Unicorn Collage Nola Laura Heine

[Music] hey it's elaine delilah dupuis from cottage treasures quilting and today we have for you nola by laurel heine this is a collage quilt we will be doing it a little bit different than it is in the instructions we will be doing it the right method we call it the right method after francis wright a friend in saskatchewan that taught us a different way to do collage quilts so here she is this is a collage quilt we will show you three different ways of applying the applique to the back we do the grid pattern to finalize it with the top stitch and we have these kits on sale at our website at cottagetreasures.store and i hope you enjoy the video so i'm going to go through the methods of how we're going to transfer the pattern from the sheet onto our background fabric so there's many ways to do this the way we've done this in the past like we did with doodle do is we actually cut out doodle dew from the fabric or from the paper sorry or you can grab another piece of paper laid on top and trace that paper out we then laid the cut out piece on top of our background fabric and traced around the way we did it this time is we have a light board so we just turned on the light board and laid our fabric over top of the pattern and we used our mark be gone water soluble pen and traced out nola another way to do it if you don't have a light box is you can tape it up to the window and take the pattern up to the window and then tape your fabric over top of the pattern and trace it that way it's a little more trickier but depending on the size of your window these are the methods we've done so like i said doodle do we cut out the pattern and put it on top of our fabric for this one we used our light board just to change it up a little bit and we traced the pattern through the fabric this is what it looks like once it's fully traced out again this is mark be gone water soluble so i find if your powder if your fabric gets um wrinkly i can use quite a bit of steam and it doesn't get rid of the the mark be gone pen but as soon as you spray water on it it will get rid of it most of these are going to be hidden by our fussy cut pieces that we're going to collage onto it so i'm not too worried about the blue coming through because you won't see it again but if you are worried about it before you lay pieces down you can spray it with water iron it to get the water the moisture out of it and then start laying your cut out pieces on top here are our five printed flower fabrics that we've chosen for nola we have gone off of kind of the color palette you see on the front cover when we were deciding so these will all be fussy cut out as we want like this one's free spirit this one's magical garden if you buy a kit with us our your batiks color family will be the same and we will try our best to make sure that we have um the same flower fabrics you see in this video um if you look back here you can see we're going to use the same techniques that we've used for doodle do on a previous video and then you can see here is um seawell and um so these are these ones we used fabric spray to adhere them down instead of using a steamer seam or you know a fusible webbing this is from francis wright we call this the right method because our friend frances wright from saskatchewan taught us this message and and we really like it it saves you money and it's it's faster it's not as thick i find when i'm sewing it but we are going to show you a couple different ways of how to attach these fabrics to your background we're going to use a powder that you powder down and then you iron we're going to use some fusible sheets and we're also going to do the spray as well so we're starting with our first fabric we're going to kind of build the background of the unicorn and then lay our flowers down on top so right now i'm going for um purple that kind of borders the leg right here and it kind of allows the leg to stand out against the background so you can see the distinct shapes of the unicorn so i'm just really going to take this piece of fabric and use a chalk pencil and i'm using my light board like i said you can use you can cut the pattern out and lay it on top of your fabric and chase that way or you can also tape it to a window and do it that way as well so i'm just going to roughly trace this line out right up to the jawline and then i'm ready to cut it so there's going to be there's a couple ways to cut it you can use a rotary cutter rotary blade you can use your scissors and we also have a very small 16 mil rotary blade so we'll cut this piece out so i'm going to use the scissors first and just follow that trace line we did now um there's no mistakes really this collage quilt if i accidentally cut in um it's it's not a big deal we can hide it with a flower later uh once we're accenting nola so there's scissors you can also use a pretty big rotary cutter on this part because it's not a very um intricate fussy cut and then we also have our little one which is really going to come into play when we're doing the flowers because it turns a lot nicer than the big ones right so i'll just finish this one up with this little guy though so there's our first little dominant background for nola so we're ready to add our fabric to our background fabric so there's three ways we can do this the first method we're going to show you is using the powder which is free fuse by quilter select so you will sprinkle this down so you kind of eyeball where it's going to go i'm going to move this piece and i'm going to sprinkle this down where i'm laying