Hi, Itís Jenny from the Missouri Star Quilt Company. You may remember a while ago we did
a tutorial on the apple core. This is what we did. We showed you this darling little
quilt that goes together so easily and wonderfully, but do I ever have something to show you now.
If only we lived in TexasÖyou know everything is bigger in Texas. Look at this big apple
core! We have put together this big apple core ruler, and it is just amazing. Let me
show you how it fits on the layer cake, and let me show you how to do this.
Hereís our layer cake square, and our apple core fits right on here. Because of the size
of it and the ease of the curves, you can cut it out with a regular rotary cutter. So
we are going to take our regular rotary cutter, and we are going to go ahead and cut this
out and show you how this goes together. A regular rotary cutter and it just goes right
around. Of course youíve got to stay on the edge of your ruler. You have to have a driverís
license to run one of these rotary cutters.
Now weíre going to go ahead, Iím going to go ahead and cut this other side. But look,
it just hugs that curve. The curves are so gentle on this, and I love how it sews together.
Wait until you see how easily this goes together. Alright, Iíve got another one cut out here,
and I want to show you this. Weíve put together this layer cake called ìla petite pouletî
by American Jane. Weíve put together a few of these. Weíve done it in this checker board
style. Itís a little bit wrinkly, but isnít that fun! What it will do is it will get these
colors going this way, and the dark colors going that way. Itíll come together so fun.
I want to show you how easy it is to put these together.
When you assemble the apple core, you have to remember that you have your outer curve
and you have your inner curve, and you want to remember that, so what I do is fold them
like this, and I make a little finger crease right here so I know where the middle is.
Youíre going to put your outer curve with your inner curve, so you have to do the same
thing with your inner curve on your other piece. Make a little finger crease, and then
Iím going to pin these 2 together, right sides together, so just like that, and that
helps me remember where my middle is, and Iím just going to put a pin right there.
Iím not going to pin the rest of it, and let me tell you why. When I was sewing these
together, I really had to pin the little ones to keep that good smooth curve going. So when
I started off, I pinned them, and then I realized that they were going together so smoothly
and so easily that I really donít think you need to pin. I like to know where my middle
is, but let me show you how easily this goes together in the machine. Now before I get
there, Iím going to line up this corner. This corner should evenly set in with the
outer corner, so those corners should match, and weíre just going to go over to our sewing
machine, and remember we are going to do º inch, and I am just going to set my foot down
on there, turn everything on, get our engine reved up, and weíre just going to go ahead
and sew this. Iím going to make sure that I stop every few inches and make sure that
these 2 edges are lined up. I get a hold of both of them. I sew four or five stitches
and stop, and make sure those edges are lines up, and keep sliding along here.
Now Iím going to pull out my pin that marked my center, and Iím just going to keep setting
these 2 together, these 2 seams. Sew a few inches, make sure that they are layed down
on top of each other, and weíre just going to finish by laying them exactly on the edge.
Weíve sewn that whole thing; we havenít really had to pin. Look how nicely that went
together. Letís take it over to the ironing board. Look how nicely that lays together!
You donít even have to sew it. This is a quick, fun, afternoon quilt! One layer cakes
makes about a twin size; you put in a black and itís getting twice that big.
I want to show you a quilt I made with this using the spirit layer cake. Itís this one
right here behind me. Letís take a look at this. One of the quandaries of making an apple
core quilt is how to finish it, how to get this edge on here. I figured this out, it
is so easy and amazing, and I want to show you how we did that edge.
Youíll notice I used a solid on here. This solid is the Mota Bella solid. One thing I
love about the Mota Bella solid is that itís the same on either side, there is really now
back or front to it. You can use it for both sides. Iím going to go ahead and press this
really quick so it lays nice and flat, and then Iím going to show you how I did the
edging on this. Itís so easy, itís amazing!
Hereís what weíre going to do. On our ruler, youíll see it has these little half mark
lines. What you do on this is youíre going to lay this ruler, the
middle line on the straight edge of your fabric like this. Then youíre just going to cut
this edge. This will give you half a block. What thatís going to do is give you a straight
edge to put your boarder on. So if you lay that on there, and then weíve got a little
block over here. This is the exact same thing, but we did it on the other curve. We took
our fabric and we layed it here. See, itís on the middle edge, cut it this way, so that
when you go to put this on, you just sew them together exactly as you would the block, then
you just sew down this curve like this, and youíve got a straight edge to put your boarder
on. So quick and so easy!
We hope you enjoyed this tutorial on the apple core quilt ruler from the Missouri Star Quilt
Company and Pepper Cory, who designed this ruler