Hi everybody, it’s Jenny from the MSQC. And I’ve got a really fun project for you
today. This last year at our birthday bash we had a sew off and I lost. I didn’t get
mine finished in time. But it was just by mere seconds. So we’re calling this quilt
Out of Time because when that timer hit I was still holding up rows of fabric. But it’s
a fun project and I wanted to show you how to do it. So to make this quilt what you’re
going to need is one packet of print squares. And we have used Wit and Wisdom by Kim Deal
for Henry Glass. And you guys know I love Kim’s fabric. It’s just a really beautiful,
rich line. You’re going to need a packet of background squares as well and so we’ve
just used the nice, this nice snow color that coordinates with our fabric. For your inner
border right here, it’s a 2 ½ inch strip and you’re going to need ¾ of a yard. For
this outer border out here, this is a 5 ½ inch border. And you’re going to need 1
¾ yards of fabric on that. Now you’ll notice that each block we’ve done is snowballed.
So this snowball right here, you can actually get out of that background yardage or the
border yardage. You can get that out of the border yardage. The other squares over here,
this quilt is actually six by six so it’s 36 squares that I’ve used and so you’re
going to be able to get your background squares out of your leftover squares from your pack.
So that will all be included in there. For you back, isn’t that a pretty back? It’s
really pretty, I love, I love the print, I love the black. And that you’re going to
need eight yards. And it’s a vertical seam so if you use 45 inch fabric, you’re going
to need eight yards of that. You’re also going to get a quilt that is 86 by 86 so that’s
a nice big quilt and a really, really. I mean I just think it’s beautiful.
So when we did this quilt at the birthday bash, I had an idea in my head of what I wanted
to do. I knew I was going to have to make a quilt on the fly. And I had this little
idea. And so I started making these blocks. And I have this team of people who’s helping
me and one of them was my husband. And he, in his mind he saw it differently. So he’s
over there, I’m finishing the block and he’s over there having somebody else set
it together but differently than I pictured it. And so, so the quilt we got was a combination
of both our minds which means there’s a whole other quilt in there waiting to come
out in the other direction. But this was kind of fun because I was like, Oh, oh look at
that. That wasn’t at all what I was thinking. So let me show you how to make this because
it’s really fun.
Alright so what we’re going to do is we’re going to take our squares like this. We’re
going to take a print square and a background square. We’re going to put them right sides
together . We’re going to sew a quarter of an inch all the way around the outside.
You can see I’ve done that on here. Nope you can’t see any better on that side. But
I’ve sewn all the way around. So now what we’re going to do is we’re going to cut
this diagonally both directions. So we’re going to lay our ruler on here diagonally
corner to corner. Sometimes when you sew around these you’ll get like a little, a little
pinch here at one of the corners. It doesn’t matter. We’re going to cut right through
it. And then we’re going to come over here like this and cut it again.. So don’t move
your fabric, don’t move your squares. Just cut it both directions. Make sure I got that
edge right there. Alright so when you do that you get four half square triangles. We’re
going to open these up and press them right now. And I’m going to go ahead. I’m going
to lay them over here, dark sides up every one. And then I’m going to set the seam
just like that. Now the reason we set a seam is because it relaxes the thread. And then
we’re just going to roll this back. So we’re going to press open all four. Now for those
of you who are squarers and you want to square your blocks to make sure they’re the same,
when you sew this way it is important to lay them up and see if they’re the same size
because that is determined by your quarter of an inch around the outsides. So it doesn’t
have to be perfect, it just has to be the same on all four sides. If it’s not you’re
just going to want to square your blocks. So mine comes out pretty close.
And what we’re going to make now is an hourglass and that’s where the time part comes in.
So we’re going to have two white squares to the middle and two colored squares to the
middle like this. And that makes our hourglass right there just like that. Now if your blocks
are close but not lining up exactly, well that one lines up exactly. But if they’re
close, the benefit of sewing this way is that you have a little bit of give in your blocks
so you can do that. You don’t want to make it give too much or it will come out all wonky
but you’re going to do that. So then what we’re going to do is we’re going to lay
these right sides together like this and we’re going to sew a quarter of an inch right down
the side. So we’re going to come over here and make sure these are lined up. And make
sure my seams are nested. And we’re just going to sew a quarter of an inch. And then
I’m going to line these up the same and sew those as well. So I’m matching my corner
and I’m going to start sewing. And then I’m going to come down here and make sure
these two pieces nest together really nice. Alright. Now what we’re going to do is we’re
going to sew these together. We’re going to open them up like this. They’re going
to work. All we’re lining up is this center seam right here so that’s going to be easy.
