Stitch-n-Flip Technique for Whimsical Appliqué by Colourwerx

the it's a friday night which is a little bit different for us generally speaking we try for thursday nights and athena was here yesterday because i was going to but honestly this quilt did not end up being harder but there was actually a lot more to it than i wanted that i wanted to show you so for instance originally i was just going to oops i'm sorry i have to turn this down okay i wanted to just show you how to piece these little dogs because they're so cute and athena mentioned that he looks like the max from the secret life of pets which i don't know who he looks like but i got it from this pattern so this pattern is called mod dog the company is color works and that's w color c o l o u r w e r x now the color to me sounds french or canadian or something i don't know how they learn to spell works but it works and that is their website too so i did not get a chance to talk to laura at fireside quilts about getting these in so she doesn't have these at the fireside quilts like i normally have her have the stuff so you want to go to wwe and i'll put that in the comments when we're all done all right so it's a pattern that i bought four years ago because it was just so cute how could i not and it had dogs on it and i love dogs and i know lots of people that love dogs so i knew at some point that i would make it so i decided it was time that i was going to make it because it's christmas time and i think that there's somebody that i could make this for for christmas which leads me to okay i don't normally do this but i have a joke for you it was on my radio station today athena's giving me the look like okay seriously all right so where how much does santa claus have to pay to park his sleigh answers answers anybody anybody answering i have no idea nothing it's on the house okay athena's wow so i guess i'm not going to be a comedian when i grow up i thought it was kind of cute so merry christmas christmas is coming and i've got a few days to get this done um as a christmas gift and i just think it's really fun so what i want to show you is how to piece this dog and then i came up with some other ideas now in the pattern i want you to know that they're asking you to use a fusible webbing to do this totally fine go ahead and do that if you want to give that a try there should be no problems for me i was just thinking that so if you come down here this was my little sample piece which was kind of fun too because you know i never do a little sample piece i know a lot of people that before they start a quilt they'll do like a little mini version of it but i thought i should know if it's gonna work before i actually go ahead and show you guys how to do it and make the whole quilt and so it did work so the idea is i'm going to piece on a cut away stabilizer so this could be a tear away also but this one is a cut away and this is what you would use if you're doing embroidery and maybe on the back of a sweatshirt and you know how it gets softer every time you wash that sweatshirt so i gave it a try i did the technique i put it on this little sample quilt i quilted it and i washed it and it washed beautifully it's really it's slightly stiff it is not as stiff as if i had used steam a seem light and my thinking there was that it's such a big piece whereas usually if i'm using steemosine light it's for a flower or you know something like that not this whole big guy i just thought it would make it a little bit stiff so now i want to stand up and show you the quilt as he's coming together so okay there can you see it what can you see athena i can see okay three of the dogs and then look at this background fabric too because i want to talk about that a little bit now i've got portions of this quilted but i want to show you some of the quilting process too because i'm going to use what i call appla quilting i i don't know if it's got a real name or not um i also am not seeing anybody chat so i'm not sure why but we might not be having chats on gail said they are so cute oh okay all right there we are okay thank you gail somebody's out there so i want to show you the technique called apple quilting also so let's get started so let's move oh that was on the iron okay i've got my little mini iron here and don't ever think that baby doesn't get hot all right so to start with i decided to just do one color dog because this one had some i mean it's really adorable all these really colorful dogs which i absolutely love the reason i chose one color not that i don't have enough fabrics to do like 99 of all of these different dogs but i had cut my sample my strips of blue i had so many of them that i already had enough to do 29 blue dogs and i thought all right i'm just you know how you just go overboard you pull out your little fabrics and you cut this strip and you cut this strip and next thing you know you've got like enough strips to do way too many so i thought you know blue dogs are nice i'm gonna just have blue dogs so you want to cut your strips 11 inches tall to start with and if we look at one of these this is the design i chose 11 inches because 11 inches would be as tall as the dog is so i would know that all of my pieces would be long enough to work for the dog but then i'm going to show you a different technique that maybe you don't have to have them all be there so i've got my strips i'm going to set them over here because we'll be starting to do our sewing over there then we're going to come to our pattern we're going to use the cutaway stabilizer as i mentioned you're going to take your stabilizer put it on top of the pattern and i chose to use a simple sharpie marker to do the drawing it is permanent hi kathleen hi robin hi trixie i don't know what your name is trixie so i'm gonna go with hi debbie and joyce hello everybody thank you for joining us on this friday night i'm sure you've got nothing better to do um if it were not you know coronavirus time maybe we'd all be out on dates but we're just not so i'm using