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right hi everybody it's Jenny from the
Missouri star quilt company
and I have a really fun project for you
today I'm really excited to show you
this because people have been asking me
for a long time is there an easy way to
do the card trick block this is an
old-fashioned block called card trick
block and I think we've come up with it
so let's take a look at this quilt
behind me isn't this gorgeous it's just
so pretty we've added a little bit of
extra flair with the secondary block
right here and I just love it I can't
wait to show you so to make this quilt
what you're going to need is one roll of
two-and-a-half inch strips and we have
used Twilight tones by Nancy rink for
Marcus fabrics and you're also going to
need some background fabric this white
fabric here and for that you're going to
need four yards and then your outer
border here this is one in three-quarter
yards and it's a little five inch border
for your backing we used 108 backing and
we use two and three quarter yards and
you can see it's just a pretty part of
the fabric line that we've used back
here now this makes a really big quilt
because of the amount of background
fabric and the strip set it makes a
quilt that is 83 by 94 so it's a pretty
good sized quilt and I love a big quilt
I love a bed quilt so let me show you
how to do this the first thing we're
going to do is we're going to get our
strips and I have some strips here and
these are obviously have already been
cut on but from each strip you're gonna
want to cut six four and a half inch
blocks and six two and a half inch
blocks now you're gonna get out of each
strip you're actually going to get six
blocks but it's actually a quarter of
the block so this is the block we're
talking about right here let me get this
one right here and so you have your four
and a half inch piece here and your two
and a half inch piece and you need four
of those to make one block so so again
out of each strip we're going to cut
four I mean sorry six four and a half
inch pieces and six two and a half inch
pieces and I'm going to just match up
some of these and cut one set so I can
show you how to make one block and
actually I'm going to get enough for two
because these are all folded in half
but that's alright alright so here we go
we're counting one two three four and a
half and we're going to cut right here
and I'm going to set those aside and
then we're going to cut one set of two
and a half and this is just for me to
make this block to show you you'll want
to go ahead and cut all your strips all
right I'm going to set these over here
now you want to match every strip every
four and a half inch rectangle with a
two and a half inch square you want to
keep those together so that when you are
ready to put your quilt together you
don't have to go hunting for your pieces
so I'm going to put those together one
of these together like this and then
we've got this one over here alright now
normally I would just go through my
whole pile and just make that happen I
actually think I'm gonna look for a
green one over here and see if I can
find a nice green block instead of three
blues I'll have a little bit more color
in here alrighty there we go alright so
I'm gonna pull that one and I'm going to
have these four right here alright now
the first thing we're gonna do is we're
going to make a four patch so you're
going to take your four squares your
four two and a half inch squares you're
going to decide how you want them and
I'm going to mix mine up like this and
we're going to sew those together so
let's go to the sewing machine and do
that and I'm just you just lay them
right sides together and sew a quarter
of an inch down the side
and I'm going to grab these other two
fold them over and sew the quarter an
inch now I'm going to open these up I'm
going to leave them connected open them
up and just lay them on top of each
other and make my middles match make one
seam go one direction and one seam go
the other all right now we're gonna
press this open you want your Center to
be pretty good because this is one of
those blocks that's an illusion block
and so it you know what it ends up
looking like is a little different than
what it is now what you're going to do
is you're going to take two of your
outer pieces and you're going to match
them up here so I'm putting the red by
here and the green over here just like
that alright and we're going to sew
those on to our square and I'm just
gonna line this up here so it down the
side and one more over here
alrighty
now I'm gonna press these open and I'm
just going to roll them back alright now
what we're going to do is we're going to
take these two pieces and we're going to
put them over here but before we sew
them down we're going to add a two and a
half inch square of the background white
to either side so you're going to need
four two and a half inch squares for
each block that we're making so we've
got one here and one here
like this and we're going to sew these
these two pieces together like this so
let's go so this one over here and we're
just going to put a white square on
either side of our four and a half inch
rectangle and I'm going to grab this one
too and just kind of chain piece them
through and then I'm going to sew white
to the other side alright once you get
these done we want to press them open
and I'm just going to roll that back and
roll this one back and do the same to
this other piece and then we're going to
add it this one to this side and that
went to that side just like this so
you're gonna lay them on you're going to
match those seams and we're going to sew
that together all writing