We’re going to nest these seams right up here at the top, sew a quarter of an inch
and I like to get a couple of stitches in and then I’m going to just lay this back.
And I’m going to make this seam go, the top seam go forward just like that. And then
I’m going to come down here.
Alright now what we’re going to do is press this open just like this. Give it a nice press.
And then I like to, I always like to press from the top. And then I’m going to flip
it over and make sure my seams are laying the way that I want them to. And I want this
center seam to lay this way and so I’m just going to make it, make it work. If anything,
actually my rule for the seams is however they want to go, they can go. Because some
of them have a mind of their own. And as long as they’re nice and flat, that’s ok with
me. Alright so now we have this nice hourglass and that’s our time block because it’s
the hourglass. And then we have a bunch of 2 ½ inch squares that some we’ve cut off
of our border fabric and some we’ve cut off of our background fabric. And what we’re
going to do is we’re going to put the background fabric on the colored corner like this. And
we’re going to put one on each corner. So 2 ½ you can see I’ve drawn the line on
those. And then we’re going to put the colored square on the background square like this.
Now so that I can get this over to my sewing machine I’m going to grab a couple of pins
and just put them in here so I don’t have to replace them every time I go over. So we’re
going to do this right here. And here’s our last little corner right there.
Alright now what we’re going to do is we’re going to sew right along this line on all
four corners of this block. So we’re going to come over here and make sure our block
is still lined up. Take out your pin and then sew straight on the line. And then I’m going
to clip it and just turn and rotate my block like this. And so I’m going to take a few
stitches, take out my pin and just sew right across, flip and do that on all four sides.
And one more right here. And I’m going to get started and then take out that pin. Now
one of the things to test how good you’re doing with your corners is you can fold that
corner over and see if it matches up. It should match up pretty close. It shouldn’t change
the size of your square and so because I drew the line, and you can draw the line or iron
the line, mine are going to be pretty close on all four sides. And I’m just going to
trim that off now. So I’m going to go trim a quarter of an inch on each block on that
side of the seam. You don’t want to trim the other side or you’re going to cut right
into your block. So we’re going to cut this right here. Just go all around just like we
did. Now what’s fun about this block to me honestly is that just by adding this corner
you get a whole different look. It changes the block from, from really ordinary to extraordinary.
And so I’m going to iron these little corners back and lay this one down. There we go. So
see how this looks now.
Now let’s look at how we set these together because we did them, we did them opposites.
So we put these together so that a white block intersected with a color block. And it made
an additional hourglass right there in the middle. And that makes it really fun. So let
me show you how to lay these out. Now I did this quilt six by six. And the reason I only
made it 36 instead of 42 because there are 42 blocks in a ten inch packet. But the reason
I did that is because there were some that didn’t have a lot of contrast. When that
happens, when you buy a pack and it doesn’t have a lot of contrast, there’s two things
you can do. One, you can leave them out or two you probably, you may have a square in
your, you know in your fabric stash somewhere that will work just a little better. Because
I liked the high contrast look of this quilt. So when we go to put these together, we’re
going to put them together and we’re going to put them like this. We’re going to turn
them like this so that this is going to make a hourglass in the middle. So let me, actually
let me move this so I can get a better, a better handle on showing you this. I’m going
to pull these down here like this. And I’m going to add two more up here and you see
how that hourglass is formed. So we know when we see the light one we’re going to put
a dark one like this. And then over here we’re going to put a light one in that corner. Isn’t
that cool? It’s so cool. I mean it’s just fun how it goes together. So we’ve got six
across and six down. And again that makes a pretty good sized quilt. I think like like
86 by 86, pretty good size. And so we hope you enjoyed this quilt. It’s called Out
of Time because I didn’t quite finish it in the time allotted but I did finish it.
And now it’s a fun tutorial for you. So we hoped you enjoyed this tutorial from the
MSQC.