Wood Pile is a quilt you can make in 1 day!

hi my name is cindy rang with the fabric patch in eufrida washington you can find us at fabricpatch.net and today i am going to show you how to make wood pile wood pile is a fantastic pattern it'll be something that you'll use again and again and again and again because it is fast super simple an opportunity to use up all of those really cool fabrics that you don't know that you don't want to cut up or you're not sure how to use and best of all it's a great quilt to be able to personalize in terms of size and in terms of blocks so let's get started my daughter and i have owned and operated a busy quilt shop in washington state for over 20 years we have a retreat center an active youtube channel and a large pattern line featuring our creations my two sons work on machines one daughter-in-law is our videographer and the other is a long-arm quilter we are a family that love each other we laugh together and every once in a while we get some work done we have a crew that are saints for their efforts at keeping us on track thanks for joining us on our wild ride [Music] okay so this is your woodpile pattern and it is available as an immediate download or there's a printed copy it's just 4.99 it's just a nice simple easy easy to follow pattern all you need is seven half yard cuts and of those seven half yard cuts whenever we put one together it is fabrics that you just kind of don't want to cut up fabrics that are really telling their own story if there's something that has kind of a lot going on or it's just perfect colors or again when you have large pieces in a quilt that's what makes it go together super super fast so sometimes what we'll do when we put together a kit or when we make a wood pile pattern it's because we have a panel that we want to use or we have some orphan blocks that we want to use i know you guys have seen this block a lot but it's just one of those really good examples if you're making a a quilt for a graduate or a t-shirt quilt for somebody this is kind of one of those fun things because all you need to do with any t-shirt just add your fusible interfacing to stabilize it cut it to the size that you want and this would be one of those optional quilt fat patterns for t-shirt blocks or what we call orphan blocks and orphan blocks again just like when we put together the two bits quilt that might be something that you started a project you loved the blocks you maybe got five or six of them done and you thought oh i am not going to make all 20 of these blocks i'm done and that way you can use up the rest of that fabric use those blocks put them together in a wood pile so the reason we called it wood pile is because everything is kind of stacked in nice neat little rows the only tricky part if you call it that is in the cutting and the cutting is super simple it's just some strips and some blocks so let's go ahead and get to the cutting i'm going to set this aside and show you that this is what we have picked out we have six of these half yard cuts oh seven we have seven half yard cuts of some coordinating fabric and then we have one panel i'm gonna cut the panel last because if you didn't have a panel um with what you were making i'm going to show you how to do it and then i'll show you how to add orphan blocks or a panel afterwards all right so all you're going to do is you're going to take your half yard of fabric and when you open up your half yard of fabric of course what you see is you have salvage to selvage here's your fold and you've got 18 inches by 42 inches so people ask us all the time do we pre-wash our fabric i do not pre-wash my fabric the reason that i don't is because i use very good quality quilt store quality fabric so it's going to shrink just a tiny bit and uniformly the other thing is that it all has a little bit of a stain guard and a sun protectant on it and i don't necessarily want to um wash that off so so i don't pre-wash i cut sew it all and then i'm good to go so what i'm going to do is i'm going to cut this into eight and a half inch strips now typically i don't use the mat to measure i always use my ruler to measure my strips but if the ruler that you have is a six inch wide by 24 inch then it's kind of difficult to use your ruler to measure a an eight and a half inch section there are some ways to use your square up ruler to be able to make a difference and i'm going to go ahead and show you that or if you do feel comfortable using your mat you can go ahead and do that i just tend to not do that because i feel personally for me it's just not quite as accurate all right let me find my glasses what i'm going to start with is i'm going to start with giving myself a nice straight edge i'm actually going to walk around the other side of the table and then again if you want to use your mat you can measure that over there but what i do since i'm using a panel i'm going to be using my square up ruler anyway to do some fussy cutting so what i'm going to do is since i'm cutting this eight and a half this is my one two three four five six so now i just need two and a half inches i'm going to line that up right on my edge this is a 12 and a half inch square ruler so i have one two and a half so i have that right in the center i'm going to butt this right up against it and here i am eight and a half inches i'm going to do it again i'm going to line that up one two and a half put that up against it and you can see out of your half yard cut you have very little waist you just have enough so that you're able to square everything up because you're using 17 inches out of that 18 inches now i'm going to turn and i'm going to set one of these aside for a second the other one i'm going to cut into a 40 inch section and what will happen is this piece of fabric is 42 inches right from salvage to selvage is 42. so what i'm going to do is i am going to go ahead i can keep using my mat again if that's what you're doing if you want to use your mat and count over 20 you can go ahead and do that or use your ruler 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. let's just double check six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirty twenty it's that whole thing right measure twice cut once i feel pretty comfortable that this now is a 40 inch section and it gives you a little bit of room here because we never really know what we have in salvage they guarantee that we have 42 inches of usable space but in this particular one it looks like it's probably