RBD Building Block Series:Block #7 Apple Pie Block

[Music] welcome back to our building block series i'm cindy cloward and today i'm going to show you how to create the apple pie quilt block now my block is done all in pink's it probably should be called the cherry pie quilt block but it's traditionally known as the apple pie quilt block and this is what it looks like in our sampler quilt it looks a little more complicated but it's easier than you think to create these are the supplies you'll need to get you started [Music] so the first thing you're going to do is take your small squares and you're going to grab your marking tool i like a mechanical pencil and your ruler lined up and you're going to make a diagonal line from corner to corner so you line that up just like this press down a little bit so it doesn't shift and mark corner to corner i previously marked the rest of my squares then you're going to grab your two cranberry pieces this is our confetti cotton solids they're wonderful to work with and now i'm going to show you how to create eight flying geese units and a no waist method meaning you're not going to have extra fabric at the end it's pretty slick let me show you how easy it is to do so you take your these small squares and they are going to cross a little bit right in the middle but you're going to line that up so that last one you put in overlaps the bottom one line that up on both of your squares your cranberry piece on the bottom so take a look at that now i give it just a quick press and what that does it just kind of makes the fabric stick together a little bit it's easier to sew if you give a quick press like that and then sometimes i add a pin just for safety to keep them in place you don't have to do that step if you're comfortable just taking it to the machine and sewing but if you're worried about your blocks shifting just throw a couple pins on each of the squares so now take a look at this this is all ready to take to machine you're going to chain piece these two uh units together and this is going not going to be your stitch line that's going to be your guide and you're going to sew a fourth inch on each side of that so i'm going to take to the machine so fourth inch on both turn around and sew a fourth inch on the other side let's go sew [Music] okay you've sewn down both sides take a look now it's really important to do have an accurate fourth inch seam allowance and in fact on this i do a scant less than a fourth inch seam allowance it's hard to get it perfectly on so it's better to be slightly smaller than that you don't want to do slightly bigger on these flying geese so we're going to clip those two threads that are connecting them and now this is your going to be your center marked line is going to be your cut line so right down the center you are cutting on that march line [Applause] okay so you've got these four sections now i always give a press kind of set your seams as they say before i flip them out it's just good to get everything nice and pressed and it helps your blocks your units come together much better when you take that extra step now you're going to flip the two light pieces up like this so almost is going to look like a like a heart so this is what it's going to look like you're going to flip that up just like that put my quilter's clapper on top of that as it's cooling oh pull it up a little i'm gonna just add a little mist to that a lot of times when you lift it up you won't just want to push that up like this so you make sure that the fabric's pulled all the way up okay let that cool down okay let's bring it back look at all these kind of wonky hearts a little bit now the next step you're going to do is take your small square again you're going to line it up in that corner it's going to come off the end i do bring it back and press that on and you can add a pin to it as well so you line that up on all four and then i'm going to grab my pins too so that's lined up just like that i think again it just when you press it before you sew it just kind of makes makes the two fabrics go together so much easier okay let's take the machine and we are going to sew not on the center line a fourth inch on each side and again like i mentioned just like a scant less than a fourth an inch [Music] so this one's a little more tricky to chain piece so if you just do one unit at a time that's fine too with the points it might be easier to do one at a time if you're a new quilter but i've chain pieced these together and i'm just going to snip the threads in between and so let's take a look we have our fourth inch on each side now i'm going to cut down that center on the mark line and then take it to the pressing station and press my flankies open okay i just kind of press set my seams and then i open it up like that and you have just finished or you're in the process of finishing eight flying geese just like that okay while those are just cooling off i'm going to grab a rotating mat love these ones by sue daley and then i'm gonna grab a four and a half inch square up ruler and i'm gonna show you how to square up your flying geese now what you want is a fourth inch from your tip your point to the edge of your fabric and you can kind of see that it's not lined up perfectly we do our best that's why i have a lot of tools to get everything lined up before the next step so i'm going to show you how this works so i the block the width of the block is four and a half inches i'm finished and it's two two and a quarter or two and a half inches the width of it or the length width length you know what i mean so i line it up like this and you see this is the part that's going to be taken up into the seam so you don't want your point to go into the seam allowance so you don't want to trim that off so that is eaten up in your seam because you want a nice point on your block so i'm going to trim it up and this is the slickest thing to do to trim up your blocks so i can see my point is not in the blue area you've got and there is your flying geese unit ready for the next step i'm going to repeat that seven other times and then i'm going to show you how to create the next section of the block [Music] okay that's our last flying geese isn't that a great method that saves you so much time and it's a great way to create a lot of fine geese in a hurry so we've got all our flying geese ready to go the next thing we need to do is take our two long sections of fabric and strip piece them together now it's really important again to have an accurate fourth inch seam allowance and that you don't get a little wobbly as you've got this long section to sew so just be mindful of when you're sewing this together so let's take it to the machine it is if it's helpful to you you can add pins top bottom in the middle to keep your fabric from shifting so let's take it to the machine and sew [Music] so i've sewn down that length and i do recommend when you're strip piecing long lengths that you use a quarter inch foot with the seam guide because that metal guide really is helpful so that's what i recommend i'm going to give this a quick press again i just setting my seam before i open it up now open that up to the dark side press to the dark side and just kind of open it up like that okay once you've got that pressed that entire length of fabric you are going to get your four and a half inch square up ruler so you make sure you've got a square end on this end that looks good you're going to have just a little bit extra and a reminder if you are a little short on both ends use try using a scant fourth inch and it should be perfect so these blocks are all lined up four and a half inches so i'm going to put this over here the next thing we need to do before we assemble our blocks take our flying geese units like this and we're going to sew two together so we're going to line them up like that flip right sides together again so it's going to be lined up like that and put a couple pins in both ends okay let's take in a machine and sew [Music] okay we've got our four units sewn together now open them up and take a look what you want is that point just at the bottom of the other flying geese and you want to make sure that point has not been sewn into the seam and that's just perfect so check them all and they all look good so they're ready to take to your pressing station okay i'm going to get my rotating mat out and square these up again it's so nice you can line that center mark up see if there's anything that needs to be trimmed off not much there [Music] okay now it's time to assemble our block and we previously just have our pink four and a half inch square our strip piece units and then our flying geese and just like we've done our previous blocks we're going to flip over the center units to the outside pin on top let's take a machine [Music] okay let's take a look looks good let's take it to our pressing station and give it a final press [Music] okay the last thing we need to do is square up our block so you get your 12 and a half inch square up ruler you can lay it down just like that again you can see all the intersections your seams see if it all lines up just a few threads to trim this is a block you need to be particularly careful um not to cut into your flying geese so you really don't want to trim much i'm just going to trim off a few of the threads and your apple pie block is finished congratulations join us next time for the checkerboard star quilt block

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Length: 18min 54sec (1134 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 22 2021