SUPER EASY CURVES!!! - Free "Cathedral Stars" Quilt Pattern!

hi i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics I have a new pattern I've been working on got it all sketched out and I'm calling Cathedral stars it has a folded and rolled technique in the corners here and that's what makes these flowery stars show up it's a really fun pattern to do it's very easy and I'm gonna show you exactly how to make it so let's get some fabrics and get started we're going to use five different fabrics for this pattern so we've got a background we need four yards for that we've got a medium colored print a yard and three quarters a nice dark 3/8 sashing a yard cornerstones 1/8 now you don't have to remember all these numbers because we have a free pattern it's the first link right below the video now the whole quilt is going to be made up of just these two blocks and instead of cutting a bunch of individual pieces we're going to make them using strip units so the first fabric we're going to cut is this background and we need two pieces five inches wide and three pieces seven and a quarter inches wide now for our medium print we're gonna need seven strips at two and three quarters and three strips at seven and a quarter now we need to cut some of the dark accent fabric we need three strips cut at two and three-quarters inches wide now we're going to take our strips and we're going to make some strip units now there's three different strip units we're gonna do the first one has the five inch light and it has two of these medium pieces one on each side so let's open this up and open this up put the raw edges together and use it careful quarter inch seam allowance all the way down here and you want to be careful that you don't stretch either the top or the bottom so just lay them gently on top of each other and sew right along the edge so just stitch right off the end and then we're going to press the seam allowance toward the darker fabric we're always going to press all of the seam allowances away from that white so I'm opening it up with my hands and I'm just drawing my finger the either the pad or your fingernail if you like right down that seam and it opens it up and it flattens it out and it makes it really easy to iron later on now we're going to add the second strip to the opposite side using the same method so again finger press away from the light now the second strip unit we need has the seven and a quarter inch white and one of these medium strips and that's all we need is just these two now the third strip unit has the seven and a quarter inch medium and the two and three-quarter dark and again there's only one strip that goes on the side here now this strip unit the seam allowance is going to get pressed toward the medium color I have all of the strip units made now we needed two of these guys three of these ones and three of these ones and before we cut these we're going to want to iron each one even though we finger press this it's not flat enough to move on we need to use our iron so I've got this nice flat ironing board and it's got a straight edge and I'm gonna smooth this out with my hands then I'm gonna take a big yardstick I call it a yardstick it's a four foot metal stick and I'm going to make sure this is straight on here because it's it is possible to lay this on your ironing board and have it curved and we don't want it curved so smooth it out make sure it's straight then use a dry iron first and then use some steam I have all three strip units ironed up so we've got three different kinds and they're gonna get the sub cut but they all get cut to different widths so let's start with this one here that has a piece on each side of it I've got two of these and I can cut them at the same time I'm gonna layer them up but I'm going to stagger it a little bit so that I don't have too much bulk in any one spot so I don't want these seam allowances right on top of themselves now this one is going to get cut five inches wide so I'm going to neaten it off here and then I'm going to cut this two five inch into five inch segments the whole way down so we need 12 of these strip units now the next one we're going to cut is this guy here with the big white piece and the narrow medium and these are gonna get cut to seven and a quarter inches wide we needed 12 of these also and then the last strip unit gets cut into two and three-quarter inch pieces we need 36 of these and now we are ready to put together our blocks the first block against one of these and two of these so we're just gonna turn that one around that one's gonna go right there and they seams are gonna line up perfectly and they're even going in opposite directions the seam allowance is there so it's gonna be really easy to match these finger press the scene towards the darker fabric and now we'll put that guy on so that's our first block now the second block gets one of these and one of these and again everything matches up and stitch it on really fast and those seam allowances nesting there again again press the seam towards the darker fabric and that's all you have to do we need 12 of that block and we need 12 of that block I've got all the Patrick blocks done now we need some 6-inch squares for those folded corners that go in the blocks now we need to take each Square and iron it in half along its diagonal and give it a good steam pressing now for the fun part each block is going to get two of these folded squares and they're going to go on to the corners opposite each other the corners that don't have the accent color so I'm going to line this up with the raw edges and I'm going to stitch right along the edge about an eighth of an inch away from the edge pretty close to the edge there and this is just a anchor it down