Many Morsels Scrap Quilts & Free Pattern

[Music] hey everyone Chris demos are here today I thought I'd show you how to turn your scraps into a fun little clip I've done these baby quilts here with all these scraps that I just had in my closet and I've had so many people ask questions as I was posting progress pictures on Instagram I thought I'd do a video to show you how I did it and something that you can actually use to clean out your own closet no matter what size this graph is so I've got here some strips some extra pieces the smaller the better because then you really feel like you're getting some value out of whatever you've got laying around I actually went through and I collected colors that I liked together what you'll see is some yellow turquoise some coral and then I use grey I like to use gray a lot and if there is a stripe or a graphic print in there even better I think it adds a lot of detail I've got some stripes here stripes here no matter what size those strips are now most of these our full-length strips or close to it and what I did is I just went ahead and sewed the strips together that were about the same length no matter how wide they were I've got some here that are really really kind on the small side but I even took and sowed some strips some chunks together to make myself a strip that was just a little bit longer what I've got here are some they're about the same length starting my next you can see seams everywhere don't worry about that it won't really be noticed once you go to do the actual assembly process so we've done that process here with a little chunk slightly bigger here and I've got seams in quite a few different places so what I do when I have seams like this where where I've joined some smaller bits together I actually turn my stitch length on my sewing machine down to about 2.0 which is kinda on the small side so hopefully you don't have to pick your stitches out but it really helps to secure these when I'm joining smaller bits together to get kind of a usable piece if you've turned your seam you're your stitch down to about 2.0 then you won't have the risk of those things popping open especially when we're going to sew them all together and then cut pieces from them so I'll show you that process here I cut six and a half inch triangles from my piece so this I sewed all these together until it was at least six and a half inches I don't mind if it's a little over you can kind of trim your excess off but you will see I'm gonna leave this ruler now I'm using a 60-degree diamond ruler from creative grits this is the original size the six and a half inch line here my flat tip across the other end if you have the mini ruler that will cut up to a four and a half inch triangle so if you've got the mini ruler it'd be a little more like like the size here that word we're gonna use the original for this Here I am just going to trim and trim there it is one whole block now like I said I turn my stitch length down to a 2.0 and so every one of these seams coming to the edge has less of a chance of popping open when when pressure is put on it during the piecing process and final assembly you don't want this is a biased edge here and you don't want if you have to give it a tug or anything you don't want those seams to pop open and any seams that are kind of in the middle they'll be nice and secured with that so that gives me one block out of just a little bit of scraps here I have a section it's a little wider I think what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna cut the end off straight and I'll show you how I get my end caps here right now just straight like that removing the little bits now now I'm the ruler up with the six and a half inch line across the bottom edge now this ruler has three dashed lines down the middle it's actually just got one solid line and then one dash line on either side so I'm gonna line it up with the dashed line that's to the left of the center line and that will give me a seam allowance and you'll notice this strip set is a little bit wider than six and a half so I am just gonna go like this and take that tip off now this piece here will work to fill in the edges of my rose we'll get to that here in a minute now I'm gonna turn the ruler around six in our finish line across the top just like that and I'm going to cut to you and I'm just going to flatten that tip so you can see how versatile that is I've got some other things in here they've all been pretty secured though so that's tough I think I'll get a couple more blocks out of this six and a half inch line yeah just like that now it looks like I might get one more of those half-unit so I'm just gonna line this up here where the fabric goes along the edge of the mat cut the end off straight turn this piece around to do like I did before my straight edge six and a half inch line dress another edge piece that will fill in from the side now for the background I [Applause] used just a solid cut this is a six and a half inch strip and I'm going to do the same process that I just did with those scrappy bits I'm gonna cut the end off straight right salvages and then only working with the try again this now I've got this fabric folding there's two layers here and what this will get me is a mirror image cut because this is important you have the ends to fill in on both the right and left of the quilt so what you see here that piece there and this piece here the mirror image cut for both of those you want to keep those as a set same thing we'll turn this around of course if you don't have a lot of scraps you could make your strip set spider and get bigger triangles out of them just turning you should get four cuts out of each strip set just like this just tech gets us avro worst now from this intersection you can open it up you want to press that out you'll get one more triangle cut turn that just like that want to press that before I cut it so we'll get to that here in a minute during layout now what you'll notice here like I said before no matter how wide your strips are this strip was probably less than an inch and then so next to one that was probably about an inch so whatever you have laying around just sew them together because the the arrangement doesn't really matter and you'll see here the more the variety the funner it is and even on this one I didn't even have strips I just sewed a bunch of just random pieces together until I could get a six and a half inch triangle out of it so that's really fun way to use up scraps no matter how small they are if you are really really hurting for scraps you could even saw something like that together and get a little extra piece out of it what I wanted to show you is the layout so this is the way these pieces go together we have our background of course you don't have to make it just a baby quilt you can make these rows long and wide and um make yourself a bigger quilt notice what I'm doing here I have my straight of grain edge which is opposite of my flat tip here and so that means that these edges are going to be biased now of course you could turn your triangles but but for consistency and to make it easier to piece this would be my suggestion flat tip at one side straight of grain edge at the other and then you're going to take your piece triangles which probably will have a straight of grain edge depending on what scraps you used and then your flat tips that way you for variety sake let's put this one here um that way when you go to sew these seams here these are biased edges both are biased edges so bias meets bias bias meets bias and bias meets bias and the advantage of that is when you go to piece these both will have a little bit of give both edges will stretch together and that's great because they will they will give each other room as you're piecing and then what you end up with is your top and bottom edges will be straight of grain edges so they won't have a lot of give to them so when you go to actually sew your rows together your top edge meets the bottom edge of the next strip and or the next row and those two edges won't have a lot of stretch and so you'll get a lot better matchup points as your as you're sewing your rows together because all the stretching happens between the triangle the piece triangle in the background type triangle it's really just a thing to keep in mind and here's the way the background edge piece then we have the edge we would have another edge here probably another triangle and then an edge just like this fun huh all the scraps in the world you can make use of them these are baby size quilts and what I've done is turn this into a PDF download it's a free pattern I've called it many morsels scrap quilt so you can just dig through your closet find colors you like together start arranging them into strip sets that roughly are about six and a half or a little over and then just start cutting some triangles and background triangles and see what you come up with so that PDF download working a link to it in the bottom of this description of this video and it just gives you the background cuts what you need four strips how many cuts you will get now this is for the baby size quilt so like I said you can cut bigger bigger triangle units and do the same process you can make more rows make them wider it's just a fun process I hope you found something inspiring here thanks for watching [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Krista Moser

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Keywords: Scrap, Quilt, Quilts, Easy, Krista, Moser, Quilted, Life, Many, Morsels, Free, pattern, creative, grids, ruler, 60, degrees, diamond, stitch, length, biased, edges, strips, sets, Pyramid

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Length: 12min 45sec (765 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 07 2020