Hi everybody, it’s Jenny from the MSQC. And I’ve got a great project for you today.
Let’s take a look at this quilt behind me. Isn’t this fun? I mean this is just a great
quilt. It’s stunning. It just pops with color. And yet it’s so, so easy I can hardly
wait to show you. So to make this quilt, what you’re going to need is one roll of 2 ½
strips like this. We’ve used this Spin Basics Bright from Timeless Treasures. And it’s
just beautiful. You’re also going to need a yard and a half of a background fabric.
We used a white and that takes care of your, your sashing pieces here and a five inch border.
You’re going to need five yards for the backing on this quilt and we just have put
a plain back on it. And it just goes together so quick and easy. So let me show you how
to do this because this is really fun. Now I want to talk for a minute about these rolls.
A lot of us buy these rolls. We love them but not very many of us open them. You just
like to stack them up and sit them on our shelf like this. It just looks so cute. But
this is a great project if you want to open them because it’s really simple.
So what you’re going to do is you’re just going to take your band off. You think you’re
home free but you’re not. There’s rubber band. When you get that off you’re just
going to open up this roll and we’re going to open this whole thing up like this. And
for ours we, we just left it just like it is. Just how it came off, you know, our, our,
our roll is how we’re going to sew this up. And what we’re going to do is we’re
going to start with our, with our strips. And we’re just going to sew them together.
So you’re going to pull the first two strips off and we’re going to sew those together.
We’re going to stack them right on top of each other with the right sides together . And
we’re going to sew a quarter of an inch right down the side. Now you want to make
sure your selvedge edges are lined up perfectly. And we’re just going to go to the sewing
machine now and sew a quarter of an inch down the side.
So just set up your thing and this is that kind of relaxed sewing because you know you
just, you get out a little bit. Make sure your strips are lined up. And then you can
just kind of fly down the side. So now what you’re going to do is you’re going to
press these open. We’re going to go to the ironing board over here and press these open.
And we like to always press to the darker one. And we’re just going to roll that back,
just like that. You want to press from the top. Make sure your seams are completely pressed
open. Alright. Then what you’re going to do is you’re going to stack the next, take
the next strip and stack it on there and continue adding on. And you’re going to go, just
keep sewing them on so they go graduated colors from light to dark.
Now I have a whole top over here that I’ve almost completely finished. And you can see
a little bit more about what I’m talking about. So here we go. So I’ve just been
stacking them. We’ve sewn selvedge to selvedge. Now a lot of times they say when you sew strip
sets together to make sure that you sew back and forth and back and forth. You can do that
on this. I didn’t and it worked. But what I did was I took my red section and sewed
those three together, pressed them. Then I took my orange section and sewed those together
and pressed them. And then added that whole section to the red. So I was kind of doing
littlier sections at a time. So maybe that’s why they didn’t bow and it worked for me.
Down here at the bottom here I’m ready to sew on my next two strips. These are my last
two. Now there’s something I have to mention here. There are only 32 strips in this top.
What I did was I pulled out, I took the first 32 and then I saved the last eight for my
binding right here. See how I have this binding out here. And you can see where the colors
came together. And I saved them on there. And to be completely honest I only used seven
strips for the binding. I had this much left. And so really you could put 33 strips on here.
And that’s what I would do if I were to do it again. I had already done that and set
it aside. But you could of course can do whatever you want.
So what I’m going to do now is I’m going to take these two this, this, the purple and
the lighter purple. And I’m going to sew those together and then add them to the bottom
of my quilt. So again I’m just going to do a quarter of an inch right down the side.
And you guys are going to have this quarter of an inch thing down pat. I’m telling you,
this is so fun just to sail down the side. Alrighty, now we’ll press this open and
we’re going to add it to the bottom of our strip set. Sometimes it helps when you’re
sewing to just do little sections at a time. And that’s kind of what I felt with this.
I just felt like let’s just do little sections at a time. Alright. So now we’re going to
attach this to the bottom of the quilt. And it’s going to go together just like this.
And we’re going to fold this little section over onto the quilt, match up my little ends
right here. Make sure that we’re straight. And sew again a quarter of an inch. Alrighty.
Now the fun begins. Well first we’ve got to press this. We’re going to come over
here and just press it. Now it really doesn’t matter which way your seams go on the back
because, because it’s, we’re not matching any seams. I knew there was a reason for that.
It really doesn’t matter. You want them flat. You want it to be nice and flat. So
if you notice you have a, a little pop ups sometimes it’s where a seam has kicked up
on the back like this right here. So then you can just flip it over and make sure that
these lay nice and flat. Alrighty.
So now we get to do some cutting. And this is the part sometimes that scares people a
little bit. You shouldn’t be scared of this though because this is going to be fun. So
we’re going to fold this together and we’re going to line up our sides right here. I’m
going to fold it in half and in half again. Now you can actually do it all the way one
side if you want, a single fold. This works for me so I’m going to do it but you have
to make sure that it is nice and flat and smooth. So and even. Match up your top. And
then we’ve got that nice and even. And we’re going to make sure we’re even down here.
