Stars of Wonder - Strip Presentation by Daniela Stout

are you good morning everyone welcome to strip club it is our annual Christmas quilt can you tell Christmas yay this is another design by georgette de Lord Co that's my mom she is super talented she comes to dinner on Sundays and every once in a while she'll give me a new design she'll had played an EQ come up with a new design and she gives it to me on Sunday if it's decent she can eat dinner that's not true she's very talented and I will tell you that some of our most of our best-selling patterns are her designs and I think you can see why she's got a nice touch very sophisticated not too hard and great way to use 2 in half inch strips this quilt is called stars of wonder now I know I promised to never name another pattern with the word star in it but what else do you name this quilt especially for a Christmas quilt right so next month will be coming out with stars of light no but stars of wonder will show you how it comes together it doesn't have to be Christmas by the way you can do it in different fabrics I give you permission it's your quilt you don't have to do it exactly like I'd have but if you do it our way you'll see that there are two colors there's a main color in this color in this quilt actually there's four colors I know your eyes okay there's four colors as far as strips go there's a main color red there's a secondary color in our quilt that's green and then we also have accent which is gold and background so those are the four colors that make up this quilt and our strip set if you get one of our strip sets it will contain the Reds and the greens you need to make this quilt and that's how when in the pattern it'll show you how many primary colors or how many main colors that's red secondary colors in our quilt is green so it is one simple block do you believe me I hope you do I have not yet lied to you that's pretty much the block thanks for coming you want more you need to see more okay I'll show you how to do more remind me that there's a simple block one simple block but there's a variation and I need to tell you about that that the end so don't let me forget to tell you about that at the end okay to make this we start with two and a half inch strips and we're going to use a stitch and flip method we've used this in many of our patterns before it creates those wonderful diagonal lines that make the points for the stars if you don't want I'm gonna have you draw lines on the back of your fabric if you don't want to draw the lines you can use the folded corner clipper which last month I believe I told you was no longer being manufactured but it's found a new life creative grids which is one of our favorite lines of rulers has picked up the folded corner clipper and now it has a brand new life in the creative grid lines so folded we refer to it as the fabulous folded corner clipper and sometimes I forget that it's not officially called fabulous we just fabulous folded corner clipper now is going to be available once again with creative grids so you can use that tool instead of drawing the lines let me show you what drawing the lines means so stars of wonder first you'll follow the pattern instructions to cut out your segments as listed and then you'll keep them in groupings by like fabrics the first thing we're going to do is build the smallest section of the quilt and then we're going to build out from there so to make the smallest section I'm going to show you the basics of the flip stitch and flip technique first here I have a background fabric and if you can see there's a diagonal line drawn on the back of this draw a faint diagonal line with a pencil or with chalk you don't want to do anything permanent because you don't want it to show through your fabric on the back of your background fabric on the square you draw a diagonal line corner to corner then you will place that fabric right sides together with your main color with square right sides together and you'll stitch on that line and then flip it over and you'll create a half square triangle block half square triangle block just like that right press if you know that the edges go all the way flush to the top and to the side to create a square you can then flip it back over and trim away the excess fabric in the back you don't need to have three layers of fabric trim that away about a quarter inch from your stitched line doesn't have to be perfect this doesn't have to be the perfect quarter of an inch seam okay so now we've created a square next thing we're going to do is take a background square on a segment and place as pictured the biggest tip I can tell you is follow the pictures it is very easy to put your square on in a different direction and I don't want to say it's going to be wrong it's just going to be a different quilt so if you like what we're creating here follow the pictures the diagonal line in this case goes from here to here and then you'll stitch you'll stitch a thread over so that when you flop this over like this it will eat up a little of the fabric so you want the edges to go on the right and on the bottom to be flush to create the segments same segment size you started with in this case two and a half by four and a half inches so it flips over to create that point as soon as you're comfortable that it's a good-looking segment two and a half by four and a half you can flip it back over and trim away the excess fabric that is your basic stitch and flip technique once you have that you will start to create your block and I will again repeat pay attention to the pictures the diagonal points will be the things that messed you up the fastest but if you get that everything else comes together fairly easily so that is the set a you can see that's the center of the fabric main fabric red so we're going to work with the red fabric now we're going to work with completing set B same concept again we are working with red the main fabric in our case it's red and we will create a background fabric background square on a print segment like this with a diagonal line pictured like this stitch flip over like that complete another one that looks like this by the power of television start with that piece and once you have these two pieces you can add it on to your quilt now we have this piece all right and we don't have to worry about these not being quite so pressed yet all right you see it growing all right next we're going to do set C set C will look like this now we've added another fabric to the other side so let's take this one off of the away from there take it here so we can see how this fabric starts as a segment and a segment with a diagonal line this is the same way you would sew binding together stitch on that line and now flip it over and we did the same thing with the gold in the corner so we've created this piece with three different fabrics the gold is our accent fabric so we've created that piece and it's going to go into the section like this but we're not ready to sew yet because we have to add that secondary color so now we go to the green same concept background segments print segments diagonal line stitch flip stitch flip and where do those go those go in the top left okay almost there two more pieces it's essentially a piece log-cabin as we grow out we're adding layers to it so here we have the two more pieces that will finish off that block to create your finished block here not going to work I will pin it to submission or I could just buy the magic of