My FAVORITE Panel Quilt EVER!!!

hi i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics today we're going to make a pattern called lake views this is a pattern from antler quilt designs written by doug Lecco and it's a panel pattern so these are panels here and then they've got coordinating fabrics for the patchwork to go around it I love panel patterns because I buy a lot of panels but then I don't always know what to do with them so these are six inch little pictures here and that's perfect because that's what the pan that's what the pattern calls for all of these guys will go in the blocks now the patchwork around there you've got options you can use jelly roll strips which is what I'm going to use you can use layer cakes you can use five inch squares the only other thing we need is a background and I'm going to use this nice solid bone because that will give us a lot of contrast and then we may add a border at the end now the first thing we want to do is straighten out our panel often when these are on the bolt they get distorted they get stretched they are not square so you want to iron it flat but you also want to see if it's leaning a little you can kind of stretch it a little with your hands and try to get it back to square now we want to cut these to six inches so my picture there is about five so I'm going to be cutting it about a half inch on either side of the picture now your panels may be a little bigger a little smaller that's okay you just want to have a cut size of six inches so I did that side the easiest way for me to cut the other side is to flip it around and because I can't cut left-handed and I'm gonna put it with the ruler on the edge here again and then I know I'm cutting this six inches wide I have all of these panels cut out so you need 20 of them 20 of these 6-inch panels the next thing to cut is the jelly roll strips so the good news is these are all going to get sub cut exactly the same there's 40 of them they get it cut exactly the same way and I can't give you all the sizes because it's not my pattern but it is very easy to follow there's all over the rectangles now for the background we need three and a half yards and it's going to get cut in a variety of pieces I've got everything all cut now but before we start sewing we're going to want to take these panels and make sure they're nice and square so I like to put it on my cutting mat and I can see it's leaning over that way just a little bit so I'm gonna give it a little bit of a stretch in the opposite way that it was leaning then I'm gonna move it to the ironing board steam it up and double check back on the cutting board to see if it looks square there that's better I've gone ahead and drawn on the back side of all of these background squares so I used a pencil you can use a chalk pencil whatever is easiest for you and it's a line from corner to corner along the diagonal so we're going to sew all of these onto all of the accent rectangles so this gets lined up and I'm just going to stitch right along the drawn line now you can tell if you've done it accurately by opening this up and seeing if all the edges meet up and they do so we're gonna do half of them with a diagonal sewing line like that and the other half they're gonna get sewn the same method but the square is going to be turned so the diagonals going in the opposite direction now I have a faster way of getting these stitched up if you don't want to mark the back of every piece if you take some painters tape or masking tape and you can put it on your machine I'm going from the needle hole and I have another mark here so I can put that tape on right here and then I know that it's not crooked and it's coming straight down now if you don't have a mark down here you can get your ruler and you can put it underneath there and you can make sure that it's lined up and not crooked like this you want to have it straight down and that way instead of marking the back I can just sew right along there let me show you what I'm talking about now I can line these up and I can put the tip there right at the needle hole and then I can leave this corner right on that tape so don't move it over here move it over there just have it stay on the edge of the tape as you stitch and that will save a whole step because I don't have to mark any of the squares now now these are all going to become nice rectangles after that's opened up but before we open it up we're gonna want to cut off the excess back here leaving just a quarter inch seam allowance so I'm gonna line up my ruler here with the quarter inch mark on my stitching line and trim that away now these are going to get ironed differently so these ones here that had the square on the right we're going to fold this open making sure that we don't stretch it and then give it a little iron and that seam allowance is going toward the light fabric so the seam allowance is going toward this corner now the other ones these left ones we want the seam allowance to go towards the dark so the easiest way to do it is to flip it over with the light on the bottom peel it back and then press it now the reason we want them going in opposite directions is because these two are going to get stitched together and when we put them right sides together here this seam allowance is going down and the back seam allowance is going up and so it's nice and flat here and that intersection is going to be real easy to match up so we get a nice point there so there's what I'm talking about that nice point there and this seam can get finger pressed so I'm just drawing my fingers