Row 3 of FREE Mystery All the Trimmings and Looking at French General fabric for the sew along!

hi my friend pat sloan here on tuesday it is all the trimmings day there we go my two first two rows and we are row three it is ribbons aren't they bows bows and ribbons for your packages of all the trimmings perfect right aren't they cute look at them look at the stripe on the bottom ah that looks so cute okay i am using the christmas morning fabric the same as the fat quarter shop is using but i'm using a lighter background from the same fabric line the little tiny dots see them so now we you can make up your own sashing size if you want but the fat quarter shop will give a layout with the sashing size at the end so if you haven't put them together yet that's okay to just get the rows together that'll be that'll be good put your rows together then wait that way when the session comes you'll have it for the layout the layout the other thing is our cross stitch university i had to find that right word university across stitch university the lesson from monday i love that this is the fat quarter shop and kimberly is doing little tiny lessons and i love this concept it is small they are not always a thing to do they're just a thing to learn and then to try so today she went and explained what the term railroading is for cross stitch which i have heard the term and i had no idea this is when people who say like i'm self-taught it's like yes i think we all are self-taught to the most part but when you're truly um have never taken any kind of workshop on a or read up on anything about your craft there will be terminology there will be techniques that you've never heard of because you are just sort of doing the very basics so i really love that with the cross stitch university she is taking these tiny little things like a phrase and explaining what it is and really showing why people will want to use it or not use it and how she uses it the so sort of like the pros and cons of it so railroading when you watch the video is about where you place your needle which uh through the threads which is very interesting i mean i had no idea that that's what that term meant i thought it had something to do with the back of it because they look like little railroad tracks you know like this i thought that's what it meant but no it doesn't so now i want to try it because i'm trying everything i'm doing things as she's putting them out and i'm going to try them i've already completed the two frames so i did them the two frames i'm very happy that i tried it i don't know that i would normally do the frames first uh near the borders first you know i'm i've done enough hand work and you know from embroidering stuff that you know that may not be my go-to method but i really like trying it so now wait till we get assigned what the next part on the inside is so here is the pattern and that cute so i don't know if we get hope we get to do a star next but she might have it start the house i don't know so i'm going to wait which means i can work on my other project my other cross stitch projects because you know it is getting towards the end of the month but yes okay so let's um let's go on to the other thing we have because i got two two two more things so the uh challenge for today challenge i have it on the calendar is a tidy up challenge so i want you to look around in your space and find that one spot it doesn't have to be an overwhelming try to find a smallish doable spot that you can tidy up something that has kind of got a corner that you've got stuff piled on which is not things that you that should be there um maybe you're like me and what it is is your rolling assistant the cart so my carts i tend to keep the top level of every cart pretty tidy but then the bottom two tend to get to be dumping zones i have three of these carts in the studio one over here that one whoops there that one there is right now has things for the project for the book uh this is the one that is got cross stitch in the top and then just other stuff and the other two which need to be looked at and reviewed and then my third one stays on the end of the cutting table because the top of it has like the rotary cutters and small rulers and then i have all the things from my wrist therapy and then the bottom is a junk drawer that's the other one the other one that one needs needs sorted through badly so i am going to pick one i'm just going to pick one shelf and go through it today and that will be my tidy up so i think that that's enough for a tidy up because you know unless you can keep going you know you can always keep going but i think it's nice sometimes to pull it in tight so that you don't feel overwhelmed by getting the task done because if you do just a little bit it moves along all right i'm going to do another happy everything fabric collection i think i may have told you this but the tilde fabrics i showed you i don't have enough of them to play around with for this big of a quilt and i don't want to buy any fabric for this and then also the the one that had the green and the purples i also don't really have enough of it it was only like a fat eighth or a jolly bar or whatever i have i may have both a fatty then a jelly jolly bar but some of it's used so anyways those two i'm not going to be addressing but we're going to talk about french general fabric today remember this is the sew along that will be creating the sampler from blocks from my book all right french general fabric it tends to look uh you know it tends to have a look it's like here is one bundle from a few years ago and it was done at christmas time so it was the reds and the tans and the grays sometimes the line has blues so the blues there's blues and grays blues creams always there's lots of red here was a line that was all sort of red and white i think i showed you that the other day and then there's often reds that are a little bit more burgundy and you'd never know they they but they all