television show you another block whoo oh yeah there's the other block okay let's see it grow because I have these great samples okay so one two three for turn it turn it turn it turn it turn it turn it study that take your pictures that's beautiful right there everything that's everything you need to know right there but it's not is it it's not everything you need to know know because you had to remind me of something so here's our main block I'm going to take this block I'm gonna put it in the quilt and it goes right here I am missing the gold in the corner okay so this goes right here yeah that's it and this is the difference that I wanted to tell you about in this block there is no gold in the corner but when you make the blocks for the center you add a gold that gold appears right here and when four of them come together it makes that diamond in the middle this is why there are two different blocks in this quilt even though there's really just one block that diamond in the middle fills in this extra space you don't want it on the edges because in the corners it'd be this lost little triangle and on the edges it would be this v-shaped gold thing that looks like it doesn't belong by making the two different blocks you have the edge blocks and you have the center blocks your little diamonds in the middle are all contained on the inside of your quilt nothing incomplete out to the borders so that's the only difference there's really two blocks the only thing is one little triangle diamond in the corner and that diamond is the same thing this is just a stitch and flip so you'll be making those as you go once you have the arrangement that you like you will sew your blocks together by rows and then sew your rows together to make your quilt measure your edges it's really good to peace your borders to the size of your quilt and not just slap on your borders although how many of us just slap on our borders because we're so ready just to be done at that point although if you are working with biased edges these are not but if you ever are working with biased edges or a quilt on point highly recommend you measure in three places and get the average length of your quilt before you put on your side borders and then do the same for the width that just keeps it straight and square hanging nicely we have a border one fabric which is the same as our background in this quilt we have border two tiny little gold we picked up that accent fabric and then we have this great Christmas print fabric that we take all the way to the edge and then what do you think of the binding we debated binding do you like it yeah nice touch of green I would have gone with red really I mean you all just knocked me down right there all of you just know you needed the contrast of the green okay Elizabeth if you're watching you are right the green was the right touch and it does pull out some of the green in the borders so this is art what's the back well when we take photographs of our quilts I wanna make sure there's no shadowing so I say use a light background or backing so we did yeah really shows off the quilting doesn't it and I think this this particular batting is an 80/20 blend so that it's got some wool in it that also helps show off the quilting the quilting design is by quilters niche also my mom she's created she creates digitized quilting designs and I think this is double feather or something similar to that so pretty pretty very pretty this big guy has a baby sister do you want to see this is a queen you see behind me so this would be what the princess so here's your wall hanging option this one can have gold okay binding you mean okay so it is allowed this one may have gold binding oh did you more okay paparazzi's out did you just ask me to hold it up the tallest people in the room oh good man you're funny now the princess the heir has a spare do you want to see another one a spare air back is fun isn't it okay the spare so the spare is a baby now you get a sense of what it might look like in other colors yes is the paparazzi still out okay step-and-repeat can you see it's it's cuddle fabric on the back so it's gonna be it's a soft baby it's pretty nice isn't it I haven't studied it is there a difference between the primary color the main color and the secondary color in this there is it's subtler though isn't it yeah yeah so let's talk a moment for the about the fabrics in our quilt I love these fabrics I love the way it's come together when we went to pull the fabrics we had 20 different fabrics out on our cutting table and there were a couple of them that were just glaring and a few of the girls were like that's got to go I don't like that one I don't like that one I'm like it's got to stay and it's it's the fabrics you may pick them out this one has ladybugs on it this one you see pin cushions also pumpkin big big flowers sort of in a pumpkin feel to it we have a metallic crosshatch we have a metallic polka dot we have some Reds that a little more orange some that may be a little more Burgundy yet nice texture and it adds variety we've had a couple of quilts in the past where they've been red and they pretty much looked like they were all the same red they looked great when you put them out but then you put them in the quilt and it didn't have as much interest so now we've got some variety we've got some action we've got some movement so fabrics that you may not think work in a scrappy quilt can add enough dynamic texture to the quilt to make it pop so they actually needed even though in the beginning you may not think it goes I had one of an old friend used to call it a zinger fabric you kind of need the zingers in there too so those are my little tips for picking fabrics do we have any questions on stars of wonder other than why did I name it another star P name but we've been through that so that's okay no questions because it really is that easy all right okay my friends then it yes these two are the same fabrics these two yeah if you mix those it just become scrappy so the question is these fabrics are the same and I don't know if I mentioned that while I was putting it together you notice there's sets of fabric these two are the same these two are the same as each other these two are the same as each other and these two are the same as each other what happens it creates a real L shape and it creates consistency in the flour as if the outer petals are a dark red and the inner petals are if you call if you think of it as a flower if you don't want to do it you don't have to it just then becomes a much scrappy or quilt but in this quilt all of those ELLs are the same they're all the same set of fabrics and the way the pattern is written is that's how you can cut it out of strips if you want to do it scrappy by all means you want to start small you can if you don't want to put it together if you I mean before you sew your blocks together you can mix and match and see how you like it and then see if you like it if you don't then go back to the matching else that's good question any other questions nothing well if there's no other questions how about we do this again next month for another pattern that uses two and a half inch strips you [Applause]

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Keywords: Christmas quilt, folded corner clipper, Daniela Stout, Georgette Dell'Orco, Cozy Quilts

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Length: 20min 28sec (1228 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 12 2018