just a sharpie marquee marker to do the tracing around i did not trace the collar and i'll explain why later i also at this point i did trace the eye but that's on a separate piece but you see his little ear here you want to trace the ear a little bit separate so i have him let's move the pattern now will i be able to find anything when i'm done i don't know so it's all traced down and i put the ear just a little bit separate now it's time to do the sewing so let's go oh before we move i want you to know that i have my clover mini iron here it is a hot little guy um yeah right here i've got my little wool mat the one half inch wool mat and i just want to remind you how hot these guys are so when i get going here and we get everything set up um i was just throwing things down getting everything ready sure enough one of my brand new omni grid mats was touching it and so now i have a a very sad sad burn i guess better it than you know other things so moving omni grid over there actually i'm going to need to pick up my omni grid because now is when we're going to use it so all right so i'm going to take this template over to my sewing machine and i want you to see something different here too i have put my faf icon in the normal table that i would normally have my grand quilter this is normally the table that i use for doing the machine quilting on and i am but i wanted to do the piecing and the machine quilting all in one place so i took my icon and i tucked it down inside the little hole where my grand quilter normally is it worked out pretty good because it's pretty darn level here so i can do free motion quilting but it's got like this empty space but it works it really does work and for what we're gonna do today it was really nice because how quickly i can change threads and everything on this machine too so starting out with i'm gonna use here's my little dog template and i'm gonna show you two different ways to do this i'm going to start here i'll take those scissors thank you i'm going to start with the way that they would kind of explain it keeping in mind you can have the dogs facing this way to the right or to the left just by flipping it over so i'm just going to go to the left just so you know i can i'm going to start with using my 11 inch strips so here is one strip and it is as tall as the dog actually it's a little bit short but it'll work it goes from his foot you can see his foot all the way to the top of his tail then i'm going to grab another piece and i'm going to put that right sides together now these strips are pretty straight i've got no problem with how straight those are going to use a couple of pins here and there and you don't have to as i got going i didn't use as many pins as i did in the beginning i've got my machine set up at no seam allowance it's just my regular foot my regular um don't need to move it over because this is stitch and flip you don't have to worry about scant quarter inch kind of stuff when you're doing this kind of work so now i'm just going to start sewing right up here at the top and because that piece was cut very very straight i don't need to do anything else i'm going to show you what i mean by when i say that now from here we're going to back up and go to the ironing board because that's where my clover mini iron is because i want to press this out now you can do finger pressing um it works okay but every once in a while you would want to go and give it a pressing with your larger iron i don't like finger pressing and this is going to sound really selfish and what's that word that means that all you do is think about yourself you'll get conceited it messes up my manicure people it kind of i hate that so i don't like finger pressing okay so going back to the sewing i'm going to grab another piece now this time i'm going to turn this around so i'll be working this way i'm going to grab another piece just any color any color at all and when i place this i am not always just going to place it on the edge i'm going to place it kitty want this i want there to be variety in the direction that these are going so now i'm going again now in the pattern let's go to the ironing board in the pattern what they have you do is first create these panels of strips just like i'm doing but with no stabilizer underneath they just say just piece strips together and then they put the fusible fusible web on the back of it i just thought that this would be easier and i'm really glad i did because i really think it worked out well now could you right here because you saw me just trim away that extra blue i could if i wanted to be very particular use my add a quarter ruler here like when i do paper piecing it's just not necessary but if you want to you're more than welcome to do that all right so now we're going to press this out and i would continue all the way across the board so i'm going to skip this little guy because i have a couple of other ones started so that's what this one would look like so i've got would just be just a few more to go on him so you see that he is all pieced out except his nose after you would get that done then from this side with this technique you would do a line of stitching here outlining him so we're going to do that too but i want to show you what i did instead instead of using all of the 11 inch strips and then cutting away like i'm not sure if you can see but the line of the dog is right here and so i'd be cutting away all of this part cutting away a lot of the back part here if you see where just the line is you can see all this excess what i did instead and this is the one that will continue is i just used pieces that covered so i did not you have to use a whole 11 inch strip now of course when i'm using from his tail to his foot i do but look at here on these sections here this is his ear and his nose i didn't need a full piece on his body i didn't need a full piece now it could get you in trouble if you were not paying attention to your placement so the easier way to do it to the non thinking i don't have