We’re going to bring this up like this. I like to cut when there’s a little bit
less space, area to cover. Now one of the girls who sews with me, she does not like
that so she’s always trying to make it lay all nice and pretty and do it a little bit
at a time. I’m just too speedy for it. But do what’s comfortable for you. What you’re
comfortable with. So what I’m going to do first here is I’m going to trim off these
selvedges. Now I’m making sure that my quilt is laid up, matched up on my mat. That those
things are lined up. I’m going to pull this out just a little more so I can cut right
on the, right on that line. This is, it’s important to get this cut straight so just,
you know just make sure you’re in a good way there. Alright I’ve trimmed off all
my selvedges in one fell swoop. And then what I’m going to do is I’m going to come over
here and, and this one right here, this measurement right here. This is seven inches and this
is six inches. I want you to remember something really fun. You are the designer of this quilt
so you can make this any size you want. So if you decide you want this narrower, it’s
not going to make any difference at all what size you cut these two. Mine are six and seven.
So I’m going to start here with a, with a six. One, two, three, four, five, six, like
this. And I’m going to cut that. And then I’m going to do a seven right here. And
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Make sure we’re lined up here and make that cut.
Now this quilt is one of those that it’s longer than it is wide so I wanted to add
some wider sashings in there.
So what I did was I took my background fabric and I cut it into three inch strips for my
sashings. That’s these right here. Those are three inches. And so, again I’m going
to take my fabric and I’m going to fold it up like this. And then I’m just going
to come, make sure it’s straight on my mat. Make sure my edge is straight. It looks pretty
good. I’ll clean it up a little, just right, just a tiny bit right here. I’m a, I’m
a big fan of cleaning up that edge. I just want to make sure it’s right. So then I’m
going to come over three and I’m going to cut. And you’re going to, you won’t need
all of them but you’re going to need two for each side. You’ll have a tiny bit of
leftover. So I’m going to cut these out of here like this. And if I move that you
can see the line a little better. Alright so now what we’re going to do is we’re
going to take these two sashing pieces and we are going to sew them together to make
a one long piece. And what I’ve done is, see where the fold is, my fold is, I choose
to call that the right side. There’s no right or wrong side but I always put my folds
together so that I know that I have both of the same sides of the fabric together. And
then I’m, this is not a seam allowance here. I’m going to sew on the other side of the
dots, the little pin holes to make sure I don’t have any selvedge in here. And I’m
going to do that to both of my sets. And you can actually chain piece those together so
it will go really fast. Those little two. And that’s how I do my borders too, I have
my strips and piece them all together. Alright now let’s trim off these selvedge edges
right here because we don’t want all that bulk in there. And one more over here. There
we go.
So now what we’re going to do is we are going to take our piece that’s in the middle,
this piece right here. And it’s the one that’s a little bit smaller. And we are
going to put these strips on both sides. So we’re just going to lay this out right here.
See how long this is. And we’re just going to attach these strips to both sides. And
so I’m going to go to the sewing machine and, oop! You’ve got to cut off your top
selvedge too. So here, because you want that to line up exactly with the top. So we’re
going to put this right sides. Make sure that your seam where you joined them is going the
right way. And mine is not. So it’s a good thing I checked. So we’re going to go here
now. I’m going to line this up. And we are going to sew both of these sides on here and
press them open. So I’m lining them up, making sure I’m at the very top. Alrighty.
Now we’ve sewn down both of our sides and we are ready to trim and press. So the first
thing I’m going to do is I’m going to lay my piece right here like this. And I’m
going to take my ruler and I’m going to trim that off even with the top right there.
Just like that. And I already did that on the other one. You probably saw that in fast
motion. And we’re going to go here to the ironing board and we’re going to press these
back. And you can just roll these back if you want. You can also make sure that your
seam goes in or goes out. In or out, mine is going to go out. Again these seams don’t
match up to anything so, so they don’t have to go a certain way. Really we just want this
nice flat top. So once you’ve got your whole thing all pressed we are ready now to add
it into the quilt.
Now our quilt is set up to go from red down and so this center piece here, we want to
flip that around. So we’re going to flip that around. And then we are just going to
take our big pieces and we are going to sew them on to the sides of the quilt. So this
is my cut edge right here and that’s going to go on this edge, the big piece. I have
so much to manhandle. And then this small piece we are also going to sew on here like
this. So basically what we’re going to do is we’re going to lay these pieces on top
of each other like this. Sew a quarter of an inch down the side, open it up like this.
We’re going to do the same thing to this one, making sure that you’ve flipped your
middle row so that it’s opposite, sew it right down the sides. Once you get those two
seams done, your top is done. And so then we’re ready to add the borders.
So let’s take a look at these. I put a little five inch white border out here. I just thought
it would make this white kind pop in here. And that’s your whole top. So remember again
we only used 32 strips and our extra last few strips, last eight I sewed together for
the binding. So I sent the quilt off to quilting. When I got it back I bound it, and I bound
it with my leftover strips. Now there’s a few things I want to talk about on this
because this is a really cool project and I can see so many ideas for it. So don’t
feel, don’t feel stuck into using a rainbow colored roll. And almost all rolls come in
color families. So as you sew them together they kind of graduate in color and it would
be kind of really cool to flip that one around. This Spin Basics also has like a black, white,
gray roll and I think that would be gorgeous. I also think it would be gorgeous with just
about any fabric line you could do it with. So don’t hesitate, you know if you have
a roll and you want to try this. It will be really fun to see. The other thing is, is
don’t forget you can change your measurements on this because all you’re doing is cutting
out a piece and then you’re sewing it back together. And so it just, and you can decide
if you want this to be a skinny piece or a wider piece. You know whatever you want feel
free to play with that. I love when we get those creative juices going. So this is a
really fun quilt. I hope you enjoyed it. We’re calling it the Stack and Flip because we just
stacked those pieces on, sewed them together and we flipped that middle. So we hope you
enjoyed the Stack and Flip quilt from the MSQC.