Mixing Fabric Panels with Pieced Blocks in Our Newest Halloween Quilt

so our next project that we're getting started on is our fright night pattern and this pattern it shows you three different ways to use northcott's wicked line this is a really cool halloween line that is should be in stores soon we are going to be doing the big quilt for the tutorial which utilizes the entire panel and the panel looks like this so we're using this in the center and these in the four corners now if you have more than one panel if you buy another panel um you could use the second panel to do the little wall hanging in the little door quilt but one panel will get you this quilt or one panel will get you both of these so one pattern three projects the pattern is available on our website now as a digital download or as a hard copy we'll mail you so make sure you check that out but let's look at the collection from northcott this collection is designed by nina zurich it looks like and it's called wicked so here's a really funky panel this is a great one just for like some realistic halloween and who doesn't love halloween halloween is my favorite holiday so there's the panel let's see what the coordinates we've got to go with it we've got this really fun stripe that would work almost in anything it's got the a very subtle palette so it's not like very vibrant in your face then we've got the crows and the spells and all the halloween frogs and bats a really fun polka dot and then we got this tonal texture which these would just be i think these are some of their basics these are just yeah this is a basic canvas this is their canvas this is a very fun basic i can see using that and all kinds of things little words that are very subtle so if you use it and you don't have to deal with it as a directional i always like when you find a print that could be directional or you can just mish-mash it up spiders and spider oh flies in the web fly it's caught in the web that's funny some roses and bees and beetles and the moths have little faces on them some more canvas then we've got our skulls and our raven and our snake and roses so this is not a child's halloween collection this is more for us grown-ups and then another words and then another canvas so these are our coordinates they're gonna go with the panel and we're gonna get started here with cutting and assembling so you could also get the wicked halloween line which should be in stores if not now very very soon because i have the fabric they sent it to me and thank you again northcott for sending this we will have a very fun halloween i should say we're gonna have a very spooky halloween tutorial making our fright night quilt so we have everything cut for our fright night quilt and now we're getting ready to do the center panels so how we're going to do those is we're going to sew our borders on the four sides and then we're going to trim it to fit to size and the reason we do that is because the panels don't always come in the same size and this is kind of some insurance for us if we did it exact and the panel came in smaller and you you wouldn't have enough fabric to fix the the difference so we add these cheater borders and all our panels and our patterns to make it easier for you to adjust it in this case the center panel came in about a half inch smaller than what was anticipated but it's not a problem i was still able to trim it clean and then when we add this on and trim it to size it'll absorb that half inch in so we're going to go ahead and add the borders to the large panels and to the small panels and then we'll come back and trim them up so now we have the borders on our panel and we need to trim this to measure 25 inches by 19 and a half so first thing we need to do is see how big we have it is 25 and three quarters so we need to trim 3 8 off of the top and bottom so i take a calculator it's 25 and three quarters minus the finished trim size is 25 which is three quarters and then divide that by two that's three 8. so instead of trying to like measure 25 inches and get both sides by doing a little math i know what to trim off each side so 3 8 goes off of each of these sides okay so now for this we need it to be 19 and a half so when i measure it we get just shy of 20 and a half so that would be an inch so half inch off each side now i'm taking the ruler i'm running the 19 and a half that way and trimming off the other half this way and moving the ruler up the piece as i go you can do this when your ruler is shorter than your piece so this one is ready to go it is the size we need and the borders are in place so now we just need to trim up the smaller ones which are 12 and a half inches which i have a 12 and a half inch ruler here so another way to do a panel is to fold it in half and finger press the two center seams then what you can do is take the twelve and a half inch ruler and center the six and a quarter inch line on both creases you got to make sure you see the creases so i have to do it all the way out to the border all right so six and a quarter six and a quarter six and a quarter and six and a quarter so now we've got it on all of them and this is where if you had a martelli turntable which i do but i didn't pull it out you could just spin it on the martelli cutting table there we go so that's the one way you can do it and again the other way is to measure