to think too hard method would be this method cover that with 11 inch strips no thinking required if you want to save a little bit of fabric try it this way so let's go to the machine and finish this guy up so now i'm going to use some different size strips maybe not so long maybe long nope not that one i want to use a shorter one so you can see and the pile of strips oh my goodness yeah all right so right from here and i'm going to make of course this go kitty want this now sometimes and of course it's not happening now because i want to show you what wood sometimes maybe your strips are not perfectly straight because when i cut off just you know strips i'm not paying real close attention to the lining up of the horizontal and all that i am just chopping me some strips so sometimes you might want to take your ruler let's say this edge wasn't straight and i'm going to make it just a little kitty wampus just to show you the way and draw a line so then i know i have a straight line because what is of upmost importance is that you are sewing on a straight line that's the thing that you need to keep in mind now whether or not you're sewing on a straight line because your strip is straight or if you're going to sew on a straight line because you drew it either way you need to have a straight line that you're sewing on if you think that these little guys are going to then come and flip out the way that they should that sounded funny they're flipping out the way they should right back to the cutting and pressing and this is a very nice setup if you kind of i don't know if you kind of notice how athena how close she is to where i am um consider setting your sewing system up this way you just turn around you do the pressing you go back the other way you're cutting really works well dwarf not included all right athena is a dwarf so she's not picking on anybody but herself just fyi that's why we have such the perfect camera angle all right so that is all pressed hello more people are here hi carmen hi latisha latisha latisha i think i said that right i'm so proud of myself and frannabel frannabella is that really your name or is that just your call because frannabel that's an interesting name i like it from wisconsin all right going back to sewing now i'm going to use a longer strip because i'm here at his tail section sure there's a song about that somewhere or is that a there's a bird's got a tail section okay so this time because it's gonna flip over into his leg i'm gonna take this strip a little farther down up here on his tail i think that should probably catch all of his tail so like i said if you don't want to have to think about placement too much just use the 11 inch strips then you don't have to think about it you're just going to cover the whole thing and cut them out later oops cut there we go depressing this is a workout for athena new york city i heard you guys got snow in new york city we've had like maybe a little bit of flurries in michigan although i do think like minnesota and wisconsin got some the upper parts of michigan got some but we were not fortunate enough which i think is very sad hello virginia oh southern southern maryland is that dc is that dc would that be dc if it's southern maryland yeah i actually had never been to the east coast like dc but not like all the way to the ocean until just this summer in rhode island that was cool all right just one more strip i think we'll do it and then we'll be able to move on so i'm going to use not such a long strip this time because i only have his one leg to fill so you can i hope you can understand how quick this can go and how creative you can be with it not only when you're doing the strips like this but after doing this project i came up with the idea that i should do a whole bunch more oh 65 miles south of dc australia okay she's loving the blue dog okay um australia hi australia um we love you okay that was funny sorry okay so after i did the dog i decided i could do more than just a dog i did a cat i mean is he the cutest thing ever he he's so adorable i love that i used i know i'm saying i love something that i did which i'm happy that i became creative okay i love that i use the skinnier strips so this would be like maybe a gold tiger cat is he not the cutest thing and i am going to put him on this quilt and i'll hopefully remember to show you where but i got to thinking what other things could i do i could do flowers this one doesn't show i could do i could do a wiener dog i'd blow him up a little bit maybe a bunny rabbit cars leaves alphabet okay that's upside down i could do this on the alphabet and put that whole thing on this is oh that's i think that's an elephant there's a better one how about dinosaurs i could do anything that i could get a silhouette for i could do with this technique and have these be really creative there's another elephant i like him on a quilt the bunny rabbit look at this one the snake all of these ones that i am showing you these are silhouettes that i literally just printed out at maybe 5 30 right off of the electric quilt program which is the one that's a ducky rubber ducky so rubber duckie a whale i printed these off of electric quilt at 5 30. these are all silhouettes and designs that were already in there i thought that was a pretty cool looking dog more like a labrador um another kitty cat so just keep that in mind that all you need is a silhouette now the original cap that i first showed you i actually found on the internet i just looked for line drawings of a cat and it print i just made it bigger and this is what i had so think about all the different designs you could do this fun stitch and flip with so now we have him the entire dog if we look at his backside is all drawn out the next step i feel like there's a thread down there okay is to trace around the dog so i'm going to sew around the dog and i'm going to make my stitch smaller so i want it to be a very so i'm going 1.5 i want it to be a very close stitch because i want it to actually hold the fibers