Streak of lightning-scrappy quilt-sew along with me

[Music] [Applause] [Music] i am making a streak of lightning quilt today there are quite a few patterns that have this name mine uses a nine patch of half square triangles so i'm cutting some six inch squares using a fat quarter and i need for two blocks i need nine six inch squares and i'll be able to get two different nine patches with my squares so i'm taking this pretty brown and a pretty turquoise they kind of go together and i'm going to make a very scrappy streak of lightning quilt [Music] after getting my six inch squares ready to go i drew a line corner to corner and i'll be making half square triangles and if i have nine of each color i will be able to get 18 and so i'll have enough for two nine patches so i'm using my old green vintage singer sewing machine i just love using this machine it's got a straight stitch it's easy to use and i'm chain piecing the jukie that i have been using most of the time when i sew with you has a thread cutter and this one does not so it's save some thread to do chain piecing when you can so i'm drawing the lines and i'm going to keep sewing these together until i have them all ready to go [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] now that i have all of my seams in i'll be cutting them in half and pressing [Music] do [Music] after pressing my squares my half square triangles i trimmed all of them to five and a half [Music] inches [Music] [Applause] [Music] now to get my streak of lightning block ready my nine patch ready this is really the trickiest part of this quilt because i'm doing a nine patch i need to do a couple of different layouts here so this is the first one i think on the left you can see that hill on the top left and then everything follows so i need one of those blocks and then i need to move the hill over to the right for the second block and add the extra pieces on the left so i will have nine patches that are slightly different they use the same ingredients but they just have a different layout and i'll show you even a simpler layout in just a little bit right now i'll sew my rows together and then put the rows together and i'll have one of my blocks ready to go [Music] so [Music] do do [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] now with this pink and blue block i'm making the second layout where the hill is on the left and not the right so i'll put this block together and then we'll talk about maybe an easier way to lay out our half square triangles so that this quilt can go together there are many ways to do a streak of lightning this is the nine patchway where the nine patches are very similar this one actually i had to sub in a different blue because i didn't have quite enough of that pretty blue with the leaves so i have a couple of extra triangles there that are pretty close in color but not quite the same [Music] [Applause] [Music] so after getting my pink and blue half square triangles together i thought i would show you just a an easier way to think about how to lay out this block so we're actually making all the same rows we all the rows are exactly the same for the first block i need to turn that center row upside down and there it is and then for the second block i just flip the top and the bottom and for some reason i move that middle but i'm flipping the top and the bottom to make the second layout option there and then we'll see it again here they are all the exactly the same i flip the center and there's the first block and then in the other i just flip the top and the bottom then when you get one row of all of these streak of lightnings together you need to do a second row and they those blocks are upside down so it's the same block but you need to put it upside down to make that streak of lightning so it's a really a fun block to put together it's a little brain bending because of the layout options the way that you have to lay out the half square triangles but i really think it's worth it it's such a pretty scrappy quilt thanks for sewing with me today and i'll see you next time

Channel: my sewing room

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Length: 11min 34sec (694 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 14 2021