hi everybody it's jenny from the missouri star quilt company and if
you love baskets and you love butterflies you're going to love this week's tutorial
take a look at this quilt behind me look at this fabric isn't this the most vibrant thing you've
seen it's just gorgeous i'm going to show you a quick easy way to make baskets and we are going
to have a fun time with this butterfly border out here so to make this quilt you're going
to need one package of 10 inch squares and we have used a lesion by jason yenter for in the
beginning fabrics you're going to need two and a half yards of a background fabric and we've
used this nice black your border is going to be one and three quarter yards of a border fabric
and your backing is going to be four and three quarter yards of a 45 or two and a half
yards of a 108 you're also going to need some fusible and we have used missouri star solid
fusible and an eight and a half inch squaring ruler will be helpful as well
so to make this quilt we're going to go through our layer cake and we are going to make 37 baskets
so you can choose 37 squares in here they do include some of the butterfly squares in the
layer cake which i actually pulled out because i didn't think they'd make great baskets
and if your butterfly is centered exactly you can use that for one of our butterflies that's in the
corner or on the quilt right here but they're not always centered perfectly so i actually cut
those out of the border so let me show you how to do these baskets because this is really fun
so we're going to take our our 10 inch square and we are going to cut three and
a half inches off of both sides so we're going to cut one this way on the side
three and a half and then we're going to turn this piece and we're going to cut three and a half
just like that then on this one right here we're going to cut a three and a half inch square
like this and it's going to leave you with these two pieces right here now you get two of these
pieces off of every square you cut and so you will get quite a pile of these and i was going
to make a secondary project with these because how cool would that be but i actually just ran out of
time so set those aside for an additional project that you can come up with because it's going to
be amazing all right so this should be a six and a half inch square and it is we're going to set keep
those two colors together and put them over here so once you get your two pieces cut then we're
ready for the background now out of the background we're going to cut for each block one five inch
square and then you're going to cut a rectangle that is four and a half by eight and a half
and so we're going to put those over here and this is the fabric that we need to make our basket
so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to take our six and a half inch square and
we are going to cut it once on the diagonal so just cut it on the diagonal like this
and we're going to set these aside then we're going to take our little three inch square right
here our three and a half and we're going to put it on the five inch square like this
and we're going to draw a line corner to corner
so we're going to draw a line on here corner to corner and we're going to sew right on the line
so let me just get up here and put your
put your presser foot put your needle right on the line you've drawn you can use your
diagonal seam tape on this and just line it up on the red line and just sew it through
now because this is a pretty big piece that we have extra out here i actually sewed another line
about a half an inch away because i can use these half square triangles and if i do that
right now they're already together so i'm going to put this over here in my stack of
we're going to make another project out of this that's going to be really cool because this fabric
is just so gorgeous all right so what we're going to do right here is we are going to go ahead and
press this back and then we are going to cut this on the diagonal through the color just like this
so this is a really cool way to make a basket you guys all right so we're going to set these aside
for now and this is going to be our basket and this is going to be our handle so for your handle
if you cut a strip of fabric that is or a strip of heat n bond that is about six inches wide
you can just trace all your handles on here and so what i do is i rough cut these out like this
just do really rough and i'm going to lay my handle on the back side of i mean on my heat and
on the back side of this fabric right here and you can tell on my tracing it is not perfect
so what we're going to do on here is see how i have this and see how it's not it's not exactly
perfect because i know when i come in with my scissors that i'm going to make it perfect so
i like to fold this in half and i'm going to make sure that my legs line up pretty good like
this and then i'm really just using one side as a pattern and so i'm just going to cut here make a
nice gentle curve like this and this way they both come out identical they're the same size you don't
have a wonky side and a not so wonky side and then this is your little handle right here so on your
four and a half by eight and a half inch rectangle we are going to put this handle on
just like that lay it on here
and we are going to just eyeball that make sure it's on there real nice looks how you want it to
and then we're going to press that down
and then we're going to machine applique around the top of that so you can straight
stitch it you can zigzag it you can you know do a little applique stitch whatever you want to do
