X Factor Quilt | Rail Fence Pre-Cut Quilt Kit Giveaway!

hi i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics today i'm going to show you how to make a cozy quilt designs pattern this is called x factor it has X's in each of the blocks the blocks kind of make an X design so we need to grab a jelly-roll and then we need to get some background fabrics and some border fabrics then we can get started one of the nice things about cozy quilts patterns is they give you a whole bunch of different sizes now I'm gonna do the throw which takes 37 strips that's great because most jelly rolls have 40 strips this is the one I'm gonna do today it has really rich colors rust cream black now we need to pick out some backgrounds and some sashing fabrics the first thing I'm gonna pick is the outside border so I want something that's going to look good with this color group and I think this speckly one would be perfect it just picks up all the light and dark fabrics in there but it's not too busy so I think it'll make a great outside border now we need some background and stashing so I'm going to use something plainer this is our section of hand-painted boutiques but they don't have a lot of print on them and I think this one would make really good sashing it's a little bit lighter than this but the fabrics will show up against it then I need a really light background and I think that one will look really good it's got just a little bit of pattern showing there but I think all of these fabrics will show up against it because it's a little bit yellower than the backgrounds on these here and those will all look really good surrounding these blocks so let's take it over to the workroom and we'll get everything cut out and show you how to sew it up I have all of the backgrounds the borders the sashing already cut out now you'll have to get the pattern to see what sizes they are this is a pattern that we sell this is one we buy from cozy quilt designs so I can't give you all of the measurements but they have really really easy instructions and I love their patterns now all we have to do is get our strips out and pick what's gonna go where this is probably the hardest part of the whole project opening this up now we need eight strips to go in these background pointy things we need a total of eight strips and I'm gonna pick darker ones for those so I'm gonna use the light ones in the patchwork parts but I'm gonna want to pick out eight darker ones for around the edges here are the eight strips that I've picked out to go in the pointed part it's the part I'm pointing to right there in each square these strips down here these are all the strips that are going to make the bulk of the squares what are called the X's these five over here are what what are going to be used in the little teeny squares so we have a lot of little teeny single squares and I wanted those a little bit darker and in a variety of colors and then we have three strips leftover so I'm not going to use these because they blend in too much with the background or in this case I just don't like that print as well so that's a good thing to do when you're planning out cutting your pattern where you're going to put which strips so that you can make the pattern look really really good some patterns it doesn't matter and you can just pick them all up and mix them but in this one a little bit of planning ahead will make the quilt turn out a lot better the first step we need to do is to mark the back of our background pieces we need to mark half of them with a diagonal line going that way and half of them with a diagonal line going this way now there's a number of ways to do this I like to use a pencil so I'm just going to take this and I'm going to get my ruler which has a 45-degree angle line drawn on it and I'm going to line this up so that this line is along the top edge of the fabric and it's right in the corner there and I'm just gonna hold it and draw a little line so do that with both stacks each block is going to have four of these units so here's how you do this you take the center piece and you take one of these and put it on this corner so we're gonna line up the edges and we're gonna sew right along the line then we're going to open this up iron it I'm just gonna finger press right now but you'll need to take it over to the ironing board and then we're going to trim this off leaving a quarter-inch now we're going to take the other piece here and we're going to put it in the corner and we're going to stitch that way so I have to turn it upside down make sure everything is lined up exact and stitch right down that line then we'll iron it and trim off the excess there but you can see we've got a nice point here and the tip of it is a quarter inch from the edge now I don't think I'll be making these individually I'm gonna chain piece the whole stack of them but it's useful to see one step at a time so you know what you're gonna make so let's do this with all of the pointed pieces once you have all your pointed sections done it's time to move on to the next part of the blocks so these are made with strip units so these are the 24 strips that we set aside so we're gonna take them two at a time and we're gonna sew them side-by-side so use a fairly small stitch length right sides together a quarter inch seam and just sew two together and then you can leave them on the machine and pick up another two and sew those together when you're all done you can just pull it all back and then we're going to finger press all these seams to one side and once they're finger pressed we're going to take them over to the ironing board and actually iron so I favor pressing towards the dark side so we'll just push this this way and you can use your fingernail you can use your fingertip but I'm kind of opening it up and I'm just pulling down the seen and that way it'll lay nice and flat when we go to iron it now we need to iron the strip sets nice and flat we've already finger pressed them so the seam allowance is all going the same way but I like to use the iron and then once you've got it pretty flat check it against a straight edge I like to use this four foot yardstick and then I know I've got it really nice and straight and then you can steam it once you have them all ironed you're going to take two sets and you are going to put them right sides together and we're gonna stitch along both edges to make a tube now since the seam allowances are all going to the dark side this one is going down and that one's going up and so they're