Quilt Block Tutorial for Kaleidoscope Sew Along & a STITCH Giveaway!!

[Music] [Music] well hello everybody and welcome back to my sewing room today is january 30th 2021 and today is the first day of the kaleidoscope sew along so this is my book kaleidoscope now did you watch my video last week hopefully you did and if you did you saw that kimberly was here visiting me and we showed all about the kaleidoscope book and um talked about how i designed this block to you know showcase all the colors and i thought the shape of it kind of reminded me of a kaleidoscope and to use all the colors and so that's why i named it kaleidoscope and you know a lot of times in my books i like to give you options of different block sizes so in this one i gave you an option of three block sizes and small medium and large the small is an eight inch block and the medium is a 12 inch and the large is a 16 inch so the 16 inch is what i'll be showing you how i sew today and kimberly next friday is going to be showing how to sew the 8 inch so this is what the 16 inch blocks look like you saw these in the opening and i sewed these out of my new fabric collection stitch i'll show you the fabric in just a minute there's that one there's that one [Music] there's that option that i did and then here's the one i've got going today and i wanted to show you that size and then this size which is the small size this is the 8 inch and this is the crib quilt size or the baby quilt size so this is the eight inch block and this is what kimberly will be demonstrating next week on her channel that's the fat quarter shop channel here on youtube and so the reason we're concentrating on just these two sizes is because i designed this bedrunner to use two of the block sizes together for the sew along and so these are the three 16 inch blocks and then it takes four eight inch blocks and so um so of course you'll need the book to make the blocks and you know get the cutting and all of that stuff but all of this which is the borders and the sashings and stuff for the bedrunner is free and you can download that on fat quarter shops website and of course i will leave a link here below my video description so that you can know for all the cutting if you want to do that exact same setting all right so um last week we also did oh let me pull these papers out okay last week we also did a um giveaway because i have a cross stitch in here as well and so we did three giveaways and so i want to announce those so um and then i'm going to be doing another giveaway but i'll be doing that at the end of this video after i show you about the blocks so for the lap quilt and and the book which includes the paper pieces the winner is julie kelsey and for the kaleidoscope bedrunner kit and the book is debbie watterson and for the kaleidoscope book and the pillow kit is margaret wright and for the kaleidoscope cross stitch um thread pack the floss keeper and the book is gala corsi so i hope i'm saying every name right so cassidy pick those names thank you cassidy for for doing that and um i have left a comment on your comments and we will get in touch that way so thanks so much for entering and again i'll be doing giveaways all summer long to to celebrate my one year anniversary here on youtube alright so let's just talk about the fabric that i'm using for this block i decided to use a different fabric than my b cross stitch which the entire book is made for my b cross stitch fabric collection and it shows you here right here all of the skus seeing all of the skus used all of the colors and so that you know how to identify all of those colors those happy rainbow of colors that was so fun and but because i always like to show you something different and because colin kimberly already did the her kaleidoscope bedrunner in the b cross stitch i wanted to do it in my stitch fabric which this is what it looks like this is brand new it just hit the warehouse a little bit ago and it's shipping to quilt shops now i'm loving it i'll be doing my sew along my happy place sew along with this fabric and i just thought it would be really fun to do these kaleidoscope blocks and stitch as well now the background fabric i'm using this is pre-yardage this is not available yet but this is my fabric called stitches and it goes perfectly well with stitch look how fun that is so i just designed this um with little sewing machine stitches because i thought that would be really fun now this collection is really um going to be a fun collection the collection that this is um included in is called hush and it is a lot of us riley blake designers got together and did one low volume or background fabric and put in the collection so it's comprised of a lot of us riley blake designers and that's really fun to be able to do something you know with them and work with them and so this was my contribution to the collection called stitches and so that's what i'm going to be using and again it's available in september i believe okay all right so let's start working on the 16 inch block so what i've done here is i've done several sections and already put them together but i haven't put the block together so what this block consists of is this center block here it's kind of like there's three separate parts in this block this center part right here which i've sewn these rows together and these are just half square triangles all of the half square triangles in this block are all the same size we cut them all the same size and so i'll just be sewing those together so that's the center block right there and then the next section is this second round right here which comprises of a fat quarter not a fat quarter a flying geese and two half square triangles and then that goes all the way around but instead of sewing it in rows i think it's easier to do it this way in sections and that's how i put it in the book as well and then we have the outside surrounding row that i did in yellow and it has two flying geese and then we have these sections in the corners which is one half square triangle and then some backgrounds so what i thought i would do before i sewed this whole block together is show you how i do the half square triangles according to the book there's all different kinds of ways and how i did my flying geese according to the book this