my sewing machine is only a straight stitch right here but all my other ones that i've done
you can see they have that nice little blanket stitch that runs around the outside edge that
little applique stitch and it works real well and i used the black thread because if i get
off a little bit on that background i didn't want it to show and so you can just see it just comes
in and takes a little bite out of that handle on both sides so that's a that's one of my favorite
stitches all right now we're ready to make the bottom of our basket so we're going to grab our
triangle right here and then we're going to grab our two side pieces like this that we cut earlier
and these are going to go on here just like this how cool is that and we've
made the bottom of our basket so line this up match these two top edges right here and
sew a quarter inch right down the side you're going to have a hangover down here on the end
and that's what you want so we're going to line these up right here sew a quarter of an inch
and then we're going to press this back
and then we're going to add our other side and
again we're going to line it up on the top edge right here
those two points should match and we're going to sew a quarter of an inch right down that side
so line that up
and then lay this over here make sure you've got a quarter of an inch
and make sure that quarter of an inch stays true all the way down i sometimes veer in a
little bit as i get to the end and and then i just have to sew back over that again
all right so here's the bottom of our basket here's our handle that we've already appliqued
you want to applique your handle before you get your all your blocks together
because it's hard to applique on a giant quilt all right so then we're going to
line these up right here center that up and sew a quarter inch seam right across the top
we're going to press this open
and this is our cute little quick and easy
basket block how fun was that just so quick all right now because we're not perfect we're going
to line this up on an eight and a half inch ruler we're going to make sure that we have
you know no no edges peeking out you might have a little bit here or a dog ear there
it should come out pretty close and your little baskets are done you're going to make 37 of those
so let's talk now about our butterfly blocks which are on here and in the corners and our borders
so you guys this border fabric comes like this let me just show you
so it comes off the bolt like this with look at these rows of butterflies
and you are going to just cut however wide you want your border to be you're going to cut
there and you're going to make your borders and you're going to cut them the length of your sides
you want this to be all one piece i actually thought about mitering the corners at the top
but i never could this is not a great quilt to miter on because i never could get the butterfly
so that it looked like a butterfly once i mitered it so because the mitering didn't work out i went
ahead and my border is ten and a half inches wide and so i cut a ten and a half inch square for
the corner and appliqued butterflies on there now most of these butterflies i want to point this out
most of them are kind of laying over another butterfly another butterfly kind of comes over
it i didn't worry about that when i was cutting them out i just cut it out how it would normally
look and you can't tell the difference and so like this butterfly right here has a has a little piece
down here of another butterfly in it but you don't notice that that's not something that's going to
draw your eye and so i have one going over here let me find it here it is right here and i just
took my square eyeballed it on there and just you know sewed around it as gently as i could now
the little antenna on these butterflies are very tiny so look here see how small they are i went
ahead and cut some background around them so they weren't so tiny i was afraid that if i
cut them too tiny that they they would literally just pull apart and so they didn't and so i made
up the rest of my squares so i have 37 baskets and i have you know 38 39 with these butterflies
so that enabled me to put one two three four five six baskets in the top row and then on the next
row i put one two three four five blocks in there when the rows set in like this it's a four and a
half by eight and a half inch rectangle and so that just sets them in and then of course six
and five and six and five and that gives you all your blocks so i want to talk for a minute now
about the backing take a look at this backing this is a cheater fabric but this backing
is so gorgeous and it looks like you sewed a whole bunch of tiny little squares together looks like
you worked so hard i love this backing and i just think it's a gorgeous back it's a gorgeous line
so again i put a nice big ten and a half inch border on here our quilt pattern is called
flutterbye it's little tiny butterflies that are just floating across the quilt it's so darling
looks really great i love the look of this however i wanted to show you also this is what the baskets
look like on a white background you know so you'd change the whole look of this quilt if you change
the background fabric so don't be afraid to do that make it what you want it's your quilt so
this makes a great size quilt it is 68 by 76 and we hope you enjoyed this tutorial on the baskets
and butterflies quilt from the missouri star quilt company hi everybody it's jenny from the
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