SCRAP PROJECT: Use LEFTOVERS to Make Beautiful Floating Stars!!!

hi i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics today i'm going to show you how to make a small quilt you can use it for a wall hanging or a table topper and it's going to have five stars in it they're going to be floating point stars and this is my favorite kind of project because it uses up scraps now for this project you need five lights and five darks you don't need very much of each one you need the equivalent of about a nine by 20 inch piece and then we're also going to need a half a yard of fabric and that's gonna do these backgrounds and a little border now every time i do a scrap project video i always get questions afterwards what if I don't have scraps what if I want to use yardage how much do I need so you are gonna need one fat eighth of five lights and five darks if you want to start with yardage and even though I've got a sketch here this is not the final pattern you can get to the free pattern by clicking the link below the video and that will give you all the cutting sizes all the yardage and all the instructions now from each one of your dark fabrics you're gonna need one five inch square and eight three inch squares and from each of the lights you're going to need four three and a quarter inch squares and four rectangles that are three and a quarter by five inches now as long as your scrap pieces are at least eight inches by 20 inches you can stack them up and cut all the darks at one time and then cut all the lights together if you're cutting from odd size scraps like I've got here you're just going to have to cut some pieces individually now that I have all the pieces cut I'm going to separate them into blocks so each block is going to get one of these Center squares then each block is going to get some star points so these are the eight star points we've cut I'm not going to use the same star points that I'm using in the center I'm gonna use these somewhere else like right there so this is what I call deal-a-meal I usually lay these out and see what looks good together I'm not gonna put that there that might look good there that might look good there I'm a tree around a little bit but every block gets all these pieces so we're gonna need a background this is the background for the star points so I'm just going to lay them out kind of indiscriminately here and then I may train around to make sure my colors look balanced but I'm always going to use four different fabrics for each block the first thing we're going to work on is the star points so that's these three inch squares here now the rectangles they go on are three and a quarter inches so this is not the same size as this on purpose now we are going to stitch from the corner of this star point the dark one to the other corner you can mark that if you like but I find it's easier to put a piece of painters tape or masking tape on your machine from the needle hole straight down and then put the tip the corner of the dark print right at the needle and put the other end right on the line of the tape and keep it on there as you stitch and that will give you a nice straight line and then you won't have to draw now we're going to fold this over and all the raw edges should meet and they are meeting up very nicely so that helps you know if you stitched right along the edge there so I'm going to gently finger press and then I'm going to stitch the rest of these on now let's take these over to the ironing board now even though they're finger pressed I'm still going to want to iron these make sure they're nice and flat then I'm going to trim off the back two layers so I usually just pick up a pair of scissors here you can go over to the cutting mat and use your rotary blade but I think this is a little bit quicker now we're going to take a second star point and we're going to add one of these to every piece so again stitch from the corner of this to the far corner and then open it up and finger press iron and trim these as well now we're ready to put the block together so these are the four corners so these are gonna go here and here here and here now star points go like this and I like to stitch my rows together all at the same time so I'm not going to make each row separate I'm gonna put this guy on top of here and stitch it and leave it on the machine then I'm gonna take the next two pieces right sides together leave it on the machine and this helps keep me from getting mixed up with what goes where so these are the last two we're gonna put this on here and I'm not gonna trim the threads I'm just gonna leave it together now this came from over here so we'll just open it up and then we'll take this last row this guy's gonna go here and we'll just add the pieces all the way down putting them right sides together everything fits perfect there's nothing to match this is the last corner now we're going to want to finger press so we are going to press on this row we're gonna press the corners the seam allowances toward the corners and on this row they're going to go toward the center and that's where they want to go because it's extra thick right here in the middle it wants to go that way so I always try to use my patchwork to help me decide which way should things go they want to go away you want to go away now everything is lined up in opposite directions so when we sew these rows together everything's going to nest so this is going to lay nice and flat and it's going to be real easy to match the intersection now you don't have to worry about trying to go in any particular spot here because these stars are what we call floating so you don't have to worry right here about driving over right where that intersection is it's meant to be away from the middle and that's on purpose because one of the problems new quilters have is their points get cut off so this gets sewn a little too deep and it doesn't make a nice point well this way it's floating there's always gonna be a nice point there so the first block is all done I just have to make four more