Quilt Camp QAL Week 10 - Snack Time

[Music] i'm angie with peach voice creations and welcome to week 10 block 9 for quilt camp quilt along 2021 this week's block is snack time and its focus is on curves don't let the curves scare you off i'm here with this tutorial to show you exactly how to cut and piece these curves and the foundation paper piecing also involved in this pattern you can handle it i promise we're going to go through step by step so when you get your pattern in the back are the templates you'll have the cone template which is a foundation paper piece template and then you'll have your ice cream template the curved pieces template so after you print the first thing you're going to want to do after you print is take your ruler and make sure that these little squares measure one inch so just lay your ruler on top if it measures one inch awesome if it doesn't you can either enlarge it um or reduce it on a copier or change the print percentage size on your print settings when you go to print this off you will need to print three of these total so the first one will print when you print the whole pattern and then print two more of these and cut them out let's start with the foundation paper piecing templates you will cut out the square to this and then these other templates that are on the other two pages are so you can have the right size fabric to lay on here to sew onto the paper so foundation paper piecing you will sew directly onto this paper you'll actually sew on to these lines on this one and these templates are to make sure that the fabric you cut is the correct size and will cover the space um as you do that so that's what these are when you're cutting the templates all the templates have a number so in the pattern it'll tell you how many of each number t1 t2 t3 it'll tell you exactly how many to cut and of what color of each of the templates when you're cutting these templates for the foundation paper piecing they don't have to be spot on exact and i'll show you what i mean by that in just a second so you will need three of these cut out and i still need to cut out of the one and make sure you use paper scissors don't use your fabric scissors to cut on paper and then up here we have your ice cream ones that you'll cut out and you'll just cut them out and you want to be pretty careful and cautious with these make sure that you cut them just outside the black line and then once you have these you'll use these in a minute and i'll show you how to cut the curves a few easy ways to cut these curves and so you can get as precise and um give you a little boost for when you sew them later so let's dive right in and i'll show you how to cut these curved pieces the first thing you're gonna do is the largest edge on any of these curved templates is three and a half inches so i cut a three and a half inch strip and now i'm going to take that and cut a clean edge onto that and now i can begin cutting my curved pieces do not let the curved pieces overwhelm you it's so simple you will become more comfortable with your rotary cutter as you do this so i'm going to start with this because i feel like it's more natural to cut the con vex instead of the concave curve i feel like it's easier to cut the outward curve than the inward curve so we're going to start here actually place that first template there place a ruler on the edge and here's where the fun begins we're going to keep the rotary cutter straight up and down okay just enough fresh air we're only going through one layer of fabric so you don't have to have an immense amount of pressure and as you do this you're going to rotate the ruler around and the template um the creative grids are extra grippy so it doesn't always work best with the paper templates so i'll do i'll switch it up and do this one so it doesn't catch as much so one like this see how it slides really well the creative grids has that grip on it and so it catches sometimes so start with the ruler here and then you're just going to slowly pivot the ruler and the rotary cutter around the curve nice and slow straight up and down pressure and then oh i caught right there so then i just go back and i just do a little tiny cut and there is my curved piece that is one way to do it it's okay if you shave the template a little bit you can either print more or just know right there next time go a little bit wider but that's how you do the curved template and then you can come and do the next one these are the same like this i just did two to help people visualize it better so if you want to layer the fabric and cut two that's totally your call you can do it you can handle it light pressure don't go crazy with the pressure and you can use a ruler to guide you or you can just carefully and slowly go all the way around totally up to you but you can do it have faith tell yourself you can okay and you can do it and honestly you can get that curved piece out of this so if you want to waste even less fabric you can totally cut when you cut this t8 and t6 template you can get these curved i think they're nine and i don't know nine and seven you can get those out of these little pieces so if you want less least amount of waste that's one way to do it so there are those and now we get to do these inward curves or concave um they're a little more uncomfortable but honestly not bad at all remember you only have to do four six eight you'll have to do 12 curves total like that's like hardly nothing you can do it so let's start