Jenny: Hi everybody, it’s Jenny from
the Missouri Star Quilt Company. Welcome to 2021’s first Triple Play. I am here
with Natalie and with Misty. And we are excited for this year. So for our quilt this
time we chose a good one, didn’t we? Natalie: We sure did. Misty: We did. Jenny: So this is a super simple
block. It’s an X’s and O’S block and shall we show them the original? Natalie: Yep, this is our
inspiration and our challenge. Misty: I love this quilt. It’s so pretty. Natalie: I do too. It’s classic. Jenny: Way up girls. Natalie: Mom has been showing it
at trunk shows for several years. Jenny: I love the fabric. I love the quilt. But
this, you can’t get this fabric anymore. It’s way, way old. But it’s still a great project
and super easy. So we looked at that and I think we came up with
three pretty cool ideas. Natalie and Misty: Yep. Jenny: So we’re going to start with mine right
back here. And for my quilt, I’m calling this one Social Distance Hugs because the purpose of
this block, it’s called X’s and O’s. I chose to concentrate on the O’s. Now one little thing. I
want to tell a little story. When I was a little girl my grandma used to send me cards, my grandma
Fish. So I would get this card from my grandma and it would say, Happy Birthday, Jenny. Love,
Grandma Fish. And she would always draw the fish and then she would put X, O, X, O on it. And I,
forever, I didn’t know what that meant, you know. And so when I started learning to read I
would say, Happy Birthday, Grandma Fish and I would say quaa quaa and I would say, what
does this mean. I was trying to sound out the XO. And my mom was Oh Jenny, the X are kisses and
O’s are hugs. And so then I started watching because she would send my brother a card
too, for who would get the most X’s and O’s because I thought that was such a cool idea. So I
love the XO and sadly I think that’s really going to die with my generation because well, first of
all we don’t send a lot of cards anymore. But XOXO Natalie: I don’t know the younger generation
uses a lot of acronyms and things like that. Jenny: They do. They do. But I don’t think XO Natalie: I think they know what X’s and O’s mean. Jenny: So I hope that lives on. So my
quilt today is called Social Distance Hugs because I took this O block and I
put a sashing in between it, you know, separate it apart. I thought it was kind
of like a memoir to the past year where we had to not be close to each other. And
I think it came out super, super cute. So you guys are going to die when you see how easy
it is to make this block because it’s super easy. So to make this quilt what you’re going to
need is two packs of five inch squares. And we have used Animal Crackers by Sweetwater for
Moda. It’s a darling line, absolutely darling. Misty: It’s really cute. Jenny: You’re going to need a half a
yard of accent fabric and that is this sashing fabric right here. You’re going to need
a yard and ¾ which includes this inner border of your background fabric. Now I also, these are
2 ½ inch squares, so you can use a pack of pre cut 2 ½ inch squares or you can cut 2 ½ inch
strips and sub cut them into 2 ½ inch squares, you know. But if you want to just buy
yardage you’re going to need a yard and ¾. Alright, on this outer border, it’s 1 ¼ yards.