so we need a quarter inch if we do it the other way quarter this measures 13 we need it to be 12 and a half so we can just get rid of a quarter inch and then this way we measured thirteen and a quarter which means i need to take three oh wait a minute thirteen and a quarter means three eighths off each side so now we have all our panels trimmed to size and their little borders are on them so the big guy we're gonna set him aside for now and these little guys get fabric g squares that's these guys we're going to flip and sew one on each corner so it will go on the corner like this and we'll sew from point to point and it will flip out so to make sure these are accurate i marked them you could also just cut them but for flip and sew i find it easier to mark them and this is the creative grids non-slip multi-size 6-inch flying geese and 45-90 degree triangle ruler or we call it the pacman ruler you can just lay it on to your square you align the two and a half inch line with the square the edge of the ruler with the square the top of the ruler with the square and you use a pen and you're going to cut this away so it doesn't matter if it's permanent or wash out and you mark it and then once you've marked it you have a large triangle and a small triangle you want to put the small triangle pointing out on your square and you're going to sew from point to point and your quarter inch foot is going to run along that line and then when we flip this out it will be accurate the traditional way to do this is to mark a line from point to point you're only measuring two floating points in space where if you mark it the way i do you've got three sides of the square that you're aligning to it's a much more accurate line and then you're using the quarter inch foot on your drawn line so that is the way we're going to do it i'm going to go ahead and sew that and i'll show you how it looks so here it's sewn a quarter inch away from my drawn line and it flips out so you can do two things you can either just cut this inner triangle leaving the frame and press it out but that that's a lot of bulk there so if it flips out and it's perfect i actually get rid of all of the fabric behind it leaving a quarter inch seam allowance so there is the triangle so we're going to repeat that on all of these on all four corners and then these blocks will be done all right so here these are all ready got four of them so next step is to sew the side borders onto this guy and that's these they're gonna get sewn on either side so anytime you sew borders onto a panel you're gonna want to pin them if you don't pin them and you just sew them on um you can gather material in there and get a wavy border so and how i do quick and dirty borders here instead of measuring everything is i just pin it on making sure everything is flat on both top and bottom layers and i usually will pin two borders on at once and then sew one on flip it and sew the other one on so i don't have i'm doing it twice as quickly you can do them one at a time but that's just a how we do it so there is center with its rose borders so we're going to set this aside for now all right so i've cut all my pieces using the ruler the multi size 6 inch blankies 45 90 degree triangle ruler and i follow the directions of the ruler um and we're ready to sew our flying geese the pattern i tell you how to do it traditionally but i find using a ruler is sometimes faster because you don't have any and less fabric because you don't have any waste you're cutting triangles versus squares the downside is they are bias triangles so you have to be really careful with them so here are the pieces and when i cut the sky parts i make sure i i cut it either two strips right sides together or wrong sides together so every time i cut i get a right and a left not sure if it really matters but for me i think it makes it a little bit easier then we have on the right and left you have a flat side and you have a pointy side so you lay it with the flat side at the bottom and what you're aligning you're aligning this side of the two triangles and the bottom edge of the two triangles then it doesn't really matter if you have a point or a square but i'm doing it with a square at the bottom so there's that so then once you position that you would take it over to the sewing machine and you sew a quarter inch seam and you should notice that the quarter inch starts right where that purple meets the orange and it ends right where the purple meets the orange that's how you know you have it positioned correctly and then you press it press it out towards the sky and then we're ready to do our second one and again you're aligning the sides of the triangles and the bottom of the triangles we're not going to worry too much about these two ends because if these are aligned correctly those should fall into place and again we're going to sew a quarter inch and the quarter inch starts where the triangle meets with the background and ends where the orange and the purple end then we're going to press that open and that gives us a two and a half by four and a half inch flying goose and then we just need to get rid of our dog ears you can use scissors rotary cutter you just want to get rid of these little tufts of fabric because they can get caught in your seam and make it harder to quilt it so there is our flying goose so we have to make 40 