they all work super well together i'm going to show you a couple different things here so the lines do not tend to have green and they don't as often have blue but i think there's a line with blue coming out so i'm going to try to get some of that to show you so let's let's take a look down here that's beautiful oh the angels sing so pretty okay and put that one away for now that's one way stick over here i'm going to talk about them in a second so here they all are and i have more because i'm going to show you some pieces actually made with french general here in a second so these could all be worked really nicely but there are times when you might want a little green so i've pulled some green from other lines that work you know this is some stuff from other fabric lines that that work really well with the french general so you might want a little bit of of green at some point and gold now there are like and this is a french general from a couple lines ago this is a different company here's a scrap from something so these are also gold colors that work uh really well with these with the fabric lines with the french general so i want to have those collections in there but let's talk about let's talk about those images that have a specific color like a carrot like there's the carrot table runner and i'm going to have carrots in the in the sampler so i want to have a carrot fabric that i would just add in here rather than keeping it all these i mean i could i could do a red carrot i could do a white carrot on the background i could do a pale yellow carrot on a darker background i mean those things you could do i mean they're totally doable but what i really want to have something looks more orange so basically i'm taking these shades of yellow and trying to find an a muted orange that works and by golly i have one to show you so let's come back here that's good so here's the yellows and i'm just going to sort of leave this stuff here so if i were to pull out this orange here i mean this is just not not the right orange it is way too bright it does not play well with any of those and this one even though it's a little bit softer it's still way too bold for these fabrics and here's one that's lighter but it's also just not quite it's too clear these are very soft muted and that's too clear so i went into the oranges that are much more muted and i think either of these would work really well they sort of play off of those golds and work well with looks like it works well with that burgundy it works well with these with the blues so you can see there's the burgundy or the red um i was doing the red red hearts but see i got red in there but i think the orange is the one to use as an example with each of these fabric lines is that once you find the right shade of orange that works with everything then you predominantly use the others and then maybe like if i had did orange carrots well then i might go and take that orange and bring it to another block somewhere in the quilt like just a little bit of accent or in the sashing so that i have it like in three places so if the carrots are up here at the top then i might down in this sashing maybe i would put orange down down in here or i might use it like maybe in some of the basket over here you know just to have another little touch of it so that my eyes don't just see it in one spot even though it is i think a pretty good shade and pretty pretty muted to work with it so let me just show you a couple pieces oh also the for french general you can get basics which are really good to these basics and you can get this bundle help you sort of extend out these colors because they have a lot of prints and which doesn't give your eye a place to rest and so these would be these would be great to have to add into that so you get sort of more restful fabric okay here's a couple pieces that i've been playing that i've played with or sewn with one is my gingerbread grand gingerbread done as a little table mat i have yet to quilt that guy done in the grays and the burgundy with little pops of blue and then i have one of several one of two i guess french general splendid samplers this one is a small splendid sampler the other bigger one i'll bring out another time so just for today i'm showing you the smaller one this is done get it right side up so this is done with just several of the blocks because i've got 12 blocks yeah so there they are and then i used you know a red for the border to pull it together but i've got the reds and here my pumpkin i did as brown so see the pumpkin you know and the acorn is brown on a smaller piece like this i did not try to make an orange pumpkin if i had i think the shade of orange would have been nice but i would have then wanted to here look down here but if i had made him orange i do think that i would have also wanted to then make i'll put a little bit more orange in something else because if it was just this it would just stand out way too much see i'd probably even have to go a bit more muted take it down but i could have like my turkey here was uh red yeah so if i had done this orange i may have put some orange stripes up in here may have put some orange down in here maybe even have done the cornerstones or something like that just to pull more so it'd be more focus on it but i uh i didn't for this one i didn't so you can see how it would look if you had no uh orange in there for a carrot to use something else it turns out really beautiful and you actually don't even like it it doesn't stick out to you so i hope you like that i hope you like seeing all of that let me know in the comments if you've decided on what fabric you're using for your happy everything um and also how are you doing on your all the trimmings tell me tell me i want to hear all right my friend i love you see you online

Channel: Pat Sloan

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Length: 13min 46sec (826 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 21 2021