Quilt As You Go: Assembling the Blocks

[Music] hi this is Nancy with OnPoint TV we are continuing our series in the block-by-block quilt as you go so the book again is from Beth Donaldson called block by block remember this is the first edition the second edition had a blue cover but this book is not available in print anymore so you're going to have to go to eBay or Amazon or all of your quilting friends go to your quilt guild say does anybody have that blocked by black quilt book from Beth Donaldson so this is where we're at we're near the end and it's time to put the blocks together I want you to know this can be a very confusing process I will try to go as slow as I can so that if you don't have the book you're still able to do this technique if you have the book I think it'll make it that much easier so the first thing we have to do is trim down our blocks so these blocks have been completely applic wilted and all of the quilting has been done all the way out to the borders now it's time to trim so here is the rule where there is a sashing you need to trim it a half inch larger than what there is so I'm gonna come to the edge here gonna use the half inch on my ruler and this one here I'm pretty close I'm only able to get just a smidge on that side the Bott batting is even a little bit smaller but this one's better on this I'm going to add the half inch all the way around so just lining up 1/2 inch on my ruler and trim spin again and this is the number three block in the four blocks so you'll know that this one has three Fasching sides and where there is no sashing like right here you want to actually trim it even with the edge of the block so I'm gonna line my ruler up and lining it up square with the block itself sometimes this sashings will stick out oddly so I'm gonna move this down to make sure that you see this if I keep this lined up with the edge of the block you can see that I'm gonna trim off some of the sashing up there at the top and that's okay I want this edge to be perfectly straight oops go a little deeper so that's the number three block now I'm going to trim up the number four block again just like with the number three where there is a sashing you're going to trim it a half inch larger so for the number four block that means two sides and where there is no sashing you will trim it to the edge of the block using the block as your guide there the next step is actually assembling the blocks so for this next step it's done in a couple of steps in the process so the first thing we need to do is to separate the sashing from the batting and backing on the block that actually has sashing to it now on this particular quilt because I was just doing straight line quilting I did quilt some of this sashing so I'm only gonna pull it back that far which is plenty enough I'm gonna flip the block over and on the back I'm gonna move the batting and backing out of the way and use some big needles so big pins I do love these clover glass head pins for just about everything that I saw well they're garments or quilting but these big pins that they call quilters pins I would never use them in normal quilt making but they are really fabulous when it comes to quilt as you go because some of these are rather thick sections so these pins really go in and grab and keep everything out of the way now when I flip this back up this is the block that it will be attached to so now I'll take this block and flip it over now I can pin this matching up my sash Eng's being sure that everything matches very nicely there and I am gonna again use those big pins because I'm going through this big batting section and pin all the way to the other end and then match this up now sometimes you're gonna see this look at this my sashing is about a quarter of an inch larger than my quilt block beneath that's because the quilt block has already been quilted the sashing has not you need to be sure that you still match up the ends and ease in the rest of it if you don't you actually will get some odd little bubbles in there but this will work so pulling this on this end I'm gonna find the middle and put pins in and I'm gonna put probably six to seven more pins just in this section there now I'm gonna take this to my sewing machine and we're gonna attach this block to the number three block to number four block so we're at the machine and I've moved my needle over to a real quarter of an inch I know that in piecing we always use a scant quarter inch I want a little bit more this time for the quilt as you go technique and I'm going to just slowly so over yep I did it I sold right over those pins I do it all the time just do it nice and slow and you'll be just fine now sometimes you might hit a pin but never killed me yeah sometimes it might actually mess up the timing and that's just when if there's time for you to go and visit your sewing machine mechanic what you're probably not doing often enough anyway so here where I needed to ease that extra sashing in I'm actually kind of pulling the quilt apart to get that ease to go in it is the proper size but the reason it seems too big is because the bottom section has already been quilted and the quilting of the quilt especially as densely as we did it is always gonna draw up the quilt so that's why the sashing seems a little bit bigger all the way to the end and I want to do a back stitch here I want this to be a very strong seam so I did a little bit of a back stitch and cut it off now that we've done the stitching we're going to lay the quilt blocks out to assemble them so there's a couple of tools here you can use one of them is from Marty Michelle so that the that is the designer whose book we're going to be using when it comes time to do the borders which is this book so this is the same designer and author there also came out with a fusible webbing for putting some of the sections together another one you