together when i'm cutting this my thinking there and i think it worked when i looked at my little sample piece was that when it was washed if i had these fine stitches going around holding this all in place that they would actually keep help to keep the piece from fraying when i washed it did it fray a little bit yep it did does that bother me nope it doesn't not in any way shape or form if it does a little bit of praying that is going to be just fine if i had done this with a fusible webbing over time it would have done a little bit of fraying so either way it's going to happen and when i do the quilting i'll show you how it is that i'm able to do some more stitching to help it not do any more frame so here you see i'm going to go all the way around and we've gone around enough for you to get the idea for the next step so now going to texas is it kind of warm down there i know it's a great idea mel that's what i was thinking so now using a very sharp pair of scissors so this is my omni grid scissors love these things they're actually made by kai which is a company in japan before i have these i have a pair of professional kais that cost about 90 bucks love them they have like metal handles all the way up these ones are under 30 bucks really really nice pair of scissors um and they're made by kai so i know that they're good these babies cut so smoothly so the idea and this is why i also wanted to use the sharpie marker although i went off the line there i don't think that that dog mindset his butt's a little bit bigger than his neighbor i'm trimming outside the edge of the stitching line so let's see if you can see that yeah you can actually that worked out really well there where i missed it and some of the seams are kind of heavy because you saw where it was folding over so going over like three layers of fabric and going all the way around and then all the way up and around his tail so you get the idea so we actually trim out i'm gonna turn this off so it'll stop being so hot all right now i'm gonna go back to finding the one that i cut out no i think that you get the idea all right so let me move these here so let's move this out of the way that out of the way and let's go to the design all right so looking at the quilt here with the design remember how i said that you want them maybe facing in opposite directions so you see that the one dog is to the right and the one dog is the left and this is the layout that they have in the pattern so follow her layout i do want to talk to you a little bit about the super fun stuff here so they used all um kind of newsprinty kind of fabrics so fabrics that had trying to find my samples fabrics that you know had writing on them and i just went through my stash and i just found black and white so this one i know i think is trying to read that once that says it says um yeah let's not read it okay anyway it was it's supposed to be like you know for if you're looking for somebody in the newspaper and this one wants this person to be a professional dancer so okay oh the one below funtime female 20 something world gymnast champion four years running seeking swim champion to make ultimate olympic contender okay so we're not looking for those i used instead of just newsprint i just used a variety of gray and white and black and white type prints this one actually is really fun so it's got lots and lots of words on it it says yes i can no way aha mom says who so anyway so i love buying fabrics that have writing on them um they're just fun so when i was in the shop the other day because i had used all of those i was in the shop i shop at the smith owen sewing center up here in grand rapids and so i found some to kind of replace and in the process look at that little cow he's so cute little campers and these are all brand new fabrics beer this one i never even showed athena this one she's gonna love this it's a cat tuall i do like it there's a church one honey bears this one's great monkeys with hearts i did get some writing ones but i want to show one last well two last ones because they're so cute cats on bikes all right cows and then this one is snow globes and there's santa in his underwear because yep he's so cute all right so back to work hi ireland we have ireland and england too what time is it there holy cow is it time for you guys to go to bed because it's almost well okay it's not time for us to go to bed okay so you're gonna piece this what whatever fabrics you choose the center section is one larger section i'm gonna take out these pens and we are ready to actually quilt down this dog now after i applied quilt him i already did this one i will then add his collar and his eyeball um but we're not going to do that now we're going to just apple quilt this down but to do that i need to be on free motion so now you are going to see one of the wonders of this sewing machine it's almost midnight it's almost midnight there okay it's friday it's not a school night so that's okay i'm going to show you how quickly i can switch from piecing to free motion i take off my walking foot i pop off that foot here is my floating free motion foot all right back up second i'm gonna come over here gonna hit free motion dynamic spring foot i'm ready to free motion quilt i don't know that there's another machine on the planet that you can change your machine over that quickly to free motion clipping so for this aptly quilting i am going to run right near the edge that i had cut so i am going slightly inside the cut edge oh i forgot to show you one thing to put these down i used my roxanne's basting glue i just put dots of the glocks in so you can see it's secure very very secure but not all the way around the edges that's okay i don't need it all the way around the edges i just put dots where i thought it would help what was nice about that is when i realized that i had not actually spaced them evenly i just popped off the glue so if i did whereas if i used it you really can't change it so here i just popped off the glue i'm like all right i'm going