while we do our folding and rolling let's do this other corner and you can actually stitch it on and fold and roll all in one operation so let me show you I'm gonna stitch it on and now when I get to this far corner here I'm gonna pivot around and I'm gonna roll this back now I don't want to have it rolled back too close to the edge because that'll make that could get caught in my seam allowance so let's roll it so that it's at least a quarter inch away from the edge there and we're rolling it back till most of this block shows and now I'm going to edge stitch right along that rolled part so smooth it out with your fingers and just it's very close to the edge it's kind of fun it's all on the bias here so it it stretches a little and that's why it was so nice to go right along that one edge and this is optional but I like to stitch this part down I think it will make the quilt flatter and then my hopping foot when I caught it won't get caught here so I'm going to edge stitch on this side all as well it's very easy to do bring a backpack right there look how fun that is it got a nice little wedge nice little curve so it's important to make sure that you don't start your fold too close to the edge you want to have a good quarter-inch there and the same thing when you get to the other end that way when you sew your blocks together you won't have a lot of extra bolt in the corner so same thing on this end here don't fold it over like that just about there so I'm gonna go ahead and sew these onto all of my blocks all of my blocks are stitched up I went ahead and steam pressed them nice and flat and I've cut the sashing and cornerstones two inch squares two by nine and a half and those numbers are in the pattern but let me show you what this is going to look like when we start laying it out so this is we're gonna have two of these guys these what I'm gonna call half blocks then we're going to have two of these whole blocks and two more half blocks then we're going to have four whole blocks and a couple more half blocks here and that's half the quilt right there and then we will just fill in with these sashing pieces they're gonna go between all of these blocks and then right in the middle right in the middle of here is gonna be one of the yellow cornerstones course it'll look a lot neater when we've got them sewn together and everything is nice and square so I'm going to continue to lay it out so you can get a better idea of what the whole quilt looks like they're all the patrick is laid out we've got some holes in the corners and all we have to do is get some 11 inch squares here and these are gonna go in all the corners and these are gonna make a nice negative space for us to do some quilting on so I'm probably going to use a colored thread on this one so that the quilting will show and I'm going to get everything stitched up I'll probably put a border or two around it it looks like that would frame it very nicely and then I will get on to the quilting machine I've got the quilt all loaded up on the machine and now it's time to pick a thread color so I normally want the thread to recede and blend in but I've got this nice large white space here so I want the thread to show a little bit now this light blue I thought was going to be perfect but you can hardly see it so I picked a couple other blues here that one I think is too dark even this one it's really gonna show now the yellow that's very pretty but look it's gonna blend right in and we're not gonna see it at all but this one it's a nice light blue we're gonna see it a little bit but it's not gonna fight too much so we'll use this one for the quilting pattern I'm going to use chestnut swirls the shape of this with just a little bit of a curved seems to echo those folded corners those Cathedral window corners that we have in the quilt so this is going to have an all-over pattern that's gonna fill up all that negative space in the solid white areas [Applause] I have the cathedral stars quilt all done I'm very happy with how this turned out I honestly didn't know how easy it would be to make one that looks like it has these curves without having to sew any curves so these rolled parts stitched on both sides that's what makes that curved area and you can see big circles as you look around having all this quilting around here really helps on a very solid white background because if you quilt it in white and you don't use a colored thread it shows every little piece of lint but having just a little bit of color shadowing in that thread it makes it it gives it texture and it helps hide any lint you might get on your quilt now on the back I used grunge and you can really see the quilting pattern there so it shows up quite nicely I used the same finding that I used in our medium pieces here the sashing cornerstones they're a little bit smaller than these here and I think that makes the patchwork look a little bit better all in all a very satisfying quilt to make much easier than it looks we hope you enjoyed watching our tutorial today on how to make the cathedral stars now we're having another giveaway you might have seen this video this is called hexagons pinwheels and I made it up with Kate facet jelly roll strips really fun to 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Id: hNic2BkaXKE

Length: 15min 45sec (945 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 27 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Great_Personality]

I'm super jealous of her set up. It looks so easy with the big cutting table, big ironing board, long arm machine all right there. Something to dream about and save for I guess.

[u/RowlfRox]

I’ve been watching a ton of her videos lately, I really dig her style!

[u/SuperAwesomeWTF]

Beautiful!!!!