And these are so cute. They’re little tiny monkeys. Our little background back here is
3 ¾ yards. We used the monkeys again. And I chose to use my sashing or my binding, it’s
out of the same accent fabric that I used for my thing. And that’s an additional ¾ of a yard
for the binding. Ya I love a binding that pops. Misty: Ya it’s really cute. Jenny: Anyway so let me show you how to make this
because this is really fun. So you’re going to take your five inch square right here. And you
are going to take, let’s use this one, it will show up better. And you are going to take two 2
½ inch squares. Now the math on this is halves. So you can really use any size square you want
but the corner squares are going to be half that. So if you use an eight inch square, your corner
squares are going to be four. We’re using a five inch square, your corner squares are going to be
2 ½. And so I’m going to put mine right in the corner like this. And if you want you can draw
the line corner to corner. You can iron a line corner to corner. I’m going to use my diagonal
seam tape right here. And we are going to sew corner to corner on both of these sides just
like this. And so do you want to do it, Nat? Natalie: Sure. Jenny: Alright. I’m going to let you line that up. Natalie: Alrighty. Jenny: So we’re just sewing right down
the center of that block from one corner to the other corner. And you make sure your
square is lined up in the corner of the block. There we go. Natalie: That’s hanging off a little bit. Jenny: Ya it slid when I put it on. Natalie: Reposition that. There you go. Jenny: Alright. So now you have made the entire
quilt. You do this to every block and then that’s it. It really is it, especially for the floral
one that we showed you in the beginning. That’s all there is. And when you put it together you
put color to color and white to white. So I’m going to trim these off. I’m laying my ruler a
quarter of an inch on the other side of the seam. Misty, I will have you press them. I’m going
to trim this off dangerously right there. I know living on the edge. Misty: Alright. Natalie: Sorry I kept the thread
connected and flipped it around. Jenny: It works. It totally works. Misty: There we go. Jenny: Alright. So you’re going to need four
of these to make your block. And this literally is, this is the whole quilt literally. You know,
for making the X’s and O’s. So I have four of these made right here. I have three that I have
done the corners on. And I’m just going to set that over here because now we’re going to make the
sashing strip. Now the sashing strip is super easy as well because you’re going to take a three inch
strip, let me measure to make sure this is three. Yes, three. All of a sudden my mind went blank.
You’re going to need a three inch strip of your Natalie: Accent fabric. Jenny: Accent fabric. Thank you. I do
so much better when Natalie is here to remind me. And then you’re going to need a 2 ½
inch strip of your background fabric. And you can see there’s a little bit hanging over the edge
there. And we’re just going to sew right down this strip and sew those together and press them to the
dark side. Now I have one here that’s already done and so here it is and you can see I’ve sewn.
Maybe you can’t see. But I have sewn it right here a quarter of an inch all the way down it.
And then I’m just going to roll this back like this. But before I do it I’m going to cut
my pieces out of this. I like to cut before I iron because you’re covering less territory.
And so these are all just 2 ½ inch pieces. And you’re going to need four of these for your
block. And that’s one of the things I love about our little ruler here is you don’t have to even
worry about the measurement because it’s 2 ½ inches wide so you’re just laying it on the edge.
And my edge was a little crooked so I straightened that up. And we’re just going to go 2 ½. And
Misty, maybe you can press these open as we go. Misty: Yep, absolutely. Jenny: 2 ½ and we’re going to need four
of these. Three and then one more is four like that. And then you’re going to
need one single 2 ½ inch square. One single 2 ½ inch square. Alright so now that
these are opened, what we’re going to do is we’re going to take our blocks here and we
are going to put them in between these. So we’re going to sew this like this and turn this one. So
this is how it’s going to go like this. Bottom row and white to the color and color to the
white. So that always helps you remember. These two are going to go in. We’re
going to put a strip here like this, color to the middle. And then for our middle
strip we’re going to put two pieces like this but we’re going to sew a square in between.
So I’m going to have you do that one first. Natalie: Ok. Misty: Such a fun block. Jenny: And this makes a little sashing block. Natalie: It’s so simple. Misty: So simple. Jenny: But what a difference it makes. That’s
my favorite thing about quilting is you just change this one little thing and
it’s a whole different look. One more side. Natalie: Almost there. Jenny: Ya Natalie is going