again there's those there's that one they're just so cute i love curves a lot i have a whole other curved pattern that's how much i like curves okay so here you can just lay this along this edge and trim these curved pieces you want pretty exact to my templates when you're cutting them because you're not like you're squaring the edge later but you're not changing the curve foundation paper piecing you're trimming and squaring as you go these you're going to sew one curved seam and then that's that and you will square the edge if needed um so make sure that you are cutting these pretty close okay um so here we go we're gonna start right in here i'd like to do this first a little bit without a ruler but you can totally bump your ruler up there and then keep the rotary cutter up and down and if you move slowly with consistent pressure it's going to just work its way right around i had a little bit where i didn't make contact not a big deal go back and there you go okay and let me do the next one with the ruler and that's all it is like curves scare people but don't let them they open up a whole new world of quilting i'm just trying to help you all i just want to help anybody that feels like that there might not be capable or because you are you are capable you're able to do this so i have faith um so i just want to make it let's eat that it sticks so bad okay the one time you don't want a ruler with a whole lot of grip is when you're doing curved cutting and you need a little bit of a guide okay put that to the side and here we go i'm just going to line it all back up and i will use the ruler this time to guide me and when you're standing straight over it it's a lot easier than the angle i'm trying not to get my head in the camera then you just slide the ruler up and ta-dah all done so my tips on cutting curves first focus on the rotary cutter being straight up and down not at an angle or you'll cut into your fabric or you'll overcut your fabric straight up and down light to moderate pressure especially if you're only cutting through one layer of fabric and a ruler to guide you or just take it nice and slow and let that wheel just do what it does and slowly turn and cut through that fabric you can do it i have faith you're gonna love it and it's even cooler once you see them pieced you're going to want to cut curves way more so on to the foundation paper piecing those are cut i've pre-cut all my other fabric um because i didn't want y'all to have to sit here for like a decade and a half when it comes to fabric cutting so um all the other fabric is over here pre-cut i just wanted to show you how to cut a few things um so you didn't have too many questions like why didn't you show us this week when the cutting's more complicated um so now i will move on so foundation paper piecing when you are cutting this you just cut around the whole block okay these you cut out are your templates for the fabric you will use on these it doesn't have to be perfect so just slap this bad boy down you can use a ruler to get you straighter cuts that's not a problem just like you did right there and then flip it and go this way but honestly you can just kind of go around it or you have scrap pieces that are big enough like it's not a huge deal when it comes to um foundation paper piecing because you will square up and trim as you go alrighty so once you've gotten all of your templates cut out it's time to start piecing so using the diagrams on the pattern you'll see which colors to match up to which for these curved pieces so for the first one you'll need fabric a and fabric e so fabric a is your cone piece so there we go for me and then fabric e is going to be your outer kind of background of the cone piece so just use your diagram to match up your colors so we have our pieces and now we are going to get these ready to go through the machine so this is your first time sewing curves i want you to go ahead and fold the curves fold along the curved side and just give a little finger press this gives you just almost an aiming point for the curves so as you're sewing them together you can aim for that spot okay then we're gonna flip see how i did that we're just going to flip it over face down and bring it right here and put about a half inch over which let me see on my about a half inch over the edge like that and then if you need to you can pin right there okay and then you can pin the center seam that we just finger pressed and then you can kind of work your way around and we have about a quarter inch hanging off over here just a little under on this side when we get done okay i don't like to pin all this i feel like it adds so much like so much to a already interesting situation but if you feel comfortable pin it to win it people pin it to win it you can add even two more pins if you wanted i'm just not a huge pinner but let's go ahead and get this bad boy into the machine if anything on these you would you can sew a scant quarter inch so just to the inside of a quarter inch versus a really big and fat quarter inch that will eat up a little more of the fabric and make things just a hair more difficult so um just be mindful of that these pens are driving me nuts already because i don't do pens i have to get rid of them i just like to let it naturally follow the curve of the machine like the machine will pull it through you'll see what i'm talking about and so that first pin and just slowly start guiding it through and i'll line up a little bit and then