gonna lay really flat when we sew this and then we're going to cut this now both sides are stitched and it's a strip tube so I am gonna take it back over and just briefly iron the stitching so that this won't be distorted once in a while when you stitch it'll stretch it a little bit so I like to flatten it out with the iron and then we're going to cut it I'm going to use the strip tube ruler the four and a half inch line here on the stitching line so we are going to line this up and I like to hold it here and get another straight edge move that out of the way and make my cuts now we'll just slide this down put the ruler back on and make our second cut so it looks like a little bit of extra moving but it actually saves a lot of time once you get the first triangle cut put your ruler again with the four and a half inch line on the stitching you can see it a little better there because the thread is in white hold the ruler put another straightedge right up against it move that out of the way and make your cut now we're going to continue on for the whole strip and even though they look like triangles because they were a tube they're actually squares here is one whole strip cut and you can see there's not very much scrap there's not very much waste it's pretty efficient so now we have all of these squares and we're going to iron them open with the seam allowance towards the dark side you're also going to want to trim off the dog ears I find it a little easier to trim them off after I iron but if you prefer you can just take your blade and make a quick snip right here and here while they're on the cutting board here's how I like to iron these if you put the light fabric down and peel it open and press it a little bit with your fingers so that this doesn't get curved then take your iron and give it a little steam that way you'll have this nice and straight so I find if I just if I just press it open with the iron it tends to get a curve in it so kind of press it by hand first then use the iron you can get a little rhythm going and you get a little speed up next step take four of your squares and lay them out like this so that we've got an X in the middle and you should just pick four random ones you can mess around with turning them upside down if you like but you just always want to have that X in the middle then you take four of these guys that we made earlier these are going to go on all four sides and the last piece we need is these squares and again just pick four different colors and they're gonna go in the corners so I like to get a variety of colors for each block now all we have to do is stitch it up we're going to sew these four pieces together first so I am going to put that like that and that like that and I'm going to stitch down here you do need to match your intersections here but the seam allowances are going different directions so I can feel if they're matched if you're not sure you can stick a pin through there to see where they're going to come together make sure you've got them lined up now we're going to open this up and I'm just going to gently finger press right here the seem to that side and then for this one I'm going to gently finger press the scene to this side now I'm not going to finger press the whole thing because these are all bias edges and it'll stretch if I pull it there so that's why I'm just going to press it a teeny bit so that the seams will lay flat then I can stitch the other direction and we will press this seam to one side it doesn't matter which way you press this scene now we do need to actually iron this and you have to be a bit careful because it's all bias kind of move your iron along the seam grains not back and forth and up and down this way but along the diagonal edges because then you won't be stretching and distorting it once you have it ironed nice and flat just to make a row here a row here a row here and then stitch them all together here's the first block they're really turning out nice I love the way it looks like there's patchwork set on top of another block that's behind it I'm gonna be making 16 of these blocks and once those are done we're going to put the sashing and corner stones between them all the blocks are all stitched together now they came together really easily there are a lot of fun to make I have a lot of them laid out over here and this is what I picked for the sashing but once all the blocks were done and laid out this really looks way too red and it's just sticking out too much so I decided to change to this more neutral color this way the blocks are still showing really well and this is this is not distracting from the blocks so it's always a good idea to audition all your fabrics as you go especially for something critical like sashing so this is going to go around the outside then we've got a border of this and then we've got this nice outside border and that pulls out the red very nicely the finished quilt ended up 72 inches square really happy with how it turned out the blocks are really highlighted with this background and this sashing color and it looks like there is a patchwork block on top of another block turned and you do get the nice X in the middle of every block it was not difficult to so it's actually very easy to do stashing when you put cornerstones in with it because then you have a spot to stop and match - every time I quilted this with a pattern called echo of light and you can see these swirls up and down swirls here and I use to the barn red on the back now you can really see the quilting it's really a fun pattern the cozy quilt designs pattern gives you sizes from wall-hanging all the way up to king-size so you can make a really big 100 by 100 inch quilt on here and it doesn't take too much fabric to add in so I used almost all 40 strips from the sangria strip set and then we used buttercream toast and the speckle ePrint on the outside here really really fun to make thanks for watching our tutorial today on how to make the X Factor quilt we're going to be doing another giveaway we're going to give away a kit to make a rail fence quilt this is called milk and honey and this is one that Matt pre cuts here and it's all made out of ginny buyer prints so we are going to include the kit and some fabric so that you can put borders and binding on it so we'll give a link down below that'll tell you exactly how to enter good luck [Music]

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Length: 17min 8sec (1028 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 26 2018