to be the busiest today. Misty: I know. Natalie: I’ve got the good
seat. And then this one? Jenny: Ya let me take and go ahead and pull
this out and Misty can iron this while we’re moving along. Yep, I’ll get these ready
for you. And I’m showing you how to make Natalie: I wiggled a little on that one, sorry. Jenny: But I’m showing you how to make
a block. When I started down these, you know, I divided them in half
and I just sewed that piece, you know, I chain pieced like a whole bunch
of them of the middle piece on the side and then I came back and added the other
side, you know. So it goes really fast. Alright so now we have these and we’re going
to have you add the other side. So that guy. I don’t remember how I had it laid
out. Oh I’ll let you press that. Misty: Alright. Natalie: That’s a great thing about a
scrappy quilt, it doesn’t really matter. Jenny: Yes. Such a good idea. And this one. Misty: I got it. Whoops, maybe. Here we go. Jenny: Alright and now you get to sew this
sashing strip to this one. And this is kind of cool because it gives you this little
center block is what you want to match up here and so you’ll be able to keep those seams
nested and your block will line up just perfectly. Right, Natalie, perfectly? Natalie: So perfect. Although
not perfect is still good. Jenny: Right, is fine. No one has ever given
a quilt back to me because it wasn’t perfect. Natalie: I mean, maybe Hilary. Misty: No Jenny: Not Hilary. Natalie: Just kidding. Jenny: Hilary loves my quilts. Natalie: I’m just giving her a hard time. Jenny: As sisters do. Natalie: That’s right. Jenny: And then this one can go on this side Natalie: Almost exactly how I do Jenny: You’re perfect. Natalie: I am so not. And you’ll
see that when you press those open. Jenny: Alright, good enough. I’ll just do like
this so they, if it’s good on a galloping horse, you know. No mistakes, right. Ya somebody said
that to me when I very first started quilting, that looks great from a galloping
horse. Oh I love you. I just love you. Because sewing is a learned skill Misty: Absolutely. Jenny: We get better everyday. My whole
feeling is if you sew an hour a day, tomorrow you’re better. Alright so here is our
block right here. Misty is going to press that. Misty: It looks awesome Nat. Jenny: And so you’re just going to
do that to all your little squares. And then when you make these, when you set these
blocks together let me show you what happens. Misty: There we go. Jenny: So I’ve another one made right here.
And when you set them together like this they are going to form out here
this O which you can see right here, forms these O’s. So our block is right, wait for
it, here. Here’s our block. And we have one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four,
five, so we made 20 blocks out of this. It makes a great quilt. What size is it? Oh it’s
59 by 70 so it’s a great little crib size quilt. Natalie: Or a toddler. Jenny: Ya and so just remember that’s
two charm packs. If you want to make this much bigger, add another charm pack. Misty: Absolutely. Jenny: If you do it with four charm
packs or you know, it’s going to be twice that size so it can get big really fast. Natalie: I love how the sashing is just built right into the block. You
don’t have to do anything else. Jenny: It’s just so quick and easy and
it’s fun and that’s our first idea for you. And for the second idea we are on to… Natalie: It’s me. So I had
a lot of fun with this one. Misty: This is so pretty Nat. Jenny: So much different from what I did. You
just change one block and look what happens. Natalie: It’s so great. So I ended up using
four charm packs to make my quilt and I used Tula Pink’s True Colors by Free Spirit Jenny: Which are beautiful. Misty: Just gorgeous. Natalie: I just love Tula Pink
fabric. So I’m the luckiest. So to make my block you’ll see if you look at it,
I have four blocks by five, 20 just the same as Mom’s. But I used four charm packs and so it’s
a little bit bigger. My quilt is 69 by 82ish. And I added these wonky star legs to mine.
So to start, I mean, you’re going to make, you’ll take your four packs and separate out sets
of four. So I did blocks that ended up matching. Jenny: So you kept your colors together. Natalie: Yep. So I have
four yellows and four blues. And then the center block I made using the same
fabric as the border. So you could buy a big chunk. So that is 1 ¾ yards of accent
fabric. And then 3 ¼ yards of background which would be all the white squares
which also includes the outer border. Jenny: And then what about your
backing? We love Tula’s backing. Natalie: Tula’s backing, I
just used this beautiful print. Jenny: Gorgeous Misty: I love it. Natalie: And this is 45 wide inch
yardage but she has beautiful 108’s too. So for this one you’ll need five yards if you
use off the bolt or 2 ½ if you have a 108. Jenny: Right. And you put sticky
buns on it, that quilting pattern. Natalie: I love sticky buns. It’s so
great. It just gives it that swirly look Misty: So much movement. Natalie: Yes. Alright so once you have all your
fabrics separated into colorways and all your blocks, and I just did, like these two look
