Make a Quilt with EasyPiecing Grid

welcome to ten sisters TV I'm Carmen Geddes today I'm going to show you a wonderful way to piece some traditional quilts and a non-traditional way so come and join me okay let's get started when I said we're piecing a quilt in a non-traditional way what I mean is that we are going to piece these quilts on this lightweight iron-on foundation this is my easy piecing grid and we sell our grid by the panel so this is one panel the grid that I am showing you today is a one and a half inch finished we print the grid ourselves and we print in one one and a half and two inch finished we go by the finished size and in another video I'm going to show you our 1/2 inch finished but because we're piecing on a foundation we are going to look at putting these quilts together in a little bit different way typically when you're sewing a quilt we're going to do strip piecing techniques or we're going to do patchwork where you build that quilt block and then sew them together but instead of doing that we are going to piece on this foundation now because we're piecing on a foundation we put these quilt patterns together in a little bit different way I'm going to show you this is our first book that we saw published it's called 10 quilts for 10 sisters there actually are 10 sisters this is us on the back and when we put a quilt together I'm going to show you the one that I'm demoing on when we put a quilt together or make a pattern it's what I call a quilt layout and what that means is we take that quilt and we are dividing it into sections and each of these sections is the size of the panel and so right underneath the quilt it says how big this quilt is going to be if you're piecing with one one and a half or two inch finished grid so what happens is the size of the panel is going to be a little bit different the one inch finished is the smallest and then the one and a half and then I'm going to show you the two inch finished here in just a minute so when you're ready to start a quilt you are going to have that fusible site up if you don't remember anything else that I say remember the bumpy or the fusible site is up one thing just a little note when the fusible site is up on the panel the logo the printed logo is backwards but the numbers down the side are legible so that's just a little visual that you can have when you start to piece so you're going to cut out your squares we are going to find the section of the quilt that you're working on and you're going to just start laying out your squares so here's our panel that fusible site is up we are going to just start laying out our squares now a couple things I really like about piecing one square at a time is that you can fussy cut fabrics you can do some really great designing with directional fabrics but I think everybody's favorite part of this whole technique is that you get to see it you get to see what it looks like before you ever start to sew now when all these when we're laying out our squares let me back up first of all if we look at this panel right here do you notice how there is a little bit of wiggle room between these squares well that's for a couple of reasons the first reason is that my cutting is probably not perfect but when we print our foundation we purposely print these squares just slightly bigger than your cut size and basically what we're doing is we're giving you room to fold so we're gonna talk about folding in just a second but let's talk about finding these squares down when I am piecing my squares on top of a pressing surface like I've got here then I typically I will lay out a section of the squares and then I will bring in a little travel-size iron and I'm not going to iron all the squares around like this I'm just going to hold that just to kind of tack these down in place this is a nice little travel-size iron you can use a little mini clover size iron you just want to remember that the foundation is so we don't want to get the iron on that fusible part now I am putting my iron over these squares right now but I feel like my fabric is here and the foundation is here so when I'm just laying it on top as long as I'm putting it over just squares then it doesn't get on my iron you can lay an applique pressing sheet over the top of it that's kind of nice because you can glide the iron around at that point but when all the squares are ironed on to a panel you see how I've got that trimmed right next to the fabric I trim off the excess then I like to bring in a big iron with some steam and I give it some good steam because what you want is these to be really nice and secure so when all the squares are where you want them you're going to give that a good pressing so they're nice and secure let's see let's go from this side then you are going to just fold that on the fold line and sew your quarter inch seam and fold it on the fold line and sew your quarter inch seam so remember when I said that because we print those squares just slightly bigger we are giving you room to fold and what that means is you are not going to have that bulk in your seam allowance that makes a huge difference in your finished quilt top so after you fold and sew your seam going in one direction throughout the whole panel now it doesn't matter if you're doing the short seams first or the long seams but when I'm doing a quilt that has lots of panels I always just do that in the same direction so always sew the short side first were always so the long side first and that will make sense as we progress so you're going to sew through that panel in one direction and then your next step is here is let's get this so you can see so here is that seam that you just sewed and you're going to clip or snip between each of those squares let me get my little handy dandy scissors I'm going to turn it this way and sew right between each of these squares you're just gonna snip snip snip right up to the stitching line now don't worry if you have to snip through the stitching line because everything is held together by this foundation so nothing's going to move or shift so you're going to clip between each of the squares now the reason that you are doing that is so that we can press these seam allowances going in opposite directions and the easiest way that I have found to do this pressing is I press one row going in one direction my cord there we go I press one row going in one direction and then I like to fold that under now I'm right-handed so I like to press from right to left so I'm going to just flip this around and then I'm going to come in and press the next row go in the other direction and fold it under so it's easier so I'm not going back and forth this way I always just flip it around so that I'm always just pressing from right to left so that to me that's just a lot easier than try to maneuver that iron up through here now after you have pressed those seam allowances going opposite directions on the back then I like to turn it over now at this point it's you remember how I really like steam