along there it's just going to one side I'm pressing it to the right so I'm going to go ahead and make these pairs with all the rest of my rectangles once you've got those blocks done we're ready to move on to the panels and these two shorter light pieces all we need to do is take two of these shorter pieces and stitch one onto each side of the panel and both of these seam allowances are going to get pressed away away from the middle toward the outside now we're going to add the two longer borders using the same method [Music] and these also get pressed away from the center toward the outside now we're ready to build our first block so I've got five of these squares that we made earlier and they are going to go around one side and along the bottom here so I've just picked a variety they're not in any special order or anything so I'm going to sew these two together I'm gonna do this seam first finger press that seam a little bit I'm gonna press it up now I'm gonna make this row here and both of these seam allowances are going to go to the right you don't have to iron it you can just finger press it a little bit right now now let's put this row onto the block and it's exactly the size we need [Music] and we're going to press the scene towards the light that's the way it wants to go because we've got all of these seam allowances in here now we're going to stitch this on to the bottom again finger press that seam this way towards the light there now the last thing we're going to add is one border here and one border here so there's the whole first look now there's one very important thing all the blocks are going to be made the same way but half of them are going to be made with your panel facing up the other half need to be made with the panel upside down because when we put the whole quilt together the blocks are going to be turned different ways and we don't want to end up with some of our pictures upside down all the blocks are done now I'm ready to lay out the quilt now these blocks are a lot of fun to make I really had a good time making them so you can see the blocks are exactly the same except in these ones have the picture facing the other way so all we're going to do is just alternate the blocks throughout the whole quilt here so we've got four wide and five tall so let me lay it all out and I'll show you what it looks like now the quilt is starting to look like the pattern and you can see the waves of patchwork so all I have to do is stitch these blocks together there's no fancy matching it's really easy to do that part and then you can see in the pattern here there's a patchwork border but it's all made with these same patryk units that we've already made so I'm gonna get that on and then I'll get the quilt on the machine and we'll pick on scolding pattern I've picked out some neutral colors of thread to quilt the sin I really think that the dark this is a nice dusty brown but I'm a little afraid that it's going to show up too much in those light areas I think we better go with a light one this is kind of a dark oatmeal color it blends in very well it won't show much they're got a little more of a taupe color here same thing it's a little bit dark on the light I think that this gold which is very nice and warm looking it's not gonna show very much in the dark and it's not gonna show very much in the light so let's go with this color here now for the quilting pattern I'm going to use these very simple leaves the panel that I have is called autumn reflections and so it's got a lot of leaf and fall colors in it so this won't fight with any of the patchwork but it's a nice even overall pattern [Applause] [Applause] I've got the Lakeview quilt all done this was just a lot of fun to make I like the quilting pattern nice overall leafy pattern it doesn't fight with any of the patchwork and you can see these patchwork sections like traveling up the quilt it's really really cool relaxing sewing there was a lot of these guys but they're easy to make they're easy to get all the points nice and pointy which I love every panel is framed with the light and then the patchwork and of course that Patrick border that goes all the way around the quilt again it takes a little bit of time to do but it really enhances the patchwork it frames it so nicely now on the back I used a completely different print this is from RJ R fabrics not even the same manufacturer as these Mota prints here this is called River Song and it's big flowers but the colors echo the colors that I've got on top and it gives a completely different look to the back side and I really like to have two different looks that will coordinate but not exactly match on the back side there now I really like this pattern because it uses panels but maybe you don't have panels maybe you have a nice fabric that you like this is a pretty autumn fabric here and if you have some six inch squares you can cut six inch squares you can put these in the quilt instead of panels so I just alternated six inch squares just two different fabrics this one in this one throughout the whole quilt and it still looks really nice so it'll make an awesome quilt whether you use panels or you use a print that you like thanks for watching our tutorial today on how to make the Lake view's quilt we hope you enjoyed it now we're gonna have another giveaway you may have seen this video where we made 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Channel: Jordan Fabrics

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Length: 15min 15sec (915 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 20 2020