good together and so I set out all 20 piles Jenny: Perfect. Natalie: So then you’ll make four of the X block with just the snowballed
corners just like Mom taught. Jenny: Right. Natalie: And then you’re going to make
your star legs. And these are made using a five inch square and some white
for background. So I have a few made. Jenny: So when she speaking of star legs, you know, this is what we’re talking about
here, these white pieces become the legs. Natalie: Yep. And so if you’re Jenny: And I get to sew those, don’t I? Natalie: You do. You lucky girl. So if
you’re particular you can use a special ruler to make these exactly the same but I did
them wonky. They’re all different and it doesn’t bother me at all. I love it. One of
the things I did is I had a layer cake, I mean you can cut these into whatever size strips
you want. But I just cut my white layer cake into thirds so it was approximately 3
⅓, 3 ¼ about. And then if you start at one end from the top you can use
the whole thing, use both sides. Jenny: Perfect. Natalie: So I’ll show you how to do
that. So I just first put a little finger press to find my middle and I wanted
my legs to go all the way down to the end. So if you’ll stitch this starting from
the top middle down to the bottom. Jenny: So we just cross over that piece. Misty: The center line. Natalie: Ya so all you need is a little
quarter inch and you won’t lose that point. Jenny: Alright. Natalie: So then you’ll press this back Misty: Alright. Natalie: Because we have to do a little bit
of trimming to get these legs and you don’t want to wait until the end because then
you’ll have a chunk of fabric on the back. Alright. So what you want to do is use
your print piece for the pattern. And we’re just going to use the ruler
along the edge and trim that off. And then trim this off. And I usually
catch both of these corners on the side but that’s alright,
we’ll get it. Alright then you’re not going to trim off your white, you’re
going to trim your print off just to reduce bulk. Misty: I was going to ask
if you did take that off. Natalie: I do. Jenny: I never do. Natalie: I do because these prints are so vibrant that you can see them through the
white fabric and so I wanted a really clean. Jenny: That’s a really good tell. Because if
it doesn’t show, it doesn’t matter. Unless you’re hand quilting and then you want to
make sure that all of that bulk is gone. Natalie: Right. Because it’s harder
to go through so many layers. Misty: Absolutely Jenny: Do you want to trim this off? Natalie: So typically I just line it up on the
quarter of an inch line because it’s a good guide. But it just has to, you have to keep the seam
in place, that’s it. Alright so to get to use this again you have to be a little bit tricky
and make sure that your fat end is at the top. Jenny: Ok. Natalie: Because if you did
it the opposite direction you’ll end up with a corner that shows still. Jenny: Which we don’t want to do. Misty: No. Jenny: Alright and the nice thing is there’s no front or back to the solids
so you can use either side. Natalie: Right. And so you’ll have a
little hang off down here and a little overlap up here. But as long as you cross
them you’ll get good use of that fabric. Jenny: Now can this scoot down closer
like this so that this doesn’t, there isn’t so much hanging off
up there or is there a rule or no? Natalie: Ya totally.No, it just has to cross
over and if you want to start from the top, you can. I usually would start from the
bottom just because it’s like a righty, lefty thing maybe. Or I felt
more comfortable with it. Jenny: But I would have actually felt more comfortable coming from the
bottom but it works either way. Natalie: Ya. Yep as long as you get that Jenny: I thought there was a rule. Natalie: Nope, no rules. Jenny: No quilt police yet. Natalie: No quilt police, just get the job
done however makes you feel comfortable. . Misty: There we go. Jenny: And so honestly if they didn’t
have squares they could cut like a 3 ¼ inch strip to cut their legs out, you know. Natalie: Probably. Ya. Jenny: Just with background fabric. Natalie: Yep. Jenny: Because sometimes we
do and sometimes we don’t Natalie: So I’m still using this little
edge, the print and cutting off that little point that hangs down there. And cut the rest
of the print off. Super simple. And now you have everything you need to make the block. And
you’re going to assemble it like a nine patch. Jenny: Awesome. Natalie: So these make up our middle nine
patch, our middle pieces. And I put all the legs to the middle. And this is my one
piece that I cut from my border yardage. Jenny: And it’s a five inch square? Natalie: Five inches square. Everything stays
the same, ya. And I also, so I tend to get a little wonky when I sew so when I was trimming
these I actually squared them. I squared my X blocks because sometimes I’d have one that
was just like a little lumpy or something. Jenny: Ya that can happen. It happens to me. Natalie: Perfect seams all the time. But I found that it actually helped me a lot.