of these we have to make 40 with our b and our g and our i so 40 have g on the left and then 40 have g on the right we need to make 125 geese units and then we'll be ready to assemble our blocks so what i have a lot of these to do i will just lay them on a ruler like this so i can pick this up and take it to the sewing machine so i'm just going to start aligning these and lay them out on the ruler and then we'll get them sewn but now we don't have to trim anything these are just going to be accurate once we finish it and this is just another way to do flying geese all right so i laid them out like this so now i can check and make sure everything is going in the same direction that all of these are right sides together it just helps me not make some mistakes when i'm piecing these so next up is to do these and only 20 of them go one way and 40 go the other so what i'm going to do is separate these into 40 piles and that way i don't have to count all three piles just the big pile and that's and that'll be enough to get me what i need now we have all our flanges sewn and i do need to trim off the dog ears and i want to show you a quickie way to do that what i do is i stack up five of these at a time make sure they're really well aligned and then you find scissors a good pair of sharp scissors and i just hold the edge and i snip and i rotate and snip there you go there's five done at a time so i'm going to snip all of my dog ears and then we'll be ready to piece but i wanted to share that tip with you so now we have the dog ears clipped off of all of these the next step is to sew one of these to one of these with the gray edges matching and that's going to make our outer frame for our blocks so i'm going to go ahead and sew those and then we'll be ready to start assembling our blocks got these all sewn and we're ready to press them and how i'm going to press them is i'm going to press the seam open and to do that i use a strip stick and it's got a curved top and a flat bottom and you just lay the seam over the curved side you can do multiples this is the 18 inch stick we also sell a 9 inch stick and then i have a purple thing but you can use any kind of stylus or pokey thing and you just split the seam and open it with your fingers just to get it started it just makes it a little easier then you take the nose of your iron you hold it over the stick and you just press it and gravity will pull the two sides down you'll have a beautiful open seam right there and that'll make those uh this point very flat and it won't be bulky when you try to quilt it so we're gonna go ahead and press all of these seams open and then we'll move on to the block okay so now we're ready to start assembling and building our blocks so we're gonna use e in the center which are these funky black roses so it goes one of these and we're going to use one of these on each side and one of these in each corner so i will sew these to these and i will sew these to these and i'll sew these to these and then we're going to press towards the solid squares so we're going to make 10 of these for the block centers and then we will add the next round so we have these sewn to the center and these are top and bottom so for these i'm going to press them towards the solid and not out because if you press out you press over seams and you create bulk if you press in you're pressing away from the seams and it makes them lay flatter and if you press the center to the large square and you press the top and bottom out to the smaller square okay now when we go to sew this to this this seam goes to the left that seam goes to the right and now you can nest the two seams together put a pin in i always try to pin where they i want the seams to join that helps me get more accurate points on the inside and you could probably pin right there now i don't always pin but sometimes when it's really important and i want those points to match 100 and don't want to be ripping it and redoing it i'll pin it and i can pin the other side at the same time so one side turn around so the other pins also help you kind of cover a lot of sins if your things don't quite match you can pin it into position if you have a piece that's bigger it's a little bulkier than the other piece put that one on the bottom and the feed dogs will help gather that fabric in you can ease stuff together or here this doesn't quite go to the end i have a little stretch that i could pull that out and that'll help square it up a lot of times if you just shift and move things you will end up with a much more accurate looking block to cover if you didn't get all your units perfect so i'm going to go ahead and sew this and then i'll be right back all right so now that we've got those two sewn if you flip this open you can always check which way you should press the seam because you can fold it down and feel how much how bulky it is and then fold it the other way and you'll feel this spot would be bulkier if we actually press out so we're going to press those seams in you could press them open but i don't feel that we need to i feel like if we just press those in there's going to be it'll be fine it'll be flat and whenever possible pressing the one side is a stronger seam than pressing open so i always take that into account and i will have open seams and side seams in the same project someone out there may differ but