can use is the heat press batting together that's what we've used to put some of our batting when you're trying to make your batting last a little longer and you but the edges you can take this and just lay it on top and press it so that's what we're gonna use here so it's all assembled when we clear off my ironing board a little bit take my extra pins out and flip it I'll open it up and flip it over so I'm gonna turn this the other way there sorry got your camera all got your quilt all in the face so here I'm going to open that seam and I want to be sure that it's completely pulled open so using my iron I'm gonna pull on the right-hand side and then give it a really good press down right here a little bit of steam in there will help hold it in place then take the batting just remove the batting from the backing now and we want to trim it so that it trims as evenly to this edge as we can so here is this edge so remember we did this we trim this a half inch bigger than it needed to be because we were trimming to the edge of the sashing now we're going to be taking off another quarter of an inch and I like again to use these scissors that are a little bit tipped up so that when I'm cutting it's a little bit more comfortable either way no what scissor you're using here you're going to take your time so folding the batting as you go getting it to fold right to the edge of the seam on the other block so it's butting right next to it it's not overlapping yet now that's all trimmed so that it's budding right next to the other scene and now is when I like to use this fusible now I'm using it in black this time because my backing is a little bit dark and it'll just be a little less noticeable if it peeks and what I'm gonna do is lay it down with the fusible side down and it's gonna go to just before that quarter-inch seam that was the scene that I just sold these blocks together with but what this will do is hold the batting in place for all of the next steps so you see how it holds it down there come all the way to the end and then trim that off now we need to get this piece to lay overtop what we need to do here is get the fold so that the fold goes just past the stitching line that is holding the blocks together so it really is a matter of eyeing it more than measuring it so I'm looking I'm trying to get that to lay down right over the stitching line like I said it's not a matter of measuring it really is a matter of eyeing it I've tried in the past to pre-press it so I knew that it had to be 1/2 inch or whatever never seems to work I always end up coming back and having to change that fold so I never pre-press it anymore I wait until I'm actually to the back of the quilt that's covering that seam I want you to again notice this backing fabric how fabulous this is with this small busy multicolored stuff going on you can hardly see that seam now I'm gonna use one of my favorites some Roxanne's basting spray and I'm gonna glue this down so this is in Beth's book she actually pins it down but I'm gonna glue it down at least I think I'm gonna glue it down there we go and just dots of glues you don't need to have a whole stream of it and I'm staying inside the seam allowance and this will hold this in place very nicely for when I'm doing this next technique I need to cap this so it doesn't dry again I'll find that in a second oh there it is alright see how important this is you must cap it and keep it right sides up so that it doesn't get stuck yeah now because I'm impatient I'm gonna press this until the glue is dry and then we'll go and sew this down so I've got the seams attached and I want to just show you a little bit here if you see this is the backing and it is just a tad bit bigger so there's the backing and there's the sashing so such just a tad bit larger and that's gonna make this next seam hopefully be pretty nice so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna again do that on the ledge stitching that I do let me get my thread under there there so right there next to the that is going to catch that backing fold that I did and secure it down and it is also quilting on the top of the quilt this usually works pretty good but the proof is in the pudding when you get to the back side of it but before we go to the backside I'm going to cut off and I'm gonna continue quilting this sashing once the blocks are together you can continue any of the quilting that you want to do in this Center for this quilt it's just a straight line right down the center of that blue I didn't do any free motion quilting in this particular session I will want to do a little bit of free motioning on the yellow section but I'm not there yet so I'm not gonna worry too much about it right now now we're gonna flip it over and see how it looks on the backside if we caught the edge that we wanted to catch all right it's a good day we caught the edge so you can see here this is just that little bit of a fold and my stitching was right on top of it and I'm looking all the way down and it looks like I caught it if you miss it you do not need to take out all of that stitching you can just go back in hand stitch any sections that you may have missed so our blocks are now together next time we get together we will be putting the rows together so be sure that you subscribe to the channel and hit the notification button so that when we put up another posting with the next steps you won't miss it at all see you next time [Music]

Channel: OnPoint-TV and Quilting with Nancy

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Keywords: quilt, quilt as you go, quilt tutorial, quilting with nancy, sewing with nancy, Nancy Roelfsema, how to quilt as you go, quilt tiles, Marti Michell, Beth Donaldson, sewing on sashing, free motion quilting, Roxanne Glue Baste It

Id: SqHjNm9P00U

Length: 16min 20sec (980 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 03 2019