And you can see some of them, you can still see the pinked edge but some of them I trimmed
quite a bit off and it just helped me out a lot. Jenny: I do love, can I just say
this about the pinked edge. I do love that Free Spirit doesn’t have a pinked edge. Natalie: Ya they’re more exact now which is great. So if you want to you can
start sewing these together. Jenny: Well I do but I actually want
to see what happens if we turn these. Natalie: It makes a whole different pattern. Misty: A whole different pattern Jenny: A whole different something, something. Natalie: The other thing, Misty, will you hand
me that little piece of white that we have. Jenny: Look how cute that is.
It’s a whole different look. Natalie: The other thing I wanted to
try and I didn’t think of this until after I had assembled the entire quilt was what
happens if I put a white square in the middle. Misty: Oh yeah Jenny: It will really make the star pop. Natalie: It’s just super star. Jenny: It’s almost kaleidoscope. It’s very colorful. Alright we’re going
to go back to the original. Natalie: So lots of options. You may see
a different colorway show up in Block. Jenny: And don’t be afraid to try your, don’t be
afraid to play with it. Don’t be afraid to try it. Natalie: Ya. Jenny: Alright I’m just going
to sew these together then. Natalie: Super simple assembly. I think
it makes a really great star. I just love how it does that really shiny thing. Misty: It really does look like a kaleidoscope with all these beautiful Tula
Pink colors. It’s so pretty. Natalie: Yes, and I love how it creates
these little secondary diamonds. So my quilt is called Diamond Hugs. Because it has
diamonds and hugs and it’s just adorable. Jenny: It is so good. Misty: Great job. Jenny: Alright now I just picked up the first
two of all three of these. They’re chain pieced together. I’m going to
flip this around the other way Natalie: This is such a great
chain piecing trick. I love it. Jenny: And chain piece it then from the bottom up. Natalie: Yep, and you always know that your
little X block, the white goes to the white leg. So if you get confused. And in the middle your centers point together. You have all these
mantras you recite to yourself to stay on track. Jenny: And by doing this, honestly, what we do
is we make, the thread becomes kind of our pins, you know. It holds it together.
And so white to the middle. Natalie: It’s so great. I love having my
quilts made for me. It’s just amazing. Misty: I know I was just thinking,
I didn’t have to sew today. Natalie: She’s so much faster than me. Jenny: Alright so now we’re just going to open
these up. We’re going to make sure they’re right and flip this over and then sew it together. Make
sure this is nesting. Let me see. There we go. Natalie: They should. Mine nested
up really easily. I had no trouble. Jenny: Well they’re all five inch squares
and I think the fact that you made sure your corners were all lined up, you
know, that’s a great little tip. Misty: Well and I love that this
is such a nice big block too. Natalie: It’s so big. Jenny: So I actually think it would
be interesting too if this was sashed because the stars would really pop out,
you know, right now it’s a whole bunch of design. You see a lot of design
and you know, this is so versatile. Natalie: Right. We could add a lot of
negative space with some white sashing. Jenny: Oh gosh, ya. Misty: It would get much bigger fast with sashing. Jenny: Well when you think
about sashing it, you know, every two rows adds five inches to
your quilt when you’re doing a 2 ½. Misty: Exactly. Jenny: And so it just, sashing just really
helps your quilt grow. If you ever have a quilt that’s smaller and you put it on your
bed and you’re all of a sudden like that’s not going to work, you know, I mean
if you sashed it would get way bigger. Misty: There we go. That is just beautiful, Nat. Jenny: That’s gorgeous. Misty: So cute Jenny: Show us how that fits into the quilt. Natalie: Alright so this just starts,
top corner. One, two, three, four Jenny: And then five down? Natalie: Five down, yep. And no sashing. I have a
2 ½ inch inner border and a six inch outer border. Jenny: Perfect. Misty: I love it. Natalie: That’s it. Jenny: Alright Misty, now we get yours. Misty: Alright I’m up next. Misty: Ok, so this is my quilt.
