Jenny: Hi everybody, it’s Jenny from the
Missouri Star Quilt Co. And it is Triple Play week. So I am here with Misty and I am here
with Natalie and we have an awesome surprise for you today. We are using the drunkard’s
path ruler. Now whenever we do a template, we try to do as many things as we can. And
there’s quite a few things for the drunkard’s path but now you have three more. So we’re
going to start today with my project which is right behind me. Take a look at this. How
cute is this? Here’s your drunkard’s path block right here. But look I’ve added a
quarter of a wonky star block to it. Misty: It’s so cute.
Jenny: And it makes this cute thing so we’re calling it Bird of Paradise because it kind
of looks like that flower, the bird of paradise. Jenny: So to make this quilt what you need
is four packs of five inch squares. So you could use a layer cake and quarter them but
we had charms so we went with charms. And we used Lancaster by Jo Morton for Moda. And
it’s just a great, you know, Civil Waresque line, really fun. You’re going to need some
background fabric, that’s all of this right here. And that is 4 ¼ yards of background.
Your outer border is a six inch border so you’re going to need a yard and a half for
this. And your backing is 5 ½ yards or one three yard piece of a 108 backing. And it’s
just, you know, just comes together pretty quick. You’re also going to need this drunkard’s
path template and this is the small drunkard’s path and this is the one we used. Now there’s
a million ideas to do with drunkard’s path. And honestly we really looked them over.
Natalie: There’s so many options Misty: So many.
Jenny: So many, yeah. Just so many things you can do and just a turn of it and something
fun appears. Misty: Such a fun block.
Jenny: And you’ll see that with the projects we’ve chosen today. So for mine, what I
did was I made a block that looks like this where I used two drunkard’s path blocks
and two quarter wonky stars. And I just love how it came out. It’s so different. We’re
calling it Bird of Paradise. I think it’s really fun. Jenny: And what you’re going to do, first
we’re going to take our background fabric and we’re going to cut those into 8 ½ inch
strips. Now when I cut mine, I generally do leave my whole piece folded like this. And
I will measure over 8 ½ and make a cut. And then you’re going to turn it this way and
sub cut them into 8 ½ inch squares. So here’s our squares right here. And then we’re going
to cut the center part out. This is our background square so we’re going to take our ruler
and it’s already at 8 ½ so you’re going to line this up on the 8 ½ line right here
just like that. And then we’re going to cut out this little curve right here. So I
am going to do this with my rotary cutter just like this. And take that little piece
out. So it’s pretty easy to cut even with a 45. And then we’re going to use the inner
piece right here to cut out our, the little circle part that’s going to go in the middle.
So you can see this one is already cut out but I’m going to show you how to do that.
Wait, let me find one of these squares. I’ll just do this one right here. And so what you’re
going to do to cut this and get a good cut, and this part is going to be waste, sorry.
I don’t like to waste, you know I don’t like to waste but.
Natalie: You can use it for another project, though.
Misty: Absolutely. Jenny: Put it in a baggie. I’m pretty sure
we’ll use it for something. Misty: Well you could match it with one of
these. Natalie: Well you’ll have all these print
ones and you could do a whole other project. Misty: Yes.
Jenny: Oh my gosh I could have done a whole other project for you guys.
Natalie: Yeah. Jenny: Are you kidding me?
Misty: Darn it. Jenny: Oh well. Don’t you worry. It will
be in a baggie and I’ll do another project. Alright so this right here, we’re going
to cut this. And what I like to do when I cut this, I like to line this up right in
the corner just like this. I kind of ignore the little peaks. And I’m going to line
that up. And then I’m going to, I’m just going to cut this around here. Now the reason
you can’t cut them together is because they’re both just a tiny bit different. And so we
want this inside and that. So you really could put these two together and make the cutest
little something, something. Misty: So cute.