so I'm gonna go ahead and get those finished the blocks are all stitched together now and they turned out ten and a half inches square so now we need to cut some background fabric to go between all of them and so those blocks are also going to be ten and a half inches square so this is going to be really easy to stitch together it's just a 3x3 patchwork nothing to match no intersections except for here and here then I'm going to add a little border then the whole top will be done I've got the top all done I've got the back laid out and the batting laid out now I'm going to cool this on my regular sewing machine and I can't drop my feed dogs some of you guys have special machines you can quilt on them you can do free motion quilting I'm always gonna have that feed dog pulling into the bottom so I like to lay my top crooked on my back because that way if I'm doing straight lines on here my back is a little bit on bias grain not on a straight grain that'll make it a lot easier to quilt so I'm gonna go ahead and paint around and put some pins in the middle take it over to the Machine the first thing I'm going to do is just based around to the edges so all the layers are held together and then I can get rid of these pins around here also I'm gonna do the easy and simple quilting first I'm going to go around the border here and I'm not gonna go in the ditch I'm gonna go right on the border then I'm gonna go between the squares that will anchor everything down and make it easier to quilt these Patrick and plain blocks so I'm gonna put my presser foot right next to my seam there so I'm about an eighth of an inch away maybe even a little closer but I'm on the border [Laughter] [Music] now I'm right in the ditch here it's pretty easy and that's the last row of quilting between the squares now we have to decide where to quilt the rest of the quilt so I'm going to start with the Stars and I'm gonna go just outside the perimeter of the star here so I've got my presser foot the inside of my presser foot right along the seam so I'm a little less than an eighth of an inch away from the outside of the star and that's gonna help that star puff up a little bit it's gonna give it a little bit of dimension so just keep going around in pivoting all the way around the outside I've gone around all of the stars that part's kind of fun now we need to decide what to do in these blank areas and I'm going to mark them before I quote them so there's different ways to mark your fabric I have some chalk pencils here and I've also got this water-soluble marking pen and I recommend trying it out on a practice piece first because you want to make sure the lines are going to come off now if I mark with this blue here it shows up real well it's a little hard to get off now it will wash off but I'm not planning on washing this before I use it you could mark in the silver it's a little bit lighter and if it's hard to get on there a little bit there if you're stitching right on your line like I did here it doesn't really matter if it doesn't come all off now if you want to mark a solid line and then wiggle stitch over it you want all of that to come off and this is what I found works the best this pen here makes a great line but if you get it even slightly wet it just completely disappears now you do need to be careful some pens will mark very nicely but they will disappear before you get all the quilting done so double-check make sure that will stay on there long enough so you have time to get all your quilting done I'm gonna mark this block every two inches and then I'm going to quilt it and if I think it needs more quilting I'll put a little more in now my block isn't quite ten inches so my first line is not quite two inches away but after that I can just use that line to measure from so the first thing I'm gonna do is back tack at the beginning here because there's nothing to hold that stitching down just a little bit now I am just gonna waver over this line it doesn't need to be real exact so I'm just gonna grab some of the fabric here and I'm gonna head this way and that way and I'm just making gentle curves here by just turning it a little bit and then I'll back back at the bottom now if you don't want to do those curves you can just do straight lines but the idea is to make them somewhat abstract and they don't have to perfectly be parallel each one just waver a little back and forth it's all there's those squiggly lines it's very easy to do the only other quilting I added was one row inside the center of each star just to hold that down a little bit now I find it useful on a project like this to do just a little bit of quilting you can always add more but if you start out by doing every quarter inch you may decide that's too much and it's hard to go back it's a lot easier to add now I put on a dark binding I think that really frames it nicely so if this was hanging up on your wall that'll make a nice frame on it it also looks good from the backside and maybe you can see the quilting a little bit there you can see the star shapes and you can see those they look like star beams the wavery lines now each star they're floating so each star is perfectly pointed that's why I love this pattern because even if you're sewing isn't perfectly accurate you're going to have a point time and a nice point here nothing's ever gonna be chopped off to give a completely different look you can use dark background or printed squares in these spots here and it really makes the patrick stars pop out rather than just float but that's a nice look to so there's a lot of options for this pattern and even though my stars have the same point all the way around you can make it truly scrappy by just mixing up your colors around here it's just a great project for all your scraps thanks for watching our video today we hope you enjoyed it and I hope it gives you a lot of good ideas he'd help you use up some of your 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Length: 15min 18sec (918 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 12 2020