My Next Quick and Easy 3 Yard Quilt Tutorial - the Town Square Pattern

hi everybody it is april and i'm in my craft room and today we're going to make another three yard quilt so today i'm going to be working on the town square pattern and i've read the directions i think i've got it down so let's get cutting these are the three fabrics that i'm using and again i've got one that is directional but it's going to be the focus fabric and i think that's going to be okay for this particular pattern i don't think i need to do anything special these arrows i'm not going to consider them directional i think they can go this way or this way or this way it shouldn't matter and this will be fabric three the first thing i need to do is i need to cut strips from fabric one [Music] i have strips of fabric one and fabric two that i'm going to sew long ways i'm not a big pinner but when i'm sewing strips that are the length of the width of fabric i like to just every so often line the fabric up and throw a pin in there because for this particular pattern i mean i know a quarter inch seam is always important but it is especially important on this because if you go too big on your quarter inch then you're going to have issues when you build your blocks [Music] i'm done sewing my strips together now i need to cross cut these into pieces for my block i want to make sure that i'm cutting it at the right length and i'm going to first trim off my selvage edge okay your timing is awful yeah your timing is awful quit oh my gosh cat okay wait just wait wait wait why are you being so needy huh why are you being needy [Music] um this right here is what's left i start with fabric one and then take the strips that i've cut from fabric 2 and fabric 3 being sewn together and i want fabric 3 on the left hand side of the top of my block and fabric three on the bottom right hand side of the bottom of my block so i'm going to take these to the sewing machine and sew them and that gives me this now what i do is i take the longer strip sets of fabric two and fabric three and i make sure fabric three is touching fabric three and fabric two is touching fabric two then it's the opposite on the other side so fabric two is touching fabric two and fabric three is touching fabric three and i take these to the sewing machine and i come back with my finished block now i know that this fabric is directional my fabric 2 is directional so i've got some arrows pointing different ways but that's not that doesn't bother me the the color is the same so i think i'll be okay now i just need to do that with all of my blocks and then i can put them together [Music] so this is where i deviate from the pattern first of all i'm not using any of the fabric that i used from the pattern on my borders so i've got this as my border and i have cut it significantly wider than the pattern calls for and this is where i can take what would normally be a smaller quilt a lap quilt and make it just a little bit bigger without having to create more blocks i have actually made two of the quilts using the town square pattern this is the one with the hearts and i've put a big border on it now i have another one and i will show that to you now this is what i'm calling under the sea this is an ocean theme so the center of my blocks have saltwater fish and i still have to put the border on this quilt so i'm really pleased with the way that these quilts turned out i will hang this one up so that you can see it as clearly as you can see the saltwater fish thank you so much for watching i really appreciate it i do plan on doing more three yard quilts these are a lot of fun and i have purchased a lot of fabric with the intention of using it for three yard quilts so and i actually bought another book the modern views quilt book just this past week please give this video a thumbs up if you found it helpful and subscribe if you would like to see more crafty tutorials including quilting sewing card making and using your cutting machines also if you think of anybody else who might enjoy these videos please feel free to share have a great day eat some chocolate and be kind to everyone until next time bye [Music] also if you would all right up you get you got to get up you got to get up gotta get up

Channel: April Story

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Length: 9min 2sec (542 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 28 2021