Pretty Leaves... Just A - HINT OF FALL!!! Quilting Fun For The Season!

hi i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics today i'm going to show you how to make a quilt called hint of fall this is a pattern from cozy quilt designs and i haven't made it before but it looks really fun because it has some simple patchwork but then it has these really nice leaf appliques they're gonna that are gonna go right on top of the patchwork now this pattern uses fat quarters and one of the nicest things about patterns from this company is that they've got multiple sizes included all in the same pattern now i want to make the twin size it's 75 by 93 and it uses 26 fat quarters five five eighths of a yard for the inner border one and a third for the outer and then when we're done with the top we're gonna need five and seven eighths for the back and two thirds for the binding now i just got this question this morning in an email what is a fat quarter a fat quarter is a quarter yard of fabric but it's a particular shape and here's how you get it you cut a half a yard of fabric so half a yard that's 18 inches then if you open this up and you cut it in half right along the middle here now you have a fat quarter so if you buy a bundle of fat quarters they're all shaped like this now a fat quarter is exactly the same amount of fabric as a quarter yard but if you cut a quarter yard off the bolt it's very long and skinny and it's not as useful for all quilt patterns as this bigger square of pieces and that's why the fat quarters have become so popular so one thing to keep in mind is anytime you're doing a fat quarter project you can always use half yards and that's what i'm going to do here i've got this really nice group of fall colored prints that will look really good in the pattern and i've got 13 half yards and i'm going to split them and that's going to give me my 26 fat quarters now if you're going to change and use half yards instead of fat quarters you want to remember that each half yard will give you two fat quarters so you want to make sure that you've still got a nice variety of prints there's 10 different prints in the quilt on the cover here and i've got 13 different prints so this is nice and varied it will still look really good in this pattern so the first step is to pick out six fat quarters that are going to be used for the leaf appliques and i'm going to pick out the darkest ones because i think those will make the best leaves those will be our leaves and then we're going to take all the other fat quarters and we're going to iron them nice and flat before we cut so that all our cuts will be nice and accurate so all of our leaf fabrics we're going to set those aside because we're going to work on those later but the rest of the fat quarters all get cut exactly the same size so take as many as you're comfortable cutting i'm going to do four layers at a time you may want to cut a few more a few less and i can't give you all of the sizes because it's not my pattern but i've made a lot of cozy quilt designs patterns and they're very easy to follow once your cutting is done go ahead and take all the pieces right to the sewing machine now i'm going to grab three strips three different colors it doesn't matter which ones and we're going to sew them side by side so we're going to take our first two and i'm going to line up the edges and i'm going to use a quarter inch seam i'm going to make sure i don't stretch either one of the strips and sew all the way down here and then i'm going to finger press the seam to one side so let's press it this way for some reason that's the easiest way for me to press so i'm going to open it with my hands here and then pull either the pad or my fingernail right down the seam now we're going to add the third piece same procedure just go all the way down and we're going to press the seam same direction so i'm going to go ahead take the rest of my pieces here and sew them all into these three strip units once you've got those done the next thing is to iron these up so i like to smooth it out it's pretty flat because we finger pressed it and if you're not sure if you've got it straight you can get your ruler and put it along one of those seams so if you've got it stitched and it's curving up a little bit maybe you stretched it when you were sewing it's not going to look straight so you can ease it back into shape there so that that seam is nice and straight along your yardstick and then iron it because that will make your patchwork later on be more accurate now we are going to sub cut this so i'm just going to trim a little bit off the edge here and then make some sub cuts now you can cut them all one at a time or you can save a lot of time by doing them in bulk so i'm going to lay my first piece down along the line then i'm going to get the next strip unit and i'm going to move it up about an inch so i can see that i'm about an inch up here and i'm not all the way off there but i can see i'm about an inch up there and i'm staggering them so that the seam allowances don't end up in the same spots so it's kind of lumpy where the seam allowances are here but i'm not getting a whole bunch of them in the same spot so this way if you like to cut four or five layers of fabric you can cut all these at the same time it's really only four or five layers of fabric but you're going to get a whole bunch all at once take all of these little segments back to the machine and just grab two different ones take that one and that one and we are going to sew them together now the only thing we want to make sure is that our seam allowances are going in opposite directions so those are going down these are also going down but all we have to do is flip it around now when we sew these together they're going to be going in opposite directions they're going to nest and it's going to make it really easy to match this up and do that seam open this up finger press to one side and go ahead and do that with all the rest of these segments the blocks are all done and we're ready to lay them out now the layout is extremely easy they just get laid two different ways so this one they're facing that way the next one we're just going to turn it 90 degrees we're going to keep alternating the direction and lay out the whole quilt now mine is going to be seven blocks wide and nine blocks tall and anywhere i get two of the same print matching up i'm just going to turn it around and if that one's matching still there i'll turn it around again and i may trade around a little bit and get a nice pleasing layout the quilt blocks are all laid out and before i stitch them into rows and stitch the rows together we're going to work on the appliques because it's going to be a lot easier to work with appliques on a small section of the quilt rather than trying to put them onto the whole entire top when it's finished the pattern comes with templates for two nice leaves here and it doesn't give you specific methods for putting the appliques on it just says use your favorite method my favorite method is to fuse them on before i sew them and i'm going to use a product called heat n bond light so what this is is a paper-backed fusible product so it's got a smooth paper side and a kind of bumpy side that has the fusible part it's got a little glue stuff that will adhere when we use an iron so i'm going to trace on the paper side one of the leaves and i'm just going to do it with a pencil and even if i don't do it perfectly i can straighten it out as i am cutting now i'm just going to