Make a "Cute Camper" Quilt with Jenny Doan of Missouri Star (Video Tutorial)

[Music] hi everybody it's Jenny from the Missouri star quilt company and in the summer time at Missouri star we have a retreat that is especially for glampers it's these cute little Clint campers that they fixed up and they're awesome and so I actually made this little nine patch glamper quilt to teach them a little class at very treat and and Natalie liked it so much that we thought let's make a whole big quilt of it and show you how to do that for a tutorial also I want to point out this little pillow I just took one little camper put it on the pillow but look who's in the window you can have so much fun with your fabric when you do these because all of this this little quilt this pillow this is all just scraps of mine so it's just fun to take those scraps and put things together and make these cute campers so to make this quilt what you're going to need is one packet of 10 inch squares and we've used Cassandra by Robert Kaufman and I mean it's just really fun fabric and obviously we didn't use them all so when you look at the quilt behind me you can see that there's four campers across and five campers down and so as you're cutting out and mixing up parts we probably used about 20 of those you're going to need the same amount of background squares as you want campers for so I have 20 so I'm going to need 20 10 inch squares you're going to need some sashing we cut one and a half inch strips and our sashing goes in between all of these so you're gonna need about 3/4 of a yard for that our outer border out here is one in a quarter yard and this is a nice big six inch border out here and we put this nice blue from the line on the back you I don't know if you can see it you can see it every once in a while but see our quilting print on this is stars and little pine trees that meander around and I just thought that was fun because we're camping right all right so our backing is about three and a half yards with horizontal seams you're also going to need some heat and bond light so this is our heat and bond right here and to make the big quilt you're going to need about four and a half yards so in addition to your fabric you're also going to need some gray for your windows and your tow bar and some black for your wheels I think the pattern calls for quarter yards but I had some extra strips and they fit perfect on the strip so you can use those as well all right so let's talk about how we do this so the first thing you're going to want to do is you're going to download this pattern now this is a free pdf and it has the it has the trailer on one and it has all the parts on the other and you're gonna want to download these now when I started tracing them I knew I wanted 20 trailers so I literally traced 20 trailers 20 wheels 20 windows I did all in so I had all my tracing done ahead of time now these lines are kind of bolded so you can see underneath and I don't know if you can see through on our top cam here but you can see these lines really well through here so basically what we're gonna do is we're gonna trace these let me grab my pen like this we're just gonna trace them on like this it doesn't matter if they're perfect none of that matters and here's the bottom part of our little trailer and then here's the top part now when you go to cut these out I'm just gonna trace one got to stay right on that line took me three times to get the line what you're gonna want to do is you don't want to do your nice cutting right now you're just gonna rough cut this out like this and don't cut it fancy yet and then you're going to go ahead and choose the fabric you want for the bottom of your trailer and you're gonna iron it onto the back now when you draw on this the heat and bond has two sides this side the shiny side that's the glue side so you want to make sure that that's laying down and that you're tracing on the paper side you're just gonna lay this on here like this and you're gonna iron it on it doesn't take very long at all the actual directions are on the heat and bond I think it's I don't know maybe five seconds or something and now is when you cut out really pretty and I did I used my scissors for all of these and and I just cut them out and you want to you want to cut them out nice I know I was showing some gals how to do this and they were cutting their heat and bond out just perfect and I'm like no no you don't have to do that just rough cut it iron it on and then cut it nice one time all right so once you get your your your all your pieces traced off and you can see here when you look at this this is at the door these are two windows these are our curtains this is the Center for your wheel right here and then you've got these little pennants now on some of ours we have pendants I didn't want to put pendants on all of them so I put one trailer in each row has pennants so this one has some pennants and this one and this one and this one and I just mixed him up because I thought it just added a really fun look to it I actually have one of these little glampers and I have pennants hanging on mine all right so here's what we're gonna do we're gonna take our trailer bottom and you're going to just kind of fold this back and I kind of roll it with my fingernail to like release it from the from the fabric and then peel it off and your fabric should be shiny on the back that's the glue you're gonna Center it up on here now if this is one that you're going to add pennants too you want to just keep it a little lower so you have a room at the top but most of mine I centered up like this so I have one here that's all kind of cut out and ready to go and I'm going to show you how I do this so I put it on about this high and then I lay my top on that I've chosen and on my door I have my door right here and I actually already ironed a little window on it so now the fun part about this if you look at the little trailers behind me we've taken some Liberty with how we did them so you can see we have little tiny curtains for the little window and we have big curtains on this one I cut my window a curtain color so so I didn't have I didn't do the little curtains on it and this one I put the curtains on so this is where the creative part really comes in and it's really fun so there's my window over there now whatever part the