hi everybody it's jenny from the missouri star quilt company and i am here today to share with
you a fun project this is the pattern brightly and it is made by designer alison harris for
cluck luxo and every once in a while i see a quilt and i'm just like oh i have to make
that and then when i saw how she made it and it fits so well with the kind of things i do
i asked her permission to actually do a tutorial on this so run don't walk to get your copy of this
pattern because it is a great pattern really fun really easy and i get to show you how to do it
so let's look at the quilt i love anything that chains you know how these chain i love that how
it chains i love stars and i just i just think this is the cutest cutest block so it's made up
of two blocks and uh here it is right here is star block and then this intersecting block right here
and it's just as cute as it can be so let me show you how to do this so to make the
brightly quilt you're going to need one packet of 10 inch squares and we have used magic colors 10
by wilmington essentials you're also going to need two and a half yards of background fabric for your
backing you'll need four yards and you're going to need the brightly patterned by cluck klexo
so let's open up her pattern and see what she says now if you guys know me at all you know typically
i am not a pattern reader but she writes patterns for the both ways people learn her graphics are
incredible so i always say i quilt my picture because if i can look at the picture and figure
it out then that's what i'm doing and so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to take
a layer cake square 10 inch square now her pattern is written for fat quarters
and pre-cuts and of course i use pre-cut so that's what i'm going to show you and 23 of your 10 inch
squares you're going to cut into four and a half inch squares so let's go ahead and do that we'll
get some of those right here and so what i'm going to do is i'm going to lay my ruler on the edge
like this and i'm going to come in four and a half inches
like this and then cut one more piece four and a half
and then i'm going to stack these
and then cut four and a half again so lay it my my half inch line is right here on this edge
there's one and there's two right here and you're going to do that to 19 of your squares just like
that i'm sorry to 23 of your squares the other 19 you're going to take and you're going to stack up
and you're going to cut those all into two and a half inch squares and basically
if you cut this just right you'll get two and a half strips out of the whole thing like this
and you're going to do this to 19 of the squares
oops i wavered a little right there i'm just going to go back and kind of correct
that and then i'm going to stack these on top of each other like this
and then i have four stacked on top of each other
and i like to use my little my my little ruler for this and i'm going to go two and a half like this
and two and a half and of course you can do it this way too
it's a very versatile little ruler all right so then you have piles of these and you have
piles of those and you're ready to start putting your blocks together
so we're going to start with this star block and you can see right here how it fits
now one of the things i want you to notice is that because this is a separate block
you literally can put anything in here and allison recently did a quilt with pumpkins
inside there and it's just so cute so think of outside the box on this
because this block literally could be anything so this block is made up of a star and then
four corner blocks i'll show you how to make the corner blocks first it's like this so you're also
going to need to cut some background fabric you're going to need some five inch squares
some two and a half inch by four and a half inch rectangles and some two and a half inch squares
so what we're going to do is we're going to pick one of our two and a half inch squares and we're
going to pick another two and a half inch squares and we're going to sew those together like this
and so quarter inch right down the side and then we're going to attach it to a two and
a half by four and a half inch rectangle and that's going to go along the side like this
and we are just going to make those
and then we're going to press this open and you're going to make four of these one for each corner
this block right here so you'll make four of those all right so now we're going to make the star
we're going to take four of our five inch squares like this i'm sorry these are probably four and a
half aren't they okay so we're going to take four of our four and a half inch squares like this
we're going to choose one of the four and a half inch squares that we have
cut from our layer cakes for the center block and then we need some star legs and you're going
to need eight two and a half inch squares for your star legs so i will use this little pile
of orange right here and what we're going to do is we are going to snowball the corner of this
four of these on the corner this is going to make our star legs so
we're going to do that to four of these squares snowball the corner
and let me get going on those so i'm going to actually sew corner to corner using my
diagonal seam tape right here which by the way allison also invented the diagonal seam tape
and so it's kind of fun to have those two projects come together so we're sewing across this
using our diagonal seam tape now you can draw the line you can iron a line
whatever you want just so that you get from corner to corner pretty straight
we've got one more here
like this
and then you're going to do one more as well so you're going to do four of these
and i'm just going to do one to show you how they work
and then i'm going to show you how to put these together because i've already made them
all right so i'm going to trim this edge off right here like this and we're going to press this back
now to get the star leg we're going to add another piece and we're just
going to snowball the other side right like this
and this will give us our star leg
all right let's trim it off
and press it back now you're going to need four of these so let me show you how this goes
together because i have some made here i have four corner blocks that look like this one two three
four and ours are scrappy let me see where's my other one here it is and then we kept our
star legs the same so we have four of those this is just where we snowballed the corners
and then here's our middle block so what we're going to do is we're going to put this together
like this i like to put my middle out then i'm going to put my star legs around it like this
and that's going to make our star and then the corners are going to come in here
and the color is going to go to the outside because that
kind of assists the chain the secondary block in chaining so this way out here and like this
so then what we're going to do is we're going to pick up row one and sew these together
and we're just going to line those up sew a quarter of an inch