so when you go to add this on just make
sure that your uh your little seam on
the corner nests up really nice and now
I'll put it on the other side again I
like to take those few little anchoring
stitches and then make sure that my
seams are lined up and when you push one
seen one way and one the other I can
feel with my finger that there's no room
in between all right let me press this
out there we go nice flat block now this
is the card trick block traditionally
the card trick block is made with half
square triangles and quarter square
triangles and it's really quite a bit of
work but the trick is we have to turn
this on point so it actually looks like
the card trick so what we're going to do
is we're going to take our background
fabric and we're going to cut it into
seven inch squares because we're going
to now set this block on point which
means that now it's going to sit on the
point of its block and so what I want to
do is I want to take a seven inch square
and I'm gonna snowball the corners with
my other two and a half inch block so
let me just do that you can draw the
line like that or you can iron it and
sew side to side I'm going to put one on
each on two diagonal corners only two
corners not each corner but only two
corners so we're going to sew right here
side to side then I'm going to flip this
to the other side and sew side to side
you're gonna need two of these for each
for each square two of these blocks
because what we're gonna do is we're
gonna trim these off like this we're
gonna iron them out over here press them
out and press them out and then we're
going to cut our block our excuse me
we're going to cut our block diagonally
just like this so lay your ruler corner
to corner and just cut like this you're
gonna need four of these and we're gonna
attach them to all four sides so I have
another one over here that I already did
and I'm gonna go ahead and cut that now
what I like to do for a little bit of
accuracy as I like to fold them and get
a little crease right here so that I
know exactly where the middle is and I'm
gonna do that to all four of these and
this one here and then you have to do
that to your block as well so fold it in
half and with your fingernail you can
crease both sides and then this one as
well you just need a little mark so you
can see where the center is all right so
now what we're going to do is we're
going to line up our Center marks and
we're going to put one on all four sides
of our of our block like this just like
that so how we're going to do that the
first thing we're going to do is we're
going to attach the two sides and we'll
go to the sewing machine and do that and
once the sides are attached then we're
going to put the top and bottom on so
I'm gonna line up make sure my marks
match up here and then I look over here
as well and make sure there's even
amounts sticking off the block on either
side we're gonna sew a quarter of an
inch down and we're gonna add one on
this side too and this is going to give
us that secondary block so let me look
over here pretty even
alright now let's iron these open be
careful though don't don't press out
your little creases that you made on
your little center blocks alright now
we're going to attach these to the sides
the other sides to finish our block and
now you should notice that your squares
let me show you over here you should
notice that there's not very much hang
over on those squares and so we're going
to sew a quarter of an inch down this
side and we're going to add this one as
well
all righty now I'm gonna press these
back and you've got some pretty good
bunny ears on on those corners so if you
want to trim those off you can what I
generally do is I take a look at my
block and usually it's a little wonky
out here on the sides and so then I'm
just gonna trim it up I'm not actually
squaring it up I'm just lining my ruler
up with my corner blocks and trimming
off that little bit that you know is
going to keep it from being just
absolutely perfect and you can actually
square up your block any size you want
but I like this method you know when you
go to set a block on point there's all
kinds of formulas and it's so much work
to figure out
I must have trimmed that one already oh
here's the one I haven't trimmed it's so
much work to figure out what size block
you need and basically what I did was I
looked at the size of my block and I'll
show you that here just to say so I
looked at the size of my block right
here
it and it is one two three four five six
seven eight and a half and I went I just
went down an inch just or an inch and a
half to seven so whatever size your
block was I just subtracted an inch and
a half and went down to seven and that's
the size I cut diagonally for my blocks
because this is the block you get when
you're all done snow balled in the
corners and we're ready to put it
together now let me show you how that
happens we're going to put four of these
together so you can see how this lines
up here in the middle and it gives you
this secondary little block right there
so you're just going to so um block to
block hook let's turn that one we don't
want the same fabric in there you're
just going to put them so in block to
block together like this and then
together like this and you're going to
do that to your whole quilt so let's
like take a look at how many blocks we
have here we have one two three four
five six and one two three four five six
seven down so we've made 42 of these
great big blocks that are just awesome
and we've hopefully made the card trick
block a little easier for you so we
hope you enjoyed this tutorial from the
Missouri star quilt company
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