Trip Around The World Quilt Tutorial and a Chat

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hello YouTube friends I've got a lovely blank design board behind me and that's because I've been I have a quilt commissioned from one of the lovely viewers from to this channel thank you and the remit was absolutely lovely what this lady said was make a quilt that you think would look nice in your house Kate so I'm going to really enjoy making this one now I'm filming it now as I'm making it but I'm not going to edit and put this video up until it's finished and until the customers got it so that she's the first person who sees it but obviously I'm going to be collecting together all the bits and pieces of fabric and making this so when you see this design board behind me on future videos it'll be covered up with a big cloth because I want you to see it first now when I the design is a trip around the world block that was the remit we're going to use that block and when I pulled all my fabrics I thought as fine I've got loads of fabrics in pinks and greens and reds and so on which was the colors we discussed but I was really bored with them all I looked at them and thought these are really dull this is not at all what I want to I want to work with and this isn't the work I want to give to this lady so I bought some new fabric I'm so excited have you ever bought a jelly roll have you ever bought two jelly rolls I splurged I really wanted this quilt to be amazing and I need two and a half inch strips that's what I need and that's what a jelly roll is so once you open a jelly roll it'll never look as beautiful again will it so but I am gonna open it I'm gonna open it right now so these are K Fassett jelly rolls there are I think there are forty designs of everything in the K Fassett range which includes Brandon Mobley and Phillip Jacobs those three people all designed for the k4 set range so some of those people's designs maybe in here but there's the reason why I bought it like this rather than in half yards or quarters or whatever is because I'll get much much more variety so come on let's just open this shall we of course there's an elastic band inside so I take off the the outer bit of ribbon like so and then this will never look like this again but we're going to do this because I want to stop make a start on this and start work on it now so we opened up this jelly roll then and you can see can't you but what i've got here is the most amazing delicious bunch of fabrics all in really bold reds and then the same here in blues and greens that was that was what I wanted now there may not be quite enough fabric to make the whole quilt with this but that's okay because I've been putting this project box together and I've got some of my own bits and pieces of KFOR set in here okay fantastic what a treat opening up this this jelly roll together look at these beautiful fabrics let's look at a few of them individually so the way that this trip around the world block is gonna work there's so good aren't they it's going to be in reds and greens and this bluey color and some pinks but it's not going to be it's not gonna have the same rigidity the same design repeat if you like what am I trying to say it's the theme of it is going to be reds and greens but it's going to be a bit more mixed up than that so I'm I've I've got some extras in here if I need them but the same designer I'm not gonna mix in any other designers with this at all and I've drawn out the the quilt plan in here of what it is I'm I'm going to be cutting so that's what I'm gonna do now so I'll get back to you in a minute when I've well it'll be a second for you but it'll be all afternoon for me when I've cut these fabrics how I want to and started to pair them up so that I can see that I've got the the color distribution that I want and the design that I want so I'm gonna do that now and you know how much fun I'm gonna have don't you a lot excited about this one so I'll make this it this project with you you'll see it eventually and it'll be in parts just like the flying goose quilt was not this Easter but the Easter before when I made that I think I made that in six parts didn't like so I'll make this in as many parts as it needs to be to become a comprehensive look at how I'm making this quilt so what I'm doing now then I'm lining all these strips are two and a half inches wide and width of fabric and I'm just lining up a I don't know maybe six or so at a time and I'm gonna cut those into 16 inch strips for the next stage that I know which is where I'm gonna put them onto my design board here in bundles of six three Reds three greens all completely different so that then when I'm doing the next process you can see what I'm going to do next when you're sewing like this lots and lots of straight bits you've got to keep an eye on your bobbin thread and make sure it doesn't run out and I've got maybe a few yards left I'll have to fill that in a minute so what I've done with all the strips I've cut them all to length they're two and a half inches wide and I've cut them to 16 inches long which will give me a little bit of margin for error when I'm cutting them up excuse me then I but bundled them all up into six