Quilting a mini quilt on the Bernina Q16 - Part 1

hi there welcome to the sugardude channel my name is irena and in this video and the next video i am going to quilt a mini quilt cream foundation baked piecing vlog [Music] this one with one inch circles and this mini quilt i've shown you already in a video where i unboxed my q16 so it is this one a ice cream foundation paid piecing vlog and today i am going to quilt it so in that video where i unbox my q16 i already said uh oh this mini quilt is the first one i'm going to quilt on the machine well a few months later i finally i'm going to quilt it uh and i cheated a little bit because i had another ice cream vlog laying around and i have quilted that one so um this one i just quilted um in my pjs with no camera around uh just playing with the machine and i thought i'll just quilt it and then i will save that other block to really film it and to show it to you how i have quilted it so this one was quilted with some different rulers um yeah only rulers i didn't do any free motion coating on this so it's all really work and in this video i'm going to show you what rulers i used and what part patterns i made with it for quilting and there will be some time lapses some details of what i'm doing and i'm going to split it up in two videos so uh it won't be too long and you can see clearly what i'm doing in all the different areas of the quilt this mini quilt by the way is a well i say this one but it is this one that is available as a quilt kit in my shop so if you want to have this and practice along with rulers on your own machine with me with these videos um just hop over to the shop and order yourself a kit and then once you have it and you've pieced the quilt top you can baste it all the materials also for basting so the backing batting binding everything is included in the kit and then you can quilt along with this video start with the first ruler and the first stitches in our mini quilt so the first thing i'm going to do is to outline the ice cream so here we have the house i ice cream and what i mean with outlining is i'm just going to go around um the whole shape of the ice cream and since this is foundation paper piecing all the lines are straight lines so i'm going to use a straight ruler this is shorty by angela walters i really like this because it's the size of your hand so it's really small and convenient to work with and this is another straight ruler which is a little bit longer so you do have to reposition your hand while you're quilting but you don't have to reposition the rulers as often because it's bigger and this one is good measure um designed by amanda murphy i really like this one as well of course there are many more straight rulers on the market but i'm using these two today so let's start outlining that ice cream i have a white thread in my machine 50 weight um and i'm going to do everything with white thread in this mini quilt but as you can see over here here i had a white background and i used a uh fab a thread with multi color which worked really nicely on on this white background but since the background here is blue and we have yellow and pink fabrics i'm going to do everything with um with white thread bringing up my bobbin thread a few stitches on the same spot and then i'm going to use this ruler put on my clothing gloves and then i'm all ready to go [Music] and what i'm doing here is just stitching in the ditch around the whole quilt block [Music] so and there we are all the way around so i have now stitched all around my ice cream let's see how that looks on the back there we have the ice cream cone uh yeah so stitch in the ditch now it's time to quilt in this area this area was divided by a wavy line which you can do free motion quilting or if you have a wavy ruler you can use that and then below that i've quilted circles nested against each other and over here i did straight lines with a nice rounded corner at the bottom and at the top i did straight lines right up to the edge and then travel stitching in the ditch and then rounded corners at the bottom so i guess what i need to start with is making that wavy line and then filling in those two areas here we have that little wiggly wavy line and then i'm going to fill in the area in the top so i need to start just going in straight lines and then at the bottom i kind of do a rounded corner and that is free motion um let's see which ruler i'm going to use this one is big enough for all the lines so i'm just going to go with shorty and position my quilt in such a way that it's easy for me to go up and down with the quilting okay and then decide on an angle there we go zoom in so you can really see what i'm doing so now i've done a straight line and then i will do a kind of a rounded uh edge around it on this side and then move back up maybe i should yeah this is better so what i'm going to do now is use this ruler as a guide and to space out those lines so i am lining up my ruler with this edge on the previous quilted line i'm just going to turn my work in a second then you can see what i mean okay let's turn my work so you can see what i'm doing so here i have already two times uh the lines quilted just traveling up the edge a little bit and then i'm lining up this line with the previous stitch line so all these lines will be a quarter inch apart and now i can also make sure that the lines will be parallel or kind of parallel to be looking at these stippled lines and the lines that i've previously quilted and make sure that they are kind of in the same direction because now it's a good time to check how far i'm straying from my line and i can see here this triple line dotted line in the middle it is not parallel to the lines that i've quilted over there so i've turned my ruler more and more i'm just going to try to see if i can fix that a little bit by turning in this one a little bit inwards and then checking again with this line over here making it a tiny bit more parallel do so now i need to see if i