Hi, I’m Jenny from the MSQC. Take a look at this darling quilt behind me. Isn’t this sweet? This is just so pretty. I love the, the square block. This is the block that we’re concentrating
on today. I love this fabric. This fabric is called LaDiDa and it’s by
Heather Bailey for Free Spirit. It’s just a gorgeous line. To make this quilt, what you’re going to
need is one charm pack that is your five inch squares. One jelly roll, that’s your two and a half
inch strips. And one honey bun. That’s your one and a half inch strips. The honey buns are now being cut by Kona for
Robert Kauffman and so we get the solids in honey buns as well. For those of you who don’t know, the pre-cuts,
all the sizes, come in solids as well. But now they’re even cutting honey buns
and when they do that it really, dramatically changes the look of your block which I love. You know just by a little smaller piece or
larger piece, it changes the whole block. So let me show you how to make this block. We’re going to start with a charm pack. So here’s our charm pack and that charm
pack is going to be surrounded in a white frame. Now all the charm packs are going to be surrounded
in a white frame so we’re going to chain piece them. We’re going to take our one honey bun strip
like this, and we’re going to place our charm pack right sides together on the, I
mean our charm, our charm square, down onto the strip of fabric and we’re going to sew
that. And we’re going to place another one right
next to it and just sew them. And we’ll do all, you know the one side
of the charm all at once. And then we’ll cut them, flip them and sew
the other side. So let’s go over to the sewing machine and
I’ll show you how we put a few of these together. Alright now I’m going to set these up here. And just line up my, make sure my, I’ve
got my quarter of an inch lined up, and I make sure that my charm pack is right along
the edge of the honey bun. And when it gets close I just line up that
next one. I leave about, about an eighth of an inch
in between. You can, you can do whatever you like. So I’m, I’m going to just do two of these
to show you. And then, but you’re going to want to fill
your whole strip with charms. I mean you can put them all the way down the
whole thing. So then I’m going to bring these over here
and I’m just going to cut them apart. So we’re just going to cut right here. If you have a little extra like that right
there, see that little sliver. I just cut that apart and take that off. And we’re going to go ahead and do the other
side of these. So we’ll take our honey bun strip and we’re
going to do the same thing to the other side. So we’re going to lay this honey bun strip
down here. And do the opposite side. Now I’ll add the second one. Right sides together, quarter of an inch just
like we always do. And now we’ll trim these two. Just like that and then I’m going to trim
off this little excess. You can use your rotary cutter if you’d
like. I just find it easier just to scissor cut
them. So now we’re going to press these two back. So we’re going to set our seams and roll
it back. Just like this. And we’re going to set our seams and roll
them back. Now we need to sew the white strip on the
other sides. And we do it exactly the same way. There we go. So now we finished sewing the white on both
sides we’re going to clip them, clip them apart. And then we’re going to press them open. Make sure those are nice and straight lines,
we want to keep our edges straight. So we’re going to set our seams and roll
them back. Just like this. Set our seams and roll them back. So now we’re to the bordering, the next
bordering stage which is done with a jelly roll strip. This is a two and a half inch wide strip cut
by the width of the fabric. And we’re only going to do one block at
a time when we do this. And the reason we only do one block at a time
is because we want the same strip to go all the way around it. So the method is exactly the same. We take our block over and a, and sew it down
quarter of an inch . We’re going to sew both sides first and then we’ll sew the
top and bottom. Now we get to trim and iron and our block
will be finished. Hooray! Alright, so now let’s iron it back. And roll it back. And there is your finished block. Just that quick. Now what you’re going to want to do on these
blocks is you’re going to want to, if you have a charm pack, there’s 42 charms in
there. And there’s going to be 42 strips as well. That’s going to give you 42 finished blocks
which means your quilt is going to be six across by seven down. So that makes for a pretty good sized quilt. But you’ll see the quilt here, it has a
sashing in between. So right here in between the squares there’s
a sashing. That’s done exactly the same way. We’re going to use our inch a half strip. And we are going to sew the pieces, sew one
honey bun strip onto the top of our block like this. Clip is off and then sew the next block to
it. So let me show you how that’s done real
quickly. So we’re just going to do, this is a sashing
strip. And because it’s a honey bun size, it changes
the whole look of our quilt. Where in normally our quilt, you know, I tend
to use, I tend to use a lot of jelly rolls. But now I think that I have pre-cut honey
buns what I use is a lot of pre-cuts so now that I think that I have pre-cut honey buns
I’m going to have a lot of honey bun strips in there. Alright so this one gets clipped off. And then we’re going to press that open. So set it and roll it. And to make our rows, what we’re going to
do is we’re going to attach blocks together using the sashing strip. So the strip is there. Here’s the next block we want to put on. And we’re going to lay it right sides together. So I’ll move it right here. Here’s the block. And then we’re going to lay it right sides
together, match up our edges so that we, we have a good straight line. Take that to the sewing machine and sew it
down a quarter of an inch . So now I’ve sewn a couple more of these
together because I really want to show you how to put this sashing in the middle here. Quilters sometimes struggle with this and,
because you have to match up these seams and that always seems to be a big headache. So I’m going to show you how I do it. First we’re going to sew the sashing on
to the top row of blocks. Now one of the things to remember when you
put sashing on is you want your sashing piece to be on top. And the reason is because your feed dogs take
in more fabric and if you have your sashing strip on the bottom, it might take in more
fabric and you might end up with a ruffily sash or border. Anytime you put a border or sashing strip
on you always want that piece to be on the top. So now let’s iron this open. And then I’ll show you all my tricks. Here we go. So now we want to add these rows together. And one of the things that tends to be really
hard for, for all of us is we’ll, we’ll put this something on here, we’ll measure
it all up, we’ll sew it up and when we open it it’s off just a little bit. And these sashings don’t line up from row
to row. So we want to help you line those up and I
want to show you how I do it. I don’t know if this is how the whole world
does it but this is how I do it. What I do is I make sure that my, my edges
of my sashing are lined up with the sashing long before I bring it up to the top. So I bring it up like that. And I just slide it up to make sure that it
is exactly right. Then I hold it down and I open it up and I
look to make sure that my sashing, that that’s going to match up even with a row in between. So I hope that makes sense to you. So then I put a pin in there to make sure. Because I’d much rather pin than rip. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to
put a pin in here. And then I’m going to look at it again. Because I want to make sure that it’s right. Oop, look see. It’s just a little off. So you just have to really check that. So I’m going to do this method again. I’m going to come down here and I’m going
to slide it right up here. Make sure that it’s all lined up. Now if I could pick up that pin. Here we go. So now let’s look. Oh yeah, that’s much better. See how nice and straight that is. So now let’s head over to the sewing machine
and sew that together. So as you’re putting your rows together,
you will want to make sure that your every block, wherever there’s a sashing that you’ve
pinned that and made sure that is fitting together just perfectly. Ok so we’re almost down to the end of our
row. There we go. And we’ve sewn that sashing on. So now we’ll iron it open and see if we,
if we matched up good and all lined up. Looks pretty good to me. There you go. So as you put your quilt together you’re
obviously going to have more blocks. You just need to make sure that you go ahead
and pin every time there’s a sashing, you want to make sure that you pin it and line
it up really carefully so that your lines are nice and straight. And pretty soon you’re going to have an
awesome quilt like this too. So we hope you enjoyed this tutorial from
the MSQC.