different colors in a run three of the red jelly roll and three of the green jelly roll and pin them together says three of each here all completely different I'm not trying to match anything up I just want to make sure I've got three on one side and three on the other and that's how I'm sewing them I'm stitching them all together like that so that actually there will be big blocks of green and big blocks of red that's intentional so I've made 25 of these because for the size quilt that I'm making 25 of this size will make the 60 inch square quilt that I want and so I've got a little system going now so they're all sitting next to me here or on my knee and I I've got a method so they don't get mixed up so and then as soon as I've done these I've got them all done sewn into a six by six and as soon as I've finished doing this I'm gonna press all the seams in going wrong way I've got off movie I'm gonna watch a film and I'm going to do that and then once all the seams are pressed in one direction I'm going to sew this edge to this edge to make those tubes and I'll have 25 tubes like that then I'm going to cut them at two and a half inches but keeping very carefully keeping them together I don't want this to be random this is not a postage block a quilt this is a trip around the world quilt and although the fabrics are all going to be different they will all still hang together because they're all from the same family of colors and the same designs so I'm gonna get up get on and do that now I've got what have I got one two three of those left two so now yep three I've been going at this for ages and so and I will carry on going at this for ages and just fill me little bits of it at a time just look at these colors aren't they sumptuous these amazing greens and these fantastic colors they all work so brilliantly together so I'm gonna carry on doing this now as I say I've got a movie I'm gonna put that on in a minute and just stitch and press and stitch and cut and press and sew and and press and cut and sew and measure and it's going to be fantastic but I'll let you see it when it's on the design board well what's the next stage you're going to see I'm going to unpick all the way around I might film a little bit of that because that's quite tedious which is where I need a few good movies okay guys I'm gonna get one unfinished doing this then as I say I've only got three of these left to do when you're working with pre cuts like this so easy so easy so rewarding because the fabrics are hot beautiful okay then so as I say I've got a system so that as I'm chain piecing them through I know exactly which one should be going coming up next because they're all following on one from the other so like now I can cut that off that's ready to have the other green one attached to it and that's another finished bundle waiting to be pressed so got the iron ready who's sitting on the ironing board of course she's just getting it warm for me okay so now I'm pressing all the seams in one direction on these blocks and then once I've pressed it and I always trap like to check the front sometimes you can have a little bit I call it a shelf a little bit where there seems not quite opened out then I'm going to fold that in half and I'm being very careful to fold it so that that bottom seam is straight and in fact all the seams line up because what I want to do when I saw the tube I don't want to make it skewed so that when I cut the strips they'll be nice and even so I'm just showing you these blocks here big blocks of green big blocks of red I'm doing the voiceover for this weeks after I've finished the quilt so it's it's really weird to be back here with this with this this footage here okay so lining all of these then and folding them really carefully and then the next thing I do is so that last seam so there's a tube and then once that tube is done I'm going to neaten the edge up here on my cutting mat just neaten that edge up and then whatever size your strips are that's what width you need to cut your strips so if you were making this with a broader strip you have four inches you would cut this their strips to four inches smaller again the same now some people in the comments last time we're saying that this is how you make a bar jello quilt by cutting the strips different widths now I've never made those I think they're very clever and you get all sorts of beautiful effects that way but it's the same kind of idea exactly the same so round and round the go and then once they're all cut I was very careful to keep the six strips in their families so they're so that they wouldn't get mixed so nice accurate bear cutting there and there's a little bit left over not worried about that just a tiny bit they lit end up on patreon postcards probably and so then they were all put into their little piles and all pinned together next time we'll see where we carry on from there you [Music]

Channel: The Last Homely House

Views: 36,255

Rating: 4.9687324 out of 5

Keywords: trip around the world quilt, quilting, quilt, kaffe fasset, tutorial, quilt commission, red and green quilt, machine quilting

Id: j-RXFFbSiac

Length: 14min 11sec (851 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 05 2019