pivot and just work that that curve through the machine do not pull this concave piece this background piece don't pull it super hard just place it and keep on keeping on okay if you get a pinch lower the needle lift the presser foot and flatten out that pinch or crease that you created okay get it flat lower the lower the feet uh the presser foot and keep going don't get up just just keep going slow and steady will win the race of the day if you get nervous lower the needle lift the foot maneuver the fabric but don't pull it okay and just keep working your way around the curve okay oops and i accidentally i'm on a different machine my other machine when i press um when i press my presser foot it drops my presser foot for me but not on this machine i have to remember that and then just keep working your way around the curve and there you have it your first curve so you can tell i got a little big in some places i have a little tiny pucker there um but other than that it looks super good so i'm going to press it back you always want to iron towards the con cave um towards your background piece okay so we're going to iron towards the background piece when you're ironing try not to stretch out your fabric try just to iron it down if you have to do this a couple times to get comfortable that's okay that is not a problem at all and even with that tiny little pucker that i have i'm gonna keep it because my my fear is i don't want y'all to think that i sew curves perfect every time sometimes i have a little pucker and if it's tiny like that i'm going to let it slide okay so let's do the other side so this is the left side of your ice cream block and now we're going to do the right side right side same thing so we're going to fold it in the middle finger press finger press this side it just gives you a good aiming point when you're feeding it through to try to get those lined up and then we're going to flip the concave background piece face down and do about a half inch past um and i kind of use the little thing on my machine to measure and then i will pin that and then i'll try to pin it for y'all but oh my gosh i can't stand i can't stand having extra things in my way but i'm gonna try to do it for you okay so there we go we're gonna kind of keep this nice and flat and i'm just flattening it out with my finger okay and then we're gonna get it over here and get it under i start sewing above on the background on the background piece above the convex piece the actual curved like ice cream piece i start sewing above that and then work my way to the actual curve um just works a little better for me i need to do this with the needle stopping down in the down position um oh my gosh i just don't like how little the pins give you like no way to work with the fabric it literally drives me insane so i'm gonna ditch that bad boy sorry if y'all like pins i'm fantastic for you i just can't i cannot do them we don't get along so i'm just gonna slowly work the curve through the machine if i need to stop and kind of flatten out my fabric i can all while not pulling oh dagnabbit my presser foot um all while i'm not pulling my fabric you do not want to pull the fabric because then you're going to end up with a very wavy wonky piece so just kind of keep pivoting it smoothing out the fabric the best you can and um just doing your best it's going to be a super cute block regardless and as you can see i'm just working it through nice and slow i'm not speedy gonzales over here um wait here we go and give yourself grace these are pretty small curves okay i normally like to work with you know a four or five inch or a larger curve these are three inch curves so um to work with the block size we were going for i wanted to do like multiple ice creams and so i had to do a smaller curve so with that being said you are working on some really small curves so give yourself grace and you're doing it fantastic and there is and again we're going to press towards the background piece or the convex curve okay push the seam away from the curve very gently you don't want a whole lot of pressure with the iron because you don't want to stretch the fabric okay so here we go our first two curves are done now it's time to trim these up let's start with the left side of the cone first we are wanting to end up with a three inch wide by three and a half inch tall so my width is going to be across the top of my ice cream and the height the tall what i call tall the height is going to be um the edge this other edge so i'm going to turn this to its side and then i'm going to lay my ruler like this and i'm going to base my measurements off the 90 degree the corner of the actual ice cream or concave convex piece this actual ice cream piece so i'm not measuring off of the background i'm measuring off of the ice cream piece so i'm gonna get my three and a half right there by three right three inches so i've got my three and a half inch right here i've got my three inch here i'm a little shy over here but not enough to be concerned and i'm going to trim just like that then i'm going to flip it and i'm going to trim it up to the finished three by three and a half so i line that up sorry my head gets in there every time so i've got three inches here and three and a half inches here okay three three and a half and i'm just gonna trim that up just like that and then you have this beautiful little block and you can't even tell there is a tiny tiny little kink of fabric right there but you cannot even