Jenny: Alright, I”m going to have to go back and see what I can do with that. Alright
so we have these done and now we need to set them into this. This is a really gentle curve
and so it’s easy to do. And for those of you who are intimidated by curve sewing, I
just challenge you to try it because, you know, sewing is one of those things where
practice makes perfect. And you know the first one may not be perfect but when you do them
over and over again you get better and better at it. And literally we know because we’ve
all done quilts like this, is that when you start you’re a little nervous but by, you
know, doing 20 of them or so you’re just like sailing through these. So what I’m
doing here is I took my square and I folded it in half like this and I’m going to finger
press a line. And I’m going to do the same thing with my little quarter circle right
here and I’m going to finger press a line. Then what I’m going to do is I’m going
to lay this on top of here like this and I should have pressed this the other way. So
wrong sides together because you want to, you want to have that be in the valley, not
on top of the mountain. So I’m going to line up these two lines right here and I put
a little pin in here. Now is this how you girls did it?
Natalie: That is how I did it. Jenny: Ok. Do you?
Misty: I actually don’t pin. Jenny: You just sew around the curve.
Misty: I just sew around the curve. Ya. Jenny: Once I get going I generally do too
but you know to start I think. So then you’re basically going to just turn these together
and pull them together so that this piece matches up right here. And we’re going to
go under the. Natalie: Now I stitched mine the opposite
with the concave on the top. Misty: I do as well.
Jenny: Oh I do the concave on the bottom. Well now you know, it works both ways. This
really is the most flexible tool you’ve ever seen. Alright. How do you want to do
it then, this way? Misty: I do it that way.
Jenny: Oh interesting. I do it exactly the opposite. I think that’s actually cool that
now we know it works both ways. Misty: Ok. Alright, let’s see if I can do
it with the pin. Jenny: Do you feel totally confused now?
Natalie: No. Jenny: Because what I told you was. I was
thinking the opposite and you did it the opposite. We’re lots of opposites here.
Misty: Alright. Jenny: Anyway we’re going to let Misty sew
this today. Misty: This feels very weird to me with the
pin in it, do you care if I take it out? Jenny: Well take it out.
Misty: Ok, I’m going to take it out. Jenny: No every, see that’s one of the cool
things about what we do is that really we have three different brains. You guys have
all different brains. One of you is going to sew like each of us and go ahead and sew.
Misty: Ok, alright. Jenny: You know and function like each of
us and so there’s lots of ways to do things. And I think you just
Misty: So I’m just lining this up and pulling it around to match up with the curved piece
as I go, watching my quarter inch seam and taking my time and then I’m getting down
here to the end. And then I just pull this and make sure it matches up and then just
guide it under. There we go. Ta-dah! Jenny: Alright little miss. Can you press
that? Natalie: Perfect. Yep.
Jenny: Alright, oh I press from the top too. Natalie: Well I just
Jenny: Press once from the bottom and then flip it.
Natalie: Yep. Jenny: Well look at that.
Misty: Everyone has a different way. Jenny: I love this day for that very, very
reason.. Alright, so you’re going to have two of these. Oh and see how this one is a
little off right here? Misty: Oh that might be too much.
Jenny: That might be too much but it might fit in the quarter inch seam but you started
a little off there. Misty: Ya, it’s interesting because since
mine has such a smaller piece, it feels really strange to me to work with this much.
Jenny: With a big one. Misty: But same concept
Jenny: Alright so same concept so I’m going to grab on here that is the same but it corner
to corner Misty: A little better. That’s right.
Jenny: I actually, when I did mine, this might be really interesting, I actually used ten
inch squares. Misty: Ok
Jenny: And so if I was a little off I could trim it right up. I didn’t use yardage.
I just did ten inch squares and then when they wrote the pattern they wrote it for you
for yardage because it’s all the background yardage and it has to be a certain size and
so if you want to use ten inch squares you can. But you’re going to need two of these
for either side of your block right here. And then you’re going to need this block.
And you guys know I love wonky stars. Misty: I do too.