a 45 inch fabric but so those of you that do pre-wash you'll be fine you certainly have enough that you have your 40 inch section here all right so i've cut my 40 inch piece i'm going to set this aside this one what i'm going to do is cut off my salvages and then what i'm cutting is eight and a half inch squares so i'm going to grab my square approvaler again and where am i let's see i'm gonna do it this way so i am at one two three four five six seven eight and a half and then cutting this this gives me two of them one two and i need a third one and of course all of your rulers are measured and they say eight and a half if we look here we can see that it says eight and a half but sometimes i read a ruler backwards i'll have it flipped over the other way so even though i can see what it says i always just double check by counting one two three four five six seven eight and a half okay so these are my blocks this is my row this we're going to use at the end and cut this up for a pieced border so i'm going to set this one aside and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to go ahead and cut my other pieces exactly the same way as this [Music] is [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] right [Music] okay here's the panel that i'm going to be cutting up this is that spot where i am going to cut up these blocks in this panel but again if you had pieced blocks that you've made some fussy cutting of some really cool fabric that you have a large print t-shirt blocks whatever so for me i'm going to be cutting these up so when you're fussy cutting something what you do is you take your ruler we've done this before in a couple of other quilt blocks the easiest thing to do is to mark your ruler so if i'm cutting an eight and a half inch square which is what the pattern calls for i'm going to count over my eight and a half inches which is right here you just double check one two three four five six seven eight and a half this is that wet erase marker we use our wet erase marker all the time we've done it in the tri-dazzle and all kinds of stuff because if i rub up against to that mark or if i flip it over and it's rubs up against my fabric it's not going to come off it's not going to come off on the fabric it's not going to come off on the ruler i have to actually either wet my finger or take a wet paper towel to get that mark off but it comes off quickly cleanly and easily so i'm going to mark eight and a half there eight and a half here and i'm going to come over to my corner and mark it here so now when i go to do my fussy cutting i'm going to put this around my panel because you'd think that this square would be printed perfectly and maybe it's either going to be a perfect eight and a half inches here and eight and a half inches here it's not this is kind of fluid it kind of runs through a little printing process and so it can move ever so slightly and so you'll see that as you put this down sometimes you have to make a decision and if you look if you can i'm not sure if you can see through the ruler or not but you can see i have to decide to cut off some of the blue down here or i would have to cut off some of it up here i also will have little bits of this dark charcoal on both sides the other thing that i tend to watch for is where that quarter inch seam allowance is because what's going to happen is this tiny little bit there's just going to be an eighth of it on this side and an eighth of it on this side so even though there will be a little bit of that charcoal gray on both sides you'll never see this in the finished quilt so that's why it's nice when you're looking at what you're going to cut you can see the whole thing the whole thing at once i can see exactly where my block is going to be so once i've made that decision on what i'm cutting then all i have to do is cut across the top cut across the side and then turn this piece and line it up down here on that corner right on this line right on this line in the corner and there is our eight and a half inch fussy cut block and again i've cut off a little there i have a little bit there but again you're not going to see that in the finished quilt okay and do another one line that up and again you can kind of decide what you're going to cut off you can see right here is my quarter inch seam allowance and so i have even though i'll have charcoal on both of these sides i have plenty of fabric okay sometimes people will ask sometimes about fabric that frays flannel will tend to fray just a tiny bit more than other fabric and it's just because of the size of the thread that they're using it doesn't matter it's not going to make any difference we sew that all up it won't continue to fray it won't be a problem in your quilt so if you see that i never worry about that too much at all all right i'm going to keep cutting all of these up [Music] on this last one that we're cutting i just want to show you that this particular block has this fun little red border around it so i know that in looking at this you can see that here's my eight and a half and here's my eight and a half so there's no way that these are going to be in there you might decide to try to leave some of it in but i also know that these are going to be in the seam allowances so sometimes it just doesn't really matter on most of these blocks i've had to decide what part i'm kind of cutting off so it's all right there's no right or wrong answer it's just you just have to look at it and pay attention to where your seam allowance is going to be because you realize you're going to come in a quarter of an inch from where you've cut all the way around and so i know that no matter where i am this little red is not going to show also some of you will ask what are you going to do with all of these little trimmings and the answer is whatever you want we are not using them in this particular quilt so if you want to cut them up into something else maybe sew them end to end for binding you could have a couple of different options all right so what i have is i have my fussy cut panel blocks that i've cut i have my eight and a half inch blocks from my yardage that i've cut and i have my 40 inch sections that i've blocked that i've cut now it's time to go ahead and go to the design wall and create our quilt okay so this is the suggested layout of the quilt so again i have seven half yards of fabric i have seven pieces that are 40 inches long and i have 21 blocks that are eight and a half inches and on the