Terry Griffin Shares Her Invisible Seam Technique | Riley Blake Designs

today's special guest is Terry from thankfully so and she's here to show us her technique of creating invisible scene so welcome Terry Thank You Cynthia I'm glad to be here and I appreciate you having me well I'm glad you brought this well it's beautiful and I love how your seams are invisible so you're going to tell us how to do that well I needed a 56 inch piece for this strip right here and as we all know fabric only is 40 to 42 inches so I needed to create a length of an additional you know 10 12 inches so I matched up the pattern print here on this strip of fabric to the pattern print here on this strip of fabric and then showed them together and I have kind of a unique way of doing that a simple very simple easy unique way of doing that and if it's invisible which you don't want to see your seams in the quilting right right so I'm excited for you to teach us how to do this so okay so is first of all when we get our yardage of fabric each fabric has a repeat some of them can be an inch or some of them can be up to 15 inches this one is about 8 inches repeat so we have a flower here and a flower here and a flower here and the little floral print here and here so our repeat is about like this and we're going to take the strip of fabric across the fabric and cut across and then we're going to match it right here so that we can continue on that strip so that we can get whatever length we want whether it be be seamless and look like one whole piece right okay right because there's different things we need whole pieces for right yeah we can use them on a larger quilt a queen-size or king-size quilt if people choose to make that or on em curtains balances a baby crib a little ruffle on a baby crib so that you have that continuous piece and you don't have that interruption broke pieces and if you've ever seen fabric printed it's always a screen printed and a lot of times the repeats are 24 inches the screens and so you can have a variation of 24 inches in each of the repeats so our 1 in here is 8 about 8 inches your agent okay so it's my bucket list is to see that screen printing one day well I've seen it and it is fascinating so it's so lightning speed and accurate it's it's amazing I'll bet that is interesting I just wanted to show on this sasparilla print the repeat on here if you can see we have the P here and the P here and then it goes onto the D and the S and I think this is about 13 inches or 14 inches that is actually the repeat however on this fabric you don't have to necessarily repeat the alphabet you can just repeat the squares the one inch square so you take your fabric and we'll show this in detail in a little bit but you take your fabric and fold it right along that line of the square and match it up to the squares here so that you can you just continue on with that and that's the line of the square and then it's flawless like this so it can be anywhere between an inch or 15 inches or like you said up to 24 inches so what I wanted to show you is the repeat on this is the other print or the other colorway of the Valencia pattern so we take the fabric here and you first start out and you want to decide determine if you if you need a 5 inch width or you need a 3 inch width or you need an 8 inch width whatever you're using and you cut your starting piece a little bit larger than that now I wanted to show on here that you can see that the leaves on this little flower are different on each one of the point it's a little bit doing 10 draws for artwork so that they are different it's not done graphically okay yeah she's she's phenomenal and so your print will only go one way it won't you can't do it both ways because of the way that she draws her pattern so what I did is I took this other strip and I cut him down small enough for this demonstration otherwise you'd be having a 43 inch right team yeah so I took the print where I wanted to start and I just took a fold and I pressed it down so turn it over and usually I start on the selvage side because you get a straight edge it doesn't have to be that way but it just gives you a straight edge so then we fold it over and we press that down really good and I'm a presser I love to press and so I pressed it really good and now we'll come back over here and we'll match it up to this flower over here now I only need let's say I only need a three and a half inch strip okay and so I can come back over here and it can be anywhere positioned on your other strip as long as you have a whip wide that you know you're going to have and usually cut it down right so right here at line it will line up but we just kind of line it up and make sure that we're getting that lined up exactly and as it just sits there you can't even tell so now what we do is we take it and we'll put it some glue here and it needs to be the water-soluble glue and we have a glue stick here that's carried by Riley Blake that can be purchased from Riley Blake and the nice thing about this is you can use as much or little as you want because you can reposition it until you get it exactly how you want it and you don't need to worry about this additional fabric here because once we get it put down we will then have go back and cut it to a quarter inch seam okay okay so actually we're going to go this way with it had that turned wrong so no we're not we're going to turn it this way that's one thing you have to note it you have to remember is to get that flower going the same direction so we have this same little leaf here and the same little leaf here so you just want to pinpoint one thing that you've got and I'm going to glue that put some glue on that and again you can use as much or as little as you want because it's water-soluble and it will come out so then we come back over here and we match that up and it takes a little bit to get it just where you want it make sure things the center dot and all those little petals mm-hmm so we need this to come down a little bit here so how does that look that looks right on okay so now since it's glued down we will take it and we will just flip it back over and because that's glued down it'll stay there and then we just take it over to the machine and we do a stitch similar to a stitch in the ditch this is not really a stitch in the ditch but it's very similar so you want to sew right down the middle of that crease you don't want to get on either side of it or you'll mess up that match so you just take it over and you sew it right down there let's try it okay okay so we've sewed our stitch in the ditch okay see how it turned out oh that looks like a really good completely match up so if you had two full length you could just double your length mm-hmm so you can have almost I don't know 84 86 inches wide if that right yeah oh that's great you can add a third one if you want to if you needed to so now what we do is we'll iron this so I'll just take it over here to the iron okay we've ironed that now so we'll just flip this back over and we're going to trim this to a quarter inch so I'll get the ruler and the rotary cutter and we'll just trim that off to a quarter of an inch just kind of line up here stitching seen with your quarter inch line and we'll just cut that off okay so now if you choose you can either press it to one side or you can open that seam and press it open okay the next step then is to catch your width whatever width you've decided that you need it cut too so we'll cut I'm going to line up that Center dot from the flowers just to kind of get a an eyeball centered right and we'll cut a strip of fabric and we'll pull this back this way to go clear to the end and line up the ruler here so that you get it on the straight again or straight of the strip and again I see this a lot for borders this is a great idea for orders and then we'll flip it over because I'm right-handed and let's say we'll do a six inch strip so that we get back to what will have a center if you've got a medallion and again it's a little bit like fussy cutting too you can place the medallion wherever you want to put it and then six inch here there you have your strip and look at that invisible seams I love this technique and you can really use it and your borders and quilting and you know drapes anything right now it's just a fun technique so thank you so much for sharing that with us thank you for having me Cindy I appreciate it you

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Length: 10min 45sec (645 seconds)

Published: Thu May 29 2014