tell so now let's do the other side of the fabric and we'll start off laying the roller down measuring off the ice cream piece we're going to do three and a half inches tall and three inches wide and i'm measuring off this piece so i'm following the three and a half inch line on my ice cream piece and the the other line over here and i've got three inches by three and a half trim that up rotate and do it again three and a half inches tall three inches wide there we go and now i have my beautiful ice cream block like look how stinking cute so so so cute so i will say line these up and sew from the ice cream edge down down and and then you can pin what i like to do is line these up and i'm going to pin because you don't want a wonky top to your ice cream okay you want a nice good curve so i'm going to line these up and pin them in place to make sure i get my smooth curve i'm looking for and we will sew this down and slow and steady is going to be your biggest um advantage to getting these right and then you can see right there my curve meets up perfectly i'm gonna press this seam open and that is one of my three ice cream blocks i need to do um so tips for sewing these curves you can pin to start you can pin the whole way through i just feel like it offers me less maneuverability availability to smooth and work the fabric through the machine so um i i will say that's why i do not like pinning you can see my center marks on here line up so you can use that as a guide as you're pushing it through to make sure you're not stretching or pulling the fabric too much and just take your time if you have to rip you have to rip it's not a huge deal i want you to enjoy curves and i really hope you have a good first experience with them because i want you to to feel like you can open up a whole new world of quilting by having curves as an option for you to use in the future i will use a flatter spray on here because this particular block has a lot of seams and so later when we start piecing it together it does get a tad bulky and so i'm definitely going to try to get my seams as flat as humanly possible um for this block but there you go and um i can even i mean that just is so that's just the coolest thing ever like look at that little cute curve so there you go that's how we do curves now let's jump ahead and knock out a foundation of paper piece so again when it comes to foundation paper piecing just use the diagram in your pattern and kind of see with this your ice cream block kind of coming together so stinking cute um and we'll get that started so if you haven't foundation paper piece before no worries i'm about to walk you through step by step to knock this bad boy out so you have your template you are going to put your template face down and you can kind of see through it as you hold it up to the light like you can see you can see through the template okay so you're gonna put it face down then you're going to lay your first piece down which is this piece you're going to lay your fabric face up for this first piece okay so you can see this is piece number one i'm going to lay my template face down lay my t1 template and i want to make sure that i have you can see the line through the papers right here so i have a quarter inch overhang over all the lines which i definitely do that's why i make these pieces so big okay so here is my t my t1 shape and i've got my fabric the line is right here and right there so i definitely have a quarter inch over all of it then i'm going to take my t 2 fabric my fabric template and so this one is face up this one is going to go face down so right sides together on this one and i'm just gonna line these up okay um and i might even since i have like a half inch overhang over this line i'm just gonna do like that that way i know i have enough when i fold this back in a minute to cover the whole shape that whole triangle in the middle okay okay so that's that's what we're working with templates face down t1 fabric is face up t2 fabric is face down and we have both of these fabrics hanging about a quarter inch over the line between t1 and t shape one and shape two on your template you can totally pin in place here like maybe like that like that now i can pick it up i can hold it to the light i can see like you can see the light from my machine that's about a quarter inch over that line you can see it too from the above angle and now we can flip it over and sew on this line between one and two we're going to sew directly on top of this line a few tips for foundation paper piecing if your stitch is too big your stitch will tear when you go to tear the paper off later um if your stitch is too small and you have to rip so my stitch is roughly at a two sorry i'm like so tired but i'll show you what mine looks like but mine's out of two um it works out for me pretty well and you're just going to sew right on top of that line and there you go off to the races it sounds weird because it is going through paper but it is what it is and you just go right to the end of that line and i'm going to trim my threads so here you can see and take that needle out now i've sewn directly on that line i stopped right here i did not keep going because my line doesn't keep going now i'm going to fold the paper back on that line do not tear yet i'm just folding the paper back on that line when i fold the paper back on that line this i'm going to keep all the paper to one side okay and now i have this extra this overhang fabric i need