Triple Play: 3 Double Square Star Halloween Quilts with Jenny Doan of Missouri Star (Video Tutorial)

[Music] hi everybody it's jenny from the missouri star quilt company and it's triple play week once again and i'm here with missy and with natalie and we have three projects that are all based around the double square star so if you haven't had a chance to go look at that tutorial look at the tutorial on the double square star and you will see how fun these things are these are all takes off that block and we can't wait to show you so we're going to start with misti first all right let's dive right in and this is her quote behind us yes this is uh my quilt i called it the sashed double square star because we just added some sashing and cornerstones to it now one of the most fun things is these are all halloween fabrics oh yes we're going to have really fun halloween fabrics and in case you couldn't tell we like halloween a little jenny loves i love halloween too the fabric i use for my quilt is called a spooky good time by kim shafer for andover and it's really cute and to make this quilt behind me you're going to need two packs of these five inch squares as well as two yards of the black background fabric and so pretty easy to remember and it's really simple to make let me show you how we do it so i've got all my my goodies here so actually i think i'm just going to start with this and so the beauty of this charm pack is that there is two of pretty much all of your prints and then because you're using two packs even the ones that there's only one of you then have two so i kept them together in pairs like that and you're going to keep one hole and then you're going to take the other one and you're going to cut it down into two and a half inch squares so we're going to cut it in half both directions this is such a cool pattern when i did this i can remember that everybody was like oh my gosh i know it's so fun if you do this you know there were so many ideas that came with it so when we were thinking about an idea for this this one it was just like we got to do fun yeah totally and so then you're going to take two of these and keep it with your five inch square for your block and the other two are going to set aside for your cornerstones and so then you're going to need a five inch and seven inch black strip by well two and a half inch by five and seven sorry and then we're going to use these two and a half inch squares to snowball in opposite directions on these so i'm going to just lay those right sides together and we're going to go corner to corner this way and then corner to corner this way making sure they're going opposites it doesn't really matter as long as they're opposite so if you want to do okay that so this one goes out sure just i had to actually set mine next to the block so i knew which direction to sew so i'm pretty amazed at this right now and then then this one will just go in that way okay well and if you're if you're making a lot of blocks you can just do all of the five inch ones at the same time going one direction and then all of your sevens going the other day yeah i just chain pieced them all like this just and i so smartly have white thread in here so yes you can see and so then we're just gonna trim off the excess and we can press those back i'll let you do that now there we go and that one this is one of those blocks where it really has a lot of you know pizzazz for what you have oh absolutely and then we're just going to attach this to one side and this to the other and that is as easy as that let's do that there's that one and i will just finger press this back and add this other strip on then you can iron all at once yeah that's how i did it too and you want to make sure that this triangle right the color hits color and that that's actually why i had to lay mine down and look at them because i was like oh this is all gonna i'm so angry perfect well and the beauty is that even if you did yours opposite directions you could still put your short one on this side and the wrong way is they're opposite and still have the same points yeah because now that i'm looking at it when i made these step outs i'm pretty sure i did do mine the opposite directions but it really doesn't matter um because as long as they're opposite they yeah your seam lines are going to disappear exactly they're all going to work out and so um to make i actually did make blocks just like the original quilt but i went ahead and put sashing in between it so this is my block here and so because our block finishes up at seven inch uh sev this block i should say finishes up at seven inches square then all of our sashing pieces need to be two and a half by seven inches so i cut a big stack of those and then i just laid out some of my double square quadrants i guess we can call them and i started by just helping you needed to go that way oh thank you color to the middle there we go and we just sewed our sashing strips in the middle like this and then we have i keep losing things oh here we go and then we have the seven inch strip with a two and a half inch corner stone in the middle and another seven inch strip and this will all sew together just in rows to give you your finished block which is like this and it's so great and so easy and because of how this is all put together you use the exact same size strips and sashing in between your blocks as well and i decided to just carry it through because i kind of made it connect and web and then i also think even if this wasn't in a halloween print it would be a really cute like floraly flower that sort of appears which is really really great and so you can see here i have this sashing strip made and so it would just sit in here you would start with the sashing and then your block and then a sashing and then your block and this would just go in between your rows and so it just comes together super quick super easy and just adds a little extra pizzazz by putting those cornerstones in there three yeah this is just three by three just a nice little throw size really quick and easy and uh for the backing we use these cute little stars darlings yes and it's three and a quarter yards that you need for that so just so nice and what size does it end up 53 square 53 inches long it's really cute it would make it be great for a table but you know what i'm thinking is what if you reversed these and this was the color i know this was the background exactly no it's all those what all the fun things you can try so i'm excited to play around with it some more but i'm really happy with how it came out