should fill in this space more uh oh i will zoom out for you so i guess i can fit in another line over there but i do have to travel a little bit first before i get there yep so i'll just end up over here and then i have filled in this area that is what it looks like on the back love this structure so that is done and now i'm going to go ahead and fill in this space so this was all done with a straight ruler here the lines are a little bit closer together than my lines over here but both i like both so just pick whichever one you like best then go with that and for this um you will need a circle ruler and i think i'm going to go with this one but just have to see this is a little bit bigger than the ones i have over here so let me find a smaller ruler i have two other rulers from this set uh this is a set with um i think five circle rulers by amanda murphy they are awesome so really really nice rulers they have this kind of grippy um surface on the back so it doesn't slide too much on your fabric yeah this is the one so this is the one with one inch circles uh yeah i'm going to use that one on my ice cream as well just put my rulers away this one i'm going to use but first i have to cut my thread because i need to have my thread inside the ruler so i'm going to press down on my heel then my thread is coming up let's clip this off then i can also show you the the bottom of the the back of the quilt there we go here we go here you can clearly see what we did so that's the top of the ice cream and now i'm just going to um i guess i'm going to start at the top [Music] let's see if i want my circles to go across yeah i think so so what are we doing is i'm going to mark a reference line so that i know the horizontal line in the quilt this is a fabric marker by clover and it doesn't color your fabric but it does just makes a a crease in it so what i'm going to do is find a horizontal line on my quilt then place my ruler with a line over there and just mark it it's nice to have this line over here so you can use and these markers on the ruler so there's a lot of markers on markings on here and now i have a reference line i can use those just making the circle up to the edge of the fabric and then i'll be moving back to that center line over here and now um let's move these threads over here and now i can just reposition my ruler and make another circle so actually i'm making one and a half circles um each time [Music] so now again i'm just going to reposition so this black circle i'm going to position on the circle that i have already quilted and this is going to be on the position where i want to have the next circle and then i'm going to quilt the current circle there we go repositioning it and this one so this black circle snuggling up against those two circles underneath here that i've already quilted as you can see here it's working out just fine so the circles are nice and snuggled against each other let's do a few more because i can see that i need to do some stitching over here see those you need tiny parts of circles a little bit of stitching and then tiny bit more there we go [Music] do [Music] here again i'm running into the wavy part of what i've already quilted just going to follow the wavy line again and then finish my circle it's getting a little bit tricky over here and that's it i guess that was the final circle that i needed to do i could do a partial circle over here to fill in this area but for me it's good like this so i'm just going to leave it with this so pull up my thread and my needle clip it off clip it off at the bottom we quilted some circles so here was the area i was talking about i could do a partial circle here to really finish it but for me it's okay like this happy with how that looks i really love the struggles of those bubbles on the front now the second part of the ice cream has the same design as what we did over here so again those straight lines with rounded bottom and then a wavy in the middle and those round shapes at the bottom and those round shapes go all the way down here and also in this tiny piece i've continued making those round shapes [Music] do [Music] so that part of the ice cream is now finished this is how it looks on the back so here you can clearly see those straight lines and the circles straight lines oh and now i also see that here i did the circles nicely horizontal but here i didn't drew a um guideline so there you can already see that those bubbles are a little bit tilted but you won't notice that on the front just shows on the back but not sure if it's a bad bad thing so yeah that is what is quilted on the front and you can clearly see it on the back on the front it just gives structure to the quilt and you don't really see the details so if you're a little bit a little bit scared that you're going to mess up or make mistakes i don't really think that you can make mistakes because it's even though you're doing this on a machine it's all hand work so uh it's fine if it's not perfectly aligned uh but if you don't want your back on the back of the quilt to show that uh so clearly also go with a print on the back if you want so i chose a solid on the back so you can really see those lines uh but if you don't want that just go with a print or go with a white background so that you don't really clearly see those lines over there or adjust your bobbin thread to the back of the quilt also an option so there we have those two parts quilted and then in the next video we're going to do the ice cream cream cone i'm going to need a straight ruler for that and then the back and i'm going to make what is it called clam shells i think so yeah so i'm going to use a round ruler circle ruler to make clamshells in the back in the background of the quilt so there we have it that's it for this video the next part uh in the next video hope to see you there bye you

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Length: 22min 48sec (1368 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 23 2021