to trim it up to just a quarter inch so i don't have too much bulk or waste this is where the add a quarter ruler comes in super handy because it's got this little lip this edge and it bumps right up to the seam and you just trim it off right there and that gives you the perfect quarter inch if you don't have the add a quarter ruler don't stress just grab a ruler line up the quarter inch marking directly on the seam like that and then sorry i'm a little under my machine a little bit um like that and trim off the excess from that seam and now what you can do is you will lay out the paper and you're going to iron back this piece of fabric and to check yourself you make sure that you have complete fabric behind the number one shape and then make sure you have fabric completely behind the number two shake which i do and you can see that through the light that i have um the fabric entirely over both it gets a little sketchy over here it's a little a little shy but it's still covering the line so i'm not gonna worry about it too much so now that we've done shape one and shape two now we can move over here to shape three and we're gonna do the same process so we flip it over we can tell that there is um the line is right here between shape two and shape three so we have plenty of fabric overhang um and then we even have enough over that top one over this one up here so we're ready to place um t3 down so t3 goes like this so we're going to lay it face down because remember these two are face up okay we're gonna lay this one face down roughly over over that line between two and three about a quarter a little more than a quarter of an inch so i'm gonna i can see really well with the light of my machine the fabric and then you can kind of see it too um right there it's over the line you can lay it down kind of where'd my pin go and then you can pin it in place so you don't have any movement while you are sewing not like it should but um and then my fabric's right here and the line is right here so i have plenty of fabric hanging over there and i should be golden i'm going all the way to the edge down here so then when i flip it i know that i'm going to cover everything i need to cover so let's get that line sewed so pretty much i'm going to sew between two and three now and you can start in either direction but do the entire line there we go so now you can see i have sewn the line the entire line between two and three i'm going to take my pin out flip it over then i'm actually going to fold the paper back and i'm going to make sure all of my fabric and paper are over here okay because over here i'm going to trim and you can always fold it back first to make sure it covers everything but it clearly does so then we're going to fold that paper back and we're going to trim to quarter inch over here i'll use my add a quarter this time if you don't have a add a quarter not a problem just line that quarter inch of your ruler up over it sorry i gotta scoot over just a hair um there you go there we go and if you don't have the attic order you would just lay this any ruler you have with a quarter inch marking directly on top of the seam and do the same thing just making sure that all your fabric and all your paper are off to one side just the two pieces you just sewed the little excess will be hanging this way okay and then same process lay that back and see you can start seeing the cone come together so now we've done shapes one two and three onto shape four we're gonna take this and we're just gonna try to get a quarter inch overhang over that line which if i go like this and hold it up you can hold it up to the ceiling light to a flashlight to your phone light whatever you want and you can see clearly where there's a quarter inch um my line is right here right here so i clearly have a quarter inch you can pin in place and and then i'm just gonna go ahead and feed mine through off those threads coolest part about foundation paper piecing is it helps you get these super super sharp points so it's so fun to be able to have that and then you're gonna check make sure that if you pull it back it covers the whole paper which it does now we can fold back the paper and all the fabric except for the edge of the two pieces we just sewed together take your ruler lay it down right on top of that seam i just kind of backwards this time you can do it like this lay it right on top of that seam and slice it off slice anything over a quarter inch off and then you can see here that my pink in this spot wasn't quite enough but it's definitely more than eighth of an inch so enough for the seam to grab i'm not going to stress over it and now i can press this piece back and look at those they look so good so so good and now for our final um piece piece number five we're going to take this hold it up to some light somewhere and see that you have about a quarter inch overhang between these shapes and five that line right here pin in place if you so desire take your time there is no reason to rush through these blocks because it doesn't make it any more fun to just rush and make yourself all bothered so just take your time you can do it you can handle the curves you can handle the foundation paper piece and you are going to love the block and be so proud of yourself once you accomplish this block and so right on top of that line that's just above shape five unpin check that the fabric covers the whole shape and it does fold back the paper along that seam you just made flip