my fabric now i'm going to lay my fabric down put my applique sheet over top because i don't want any of the stray powder getting stuck to my iron and i'm going to fuse this and this is direct heat held onto it so i'm tracing out the ears onto our fusible webbing paper so this this is the paper side this is the fusible side so the pattern is upside down because i am tracing on to the side that's going to stick therefore when i go to stick this they're going to be the right side up so you have to start the wrong side when you're tracing that way when you go to stick these on to your background you then will have them facing the right way and i'm just using a pen and i'm just following the lines of the ear and we're going to use the same purple we just used all right so the ears are coming out and again we're using our double fusible paper here so i'm going to flip this over and this is batik so both sides are good sides and i'm going to set my iron on top of this and let it slowly fuse uh depending on your fusible webbing that you're using um just follow the instructions okay so i've cut them out now i cut them out upside down right so now they are the right side up for me to apply them to the background so i'm just going to peel off the back of the fusible web exposing the sticky spot and lay that where i want it so there's our ears now you can give it some heat to fuse those down into place for good and those are the ears now i do have i do have some extra that's still fused to this so i'm going to use it down down here just to finish off this line right here and underneath the jaw so we are going to use this pink to outline nola's head and so this this is really just going to leave the border marks of the head so the silhouette of nola is there when you're placing your flowers and adding detail so i'm going to lay this on top of my pattern and um trace out the head i'm going to fabric spray this one down so i won't have to flip my um pattern over this one will be fine to just lay it down on top and trace up the head and then we're using a yellow to kind of outline the belly and the back there's not much fabric like it won't fill in the whole area but that's where flowers are going to come in and fill in those spots i'm this more the way that we did doodle do and seawell and when we're doing nola is more of the sense of we're saving fabric we're saving money and you know we're not going to have 20 layers of fabric going through our home sewing machine so i'm going to go ahead and trace these out and tap and then i'll show you how we're going to attach them with fabric adhesive spray so we're going to throw show you the third method that we use which is um the right method we call it after our friend francis wright from saskatchewan who when we started collage quilting she had used fabric adhesive spray to save money from buying fusible webbing and it's quite an easy way to do it so a couple things is this is called craft bond by elmer's we buy it at walmart and it's a lot cheaper than the quilting fabric spray you can buy so we have our windows open and we only do so much at a time because you know it's aerosol so we have a piece of parchment paper down just to kind of protect it but this is a garbage sheet that we use for when we're doing this so i'm going to spray the back side of the unicorn's head and then i'm going to place it onto the quilt where i want it to be final and then just push it down once you have it where you want it and that's pretty much it so we've done this on doodle do and seawelt other collage quotes we've done where we used only fabric adhesive spray with this one we're going to use the variety of the three to piece it together and some of the pros and cons the pros of this is it's cheaper some of the cons are it will sometimes peel back on you so i like to bring it over to the iron and give it a little heat to activate that glue again um some of the pros with the powder is um that it doesn't uh it's not aerosol um it's inexpensive as well but i find it doesn't stick very well and it likes to peel back the paper that's fusible on both sides i find is it's very nice in the sense that you can always iron it to make it stick down it sticks down really nice the only problem i have with collage quilting with it is the thickness that you start to get in your quilt when pieces are over um overlapping as well as the um depending on where you get your fusible webbing it can become quite expensive to do a quilt only with that method so we're going to start cutting out some more pieces um the um the horn of the unicorn and then some of the hair and do some more of the the background colors and start getting ready to start piecing and really getting collagen i want to go through the four steps that we do to build nola the first step is framing her with all the fabulous batik fabrics that you can see so far it might look rough but it's this is just an outline this is to frame her so once we've put the fill in of all of our flowers then we don't lose nola's outline so we've finished the bordering or the framing now we're going to work on the eye because the eye is very important very good focal point for nola then we're going to move on to the filling with the flowers and then we're going to move on to the main and the tail then we are going to do the background fabrics flowers in the corners and then we are going to move on to the unicorn horn so we've shown you three methods so far of how to attach when you're doing your fabric when you're doing a collage quilt our favorite is the spray it's cheap it's