down and then this one as well remembering that your colored square is on the outside
yeah if you turn that color square to the inside it's a whole new something
all right there's that now we're going to pick up the next row
which means we're going to sew two star legs to either side of that center block
like this
and then our bottom row we're going to sew our outside corners to those center star legs as well
remembering that the color stays to the outside
and then this one i always have to check because otherwise i did get a few of them turned around
you know you get you give it a you know rope sewing you're just sewing along and you're not
thinking and all of a sudden you're like oh snap that should have been on to the outside
all right so lay it and check it again and then we'll sew these three rows together now
you'll notice i haven't pressed them and that's because i want to make those seams
i want to make them nest and so i'm going to turn my the center seam block to the middle
and make sure that this one is turned that way as well
and then i'll press the whole thing when i'm done
all right so there's those two and this one over here
again i'm remembering that my center seam goes to the middle
to the middle it has to be coaxed sometimes but you are the boss of it
all right
so here's our little finished block and we'll press that so it's nice and flat
and just like that you've got this darling little star
and i'm going to press these out so they lay nice and flat look at that how cute is that
all right so let's talk about this next block for the next block you're going to choose five squares
that you've cut into four and a half and so we're going to go with a green
and a blue a pink and an orange and then maybe we can put this dark green in the center so these
go on the corners like this and then one of these goes in the middle like this i'm gonna put my pink
one right in the middle all right now these little blocks that go in the center these are made up
of a two and a half by four and a half inch rectangle which i have right here
and then two little pieces two little two and a half inch squares that are scrappy
and so we're just going to sew four sets of these together and so let me get one
two and you wanna try to keep them different from the fabrics that you have out three
four and i'll just sew a few of them so that um you can see how i do this i chain pieced these
and uh so you're gonna sew two like this
and then we'll sew and i just kept putting my two inch squares together
i did it by block you can actually do the whole quilt if you want to
count them up and figure out how many of these to do but um
it's just easy once you get sewing a certain thing it's easy to do all of that one thing
all right so now we have these two that are sewn together and we are going to add them
to a two and a half by four and a half inch rectangle and sew right down the side
like this and so this block you're going to need four of to make the second block
so let me just go ahead and iron this nice and flat and so then these are going to go color in
to the middle like this all right so i have some of those cut out over here i mean already sewn
together over here so we're going to put this we're going to have all right so i'm going to
finish these other two up so that we can finish up our block and i'm just going to press those back
and then we will add them to our two and a half by four and a half rectangle
all right here we go
and one more
all right so let me press these down
and i think this seam is going to want to go the other way so lift this up this way
all right so now we just face these toward the center like this and that secondary block is done
so again we're going to do the same thing we're going to sew these corners together
three rows of three it's like a giant nine patch with different blocks in there
all right there's that one now this center block has
the two uh the two little two and a half inch square blocks to the middle
like this
and then here's the bottom row
this was really such a quick fun pattern to make
i mean i just really loved it and i love the idea that anything can be in that secondary space
i love that she's already done one with pumpkins in it that is so fun to me
all right we're going to turn that middle seam to the inside and on this both sides
and nest up our seam
on this bottom one over here we'll add it
turn that one in
all right now let's press this one
so cute and such a simple block but when you put them together the effect is just
stunning really stunning all right so let's look at how these go together on the quilt
we've got two star blocks on the top and the one two three of the setting block the secondary block
the chaining block and then we start with the star chaining block star changing block star
so just alternate them when you put them up we've got one two three four five six rows across five
in a row so 30 blocks this makes a quilt this makes a quilt that is 60 by 72 so it's a great
size quilt no border on this one just our binding and the backing back here is just this cute little
kind of blue cloud sky looking fabric and we quilted it with stars and loops
really cute but wait i've got to show you i loved this so much that i couldn't wait to
see what it would look like in another fabric so of course christmas is getting close and so
i wanted to make it in christmas maverick natalie can you come help me hold this up
natalie's going to join me for a minute here so look how cute this is
look at this now i love a border you guys know i love a border so i added an inner border and
an outer border and that does change the size of the quilt it makes it bigger but i also want you
to notice that in the center of my stars and in the center of my secondary chaining block
i fussy cut little things in there this was a line isn't it so cute this was a line that uh
lent itself to a little bit of fussy cutting and i just thought it was really really cute
so if you want to make one like mine i added an inner two and a half inch border and an outer a
five inch border on it i used the snowflake wind a quilting pattern on it and of course this line had
a cute little binding with a stripe in it which i just think is adorable the backing is that
christmas plaid that is just so fun and you can you can really see the quilting on that back so
pretty so i just really love this pattern i love the name i love how well it's written the graphics
on it are just beautiful and for those of you who are pattern readers it'll work great for those of
you who quilt by picture like me we can do this pattern and so i just think it's really fun i'm
really grateful to allison for letting us use it and show it and i hope you guys have fun i think
this is going to be really a great addition to all your quilting things so we hope you enjoyed this
tutorial on the brightly quilt from the missouri star quilt company hi everybody it's jenny from
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