance of colors in this they're subtle colors and it looks really good on that light background I liked the wiggle weave quilting it doesn't take away from the Patrick but when you get up close you can see all those wiggly lines and I love I love curves on top of really geometric patchwork on the back side I used this same linen look texture fabric but he used a green with a light blue so that you can see the quilting really real clearly and for the binding and border it's a nice turquoisey color I was so happy with how the pattern turned out I wanted to try it in a different colorway I wanted to try it with a colorful background instead of the bone so I picked a motor group of fabrics called quill and this is a nice light grunge and I'm really happy with how this one turned out I actually can't make up my mind which one I like better so leave a comment let me know which one you like better thanks for watching our tutorial today on how to make the bead as quilt now we're gonna have another giveaway we have this quilt made with the gradients fabrics and it makes a really nice secondary pattern with these blues purples and greens it's real easy to enter the giveaways just click that link right below the video that says giveaway and put in your email address and your name and remember we can ship this worldwide so you might be the next 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Length: 14min 57sec (897 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 12 2019