Sam Wilde Made this Fabric - I Made this QUILT!

hello YouTube Friends welcome to the last homely house I'm Kate and today I want to share with you a project with some fabric that I was sent a little while ago now I was asked if I would look at this fabric which is from the newest designer for free spirit Sam wild also known as vestine which is a lovely name isn't it and this is his line fluorescence and these Fabrics arrived with me a little while ago I talked about them on Instagram but today I want to tell you what it is I'm hoping to do with um all of these beautiful Fabrics they're very bold and it's taken me a while to decide how best to use them they're also very different from each other some of them um hang together really beautifully and some of them are really quite different and so I wanted to use all of them I wanted to make something that would uh reflect the beauty of all of them hanging together so I took to Pinterest do you do that I get lots of inspiration from people who pin really interesting things on Pinterest and for the longest time I've had um a board with quilt blocks that I'm interested in making and this particular Block's been on there and I've came back to it and back to it and never really found the right fabric to use to make it and it's um the optical illusion block I made this one up from some Tula pink in fact just to see how it would look uh and the idea of the uh optical illusion quilt is that these Fabrics look like they're floating on a background uh and so you you know your eye sort of plays that little trick on you that optical illusions do and when I saw these FB FACS and looked back at those quilts on Pinterest I thought yeah optical illusion quilt that's what I want to make with these Fabrics so I had a little play and I looked at uh some of the instructions that people have left on their uh Pinterest boards that's what I really enjoy about Pinterest people are really generous with tutorials and instructions and uh inspiration and thoughts and ideas and I find it a really uh useful place it's a bit of a Time waster do you ever do that thing I'll just spend 5 minutes on Pinterest and 3 hours later you're still there yeah that is me sadly anyway I looked at a number of different ways of constructing this block and all of them involved cutting little strips of fabric and sewing a little bit of another color onto them now in order to make this optical illusion it's a good idea if the background is quite neutral and the shadow which you're creating here is is black or very um very dark colored and so I have black for the Shadow and I chose this lovely gray for the background you could use white black and white would be very startlingly uh different wouldn't it for a shadow you can use all sorts of different color palettes but I've decided I'm going to use this lovely disappearing gray with these fabrics and black for my shadow now all of them had you cutting little strips and sewing them together and I'm not uh happy with accurately sewing these cutting and sewing these so I came up with an idea that's probably lots of people use to make this block but I'm wondering if um I've invented this I'm sure everyone in the comments will tell me that I haven't invented it but I've made this block this strip set whatever you want to call it and from this one so I've I've sewn my background fabric the gray and My Shadow fabric the back together in a big long strip and what I'm going to do with this then is just cut it as I need it and sew it onto my blocks now this requires two different sizes of strip a long one and a slightly shorter one so I'll make up a second one of these so that it's the right uh size for what I'm doing so in my immediate future there's a lot of pressing cutting stitching pressing cutting stitching re rinse and repeat all of that this morning is what I'm going to be doing and I'm going to need the design board so I'm going to take everything that I've got on there already off the design board I'm working on these pluses these this is a an English paper piece project I'm doing for uh my grandson who's one now uh and I'm making him a quilt like I made his sister Agnes uh a hexagon's quilt I'm making him uh this um plus quilt uh it's I don't mind that it's being slow in the making it's coming together bit by bit just like Agnes's quilt did there's no hurry for this uh he's um quite a patient baby and so I'm going to put this together uh as and when I have the time but I'm going to take this off the board now so that I can make some of these blocks sling them up on the board and see what they look like this sample one that I made with this Tula pink fabric which I love by the way I used this a few years ago as the back of a quilt the hole of the back was this beautiful green and um teal color it looked really nice and I have a little bit of that left over so I use this and I cut this one to 4 and 1/2 in which finishes at 4 in but I think I'm going to cut my optical illusion squares from this lovely fluorescent fabric at 5 in uh and then this will fit my strips here so I'm going to get into the construction of that but before I do I'm going to clear the board [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] 2 three four five six seven eight n okay lovely [Music] [Music] well