It is called Hearts and Kisses. Jenny: It’s so cute. Misty: It’s so cute and very Valentine’s appropriate which
is just, you know, around the corner. Jenny: Around the corner. I love that you
concentrated on the X. We did the O’s. Misty: I was so surprised by that but you know
I was thinking the traditional quilt is X’s and O’s which means love, hugs and kisses. And so I
thought why not add a heart block with this. For my quilt it finishes 69 by 69 and I used two packs
of ten inch squares. The first one is a print and it’s called Sending Love by My Mind’s Eye for
Riley Blake. It’s this really cute reds and pinks. I love all of these cute prints and then you will
need a package of background squares as well. And that’s just the white that you see here. And so to
start with I made all of my X blocks. And I just, you make this the same way. I cut my layer cake
in fourths so I had four five inch squares. Jenny: So you could actually use four charm packs. Misty: You could absolutely use four
charm packs. Yep because I’m going to keep all the same prints together
in both the X block and the heart. So that is nothing new. We’re
just going to set this aside. Jenny: Well the setting is a little new. Misty: I guess it is Jenny: I think if we put together,
this time we’re putting our, you know, same color to color, white to white
but we’re concentrating on the X appearing. Misty: The X in the center. That’s exactly right
and so we just put those together just like that. And then sew it together in a four
patch and there’s our finished block. Natalie: Magic. Misty: Magic. That’s right. And
so let’s talk a little bit about the heart block next. So we’re
going to do the same thing. So we’re going to take our ruler and we’re
just going to cut this in half both directions. Jenny: I love the five inch ruler
because you just lay it on the edge. Misty: I know. Just lay it right
on the edge and then come this way. Jenny: Look at those big
roses. Aren’t they gorgeous? Misty: They’re so pretty. Natalie: And I love these little birds. Misty: Me too. Jenny: Oh the birds Natalie: Sweet little sparrows. Jenny: And they have the love birds on there. Misty: I know it’s adorable. Jenny: Alright we will stop talking. Misty: Thank you. Alright. So
now we have our four pieces and let me get my five inch square.
So to start with we’re going to create the point at the bottom. So we’re just going
to take five inch background squares and sew corner to corner. But then I also went ahead and
sewed a half an inch over so that I could save. Jenny: Because that’s a big piece to cut off. Misty: That’s a big piece
that we don’t want to waste. Jenny: So are we doing the diagonal on this or drawing the line? What are
we doing? What did you do? Misty: I used the diagonal. Natalie: Well you could press a line. Misty: You could press a line. You could draw
it. Whatever you prefer but I used the diagonal. Jenny: The diagonal, honestly I
had no idea how freeing this was. So I’ve sewn my diagonal. Now I’m just going
to come over about a quarter of an inch, right? Misty: About a half inch. Jenny: About a half inch. Misty: Yep. Natalie: That way you get a
quarter of an inch on each seams. Misty: Exactly. Jenny: No measuring there. Misty: Nope. And then we’re
going to go this direction and then I’m going to go ahead and cut this off. Jenny: Whoop, follow my line, follow my line. Misty: And we’ll set this aside
for now. This is our extra we’ll save for a bonus project. And
Nat if you want to press that. Jenny: Hang on, it’s not sewn. My needle
thread came out. Let me just. I’ve got it. Alright so I need to know what side I do the Misty: The extra? It will be this side. Jenny: Ok. And that matters? Misty: It does. Jenny: Ok. It does because Misty: Well technically, I mean, some of these
prints are a little bit directional so if you care about keeping them upright you definitely
want to be aware that because I tried to keep mine all upright just because why not. But if
you don’t care and you want it to be scrappy, as long as you have that half square
triangle you can make it work. So, alright let’s cut that in half. And
Nat you can press this one back. Natalie: Sure Misty: And then let’s talk about how to make the
top of our heart. So I should have somewhere in this pile, they disappeared on me, oh here
they are, some little 2 ½ inch squares. And so we are going to just lay these on the top
of our squares here, our five inch squares. And we’re going to sew corner to corner
this way and this way on both of those. Jenny: Alright. Misty: And I did them at the
same time just like this. Jenny: Ya you can actually just