that's how we do it so there's that side and then there's this side and now we're ready to build it so you're going to put let's look here these go on all four sides one two three and then we're going to put these purple guys in the corners now this is a directional print in this quilt so um you can choose to put them all going the same way if you don't really want to fight with direction you can have two going up and down and two going sideways it's truly your call um but we are going to do it this way so again we're going to sew this to this and this to this and this to this and then i will be back all right so now we have the next layer sewn and for this one if we press it to one side or the other these are getting super bulky now so i am going to press those open to help alleviate some of that bulk yeah that's gonna be less bulky so press these guys open and the reason you don't want bulky seams is when you go to quilt your quilt and you hit one of these bumps you can throw your quilting off so the flatter you can make your stuff the better i am not a big fan of starch and steam but if you need to you can always do that as well to get stuff to lay flat now that i have that pressed open press the side all right then for these guys we can just press them to the purple all right now we're ready sew those on and we will be done with this block so again i'm going to pin at each joint or each seam first that helps me position the center and then on this block this intersection here is supposed to go there so you can drop a pin in and then drop the pin in on this side pull the pieces flat and tuck the pin in that will help you align those so again quarter inch down pointing putting it in at the point putting it in at the point pull it together and flip it in all right so now we're ready to do the last seams and i'm going to press those open as well and that will be block one we have to make ten of these okay so there is the first block and we'll just repeat this 10 times and we'll be back to show you how we put the top together so we have all the piece blocks done all ten of them we have our square panel blocks done and we need to finish the center here so um first we need to sew the orange strip top and bottom to each of the skull strips so now i didn't cut these to length as the pattern gives you the length that you need but as a practice in the studio i don't usually cut things to length until i have something to measure them against that way if for some reason you know heaven forbid there's an error or my seams aren't quite as quarter inch as they should be i have a chance to make a course correction with very minimal effort so i have two orange for each of the skulls so i'm gonna go ahead and cut those sew them and cut them and then we'll be ready to add them on the top and bottom of our panel and then we'll have all our blocks together to sew the quilt top together so we're ready to add our top and bottom unit nines to the center panel so i've sewn them like i said i usually will sew them length of the width of fabric and then trim them to size versus just cutting the length so that if i need to make any adjustments i have time and fabric to do that so the first thing i do is i need to square off one end okay then we lay it on here make sure both the top and bottom layers are flat and we pin it so on this one i'm going to center my skull on the bottom there's the center so three of these together for each side border and then two of these and one purple and one orange for the top so it goes wicked the two blocks and the skull and then the bottom gets haunted halloween two blocks and the raven so i'm gonna sew the borders together get them on the top and then i'll show you with the borders when it's all finished here is our fright night quilt featuring wicked from northcott it's got all its borders on get a little close up here you see it got an inner and outer border and then the block borders with the panel so here is our fright night quilt back from the quilter we had monica chrome quilt this one she did spider webs all over it i'll zoom in here so you can see in a second but i wanted to share with you the finished quilt i hope you've enjoyed our tutorial as we've covered how to do flying geese how to work with panels and overall tips on piecing and sewing a quarter inch seam so let's zoom in here so you can see the quilting up close there we go so yeah she did spider whips all over it just sort of mimics the fabric the way it is i love the way this design took the panel and cut it apart i really wanted to have something because the fabric is complex i went with a more complex looking block but at the same time all of the piecing in the block gives you a lot of different colors so that then the panels are big blocks of color and they pop out for you again the fabric is wicked it should be in stores now and i hope you've enjoyed our tutorial if you have make sure you like and subscribe below and thanks for watching i hope you've enjoyed this video and if you have make sure you like and subscribe below you can find the whimsical workshop on our website thewimschoolworkshop.com and that has all links to all of our other social media platforms thanks for joining us oh

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Length: 32min 43sec (1963 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 26 2020