oh it's just so beautiful really fun so we can swap it out and jenny will be able to show you mine okay so for my quilt take a look at this quilt it's so different isn't it so cute and yet it's made exactly the same we just made a few little changes so to make this quilt you're going to need two charm packs and we have used ghouls and goodies by stacy e hue for moda fabrics and you can see it's a darling line of fabrics you're going to need a little bit of accent fabric and that's the black right here and you can use one of these little packs or you can use you can use three quarters of a yard of accent fabric and that's your little two and a half inch black squares we had we have this other background fabric here our background fabric is one and three quarter yards for our inner border i kind of i love these prints so much and so i just had to not throw in an ordinary border but of one of these fabric borders and i used a half a yard for this and the outer border is a nice big six inch border and it's one and a quarter yards so let's look at the uh the backing on this again i use that pumpkin fabric i just think it's so cute and also if you'll notice my quilting pattern these are little bats and so it these you know when you use a holiday fabric it's fun to use a holiday quilting pattern on misty's i noticed she used spider webs on hers and it's just fun to be able to do those fun quilting patterns so we don't get a chance right exactly but i also don't want you guys even though we're doing all halloween fabric for this because halloween is coming i want you guys to look at this with open eyes and see these things in other fabrics too because these are great patterns that are going to look great in you know lots of different fabrics not just the halloween absolutely but halloween i have to admit it was super fun for us wasn't it it wasn't yeah all right so these didn't get to use we just don't fabricate so my quilt is actually 63 by 75 a little bit bigger and that's just two charm packs so i figured i feel like that's a good size quilt for this and what i did so my block you can see right here is the same idea you know it's got the center square and the two side pieces with their little um snowballed corner but instead of a solid square i did a four patch in the middle so let me show you how i did that so what i'm going to do here is i'm going to pick two contrasting colors and i'll take this dark black one and maybe we'll get something over here this candy would be cute and i made four patches and this is how this is just you know there's a zillion ways to make four patches and this is just how i did it so what i'm going to do is i'm going to put these right sides together and i'm going to sew a seam on both sides so if you'll do that absolutely a little quarter inch seam on both sides i think that would be that will work [Applause] and the math on this is going to change just a little bit because when you take two seams on either side of a charm your square's going to end up being four and a half and so our math changes a little bit and you just have to be aware of that so once you get these sewn together like this it's still five so i'm going to lay my ruler right on the very edge it's one of things i love about these two and a half inch rulers and we have two pieces now of this and so natalie if you'll press these to the dark side and as long as you always press to the dark side these will these blocks will just nest together so nice and then i'm going to have you iron this one i have some others that i made here because we want to scrap these up we want them to be all mixed up and scrapped up so we're going to take these and i'm going to take one of these that i did and one that i did from before and we're going to put these right sides together like this and because we press to the dark side the seams are laying going the right descent directions and we're just going to feel those make sure they're nested up nice and tight and i'm going to see i just want you to sew on the sides again absolutely so the first one on the sides of the five inch square put these together we're sewing on the sides again with the seams running horizontally all right here we go so now this width is still five inches so we can still just lay our ruler on the edge like this and make a cut and then we have two four patches just like that so that's kind of a way it's kind of a fun way to make a a four patch a little bit a little bit a little bit different and it's just fun sometimes to throw some of these things uh in there different ways to do things all right now i've got my two and a half inch background strip right here and i need to cut some pieces and i know that my first cut is going to be four and a half because my block should measure four and a half and i will actually check that so we're going to have a four inch i've left mine cut in half because i love cutting multiple sets at a time and i'm just going to lay this ruler on here like this this is a four and a half and the other one should then be six and a half is that right isn't that right yep right that's right like isn't that right somebody help me yeah all right here we go all right now i'm going to look at this and make sure it actually is four and a half because sometimes when we have those little pinked edges it does mess with our our cutting a little bit and it looks like we're pretty close make sure this side's lined up uh no i got nothing to trim there i'm gonna turn it here and see how this side is yeah it's really good it's really good all right so now again we're going to do this side here and this side here but we have to put our little black square on the side and so i'm just going to kind of finger press these and i actually set up my little block like this because for those of you who like me are angry challenged i um i needed to know that my color has to touch the four patch and oftentimes so there were several blocks where we had a white on here and i tried to make that white not touch the background fabric because i wanted it to show up and so i went ahead and used the whites but i just made sure they weren't kind of watched your placement yes whoo you got it i got it all right all right you'll sew that down there and then this one can follow sewing right on the line yeah this yeah when you press the line you sew right on the line that's a really good point because so often we sew on both sides yeah we are not doing that on this block all right and i will trim these off right yeah i did let me see this as long as they're opposites it doesn't matter yeah as