is just traditional piecing and this is how i like to do my half square triangles when i want to do two at a time and i'm doing my flying geese with just my easy corner triangles so what i have done for the half square triangles is i've cut a square the same size for the background as i as i have for these so i just thought i would show you how to you know do it with three squares but you will get two half square triangles out of that two half square triangles out of that and two half square triangles out of that all right so let's do that first now because i'm using uh my seems so easy guide i do not have to mark on my fabric but if you don't have a seam so easy guide and you like to mark on your fabric what you're going to be doing is marking a line down the center and then you're going to be sewing a quarter inch away from that line okay but because i have my uh seems so easy guide here on my machine by the way i've switched my machines out this is my denim featherweight and this is sweet baby james named after james taylor so i'll be sewing on this little cutie today and so this is where i can explain where these three lines come in because normally i've always shown you how to use the center line which we'll be using when we're doing the flying geese and of course this is your quarter inch seam line for accuracy now this line over here i haven't showed you before what i do with that but that's what i use this line for is when i'm you making two half square triangles out of two squares like this so what i do is i'm going to be following this line so all i'm going to be doing is lining up this corner and this corner with this line and sewing because they're a quarter of an inch away from each other if i'm watching this line i know that i'm sewing a quarter inch away from the center so that's that's why i use that line now let me just run another one through right sides together line them up as easy as you can now also i wanted to tell you before i continue sewing i have given you the instructions to cut out the squares the exact same size that you need to so that they finish exactly right but sometimes i like to cut mine like an eighth of an inch bigger or a quarter of an inch bigger than i tell you in the book or that that calls for in any pattern or book and then i can trim down and square it up if i want to so for these squares i did cut these an eighth inch bigger than i told you in the book and then i'll be showing you how i trim those down for accuracy okay so then i just feed these through following this line the whole time ignoring these two at this point i'm going to feed the last one in and then i'm just going to clip these off and turn it around see i've already sewn right here and i'm just gonna turn it around and continue on the other side and now i know that i've sewn these say a half inch apart a quarter inch from the corner on each side okay so here's my last one let me grab a couple squares and sew these together i'm in the middle of another little bonus project so might as well get those sewn together all right so at this point i take them over to the iron here and i like to just set my seams so it's nice and flat and smooth real quickly i also not only switched out my machine but i switched out my iron here i still use a lot of vintage irons this one happens to be american beauty but every once in a while i like to switch out my irons i have quite a collection of those as well which you've seen in my video that i've shown you before about my irons okay so what i do is now i just cut these apart you can use the rotary if you want but i find it's just as quick just to grab my um my large pair of dress maker scissors i love these blades and how long they are and i just cut them apart because it doesn't have to be cut apart exactly you know in the center because it's already sewn so you don't have to worry about that now at this point this is where i trim these up okay so let me set this up here grab my little cutting mat and rotary over here so what i do here is when i'm trimming just kind of push that out of the way so you can see can you see all right so i'm going to be using my two and a half inch trimmer ruler and i love this my trim it rulers because you can see the two inches is inside this window that's the finished size and this is the quarter inch around and so these are for trimming up blocks so that you can trim them during the sewing process so that they will go together correctly in your quilt now there's two ways you can do this you can open it up and press the seams open which i'm going to eventually press the seams open you can open it up press the seams open line that center line up there and see that little excess fabric because i cut an eighth an eighth of an inch bigger and then just trim all the way around it okay but what i like to do which i think is even more accurate is i like to press them after i've trimmed it up and i just lay that down and see this stitch line right there i don't know which one you can see it the best on maybe maybe that i should have used a different color thread but you can see the stitch line right there and what you're going to do is you're going to line up this corner to corner denim line right directly on that stitch line okay you're going to put it there so that that goes right where you've stitched and then you know that the excess all the way around it is what you trim so this way you don't have to trim all the way around and it's more accurate because you're going right from your stitched line either way is going to be accurate i just think this is faster and then i go ahead and just trim those corners off and then i'm going to go over here and press it open i usually do these all the same you know time at the same step but i just kind of wanted to show you and then i can throw the clapper on there to let it cool down and that's what i do i just continue going on and trimming these and so i'm going to go ahead and finish these up [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so here i've got half square triangles they're all the same they've all trimmed up to two and a half okay and they're perfectly accurate and i love that you can just lay that right on there and see that that is exact all the way around and more importantly you can see because of