Make a Quick Quilt in 3 Hours using 9 Fat Quarters

hi everybody it is april and i'm in my craft room and today we are going to take nine fat quarters and make a quilt in three hours without finding i'm sorry i didn't hear that what did you say without finding what was that i said without binding there had to be some catch right [Music] what you need for this project are nine fat quarters i went to walmart and i know a lot of people do not like the quality of walmart fabric and that's fine you don't have to buy it that just leaves more for me two things if you don't have the money to buy fabric at 13 a yard but you can go to walmart and get a pack of five fat quarters for six bucks there you go if you want to sew if you want a quilt you do what you have to do if you're new to quilting and you don't want to mess up some fabric that cost you 13 a yard walmart is the place you can go you can get some really cute fabric and work your way up that being said this is one of my fat quarters whoops got to the last cute print first thing we're going to do is we're going to cut these down to be 18 across by 21 inches and this is very painful to say i would not stack them all together i cut my own fat quarter out of some fabric to make one of these quilts because it was coordinating and i needed another solid piece of coordinating fabric and my fat quarter was pretty wonky too so because these can be a little wonky i cut each individual fat quarter i know it's going to take some time but honestly and i'm all about saving time it's going to be easier in the long run and it's nine pieces of fabric people right nine pieces the reason that i start with the 18 inches is because you've got your selvage and your selvage is going to be the straightest part of your fabric now i am using the lines on my large mat i'm going to line it up on the right side and here on the very bottom i am just at 18 inches so i don't have a whole lot of wiggle room with this particular piece [Music] here i've got the 22 mark and i'm going to cut this at 18 which i've already trimmed down by 21. usually the 21 i don't have a problem getting so what i want to do is try and make sure that my selvage is off this edge and that i can still hit my 21 inch mark here all i'm going to do is sew three together put them up on the design wall sew three together put them up on my design wall sew three together put them up on my design wall and then i'm going to sew row one and row two together add row three and there i have the beginnings of a disappearing nine patch my nine patch is done but wait there's more this is going to be a disappearing nine patch and whereas normally a disappearing nine patch would be a smaller block we're just going to make a whole quilt that's a disappearing nine patch first we need to fold our block which happens to be our quilt in half and then we're going to fold it in half again don't fret over uneven it's okay this is very forgiving do make sure that your little folds are straight you can work with it to make it more even then we're going to cut on the folds on each side which will give us four big blocks here you've got the two folds together we're going to [Applause] trim these folds so that they aren't folds anymore but edges [Applause] what we'll do make sure they line up and i'm going to put my ruler here line it up on the edge and just take the teeny tiniest bit off the edge [Applause] and then we're going to do the same thing on this fold right here and this seam is gonna depending on how wide your ruler is this seam could give you a little bit of trouble because my ruler just happens to be about the same width [Music] right here where it was on my seam i didn't get a good clean cut and it's just a thread hanging on so i'm just going to trim it so when i tried to go teeny teeny tiny i went too teeny tiny so i'm going to lay this down and i have a small straight edge ruler so i'm going to line up on the edge that was cut and that's straight and then i will use my rotary trimmer to finish the cut so if you run into where there's a little area that didn't get cut that's what you do on this one there was a huge line yeah it's not huge so when you're done trimming you will have four big blocks i've placed my blocks back on the wall in the order they were when i put them together originally and what makes it a disappearing nine patch is what we do now we will take this block and we're going to flip it so that our little yellow corner is in the opposite corner then we're going to take the one that was kitty corner caddy corner and we're going to flip it and put it so that our yellow block that was in the center is now on the outside corner and then we're going to put all these blocks together and that will be our quilt top [Music] my quilt top is complete but wait there's more i know i'm going to put batting and backing on this i'm going to straight line quilt it and in a few hours i will have a quilt that's done minus bonding i'm sorry i i couldn't hear what you were saying what did you say i said minus the binding [Music] let me show you how i did the quilting all i did was trace the seam so i just straight line quilted on either side of the seam and that is a good way just to break yourself into having to roll up your project in your machine in the you know on the bed part and you know use your hands getting a straight line i just lined my foot with the seam so i had to flip it to do the other side and that kind of thing my quilt top is done my quilt top is done my quilt top is done my quilt top is done and this has minky on the back and there's no way that i'm flicking this guy around you can already see some of the fuzz flying in the air this is a perfect pattern for someone who has prints that they want to show off this is perfect for someone who has never made a quilt before this is the first pattern that i used to make a quilt with batting and binding thank you for watching i appreciate you taking the time please give this video a thumbs up if you liked it subscribe if you want to see more click the bell have a great day eat some chocolate and be kind to everyone until next time bye [Music] [Music] [Music] they're not even though they're in the same prison [Music] used this wow [Laughter] thank you for watching and i don't know what else to say i don't like goodbyes

Channel: April's Craft Room

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Id: Z5N8BLZ4FxY

Length: 12min 11sec (731 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 14 2021