Jenny: And we did the wonky stars last time and I have a couple of those blocks here started
so I can show you how to do it. Now what you want to remember, the key to this is that
this part right here, once you take the seam on a five inch square, it’s no longer five
inches. It is 4 ½. So this seam, these blocks have to match up with it which means our five
inch square that’s going to go here in the center has to be cut down to 4 ½. And I’m
just going to take a half an inch off of two sides like this, here and take that off and
here like this. And that’s going to be this center block right here. These blocks are
both the background square. Mine are already cut to 4 ½. And then what we’re going to
do is sew the legs. Now I have one set of legs here sewn. So I’m going to sew another
set of legs just to remind you how to do that, how easy the wonky star is. And so I”m going
to take this one. I think I’ll make red legs on this. So basically I’m going to
finger press a center mark right here. And I’m going to cross over that mark with my
leg and bring my leg down to the side a little bit and I’m just going to sew right there.
There we go. And Natalie, if you’ll press that back. This is how I sew, you guys, I’m
a mess. I’m all over the place. Natalie: You want these wonky star legs to
be kind of long, right? Jenny: I do want them to be kind of long because
that’s what give it the bird of paradise look so
Misty: So fun. Jenny: What I’m going to do here now is
I’m going to cut this straight up like this. This is the part I’m going to keep for my
other leg and I”m to trim this top piece off right here. And then I’m going to turn
this like this. And I”m going to put this leg over here and I”m going to take it way
down as far as I can get it on the side. And let Misty sew that a quarter of an inch. I
just use the edge of the fabric as my guide at this point. It doesn’t really matter
because it’s going to, you know, it’s going to look great either way.
Misty: Whoops. Hold on, I forgot this isn’t my machine at home.
Jenny: No. Misty: I have to remember the other machines
sometimes. Jenny: That’s right. Well you’re looking
for the thread cutter. Misty: Ya and I don’t have it on this one.
Jenny: Nope. It’s a great little machine though.
Misty: It is. It is. Jenny: It’s a little workhorse machine.
It’s a little Jubilant by Baby Lock and it’s a great little workhorse. Alright now
we’re going to trim this one up again. We used this square as our pattern. So line your
ruler up along the white square and just trim those edges off like this. And you have your
wonky leg star. So what we’re going to do now is we’re going to build this corner
block. So we’re going to take our 4 ½ inch piece and we’re going to sew these 4 ½
inch legs on here. We’re going to use another 4 ½ inch background square right here and
then sew these legs over here. So this basically is going to go together like a four patch.
And you’ll make two of those for each block. Now I have a couple over here done. I have
this one that is half my block sewn together right here. So basically once you get this
part done you’re going to attach it to this part like that. So it’s going to be like
this and then this is our other half over here. And Misty I think we’ll let you sew
this big one together. Misty: Ok.
Jenny: I should have, ya here’s one of these. So basically you’re going to sew, we’re
going to sew these two together right here like this.
Misty: Ok. Jenny: And I”m going to move these out of
the way. But even just like this there’s this would make a fun little table runner
with, you know, a few of these. I love when you combine two blocks because you never know
what you’re going to get and so it’s fun to try these things. That’s the creative,
fun part I love is what do we get when. You know, what happens if. I love that part. Alright
so now we’re going to take this and we’re going to put this over here. And she’s going
to sew this down and really, you know, you want to watch this matching right here a little
bit. So right here you have where this comes together and this comes together. That should
line up. And then this part right here you want a seam to go both directions. And so
if you’ll sew right down that. Misty: Absolutely. .
Jenny: So once we get these done you’ll see this makes a pretty big quilt. It’s
75 by 91 so it’s a good sized quilt, fun. I think it, you know, it kind of looks like
candy. It kind of looks like chicken, it looks like a bird of paradise to me, you know, it’s
got all these different looks to it. And I think the fabric you use would really change
how you thought of the quilt. And the backgrounds too. You know, I love it when like if you
used a navy background and some fabric. I mean I love it when you change things up.