kind of line these up, can’t you? Misty: And then just pivot when
you get to that center point. Jenny: And then we’re going to line them
on the corner and watch your diagonal. Misty: And again you can
mark these, draw the lines, whatever is going to make it easier for you. Jenny: Ok, pivot. We did a lot
of pivoting last year, didn’t we? Misty: Yes we did. Jenny: There’s that one like a little mountain. Misty: That one Natalie: You could sew another seam and
get a super tiny half square triangle. Misty: You totally could. I
thought about it. I really did. Natalie: I knew you did. Misty: Then I decided people
would maybe think I was crazy. Jenny: Actually there are a lot of people who save
them in, like they have a 1 ½ inch, a two inch. Misty: Well I did not throw them
away. I do have a baggie of them so it was still too much fabric for me to part with. Jenny: Because we could make something amazing. Misty: Something adorable. Jenny: Totally. I mean if you just saved them
from every project though, how fun would that be. Misty: It would be so cute. One more. Jenny: I’m just going to sew these together. Misty: Whew, ya Jenny is on it. And then now we
can see the heart is starting to come together. Natalie: There you go. Misty: And just like that there is our heart. And we’re
just going to put these right sides together. Jenny: Hang on I’m almost done. Misty: She’s doing her own thing over here. Jenny: Tiny little triangles. Alright so Misty: It’s just straight down that side, yep. Jenny: Awesome. And I am going to match these up. And then again these are going
to be connected by a thread. Misty: By a thread and you
can just lay them together. Jenny: I’m going to take these off. You’re going
to put them in a secret bag somewhere. Misty: That’s right, yep. We’re
going to keep those little tiny ones. Jenny: Just open these up and fold them
together and make sure my center seam is nested. You know I think this would
make the most darling baby quilt. Misty: I think so too. Jenny: Like if you just, you know, if you
just did, I don’t know, just a few blocks, border it a couple of times. It would be so cute. Misty: There is our little heart.
Nat if you want to press that. Natalie: I would love to. Misty: And as far as layout goes, it is really simple. I just started in the top
corner with a heart and alternated hearts and X’s and my quilt is six by six so you need 36 of
these blocks. And they just go together so fast. Jenny: This block really is a fast
block. If you need a quilt in a hurry this is the block. It’s one of my favorite
for picnic quilts because it’s just so quick. Misty: Absolutely. And then this is a 2 ½ inch
inner border and a six inch outer border. So for your outer border you’re going to need 1 ¼ yards
and then the backing on this. I used the pretty big roses. It’s so beautiful. And you’ll need
4 ½ yards because this is the regular yardage. Jenny: And you quilted it in hearts. Misty: I did, I quilted it in hearts. So
it is so, so much fun. I’m really happy with how it turned out.. But remember we
have those extra half square triangles Jenny: Wait there’s more. Misty: There’s more. We have these
extra half square triangles and I just, ooh that one didn’t sew. Jenny: Oh that was probably
one where my thread broke. Misty: That was when your thread broke.
That’s funny. So we have these extra Natalie: Do you want me to press them? Misty: Sure if you would.
So we have a few of those. Jenny: Do you want me to sew them? Misty: You know, that sometimes helps.
And I couldn’t bear to waste them so I made a little table runner with my leftover.
And I just laid them out in these flying geese. And it turned out really, really cute.
So this table runner here is using just the leftover pieces from my heart. And
so you don’t need any extra background or anything for this. You just get this
bonus project when you make this. Jenny: And what’s cool is that
it’s half square triangles so anything you can do with half square
triangles you can do any layout. Misty: Exactly. You can do any way. It’s so fun. Natalie: So sweet. Misty: Ya it’s like, I hope you
enjoyed it. This was so fun. Jenny: It was really fun. Jenny: So girls, grab your quilts
and let’s show them what we did, remind them. So you’ve got three
great ideas for a very simple block and we hope you enjoyed this Triple Play
from the Missouri Star Quilt Company. We hope you enjoyed watching this video. If
you’re not already part of the Missouri Star quilt family you can hit the subscribe button
below so you won’t miss a thing. And if you click that bell it will notify you every time
a new tutorial comes out. See you next Friday.