this line you can see the color on that side of the color on this side and that's how you can trim it up to make it accurate instead of just making it two and a half inches but it's not really half and half it could be the print could be over on one side more than the other when you go to trim so i love that method that's how i did all of the half square triangles for this whole block and of course you can do that for other blocks too that's what i do um you know i use these all the time and i love making two half square triangles at the same time and so now i will show you how i do the flying geese so now you've seen me do this method many times before and this is where i'm just following this center line right here and i'm just laying the square down corner to corner and i just i'm starting sewing right on the corner and then i'm following this center line because for these we trim off the excess so i thought i'd just do like four flying geese to show you how i do that even though i've already sewn all the segments in the quilt so i'm just going to do one side for the blankies because then i have to trim this other side and press it back before i can add the other side so again i just take my scissors and i just do one long trim approximately a quarter of an inch and then i'm going to take it over here and i'm going to press the seams open after i'm going to set the seam real quick i'm going to press the seam open i am going to be um pressing open this entire block even though it's a larger block sometimes i don't press open when it's larger i always do when it's smaller but because there's so many points and things like that you know throughout the block that need to line up it's just much easier to press the entire thing open and so after i've pressed that open then i'll just come over here and grab another square and lay it right on there and just go the other direction okay i'm going to go ahead and finish these up and show you what all four of them look like and then talk about trimming up and accuracy and all that [Music] stuff [Music] all right so here we are with the flying geese here and i just want to show you something before i talked about squaring them up or trimming them up but so you know how i showed you how you can so here's the trimmings off of this one by the time i fold it like this i had already pressed it but i showed you what it would look like if i took the trimmings and sewn a quarter inch seam and then i come over here and i press it in half not in half open seems open you know what i mean it's a half square triangle and then by the time you trim these off i mean you literally could use this small of a piece but i don't normally save them this small just because of this so you look at that and you're like well by the time i do that you know squared up and all of that stuff remember your quarter inch seam is going to go all the way around there and it's going to end up being very very tiny now i use these tiny pieces in my picture blocks a lot but i never make a whole entire quilt out of just a one inch square half square triangle and so that's why i don't save these pieces but of course that's up to you but i always save my easy corner triangle trimmings if i can cut a one and a half inch square out of it and then i will ask add them to my you know to my stash bins and of course i use those on all my scrappy quilts so i just kind of wanted to show you that all right so at this point what i do with these now these are supposed to measure two and a half inches tall by four and a half inches wide and so here's my four and a half inch trim it ruler so even though these are rectangle i still use this as my flying geese because when you lay this up right here so you can see that you can lay those lines right there where your flying goose is supposed to be and you can see that that is accurate and nothing needs to be trimmed off on this side that's perfect and you can flip it around and do the same thing by using the top half of the ruler line it up exactly onto those lines and see you know if you need to trim anything off on the other side but you don't it looks great okay it looks great on both sides and then i just go ahead and do that with the yellow so if the points up this way i just bring it up here this shows what your quarter inch seam will look like when you've sewn this whole thing this whole window to this point right here will show your flanges so i think that's a pretty accurate method but sometimes when you're sewing you can maybe go a little bit crooked if you you know wasn't paying attention or something and this might hang over a little bit and it's easy just to trim that off it's not a big deal so i use my trim it rulers for all that kind of stuff just when i need to i don't hold it up to every one of them and try them out i just if i look at it and i think something's off with it then i may trim it off you can also hold it this way see how you this is straight across here you can hold it this way and just see if it's straight across the top and see that little teeny thing that hangs off i mean i'm talking it's very minuscule but you could easily trim that off so that it's straight so that's how i do my flying geese this method i know it's kind of a long explanation and it really doesn't take that long i just did it slow so i could you know talk about every little thing and tell you the what's and whys of how i do things but now that we have this flying goose these half square triangles then this is how you lay out your block and so what i'm going to do now is make this center block and then i'm going to sew these together in a row first and then i'll sew this bottom to this top to be this section right here and after i've sewn that together i basically have a nine patch again so because i have one two three four five six seven eight nine patches to sew together and how i'll sew that together is exactly how i'm sewing this together so into three rows and then sew those three rows together and i will press my seams open throughout the whole block and i'll show you the back of my block when i'm finished okay so i will be right back all right so look at that here we have the 16 inch kaleidoscope block all finished and let me show you the back so i pressed it all open and i can even take it and