So don’t be afraid to try some different things with this. Alright, now Natalie, if
you’ll iron this open. Natalie: Sure.
Jenny: And I have one of those blocks. I’m just going to put my stuff over here because
I know what’s coming. Over here like this and I have this block. Now when I go to put
these together, literally this is how it fits into the quilt like this. Just like this.
Natalie: Nice points, Misty. Misty: Thank you.
Jenny: And I just Misty: Thank you very much.
Jenny: And I just put them together like this so they’re all kind of heading the same
direction. You know, they’re beaks, if you will, are all kind of going the same direction.
Natalie: They do kind of look like chickens. Misty: They do, ya. Crazy chickens.
Jenny: And you just sew this together, you know, and so I just think it’s really a
fun idea and a nice, fun take on the drunkard’s path.
Misty: I love it. Jenny: And I hope you enjoy my take on it.
And next up is Misty: Is that me?
Jenny: Misty. Misty: Alright.
Jenny: Alright, I get the sewing chair. Misty: Ok, this is my project. Ta dah!
Natalie: So cute. Jenny: That’s so cute. Here let’s hang
this up back here. Natalie: I love the little flowers.
Misty: Thank you. And I’m calling it Morning Glory.
Jenny: That’s such a great name. Misty: Well I appreciate your guys suggestions
because after I had finished sewing it I was really struggling with a name and Jenny and
Natalie helped me come up with that. And I just think it turned out so cute. For my project
I used this Royal Blue line by Edta Sitar for Laundry Basket quilts.
Jenny: We love her. Misty: I love her. She’s darling. She designs
for Andover and it’s this beautiful kind of blue and beige line. And so for mine I
decided to separate it out. It is mostly blues with just a few lights. So I used all of the
blues for the petals and all of the lights for my background. And so let me show you
how I did that. Just like Jenny cut out her blue curve, it’s the exact same for the
inside piece. And I just, actually I want mine going this way. And I just line it up
and trim and so that is waste. I did not do anything with that. And then I just hold onto
that and then for the background, I actually used this part of the ruler. And let’s do
this way first. Natalie: And you line up on the 4 ½?
Misty: You line up on the 4 ½ because that’s what our blocks need to end up measuring.
And so I just cut a little piece here and then go in this way and cut a little piece
here. And I actually get two of my background colors out of each of these five inch squares.
So I just turn my fabric and line it up again on that 4 ½.
Jenny: Oh that’s really cool. Misty: Ya it’s great. So you get a little
bit less waste. And so I cut those off. Natalie: That’s a really smart way to get
a little extra when you have not exactly half and half.
Misty: Exactly, exactly. So then you get a little bit more out of your fabric. And so
then you have these cute little petals left from those. And so then all I did was sew
these together just like we did for Jenny’s to create my drunkard’s path. And then I
set them with some solids from the line that I cut into 4 ½ inch squares to match up.
And I just put them like this so you can see here to make my petals.
Jenny: Oh yeah. Misty: So here’s my drunkard’s path and
my drunkard’s path. Jenny: So basically it’s like a big four
patch. Misty: It is. A four patch and then you put
them together in fours. And so then I put that like this and like this and then you
sew that like a four patch. And then we put four of those together. So I have those sewn
here. Let me show you. So once you have those sewn together, this is exactly how I made
it. I made it in quadrants like this because it was easier for my brain. And you could
totally do it in rows if you wanted. Jenny: I would make it in quadrants.
Natalie: I would too. Jenny: Because it’s like it’s a flower.
Misty: Exactly. It made a lot of sense to me. And so this is how I did that.
Jenny: These are such vibrant colors. Misty: Aren’t these so fun? And I love all
of the beautiful prints. And I love that, you know, it was all these different backgrounds
just makes it really scrappy. But because of the blue and the beige, it still really
pops. Jenny: And then you sashed it?