it's quite a bit later now um based on the Block that I made the sample one that I made I've cut all my squares uh 5 in and I've cut nine from each of the fabrics and there are nine Fabrics so there 81 squares now I've got more fabric so if I wanted to make the quilt bigger I could do that but for now I'm going to choose these 9 by 9 81 squares so then I worked out how I wanted the Shadows to look and the uh so this little gray bit here is um Blends into the background when the whole thing is constructed and the black here gives the illusion of the piece floating a little bit above the background and so getting the proportions of these right I've just been playing around a little bit to get those right and I've got all my measurements here now I'm not a I'm not good at maths uh I really do struggle with it which is why the quilt planners notebook and I'm on my second volume of my quilt planners notebook uh the very first quilt in here is your quilt Sam the fluorescence quilt uh the optical illusion quilt and it's such a helpful thing to have the graph paper and the lined paper and then some plain paper as well so I'm going to use these Pages here to write down all my measurements now as I say I'm not I'm a bit challenged with maths so I've worked it out really quite carefully and based on this 5in square and how I want my Shadows to be I've got all the measurements here uh and so yeah the measurements are a bit complicated but maybe I'll leave a list in the description box below of the sizes that I used to achieve this block and then I made these uh which is instead of messing around with tiny little thin bits of fabric which I think I would just make I I don't think I would get that right somehow so I made these blocks here and I will Stitch these this is how this is going to work so the first one I will sew that block onto there and then iron that out and cut it to size and the second one I line the second one on because one of them is slightly bigger than the other I think the best thing I can do is show you how I'm making this and actually sew one but then when the uh block is constructed what happens next is the sashing and I've chosen this 2in sashing with this gray on either side and then the sashing will come in here long runs of sashing here have I got another bit Yeah here which will once you see this quilt from a distance and squint at it then this all this gray will merge into itself and the shadows will become apparent and the blocks will be suspended above the this is the Hope anyway so what I think I'll do now is stop talking and uh I'm going to use the uh bits and pieces that I've cut out here and construct a block so that we can see what this looks like this sashing the final sashing won't go on until all the blocks are constructed because this is the bit that connects it all together but these two bits of sashing Will Go On Let's Make a block shall we and stop talking Kate okay good idea first piece then one of my 5in squares with the black and gray the shorter of the two quarter inch see and when I get going with this I'll chain piece them but for now I want to show you this one so I'm using one of my little thread bunnies which keeps the sewing moving okay so my iring setup here is so that I can press this open here and then I've got my cutting board I like this setup everything's so to hand it's really great and I'm cutting this to an inch I'm cutting the black It's actually an inch and a half but instead of cutting these to an inch and a half I'm going to cut it off here I think when I get going I might cut these strips off but for now I'm just doing it this way just so that I can show you what I'm doing so I cut that off there just neaten that up actually in line with the 5 in that's it lovely now the next one needs to go on I did this one earlier and I sewed it on the wrong direction there's only two ways to do it and of course I did it the wrong way but I'm going to have that one there to remind me that that bit of gray is there so the next bit of gray needs to be up here and I'm using this um fabric now which has got the longer bit on so let's just put this you see I'm already confused what am I doing there so that one needs to go there no it doesn't hang on a minute Kate so if you watch Jenny and the Missouri Star Quilt Company she's always saying that she's angly challenged I could give her a run for her money I really could it's the other end C that's why it's this end there we go I need the Grays to be as far apart as possible diagonally like that so that one goes on there yes Jenny definitely give you a run for your money there it's so wonder that I actually managed to sew anything ever with the maths and the angles but I love it and so I think I maybe overcome some of this stuff because of that okay so this one press it open I I'll get much quicker at this when I get going with it on chain piecing all of these and then cut the black to an inch and there's my second block and this one the blue one I made first of all now this is the other thing you've got to get them the right way around yes so you've got to get them so that the Shadows are all going the right way so that's something else to consider isn't it it is and now um the sashing goes on the top and the bottom and then when I've got