fast it's doesn't put much strain on your machine in the sense of your layers having fusible webbing layers in between them then when you're done you know some spots you're going through five six seven pieces of fabric we highly recommend this if you want to do the fusible webbing that's fine it's a little bit more expensive the powder you have powder option as well i don't particularly enjoy the powder i find it takes too long and it's it's quite messy with just having to sprinkle it and then it's outside of where you're ironing and then your parchment paper or your applique sheet gets stuck i'm not a big fan this is the one this is the way to go cheap fast and it's a little bit messy but if you have your throwaway sheet and a piece of parchment paper you're good to go so now we'll move on to nola's eye so we find on laurel hiney along with many other animal or nature themed collage quilts the eye is one of the most important parts of the quilt it really it's a focal point and you really want to draw people into it so on this piece of fabric we have here this is a magic garden by car pintos we have located the eye that we want to do and that is this guy right here so if you look at the front cover here you can see there's a bit of a flower with some eyelashes so what i've decided is i'm going to take this flower i'm going to cut it out fussy cut it without the bottom three petals to make my eyelashes and cut that figure out right there with fussy cutting with some scissors and then you can also see here the background of the eye there's a nice pink flower and some green leaves so i'm going to most likely cut this out right here which will be underneath the eye and then i will go to one of my other green fabrics for the bit of the leaves coming off the eyes so i'm going to go ahead and fussy cut these i'm going to use scissors for this eye and then i'm going to show you our 14 millimeter rotary cutter which is very nice for cutting out fussy cutting and on the fly without having to use scissors another option i'm also going to cut out some of these butterflies so i can accent certain spots of nola and really help them pop so we have all of our fabrics laid out that have the majority of our flowers our printed flowers and we're going to cut them all out so that we're ready to fill in nola cutting every single flower because the majority of these we are going to use to fill in nola we want are looking spectacular lots of flowers we have a couple cutting utensils that we're going to use to say this is a 14 mil rotary cutter so i'm going to show you right now i'm going to cut out this butterfly and just kind of show you how it makes it a lot easier to turn on a dime compared to using one of your big ones it does make it a little bit quicker than having to use scissors and i find that when you're turning you'll get a nice cut it'll get the background out of your way as you're as you're turning but it'll keep whatever's on the close side of the blade towards you nice so we also have our big scissors you can use to rough cut everything out before you get to the finesse part fussy cutting and then we have our little scissors that the majority of the time i use especially when i'm going into these spots like around the tail of this this butterfly so those are our three methods of getting the fussy cutting done and this is really nice for turning and then your old faithful little scissors so we've cut all our flowers out and we've kind of laid they're all loose right now nothing's stuck down this is kind of the um imagination part where you're going to start to put it all together and figure out where you want to lay things i have this piece of fabric here just to show you a lot of these flowers are going to make up some of the corners in the background and like a floral in the back we've got our two butterflies here we haven't decided where we're going to put them yet but they are ready to go we will build the horn next uh for the unicorn and so now we're slowly going to we're we'll still be adding some more pieces we have off camera later to kind of fill in some spots but we're kind of going to peel back and start spraying the back side of our fabric and we're going to start piecing nola together filling her in with all these beautiful flowers and then once that's done we're going to work on the horn and we'll start cutting out all of our straight swiggly pieces for the mane and the tail and then we'll show you once this is sprayed down so you can see that we've picked perp we've picked the purple and the blues and stuck them around the purple part of nola and we've the blues or the green oranges and yellows have stuck around uh the back side of nola matching the background that we have done previous and then we've got a lot of the pinks and reds up in the top to match the background of nola's head so we've kind of kept our color flam families together and now we're ready to start sticking it together so i'm gonna just do a couple examples of how we've done pretty much all our collage quilts in the past with the adhesive spray the elmer's craft bond so i'm just going to just lightly dust the back of your fabric and then i'm going to bring it over to where i wanted to place it and push it down so i've done pretty much this down which is it's pretty good um some of them are we had cut some of them out with the fusible backing but the majority of this is all fabric spray so i just take a couple walk over here and bring it back over and place them and they're easy to adjust to right if you want to move it yeah so i mean i can i can