it over using a ruler trim up to a quarter inch there we go and slice that bad boy off and trim up your threads because i can't stand threads hanging all over the place and now you're going to iron this piece back so stinking cool oh it's so cool so that is how you make the cone now you will trim up around this block so now that you have this all done you will trim up around the block i believe the final block measurements are like six and a half five and a half by six and a half so um just trim right around the template i personally do not rip the paper off until right before i'm going to piece the whole um i call it a mini block in the pattern right before i'm going to piece this all together so we'll do that next i will sew the strips together the little strip set that goes with this um fabric e little mini block and so there you go now i have this crisp clean block and i'm not going to pull the papers off until i get a little further down so i have my cone i've got my ice cream and now i need my strip sets that go with it each each little mini ice cream block has a different their stripes are in different places in different orders so pay attention to that um so here i have one up here with the fabric e on top and then i have two down there with the background fabric on top so i'll make those strips real quick and then i can show you how to piece the whole block together or the mini the mini block you'll make three mini blocks to make the whole block so i need three whites or background fabric whatever your fabric f is one two three and then the three um of the matching background can you tell i liked the stripe theme when i was designing my two blocks um anyways just line these up slow and steady through the machine don't don't speed them through or you will get that curve to them okay don't pull don't push just glide them right through the machine feeding these strip sets through your machine make sure you're not pulling or tugging that way you can keep them as straight as possible and then another way to keep them super straight is when you're pressing finger press them open first and then press with the iron that way you're not adding extra curve or stretch to the strip i just feel like stripes are such a summer staple that i had to include them in both blocks because that's really was our only theme when we started out designing our blocks was summer we didn't have the camp theme until a little later on um so goes to show you never know but i just think stripes are so crucial to summer so so crucial all righty and we are ready to piece it together so i'll sew this one together and this one um i don't want any more bulk so i am going to press it towards the background color because i just want least amount of bulk as possible now i'm going to rip my paper so i'm going to take my nail or you can take like um the edge of your rotary cutter and just really go over that seam and get it nice it's already been perforated by your needle but the more you fold it in both directions and and fold it and stuff it'll just tear so much easier throw all of these in the trash they are no longer really useful and you will line these up and sew them together such a cool cool mini block so there you go there is one mini block and um my cone lines right up with the edge of my ice cream got the nice rounded top here so much stinking fun and now it makes me really want to go downstairs and get some ice cream but i'm going to sew the rest of these together and i hope that's helpful if you have any questions at all please comment below um message me on instagram email us like you can handle it i promise tell yourself you can do it take your time and it'll totally be fun so i'm going to bust out these others real quick and then i'll be back to piece the three together at the end so i have all three of my mini blocks pieced together and they each include a little small strip set um the ice cream and the cone and now i just get to piece these all together there are a few seams that match up so just keep an eye out for those some of your stripes will match up and some of the little pieces off the foundation paper piecing will nest up too so um if you come across a seam that doesn't nest you can obviously just fold it open um and give yourself a way to nest and yeah i can't get these apart but if i could i would fold them open to nest them to get that top seam to line up so um but yeah just go on and piece them together check your diagram make sure that you are doing it in the right color order and go for it that concludes week 10 block 9 the snap time block focusing on curves and foundation paper piecing i hope you enjoy it i hope you take your time i hope you work on improving these skills and know that there's not really a hard skill in quilting there are just some skills that take a little bit more time than others and curves and foundation paper piecing are definitely one of those you are capable you can totally do it and i have a full faith in you i cannot wait to see your blocks so reminder post your full blog photo by sunday night and that way you can get entered in this week's giveaway sponsored by athena workshop and fat quarter shop i really hope you enjoy it please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions and just take your time and enjoy it and this makes me want to go get another sherbet popsicle right now so until next time happy quilting

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Published: Mon Jul 12 2021