wherever the window is your wheel goes below that so I have traced my will and cut it out and I've even sewn on that little middle part right there and I lay this just above and then we need the tongue of the trailer right here the hitch we're gonna roll this back I'm gonna stick this under here like this now my husband pulls the trailer and he said to me all those hitches some of those hitches are too high and so he thinks they should be low like right like this one right here but I just don't think it matters that much so once you get all your pieces together like this you're gonna bring this over to your ironing mat and let me move this so you can see what I'm doing here and then we're just gonna do the same thing like we did when we earn the heat and bond on we're just gonna we are just gonna iron this on like this alright so now I'm just gonna press this on make sure my little piece is lined up nice and straight and I just hold the iron right there for a few seconds and move it and hold it again and I just want to make sure that it's stuck really good on there and then I'm actually going to blanket stitch all the way around it so you know it doesn't it's not going to go anywhere anyway I just want to make sure it's on there nice and well well adhered to my square alright so then you're going to take this over to your sewing machine and we're going to blanket stitch all the way around it now you can use actually any appliqué stitch you want a tiny zigzag would be cute you can straight stitch these but I want to point out some of my campers back here because you know we all have these sewing machines that have lots of stitches on them but we only use a couple for our piecing but this is where those other stitches come into play and so like this one right here has a little scalloped you can see this one look at this one I did my fam that fancy stitch right across the top this one right here is another one this one has the little tiny stars on it and it was so fun as I did each one of these blocks to just add a little bit of different touch to them put different use different fabrics use different colors so I have a blanket stitch on my machine here and it is three and a half by two and a half and basically what I do is I start next to this wheel right here and I just sew around so and it just reaches in and grabs that little trailer fabric and we're just going to sew around like this come up around the top and as you do a few of these you know I was pretty slow at first but as I got to the go to the end I got pretty fast at this and you're just going to do all your parts and pieces and hold them down all right so what I'm gonna do here I've been all the way around the trailer so what I'm going to do now I'm actually going to go around the wheel and I'm gonna go around the wheel in in the same thread that I have on if you want to change it to black thread you can do that so it doesn't show but I have to tell you on my wheels up here that look like like this one right here that you can't see the stitches on looks like I use black thread I did not you know what I used a sharpie marker I just colored him those little tiny threads all the way around which you can do on all your wheels so they don't show that's how they that's how it is on my little three patch quilt and so that's a nice little trick that makes it really easy because you can just color in those stitches on those and then you don't have to change your thread so I guess that tells you I'm kind of a lazy sower all right let me keep going around here all right so let me show you what I'm talking about here so see my wheels right here if I don't want those white threads to show you can just go along and touch those threads like this and it just colors them dark and you no longer have white threads around your wheels I think this is pretty ingenious if I do say so myself not fun just quick like that and because my sharpie marker is permanent it's not gonna go anywhere you can wash it whatever you want to do and because we're covering it up it doesn't have to be perfect all right so save your perfection for the straight sides because this is the smallest little circle place this little one right here alright so look at that so now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go back to the sewing machine and I'm gonna finish doing all of these little pieces and then I'll meet you right back here alrighty we're all done here and look how cute that is all our little pieces we're gonna clip our threads so cute now the only thing left to do is this row right across the top here and I can do a regular blanket stitch on there which I've done on some or you can find a fancy stitch and I think we'll go with let's see let's go with 41 which is a little kind of a florally thing something fun right there we go and then I'm just gonna sew straight across the top I'm gonna put my my presser foot in between the two pieces as they come together and then we're just gonna let the machine do its work [Music] [Music] all righty now let's see what this looks like oh my gosh how cute is that look at that little stitch right there that is so sweet I love that so these are just so fun there's so much of a ability for creative fun and play with these blocks and then basically what we're gonna do to finish our quilt is we're going to cut our one-and-a-half inch strips that we've cut into 10 inch pieces and we'll just put one in between every single block like this we'll do our little sashing pieces one in between every block right here and then we'll put a long one in deep here in between and so you'll have to match up row to row but with an inch and a half strip it isn't it isn't hard so then you'll just put them together and you actually have a little outer border out here add your last border and you're good to go the fun thing about these is in my little camper I bet I have three of these that are pillows like the pillow I showed you and I probably have one single one hanging on the wall they're just fun they're just great fun to make and this is one of those quilts that you're gonna really enjoy making so we hope you enjoyed this tutorial on the cute camper quilt from the Missouri star quilt company you

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Length: 14min 50sec (890 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 25 2019