Hi everybody, it’s Jenny from the MSQC.
And I’ve got a great project for you today. Let’s take a look at this quilt behind me.
Isn’t this fun? I love this bright intense color. It’s just so pretty. This is an easy
pattern. You’re going to enjoy making it. It goes together so quickly. I literally put
this together in a day. So it’s just a really fun quick pattern. So what you’re going
to need to make this quilt is one roll of 2 ½ inch strips. We’ve used Zola by June
Bee for Ink and Arrow Fabrics. You’re also going to need 1 ¾ yards of background fabric.
Now some of those are going to be cut into five inch strips where we’re going to make
our five inch squares and the rest is going to be used for this inner border right here.
Our inner border, that’s a 2 ½ inch border. Our outer border, is a six inch border. And
we’re going to need a yard and ¾ for that outer border. Let’s look at the back. The
back is 5 ¼ yards. And that beautiful print on the back. That’s just so pretty. This
is just such a fun line. I don’t know if you can see this, but there’s like little
dragon flies on here. So cute. It’s really a cute, cute line of fabric. Alright let me
show you how to make this because this is super easy. So you’re going to pick your background
fabric. Now if you want to use charms, you can. You can use the five inch squares, you
can but you need 56 of them. And so there’s 42 in a pack and you’re going to need to
buy two packs but you won’t use them all. So we opted for yardage. We went for that
1 ¾ yards. We cut them out of five inch strips like this. And then we cut them down into
five inch squares. Now when I cut, when I go to cut my yardage down into five inch squares
what I’m going to do is cut my strip and then I’m going to fold it in half. And I’m
going to lay in on my lines up here. And I’m going to cut off my selvedge edge right here.
Make sure this is lined up nice and straight so you know you have a good, a good five inch
cut. And I’m going to cut my, my little fold and my edge right there. And then I’m
going to flip this around for my left handed way. And I’m just going to lay my five inch
ruler over here on the edge and then just cut and just cut. This ruler I don’t even
have to look at the lines because it’s just five inches wide and I know it’s going to
be that easy. Alright so then we’re going to take our
strips. And you’re going to take your roll apart. This is a fun roll because it’s just
lots of different bright colors. And we’re going to match them up together in sets of
two. Every single strip is going to be sewn together. It’s going to have a partner and
we’re going to sew them together. We’re going to lay them right sides together and
sew a quarter of an inch right down the side. And you’re going to do this to your whole
pack, ok? So we’re going to come over here, lay your strips right together, line up your
quarter of an inch and sew. And I’m going to do a few of these so I can show you how
to make this because as you get your strips sewn together, you’re actually going to
need, you’re just going to cut them all up and mix them all up so that it spreads
that color all over the place. So we’re just going to sew a quarter of an inch right
down the side. So once you get your strips all
sewn together you’re going to have, oh like 21 sets of them. You’re going to sew all
of them. Then we’re going to iron them open. And we’re going to come over here to the
iron. And I like to keep my dark piece to the top right here. And then I’m just going
to roll this back, just like this. Leave, leave it so that my seam stays on the dark
side. We’re pressing to the dark side. Alright, there we go. And we’ll do it with the next
one as well. Let me just clear some of this out of there. And again I’m going to put
my dark side of my strip on the top. And you can see I’m a very versatile ironer. I ironed
the other strip going this way and this one going that way. It doesn’t really matter.
Either way works. Alright so now that you have your strips all
ironed, ready to go, again I like to, I like to. I just like to narrow my cutting order
and so I just want to, I want to fold them up so I can get more cuts out of it. And we
are going to sew these strips around this charm. So one side of this charm is five inches
which means we’re going to go ahead and cut a five inch piece off of this. I’m going
to cut my selvedge edge off right here. And then I’m going to lay my ruler on here and
just cut a straight five like this. Now you’re going to do that to several of your pieces
and we’re going to attach this to one side of our charm. And we’re going to go over
here and do that. So just lay that along the edge and sew a quarter of an inch right down
the side. And then we’re going to come back and press it open. Alright. Now once you have
your piece pressed open, what I do is I measure it because not everybody’s quarter inch
seam is perfect nor does it need to be. We just want it to be the same. So for me this
comes out nine inches so then I’m going to go ahead and take my other strip and I’m
going to cut my selvedge edge off again. You always want to do that. You don’t ever want
to try and use that, that edge. It’s got the little white pieces and it’s just, you
know it’s just not, not pretty. So we’re going to count, one, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine. And we’re going to come over here and trim that off. Now I
like to put two different strips around my square. So now this one we’re going to lay
on this edge right here. And we’re going to sew that to that, just two little steps.
Alright, here we go. A quarter of an inch right down the side. Alrighty, and that’s your whole
block. Let’s press it open and take a look at it. Alright. So here’s your block. We
want to lay it on there. It looks like I have a little bit peaking out over here so I’m
just going to make sure I square this edge up right here. You should end up with, if
my math is correct, and it isn’t always, but you should end up with a one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight, nine inch block. I’m pretty sure. Alrighty, there we go.
So this is your block. That’s it right there. Now literally when I made this, my husband
is really good at laying things out and he sees the different angles and all that kind
of stuff and so he’s really good at it. And I said to him, Ron I just want you to
play with this layout and see what happens. He literally laid it out four or five different
ways. And we just had to pick the one that we liked. So let’s take a look at this quilt
and see what we’ve got. So this one right here you can see, the strips are at the bottom,
the charm is at the top. Charm down, charm up, charm down, charm up, you know so that’s
how you’re going to lay it out. You’re going to lay your first one, you’re going
to take your rows. And I’ve got some blocks over here that are done. And it’s going
to go that way and that way and this way and that way. There we go. And you’re just going
to put your rows together like that. It’s so simple. Once you get your rows sewn your
next row is going to start just the opposite. So it starts with the corner up. So then you’re
just going to watch the layout, lay them out and then you’re going to sew each row together.
And then just sew your rows together. And it’s going to make a quilt that is 74 by
83. This is a pretty good sized quilt. We’re going to put a 2 ½ inch border around the
outside. End it with a six inch border and, and then send it off to be quilted. And it’s
just such a quick project. It’s so fast in fact, with just these two sides right here,
I decided to call it the Two Step Quilt. So just like the dance, it’s the Two Step quilt.
And we hope you enjoyed this tutorial from the MSQC.