load of them the sashing will go in between so for now I may not put the sashing on I just wanted to see what that looked like to see if the 2 in for the sashing was the right size and it is so what I might do then is just sew a load of these um and get into the rhythm of doing them the right way round you think I can manage that I think I probably can right I'm off short one first now maybe you think I'm making life more complicated for myself by not cutting these first but I know that cutting very narrow thin strips can some they can sometimes distort and it seems to me like this is actually quite a good way to do it but I've been more than happy to read your comments and tell me that this is a terrible way of doing it and for people who've made this uh optical illusion block before maybe you've got some uh better tips for me but I do like making things up as I go along yeah when I do the whole lot all of them I'll just sew these as a continuous strip but for now I appear to be doing this in quite a clumsy way so that's the short one this is the long one let's try cutting it at an inch and a half inch and a qu inch and a half inch and a quar see how that goes inch and a quarter yep might be easier yeah it's definitely easier so that one needs to go there yes that one needs to go there [Music] that one goes there okay so lesson learned I'm definitely going to cut these strips off this block short one and a long one so that I can construct these blocks as a chain piecing way cuz there's 81 of them to do so see you soon well I'm on the last part of construction for this quilt top and so I have the last row to sew on and sad ly I don't have enough of the gray to do the final bit of sashing on the outside I can put this last row onto here but there just isn't enough of this to do the last run so sadly there isn't going to be a finish today there going to be a almost complete finish but there's going to be a little bit more uh of this gray needed and I bought this gray specially so I'm going to have to order a small amount to to finish this quilt top but I'll put this last row on and we'll iron it all up and put it on the board and we'll be able to see almost a finish uh on this quilt I am really loving it I like how it looks very much so I'll show you when I've put this last run on what it looks like annoying so I'm just giving it a final press there definitely isn't enough of this which is very annoying when you're you've just finished a quilt and you're ironing like I am don't you find that everywhere you look there's little tiny threads so I'm going to spend half an hour pulling threads off this thing let's uh hang it on the board and see see how it looks wow there it is finished it's very different from any quilt I've made before but I love how this fabric this fluoresence how it works with this technique of of shadowing these squares here I've had the idea of making an optical illusion quilt for years it's been on my Pinterest board for years and there it is done and sadly there's only this much of the gray left but I understand why now because originally I was going to make this 9 by9 and because I liked the idea of making this quilt bigger it's 10 by 10 and I would have had enough of the gray to finish the sashing if I hadn't made it bigger but I like that it's bigger it's all right I can order some more annoying though so I'll order some more of this and finish that last bit of sashing and I may order a bit more and do the binding as well um it could that could look quite good couldn't it because we don't want anything in The Binding to detract from the quilt from the from the look of the quilt and now the next thing I have to think about is how to quilt this um and I am I'm not quite sure yet but what I'll do in a future video is I'll show you my quilting decision and uh maybe I'll bind it with you in a future video I'm going to leave it up here for a couple of days though while this arrives uh and just walk past it and admire it that's why the board's great it's great to have somewhere to put this up and look at it from a distance from every angle so thank you very much to Sam wild for sending me this fabric free spirit sent me this fabric it's called fluoresence and um I will leave the dimensions of of these blocks in the description below it's not hard to work out in fact but I'll leave these measurements in case you wanted to make something a bit like this so the next time you see this then it'll be quilted and I'll be binding it in a future video I'll do that with you so I hope you've enjoyed this video and if you have give us a thumbs up and subscribe that's just a little button in the corner there doesn't cost anything just pop the subscriptions on uh and then you'll get notified when I do a new video but for now that's a finish partial finish just a tiny bit more to do on my fluorescence quilt I hope you enjoy it as much as I do [Music]

Channel: The Last Homely House

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Keywords: the last homely house, sam wilde fabrics, free spirit fabrics, vespertine, optical illusion quilt, how to make a quilt, kaffe fassett collective

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Length: 25min 1sec (1501 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 30 2024