easily lift this back up and move it a bit more this way put it back down so um when we quilt this we are going to be quilting it um laura heine's way with the straight lines which works really well because you have so many pieces lapped over each other as you feed into the throat of your machine and you do your straight lines and you roll up your quilt that stuff's already sewn down so it won't peel back on you so it makes it quite easy to manipulate the quilt when you're doing this stitch so as you can see we've added the horn and we went purple blue purple blue purple blue so on and so forth i'm working on the mane and the tail so i'm going to be cutting out a ton of serpentine swiggles and swirls out of my last of my boutiques i got five batiks here so you can see i've cut out some random ones so far and i'm going to cut out small ones medium large and then a couple to match the pattern i'm going to do extra long that kind of like come right out of the top of the tail and go all the way down so a couple on the sides i'm going to make some extreme long ones so i'm just making randoms i'm going to use up most of this petite just cutting tons and tons of serpentine fabric cutouts and we are going to spray them and attach them to nola so i'm using my 14 mil rotary cutter and i like it because it turns really tight you can do scissors if you would like or use a bigger one so i'm going to make some of the long ones and i'm going to continue to do this small medium large extra long until i have all this batik cut up and i'm ready to start laying them out on nola so i'm attaching the first couple batiks here to the tail and i've laid them down and sprayed them and i'm really just going to try and generalize them to be around the same starting point right here and i'm just going to lay them down now many of these are going to overlap so your placement isn't too crucial there's going to be weaving in and out of each other [Music] i noticed that i'll do all the small pieces that flare out first and then i'm going to come in with these longer pieces over top that are going to flow throughout the main and hide all the blunt edges that kind of meet up in the middle and it kind of gives you the effect we have with the tail over here now the tail is all is all glued down and you can see there's a lot of blunt edges from the small ones but i've hidden them with longer tail strands so we're going to do the same with the main so we've finished doing the main and the tail of nola and we worked on our last fabric that we had which was the more of the cabbage flower looking pieces so we've cut those out and we are kind of bordering the corners of nola as you can see none of this is glued down yet we were just deciding where they wanted to put them and then any flowers we had from our other fabric we've cut out every single one we are going to include them because we want to use all the fabric we've had to fill in spots um we're not going to clutter our background quite as much as it is in the pattern with the writing we do like a clean uh background when we're doing our collage quilts depending on what you want to do you can grab some of your other fabrics and fill it right in but we tend to kind of border in the corners like we did on seawell and doodle do and yeah you can see this one we just did a couple bumblebees and then you can see over on seawell we did a couple little turtles there's a little bit of a coral down at the bottom corner there and there are only a little bit of air bubbles coming out of the top of the turtle other than that we kept the background pretty pretty clean so we're going to go ahead and spray these down and then we'll be ready to start to put the batting in the middle to put the backing on and then go ahead and start doing our cross stitch to attack it so now on to my favorite part of the quilt which is the quilting part doing that top stitch we are going to do a grid pattern on this one so straight across and then straight up and down to tack everything down so we've talked about three ways you can put your quilt together and the way we did most of it is the spray now i recommend the grid pattern with the spray when it's a bigger quilt because as i roll it up in the throat i'll have already stitched that part so it won't want to peel off and with the adhesive spray you can always iron it back down to stay onto the quilt but when you tend to fold the quilt they tend to want to pull up on you when you used an adhesive um like steema seam or apple stick it tends to stick a lot better if you do one final major iron before you start quilting so then you can start from the middle and work your way out we've done this three different ways which will show you doodle do and seawell turtle that are collage quilts as well so i'm using a ruler foot and a ruler so this is your basic ruler foot for free motion quilting it's got the round circle and then i have the ruler that has lines built onto it so i'm going with my second line which i believe is a half inch between each line so i'm literally just lining up my edge of ruler foot to the line going onto my previous stitch and i am just doing straight stitches and then just reposition your ruler and continue doing that i'm using a gray thread that kind of blends nice with the colors you won't really see it too much you can use invisible thread you can really use whatever you want if you want variegated i've decided to go with the gray and i'm going to show you i'm going to do this whole quilt with this grid pattern and about the half inch three quarter of it of an inch