long as they're opposites it doesn't matter all right so then i'm going to trim this off thank you natalie for ironing those no problem and then i'm going to hand this over to misty and let her start pressing these on i mean sewing these on so we're going to just sew this right here like this actually i'm going to note like this that's what we're going to do we're going to sew this one here like this and you can sew that down and then we'll add this guy on the side there you go there you can throw that in there a trash ripple of trash can down here and then one over here on this side all right we tried to get our nails all pretty for you this week you know we oh natalie's hiding hers not i missy came in and she had her you know we do the glue one i was gonna say we're we don't actually yeah people are just people are just like i love your manicure and i'm like i just so uh yeah we're all like gardeners and you know out there doing house flippers and we've got all the projects so we got all the projects nails don't really last long for us no but people are always impressed with my manicure so now you know my secret you can have a tube you too can have this wonderful mannequin yeah misty's are like a nude nude yeah or what a ballet blush or something yeah i don't know all right so you need four of these to make your block and we could put it together just like this which would still be so which would still be so cute right um but i decided that i wanted to see what would happen if and so what i did was i took two of my blocks and i put one in this way and i put one in this way and uh and sewed it together like a four patch and all of a sudden it was really completely different so misty if you want to sew these together sure and it goes together just like a four patch and you're you have uh like on this you don't really have match up places so you can't really get off on this i mean you do want to try to make them fit you know so that your blocks come out the same this little piece here on the bottom you could nest you know your little oh hang on i'm sorry i didn't cut the thread it's all right don't cut it just all this glue down here there we go and then uh so right here this seam you could nest right here to make sure that they kind of line up because it will form these little it forms these little pinwheels just by putting the blocks together so here's this one and we'll go ahead and sew let's go ahead and sew this one to this one do you want me to press that other one no she's going to live on the wild side living on the edge living on the with a spider that's right all right you do have some more places that you can match up when you put these together though oh yeah when you put the sides together you want to watch where your little your little seams come together i actually love that when when when you're putting a block together and there's you know you're at a two and a half inch block you can actually straighten up your block every two and a half inch inches because you're matching those up right and making sure they stay where they need to right yeah i like that too and since i'm kind of a like a random quick sewer all right now if you can go ahead and iron this and i'm going to show you how this block fits into the quilt behind me so here's our blocks right here and wherever there's a pinwheel that is the beginning of the next block i love it and so it's you know i can even come down here it's right here and here and here and here and so we've got four across and five down i believe one two three four five down and so it's 20 blocks that you're making of this and you can see just by adding another charm pack you could make this a bigger quilt if you did it with a layer cake you could cut those into fourths and do them i mean it's just a great pattern fun and a great twist on the double square star i love it nice all right natalie you're up okay i have a great project it's super simple and quick and easy i had i had time to do something bigger but i thought it might be time for us to just do something small and simple that's right so i only used a few of my charm squares and put together these cute little table runners with a package you can make several and this um this line that i used is so sweet it's called all hallows eve by joanna figueroa for fig tree and it is such a sweet line it's just so soft and subtle it's beautiful for fall or halloween it's not super um uh it's not super halloween like it doesn't have spiders or things like that but it's beautiful fall colors and i just loved it the nice thing about it is because whether it has duplicates or not you have such similar colors that you can match them all up and make this gorgeous little table runner so let me show you how i put this together and i've got um i have i did two so so on this one i have a white background and on the other one i have a black background will you grab that one for me yeah so i have this one as well that i did with the lighter squares in the middle and then a darker background so all we do is we make two of the regular double square star blocks and put those together just like this so two regulars and two singles yes so these go together in a little four patch and these are made just the same way misti's are made and mom's only minus the four patch for moms and the twists the same measurements right same measurements as misties goes together in just the very similar way oh we've got two of these so i'm going to put them opposite like that so these get get stitched together no problem same square do you want a stitch or do you want to down while you're while you're talking through yeah okay so we'll have two of them so we'll do two of those yep and then in between those two squares you're just going to put two opposite squares um facing in the middle and i'm going to use these ones because they stand out against those other two so just like this these two point and so um as soon as you get that square put together what you're going to do is is basically here you're going to have this first square and then you're going to add this second one to the side and you'll do the same thing over here putting this square to this side and then sew this seam to join oh okay i was wondering yeah you did that yep so you still make you still make your first two solid blocks just like normal and um if you want we can we can throw one more together just so that we can show the entire thing because this is it goes together so fast and then i have a few pointers on the binding because you don't often bind in that zigzag shape so just grab another