to put him somewhere else and you can just pop it off like that so love my roxanne's basting glue all right so i'm going to continue my stitching around the side just near the edges now i know that some of you are chatting thank you very much but i want you to know that while i'm stitching i i can't see the chat so i'll try to get back to all of you so going all the way around yes now did you take off the paper no left it right on there it is it's still on there because this is a cut you i don't think you were here at the very beginning now this is a cutaway stabilizer this is what an embroiderer will use if they are going to embroider a design let's say on a sweatshirt all right can't quite see behind me so if they embroider it on a sweatshirt then you know how that after you've washed it once or twice it gets super duper soft well that's what this will do it's super duper soft okay coming around the edge my machine's not having a problem i'm having a problem i can't really see behind me right now oops and my thread broke you know what just kills me i did because i did this entire quilt and i swear to you i swear on a bible and if you know me you know that that's very important i did not have one single thread break the entire time i was working on this but this lets me show you how easy it is to thread it you saw me just sweep it down and now i push that button close my eyes and ta-dah it's threaded there all right okay we're on 30 minutes i think athena said gotta get this apple quilted down i might not be able to show you the rest of the quilting that i do on the um the whole quilt because i want to show you how i put this dog i'm going to stop right there and show you how you quilt the dog so my recommendation i did it a couple different ways i tried some swirls i tried some different things i really think i decided that just going up and down worked best so i'm going to go just kind of up and down controlling my speed with my hands my machine can go slow and i go slow or my machine can go fast and i go fast so just doing it like this is going to stitch it down a lot of nice quilting going on all right so i'm going to cut that and show you what i did on the other parts my intention i'm not going to show you this right now but since i have all of those dogs there my plan where is he so i'm going to take the kitty cat and i'm going to put the kitty cat over here like you know cats rule that kind of thing because the cat would be leading the way okay so that's where the kitty cat will go uh daisy has a real quick question yes um can you say what type of paper it is does it actually have a name i would suspect it does not have a name because i bought a bulk rule quite a few years ago because i use it for a lot of different things but i would suspect that a pelon brand would be just fine there are a lot of really nice brands out there um floriani in spira these are names for when you're doing a lot of fancy embroidery this is not fancy embroidery you just need this cutaway to hold on to those fabrics and it's going to do great so i would recommend a simple brand like pellon a pellon lightweight cut away or tear away could be either way either one of them would work stabilizer so and you can find that at any sewing machine shop okay in any sewing center actually maybe even like a big box stores would have it all right so the quilting for the quilting on this i did just simple big maybe one inch meandering here in the white section because i couldn't see it anyway and anytime i'm gonna quilt something that i can't see the quilting anyhow just do a simple meandering nobody's gonna see it up here on the gray though i did swirls with points can you see that on the camera all right so and you have seen me quilt swirls with points before in some of the other videos so you can backtrack on some of the videos and see how i do that just don't can't do this all day long well actually i could except bill's making dinner and then you can see here where i've got a ribbon that i have glued down for his little collar i've not stitched it down but i thought he looked pretty fancy and then they have just a simple eyeball up there and i should have this quilted by tomorrow so in the binding on after that and then it'll be ready for christmas merry christmas thank you all for watching anything here cut away or tear away is what i was after oh yes there we go i answered the question then um i think that's it hello vegas ireland it's almost midnight time for you guys to go to bed i hope i left these sugar plums dancing in your head so that you'll have really really sweet dreams um and that's about it we have been posting on mondays videos from my new book which is the sunset over dublin it is an eight inch sampler so i hope that you guys have been viewing that um it's gotten some pretty good reviews people really like it and i'm really happy with the book because i literally did it all myself this time which is quite a feat for me i'm not real good with the whole graphics kind of thing so learned a lot doing that and i was very very happy with the results i don't think there's anything else i need to share have a merry christmas although i think i will be seeing those of you that are part of the designer level we will be having a session on the 23rd designer level is part of the membership so if you click that join button you can find out more about it but if you're interested in learning about electric quilt designing that's designer level and we will be doing one of those sessions on the 23rd so i hope to see all of my designer level and quilt addict level members there for that and that's all have a great day and thanks for watching

Channel: OnPoint-TV and Quilting with Nancy

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Keywords: Quilting, sewing, machine quilting, free motion machine quilting, beginner quiltmaking, new quilter, nancy roelfsema, applique, machine applique

Id: tFhUZMFemV4

Length: 33min 37sec (2017 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 18 2020