Misty: And then I sashed it. I guess I should measure my block. So here’s my finished
block. Let’s see what that comes out to. I believe it should be 16 ½. So 16 ½. So
I cut my sashings to 16 ½ and sewed it on either end and then added these little cornerstones.
My sashings are 2 ½ inches wide. And I added a little border. So let’s go over
Jenny: How much fabric you used for that. Misty: Yes, so it’s a half yard for your
sashing. ¾ of a yard for your border. And then 3 ¼ yards for your backing.
Jenny: And then Natalie: Did your cornerstones come out of
your charm pack? Misty: So I actually cut them out of my binding
because I decided I wanted it to be the same color.
Natalie: Oh ok. Misty: But there is enough in your charm pack
if you want them to be scrappy. Jenny: And you’ll just use two charm packs?
Misty: Oh yes, two packs of five inch squares is what I used for my whole project. Ya I
guess that kind of is important. But it just came together super cute. But I had all these
little petals and they reminded me of an orange peel so I had to do something with it.
Jenny: Oh my gosh. Misty: So I just made a little pillow.
Jenny: How cute is that? Misty: You know it was just too much waste
so I did this last night just for fun. I had all those sitting around. And I just did raw
edge. But it could be so easy to turn this under or do a little blanket stitch.
Jenny: So cute. Misty: Yeah. Just a little something.
Jenny: I love it. Misty: Thank you. But anyway it was really
fun and I loved doing this drunkard’s path. Jenny: So fun
Misty: It was a really good time. Alright, Nat. I’ll let you take over.
Jenny: Alright here’s Natalie. Misty: Let’s get all my junk out of the
way. Jenny: Misty’s stuff up over here. Here’s
yours. Misty: Alright Nat.
Jenny: And your paper and your quilt. Misty: Beautiful quilt. Natalie: Alright
Jenny: Alright here you go. Alright let’s see your project.
Natalie: So my quilt is all in the layout. Misty: It’s so cute.
Jenny: Oh my gosh. How cute is that? Misty: I love it.
Jenny: Alright, we’ll hang this up. Natalie: So I named my quilt River Path because
I like how it waves up like a river, like Misty: It does.
Natalie: Like water flowing. Jenny: It does look awesome.
Natalie: And I used path from drunkard’s path because you know, why not?
Jenny: Absolutely Misty: Natalie is a quilt naming professional.
Jenny: Well that’s the hardest thing we do is name quilts.
Misty: It is. So tricky Natalie: It’s really hard. I wouldn’t
call myself a professional. Some of them are good and some are not.
Jenny: We just luck out every once in awhile. Natalie: Alright so I used Color Pop Batik
Stamps by Kathy Engle for Island Batiks. I used two packages because I wanted it to be
a good size and I needed to make sure that I had enough colors. I have ¾ of a yard for
the border and a half yard for binding. My border is, I think it’s five inches.
Jenny: And what is this quilting? Misty: I love the quilting
Jenny: The quilting is music notes and I just think that’s so darling. Really cute.
Misty: So darling. Natalie: Ya I like to use fun patterns on
my quilts. So it ends up being 41 by 49 ½ which is great for baby quilts. I think it
would make a cool wall hanging. Jenny: And what you have to remember is if
you do want this bigger you’re just going to add two more and it will double the size.
Misty: Right. Natalie: Right. So this whole quilt is in
layout. So I cut all of my pieces just the way Mom and Misty did it.
Jenny: Except you’re cutting both pieces out of one square.
Natalie: Both pieces out of one square ya. I’ll demonstrate if you, hang on just a
second. Jenny: So she’s getting a middle and an
outside both out of one square. Natalie: Right. Yeah.
Jenny: You cut the inside first. Natalie: Yep and I do mine the opposite of
you because I’m right handed. Jenny: Which is perfect for all the right
handers out there. Misty: That’s right.