you know press it more and put the clappers on there this is the point where i'm going to take my seam roller and i'll roll it out and put the clappers on and really get it flat but i wanted you to see what it looks like all put together i really love it and i love this way of doing flying geese i hope you enjoyed that method and the easy square triangles doing two at a time i like to use this method um when i'm doing half square triangles that the fabric you know needs to match so when i'm sewing scrappy half square triangles sometimes i'll just cut two squares sew from corner to corner and trim off the excess for scrap quilts but you know as i've said before you're the boss of your own quilt so that means you're the boss of your own method and you can decide which method you'd like to do now next week kimberly is going to be showing how to do the paper piecing method for the eight inch blocks and so that's really fun and you could totally just like we said last week in my video you could do my method with the 16 inch block and do the 8 inch block in the paper piecing method they're both accurate they would both go together in the runner and that would be awesome so now i have four of these blocks and because i said in last week's video i'm going to be putting the queen size quilt on my bed so i'm probably not going to do the runner for my bed because i'm going to have that quill on my bed so i think i'm going to do a table topper here let me just stand up here real quick and put these blocks out here because i really think that if i put four blocks together i don't know can you see that if i laid it out like that and i use these design boards i don't have a big enough design board for all four of these like this you might be able to see missy running around in there too yeah she's over missy okay see won't that be a cute table topper this has been really fun sewn with this background fabric too it's kind of fun this stitches fabric i don't want to confuse it because that's in the hush collection and this is my stitch fabric collection but the actual print is called stitches and i designed it so that it's not directional so that you can just cut it out and it can go any other way but i think that's kind of fun i think i might put a little bit of sashing in between those and put a little border with this background around them and bind it and have a cute table topper all right so and again i'll have all of the information for the downloads here but let's talk about the giveaways for this week so um i've had some new things come in because it's just all the stuff from stitch is starting to trickle in so for one person let me take these i'm just doing a giveaway but these are all my design boards see these from stitch this is a large one and this is the other large one so i love that love having all those new colors so i'll be adding those into my library but i will be giving away this 14 inch design board this one so here's all the stuff right here my stitch tin mug has come in now that's what this looks like right here with my tomato pen cushions on there so i'll be giving that away and of course i'll be giving away some stitch so this is a roly-poly of stitch this is my washi tape that's come in that's what this looks like now i've used it here down here the gray one on my sewing machine but i use my washi tape to put my seems so easy guides on all the time now i did this one wider and it says the word stitch on it and i thought that would be really fun for packaging or all of that kind of things i use washi tape quite a bit so so you'll get washi tape as well and speaking of the word stitch right here is keychain or a charm for a bigger bag and uh that says stitch that came in i'll be giving i'll be including my stitch badge here that i do for only those who are at quilt market i'll be giving away a package of my cue cuts trim it rulers okay so you can buy them all separately and i have these in in one inch increments all the way up to 20 and a half inches starting from two and a half inches but you can buy a set that includes the two and a half three and a half four and a half five and a half and six and a half which i use a lot and keep here by my machine and use as i'm sewing to just check my measurements trim up my blocks make sure everything's correct as i'm putting things together so those just came back in stock as well so i'll be giving a set of those away these just came back in stock my seems so easy guy they've been out of stock for quite a while and so this is in denim the hole is already cut out and you can just use the washi tape or these stickers to put it on your machine and then here's the design board so that is the giveaway i also wanted to show you that um as i've said in my videos before i like to use the packaging from the washi tape right here to all unfolds as a bookmark but i want to show you what this this big word looks like on rolled okay i gotta find the edge here i think that's so fun so that's what that washi tape looks like i'll probably use this on my sewing machine as well because it's wider but i really wanted to design this wide so i could use it for packaging or you know just cut the words apart for different things so for the giveaway for the rules are just like all my other giveaways you need to be following my channel here you need to like this video and for the comment so you'll need to obviously need leave a comment for the comment why don't you just use the word stitch in any way you want to just use the word stitch so i know that you will be entered in the giveaway so cassidy can pick your name that way um thank you so much for joining me i'll be back here next week filming and um we'll be doing more giveaways throughout the rest of the month of august and maybe even into september so um i hope you enjoy the kickoff of the kaleidoscope sew along with me and with fat quarter shop and watch kimberly next week and i love seeing all of your blocks and your progress on the kaleidoscope i did start my cross stitch i did post that on instagram and i'll continue posting that and that's all happening starting next wednesday tuesday as well and um i'll keep posting on instagram and i'll chat with you later [Music]

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Published: Fri Jul 30 2021