one of the we could do the two of these okay so yeah you've got it and i'll give these to misty and let her sew them together as well in a little strip piece fashion perfect oops it really does go together fast and you can make several from your one charm so i love things when you can make several things because i like to do you know quick little gifts for you know think about this in christmas fabric or anything i mean in any fabrics and it looks so cute like uh one second whoops am i in your way nope oh but oh look look how cute you got a little pumpkin on the table it's adorable can you even see his face right there he's looking out so happy all right all right can you show them about this attack so right so this kind of sits a little bit on point and this is pissing out because i can't watch and sew well you're gonna get you're gonna get the grand finale okay so this um this piece let me move this right out of the way so you can see this piece just attaches right here and it's just a short little side seam now do you sew it all the way to the end um yes okay because there's no way there's no y seam no wires and as far as like um matching it up it will it'll automatically match up as if you line up this end you can check to see that you're that your points match but it's not going to make a lot of difference because that is going to be in the binding right all right so stitch this one and i'll iron this one and you can just start it there and go down okay [Applause] there we go and then you can um just just so that sure yeah just so that you know these do go exactly the same way so this also goes oh so it'll match up yeah okay because you flip it you just flip oh okay so have misty sew that one and then let's show it where they sew it together okay so this also goes like this so see how see how these two are basically the same piece and then you're just gonna take this piece and you're gonna flip it and you're going to match these two points up in the middle oh i love it and just sew another little half seam to join these and you've got your whole table runner done so then you quilted them from at this point you quilt yes i went ahead and quilted them and bound them as usual okay and look how cute this quilting is this is candy like for halloween candy it has lots of candy on it yeah and so then uh the binding so the binding is gonna be it does seem like it might be a little bit more complicated but it's not i've got this attached partially so you can see on this one i've partially attached the binding and the outer corners the ones that point out you do them in the same way that you do any of your normal corners on quilting you're going to flip it out and then flip it back like this and pull it straight back down and that's going to miter on the other side so just like a typical and then this one is the fun one so for this space when you get down here what i would do is go ahead and put a little clip in this seam okay but not super far back i thought that was oh here right here not a clip i meant to sit like i said you're going to okay you cut it so so what you do is you pull this apart you pull this flat straight just like this as straight as you can yep so you're stitching along do you want to see when you kill it now sure that would be great you can show it okay good idea i didn't think of that all right so we'll go around this corner i'm just going to start here and bind as usual on this one you're going almost to the edge about a quarter of an inch pull it up where's that thingy there we go flip it back and then back down okay all right so now that i'm getting close to the corner what i'm gonna do or the the inverted corner inside the inside point i'm just gonna keep i'm gonna kind of twist it a little bit and pull it straight so i'm sewing towards the middle and once i get to the middle i kind of leave it in a needle down position and really pull it out so that it straightens that seam so it's a little bit tight but if you leave your needle in the down position you can pull it and get it straight and so straight away when you do scallops that's when i just it is the same as when you do scallops and then you're like on this right here you know you can see how it is it's just straight and then when you let it go it makes its own little pleats that's so great right so you're going to go ahead and finish that as as normal with the same same method that you use on on regular quilt and then when you're getting ready to bind the other side when you hand stitch it down you're still going to want to pull apart but it might need a little bit of a clip because it makes this kind of funky it just seems a little tight so if you clip the seam right here not through your threads not through your thread yes making sure that you don't clip the actual seam that you've just sewn right then it will pull across much easier and you you continue to hand bind let me flip this around so you can see it just gives you that flexibility as you hand bind you continue to keep that straight and stitch it down and then it it'll bounce back into this really beautiful just easy inner corner just kind of makes its own pleat yeah and it lays flat and beautifully it looks great you can put the pumpkin on here you can get it off here you can i can show it there we go yes and the spider and you can see on this this table runner i did a cute little candy i love it like halloween candy and this one's loops and swirls they're so easy and fun they're really a table runner is actually a great place to do a really dense fun pattern because you really get to look at it on the table that's true and it's a smaller space so it doesn't take quite as much time yeah if you do it on a whole quilt it takes a bit longer a lot longer the denser patterns definitely take more time and more thread that is fun and it's fun to use it but it's fun too around the holidays yes very cool yep so this has been so much fun for us with the halloween fabric and these projects based on the double square star it's been so fun misty let's recap show us yours yes i just added the cashew sash double square stir cute and natalie with her cute runner and this is so quick and easy so easy and even the pointed binding you can totally handle it i chroma and mine back here the four patch double square star it's time for a little fun and mischief and we hope you enjoyed this triple play on the double square star from the missouri star quilt company you

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Length: 29min 10sec (1750 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 17 2020