Natalie: Right. So that piece gets cut with the little inside circle. And then the outside
piece gets cut with this. Jenny: And you probably want to move, cut
over here a little bit so everybody can see with the overhead camera.
Natalie: Ok. We are just cutting off a little sliver in the middle and the two little edges,
they’re just a little bit too long. And that just has to do with the, like the concave
and convex of a circle and how they come together. Misty: Ya so little waste though.
Natalie: So it’s just a little tiny bit. Jenny: This is all the waste you have right
here. Wait, look at. Natalie: You’re going to make a little smile.
Jenny: I think we should make a little smile for this.
Natalie: Oh that’s perfect. Jenny: See he’s got a little hat.
Natalie: Oh so cute. Misty: He’s adorable.
Jenny: Adorable. Natalie: Ok. Alright, so now let’s look
at the layout real quick. So we started this one with the green check in the top corner
and it faces this direction. We have a little blue one up here in the top. And then you
can notice that there’s another one, another drunkard’s path facing the opposite direction
goes this way. Jenny: I was going to ask you, is it easier
for you to like, because when you were laying them out, to go this by row or do you follow
the rivers of each? Natalie: Well so when I started because I
didn’t have a pattern and I was designing and trying to figure it out, I actually, and
this might help if you end up using a different line of fabric, just to figure out how many
colors you have. I was not interested really in counting and matching and numbering everything.
So I picked the section that I had the most of which was this red and I actually created
this section first. And then I added my next orange and yellow and green. And I just went
down this way and then I finished up that way because
Jenny: That is really good to know because in here this, you felt like you had the most
reds. Natalie: Yeah I did
Jenny: Ok, cool. Natalie: Yep
Jenny: Alright that makes sense. Natalie: So I just kept, that’s how I laid
it out initially but you guys if you buy this same fabric, you can follow the diagram and
it will be way easier for you. Jenny: Do another couple over here
Natalie: Ok to create this curve you’re going to add another one of these that matches
the green. And if you’ll notice in here too, I didn’t always have the exact same
color but because they’re all green it flows really well.
Misty: It works Jenny: And by exact same, she means like this
middle section here isn’t the exact same as this back one right here.
Misty: Right the print is different. Natalie: Right so they’re all yellow or
green but they’re not necessarily the same fabric.
Jenny: Ok, that makes sense. That makes sense. Natalie: Which I think is fine. Alright so
the next one up here is one of these guys. And we’ll put that guy there and this one
here. And then to finish out this curve we need one of these.
Misty: There’s one. Natalie: And we need another one up here so
that it curves off that way. . You guys see how this comes together?
Misty: I love it. Jenny: Ok that makes sense.
Natalie: And then a blue, a little blue speckle goes up here and we could do another one down
here. And then we need another one of these little dots to cover that.
Jenny: Also I think when you sew these together, when you do a quarter of an inch on these,
you this little seam right here literally disappears into your next one.
Natalie: It does. Jenny: So don’t be afraid of that. If you
do that, that’s right. Natalie: It’s very tiny, it kind of goes
off the edge a little bit but it all gets caught. And you can see that like this, it
literally like barely shows up right there. And some of them get caught a little higher.
But it curves in so you can’t even tell that.
Jenny: Ya what you’re going for is that layout.This is really fun, Natalie.
Misty: So pretty Jenny: I loved all the different projects.
I love what a difference fabric makes. You know, had Natalie, if she had chosen one of
our fabrics this would look completely different but it would still work. And so it’s just
fun to see how that all goes together. Natalie: There’s so many fun ideas.
Jenny: Love that extra project. That makes it really fun.
Misty: Thank you. I learned that from you, no waste.
Jenny: That’s right. Except now I have a whole piece that I have to go figure out something
to do with. Misty: Sorry, I’m sorry.
Jenny: Alright, I will do that. So we hope you enjoyed this Triple Play from the Missouri
Star Quilt Co.