i'm not going to cut the outline i'm just going to cut a bigger piece of this off so now we're going to take one of the fat quarters that we set aside just for the appliques and we'll take our leaf here and always before i put any fusible on i'm going to steam press my fabric now this is the back side this is the reverse side of the batik here and i've got it nice and flat and now i'm putting the bumpy side of this down the paper side is up and with this heat n bond light you don't need to use steam you just need to press it on medium heat for about two seconds there we go now it's nicely stuck on here it's stuck all the way down and this fusible dries completely clear and i can still see my pencil lines so all i'm going to do now is use a sharp pair of scissors and cut all the way around the drawn line so it's pretty easy to cut because the paper is on the fabric it's pretty easy just to keep swiveling the paper around you can get nice smooth cuts there now that it's all done all we have to do is get the paper off so i like to get kind of a corner loosen it up a little bit now the paper peels right off and what we've got is we've got adhesive on this side so this leaf here it's going to fit on one of these patchwork blocks here's the block so i'm going to be able to do all of the leaf appliques and then stitch the whole quilt together just like we would normally make a quilt top here's how this works it's very cool so that shiny side that side with the adhesive that goes down on top of our block then we put the iron on it and it takes about six seconds so i'm gonna have to move it a couple times no steam just a dry iron and now that is completely stuck on there and we can stitch around the edges and it won't move and it'll be really easy to applique i've got my little singer machine out here this has a zigzag it has a lot of different stitches on it but it has a zigzag which is what i use for the applique so every machine is a little bit different but i can choose all these different stitches and then i can choose how wide they're going to be and then how big they're going to be so you want a lot of stitches or a few stitches you can make those adjustments and again every machine is a little bit different with how you're going to make the adjustments we want to stitch this where we have a lot of thread covering the leaf and not much on the background so if this was our leaf we want the thread to be going like this just on the outside of the leaf fabric and when you come to a corner you can pivot and keep appliqueing it takes a little bit of practice so i always do a practice piece first but that's the basic concept for when you're doing zigzag machine applique now i like to use a stabilizer underneath my applique and i'm just using computer paper because i have a lot of computer paper you can use newsprint there's other products specifically made for this use but really any sort of paper will work and that's to keep our stitches nice and even and to keep our applique nice and flat while we're stitching with it i'm going to use a brown thread on the brown leaves i don't want the thread to show much because we've got all this intricate pointy stuff and i'm afraid if i use a contrast thread it's going to take away from the shape of the leaves so i'm just going to start here and again i'm trying to cover a lot of the leaf and not much of the background when you come to any sort of curve you sometimes have to take a few stitches and pivot a little until you can get around that corner the idea is to try to have your stitches perpendicular to the cut edge of your leaf so here's a point here i'm going to lift the presser foot pivot and then keep going so i'm going to pivot every time i come to a corner and sometimes you have to stop in the middle here because you just can't get around that curve fast enough spin it a little keep going and it goes pretty fast once you get the hang of it now i always recommend doing a practice piece before you start because you may decide that you want to have a darker color thread or you want to have your stitch a little bit wider those are all personal preference options so that you can do it however you like coming to where i started here and i'm just going to drive right over that a little bit so my stitches are anchored trim it off now the paper on the back because my stitches are pretty small it rips off pretty easily so i'm just going to go all around the edges take it off the outside and then we'll take it out of the middle too there so now you can see all the stitching because this my stitch is a little bit loose we're not losing these nice points around the edges now before you applique all the leaves it's a good idea to lay them out all over your quilt like i've got here i just put them kind of at random and i mixed up the colors a little bit and i used kind of a diagonal path so the leaves are just scattered down from the tree you might decide you want more leaves or less leaves or you want them more at the bottom all of those could be really interesting interesting looks for your whole quilt so i've got each leaf on one block if you decide you want to put your your leaf in the middle of two blocks that's okay just sew these two together then put the leaf on and that way you'll still have a small thing that you can take over to your applique machine and then you can still put the whole quilt together in rows which is what i'm going to do next then i'm going to get the borders on and we'll get this onto the quilting machine i've got the quilt all done and it's on the machine and i love how the leaves are sprinkled across there but we need to pick a thread color now normally i will pick a color that will blend in with the background which in this case would probably be this green it's going to blend everywhere except it's going to show a teeny bit on the cream but i'm concerned that the green will show on the leaves might not show on that one too much but we've got some darker leaves so i'm thinking i might like this rust color it doesn't show much in the patchwork it's going to show just a little bit in this light one so let's try this one out now i want to quilt it with a leaf pattern and this one will be just perfect because these maple leaves they're shaped very similar to the appliques that are in the quilt and i also like all these little curlicues between the leaves [Applause] now that the quilt is all done you can really feel the hint of fall those leaves just look like they're scattering down it's really an awesome pattern i love that the batiks in the background they're very muted so that the leaves will stand out a little bit not too much now the quilting pattern i don't know if you can see the leaf here but it's almost exactly the same size as the applique leaves and i used a darker thread on the back now you can really see them here i like that effect a lot with the dark thread on this almost solid batik background because you can really really see that quilting pattern now it says twin size but it's really large it's 75 by 93 so that's quite a bit bigger than a standard twin would be easy to make the patchwork fun to do the leaves just very satisfying quilt thanks so much for watching our tutorial today we hope you enjoyed it now if you have any questions about how to make this quilt just leave them in the comments below and i'll be sure to answer them now we've got one more 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Length: 21min 8sec (1268 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 08 2020