gap i do want to show you the seawell and the doodle do to show you different ways we've quilted this so how i did the top stitch with seawell was i started on the white border that outlines all the shell pieces with a zigzag stitch then i did all the motifs and tacked down right along the edges of the batik fabrics to hold them down then i had moved on to the background which was a lot of free motion in little sea creatures i got some starfish uh drag um sea lions some jellyfish bubbles and a current and then i worked on tacking down the borders and just following kind of the swirls within the coral and with doodle do what i did was i outlined the whole rooster first following as close as i could to the edge then i did a grid pattern up and down side to side with invisible thread then i did uh echo around the whole rooster then i did the flower and leaf swirl background to finish finish them off okay so i finished the left to right stitch across the whole quilt now i'm going to do an up and down with within nola i don't necessarily have to do it in the background because that's a solid piece of fabric and all you're going to do is just make the background more confusing you know with little squares everywhere so i'm only going to do the up and down along nola just because she's got a lot of a lot of the mane in the tail that are going to want to pop up so first before i do the up and down i'm actually going to do a border all the way around nola for these pieces that i can't quite um get to when i'm going up and down because the up and down is really going to be in the bulk of nola so right now i'm going to do a border all the way around nola into each strand of hair off of the mane and the tail [Music] do that all the way around nola and then i'll be okay to go up and down to finish her off i'm also going to do that border around the coral and the butterflies around the outside to tack them down you can see i've already done a bit of them so now these are not going to lift up anywhere and the flowers are tacked down nicely so i'll go ahead and finish that and we'll show you what she looks like when she's done so i've finished the top stitch of nola she's all tacked down i've used the water to spray away the mark be gone pen so now i'm getting ready to square it up because we're going to do the binding which will hold the three layers together so you can use a rotary cutter ruler and a cutting board you can use scissors and a ruler there's many ways to do this i usually start by trimming one one edge up by lining it up on my cutting board and then from there on i can butt the one end up to one of the lines on the cutting board and i know that when i cut down this way it's going to continue with a nice square keeping it all square [Music] really it's about two and a half inches strips um i use a foot that fits on my janome so my strips are two inches so to sew these together you want to make sure all your bad sides are on one side so the seam side so i usually just with my hand see where i'm going to be able to fold it because if i sewed it here i would be hooped and i would have to tear it apart so on the first one took my fingers there you'll see that when it folds open it'll be nice so i usually then i mark it using a ruler using a ruler and chalk i'll just mark a line to my points and then i will bring it over to my machine and sew it all right so i've marked my line now i'm ready to sew these two strips together these are full length strips so batik 44 inches and i'm sewing about five of them together so i'll always start on a little bit in on it and go backwards first and then forwards and then when i get to the end i don't like my machine to pull that fabric down when i try to back up so i always use a little piece of paper and then go backwards to lock it in and then it didn't suck my fabric into the machine and then i can just tear the plot the paper right off then you're going to trim this extra off about a quarter inch you can use rotary cutter scissors whatever works for you and then this is the part that's very important to remember and that's keep your seam the nice seam facing up and pull your fabric so you know that this is the good side up so then you'll take your next strip you'll lay it down on top like we did the last time and again with your fingers just practice and you'll see there it is that'll open the same way as the one we've already done so that way we're not binding and all of a sudden we accidentally did one upside down so again you'll mark it bring it over the machine sew it sew your five six strips together [Music] so [Music] [Music] so there you have it nola collage quilt by laura heine she turned out fantastic i really like the purple binding around the outside kind of matching with the horn and the majority of the body and ears so we did show you three ways on how to use applique it's really personal preference what you do we really like the elmer's fabric adhesive because it's cheap and it lasts quite a while i think that same can has done three three quilts now so please like down below subscribe to the channel and any comments are welcome i'm elaine dupuy with cottage treasures and this was nola the collage quilt by laura heine you

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Keywords: Collage Quilting, Laura Heine, Nola, Nola quilt, Unicorn nola, unicorn collage quilt, man quilter, Alain Dupuis, Collage, Fabric Spray, Beginner Quilting, Home sewing machine

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Length: 37min 43sec (2263 seconds)

Published: Sat May 02 2020