sometimes I'll give this a little spritz with a water bottle and I like to press on the front side and what that does is it eliminates any little folds that might come in when you've sewn those seams in one direction so I like to press this all nice and flat now this is the best part it's time to fold right sides together so to sew the other direction and I want to make sure that you can see this all those seams are nested perfectly so there's no painting there's no adjusting you're going to just sew your seams going that opposite direction and then this is how it turns out and so those corners are perfect every single time I love that we got to see what this look like before we even started to so this particular pattern is kind of the that started this whole thing for me because this is one of those wonderful quilts that we have because those sewers were piecing those squares together with needle and thread and so now this and many other amazing old traditional patterns are easy for every beginner so after we have sewn that second seam you see how this second seam is all pressed in one direction and again this is where I bring in the steam I'm going to let the steam do some of the work on this now another quick thing that I want to mention now this is actually two pounds of the one and a half inch finished that have been sewn together and basically however big a section you feel like you can manage there's no pinning and we're gonna do another video talking about fusing panels together and we that's after you would earn the squares on we would fuse these panels together and you're gonna eliminate the pinning between these sections but let's just say I'm going to piece two sections at a time and so this one is all sewn together and I've pressed it now have you heard of the term blocking the quilt sometimes after a quilt is even quilted you get that all wet and then you lay it out and you pin it to your floor to the exact size you want it to mean you let it dry that size that's a after quilts are quilted and they get a little manipulated well I kind of like to do the same thing for sections and what I mean by that is not after it's all quilted but just after it is sewn and pressed I'd like to take a section and I will take the bottom edge and I will compare it to the top edge to see if those are the same length and maybe I will do it again in the middle to see if it's the same length and then I'll turn it this way because if it's off at all I can adjust that with the pressing because with a quilt with this many squares there's a lot of seams in there so there's always a little bit of give rather than finishing the whole quilt top and then trying to get it all nice and square impressed I like to press these section by section and that pant that section might be just a panel at a time or if you are sewing several panels at the same time this is going to make having your whole quilt top nice and square so much easier so now we're gonna move on to half square triangles okay when you are going to piece a quilt with half square triangles boy that just going to open up your possibilities to endless endless possibilities and I we are going to do the same concept now this panel is now we're two-inch finished and I just I'm going to show you in the book the layout so this is our seven brothers block party book this book is all about traditional quilt blocks and when you are piecing with traditional quilt blocks the sky is the limit and I love sampler quilts this is the small sample in the book now one thing I wanted to point out about all of our quilt layouts is we are remember how I said we're dividing them up into sections that are the size of the panel so under every pattern whether it's in a book or one of the patterns you download on the website we always tell you how many panels are in this project and then you decide what size finished square you want and that will determine how big your whole quilts going to be so this sampler is a six panel project there happens to be 25 different blocks in the quilt and when what was I going to say oh and we do the same thing where we are taking that quilt and dividing it into sections in each of these sections is the size of a panel so when we are laying this quilt out on our panel this is a section of the quilt and notice how we've got these traditional blocks I've actually included the sashing in my piecing and I've brought in the nice little corner post what we do with these traditional quilt blocks is we are breaking them down to squares and half square triangles now not every single patchwork quilt block will break down into a grid but there's almost an endless supply of quilt blocks that do break down to a grid so when you look at these blocks that we have laid down instead of cutting out a bigger square or instead of making a flying geese unit everything is broken down into squares and half square triangles so you're going to cut out your squares just like we did before you're going to preso your half square triangles where we are going to have a couple demos on different ways to sew half square triangles so whatever method you like this panel is the two inch finished so our squares and our half square triangles are cut two and a half inches you are going to lay these out just like you do the regular squares but the trick to getting really nice points with the half square triangle is lining up the seam of the half square triangle from corner to corner so remember when I showed you the easy piecing grid each of those corners is defined by a little tick mark so when I say line that up from corner to corner your seam of the house-poor triangle is just going to line up to that little tick mark that's in each corner so you're the kind of the concept of piecing on this foundation is that you're cutting doesn't have to be perfect because that foundation is as long as these fit inside these squares and as long as that fits safely in your quarter inch seam allowance when you go to sew we're going to sew that exactly the same way we're going to just fold it on that boat line so your quarter inch seam fold it and sew your seam and then let me show you how that's going to turn out now what I think is so exciting is that typically or traditionally patchwork piecing the sewing is the most tedious part yet we're usually sewing these little short seams and we're building this block though this is the opposite we are laying these out I love this because you can get very creative with this fussy cutting fabrics doing some great designing with the directional fabrics but the sewing is the easiest part of the whole thing so we're gonna do another video specifically talking about half square triangles again showing you a few different ways to make them and a few other tips for piecing them on the grid but I hope this helps I hope this inspires you to think about patchwork piecing in a whole 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Length: 16min 25sec (985 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 11 2020