pattern i give you the diagram but really you can do anything you want to all you want to know is that in every single row you've got three blocks and one long strip three blocks and one long strip three blocks and one long strip so i suggest kind of a layout of where those should go but you can do anything you want as long as each row is the same length does that make sense so these are your half yard cuts seven of them the only other thing that we suggest is a yard and a half so you have a little border you'll take these leftover pieces cut these into four and a half by seven inch lengths sew those together and it's the perfect size to go all the way around and then one more border and you have a very large twin size quilt that's perfect i want to show you two other things about this one is what if in your half yard cut you end up with something kind of directional so i feel like for something like this one or this one they're kind of directional but not really it doesn't really matter it doesn't make any difference so i left those but this one this is the tree piece so what you can do is cut it into two pieces put a little seam there so that you end up with your 20 inch length your other thing is since it's cut there anyway it could give you a little bit of a variation if you want to actually you know just drop that down and put the block in there just to make people really wonder you know what you were doing with this quilt so anyway either way um so this is the pattern as written but let me show you what to do with a panel um some orphan blocks t-shirt blocks something else so what you can do is just swap these blocks out so here's some of those panel blocks that we cut they're still eight and a half inches and so maybe we want to take out this one and we're gonna put it in right here and maybe we want to take out this one oh and put this one in we're going to put it right here and you can keep now all that's going to happen is you are just going to keep rearranging and rearranging and rearranging and overthinking until you get it the way that you like i just want to mention that if you have more fabric a couple of extra half yard cuts you can of course make the quilt wider right if you have extra blocks and maybe you want to make each row four blocks and one row you can make the quilt longer right so there's a lot of variations you just have to feel comfortable with cutting comfortable with piecing and comfortable with math what i'm going to do is overthink this just a little bit i'm going to sew these rows together and then i'm probably just going to add one border but we'll see you at the end and we'll see what i end up with okay i um made some decisions and i just want to kind of show you my progress so what i decided to do since i am making this for my six foot four son-in-law i decided that what i was going to do with my extra blocks from my panel is i was just going to make sure that every row had four blocks in it instead of three so it's just longer i'm still going to do all of the borders that i was going to but i'm just going to make it that eight inches longer so i've started sewing them together but i just want to and so you can see i've kind of moved a couple things around a little bit but one thing that i wanted to mention is i said all you do is sew the rows together it doesn't matter but it kind of matters a little bit so you can see that right here i've got these rows this row sewn together and this row sewn together and and it's sewn together here so you can see that i really do want that to line up and i really do want that to line up because if not that would that would show so if you look at this last one you can see that i've got three blocks i'm going to sew together with that row so same thing whether i'm going to use my pins or my clips i'm just going to make sure that those seams all kind of come together pretty simple not a whole lot of fussy piecing it really does go together fast and again i just want to mention again the reason i love this panel this pattern so much is because if you have fabric that you really like and it just really looks like that person and you don't really want to cut it up a lot you really don't have to so anyway i'm going to keep sewing okay i'm all done and again the reason that i really really like the wood pile pattern is because it's so versatile once you understand the construction you can see how you could actually add with just a half a yard of fabric add a whole nother column to make it wider or like i did with a panel i added a whole nother row another eight inch block on the bottom so again my rows are the the long piece that's 40 inches plus four blocks and so my quilt before i added the borders i ended up with 72 inches for my six foot son-in-law by 56 inches and by adding a five-inch border i am now 66 by 82 which is perfect for that couch throw quilt for a tall son-in-law now the deal with borders because that's kind of where we're at right now i am just going to stop with my five-inch border we have some directions for some pieced borders and different things in your pattern but remember that the whole thing with borders is borders will add color and size so if you feel like your quilt is the right size you don't have to add all of those borders if you feel like it's really just a color issue add whatever you'd like borders are optional it's a an opportunity for you to personalize that and again that's the last thing about this quilt is that whole opportunity for personalization because any one of these eight and a half inch blocks could be a fussy cut quilt pattern like what i used with the panel it could be a pieced block it could be a t-shirt block it could be a photo block whatever you'd like so i hope you've enjoyed making this my next step now is i'm going to take it out to my sewing room and i am going to quilt it and give it away as a gift we're going to show you in the closing credits another one um we have made this pattern with food fabric it's the perfect size for a college student so if he doesn't have any money for snack food at least he'll be warm anyway thanks for watching thank you for watching our video we invite you to leave a comment hit the like button or better yet subscribe to our channel so you never miss an episode you can also visit our instagram twitter facebook or pinterest pages or find all of those things and our online store at fabricpatch.net

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Published: Mon Mar 15 2021