hi everybody it's jenny from the missouri star quilt company and
i love this project take a look at this quilt this is our peekaboo jack he looks like he's
just like leaning out to say hello we all love fall and it's here and this quilt is
so easy you will have plenty of time to make this before halloween now i often make a quilt
that i know will look good hanging from my porch and this is one of those quilts this is going to
look darling hanging from my porch the trouble i had in putting this together was gathering
enough oranges and enough blacks the right amounts of both and not having you have to
buy too many different packs of things and so our friends at riley blake put together
these layer cakes of these darling fabrics that you see behind me and they're just perfect for
this and so you'll need two packs of those to do that they also put together this awesome backing
piece that you can buy it's already packaged and ready to go entirely up to you of course
and so let's talk about how you make this so we have this little diagram and basically all you're
doing is sewing squares together until you get to the half square triangles there are 24 half
square triangles on here and let me show you how we did these because i didn't want to cut all my
squares into four and a half inch pieces i wanted to leave them five inches and so what
we're going to do for our half square triangles is we are also going to make those so they come out
five inches so we are going to take our layer cake pieces and we're going to put a black
with an orange and we are going to cut those in two just like this
and then we are going to sew right on the line so we are going to draw a line
i'm going to flip these over because it'll be easier to see the line
so you're going to cut your two squares into five inch squares and we're going to draw the line
just like this corner to corner and we are going to sew on the line so if you sew to either side
your half square triangle will be four and a half which you could do but then you would have to
cut your squares at four and a half because they all have to match and be the same size
so i did mine i left mine at five and what i'm going to do is sew right on these lines and trim
this part off now don't get rid of this because we're going to come up with something amazing
to do with that all of us are i just know it and i may do something amazing and show you
at a later date you know i have that baggy of half square triangles
so i'm going to sew right on the line and i'm going to do that to all four of these
you're going to want to put six pairs together of 10 inch squares
because you need a total of 24.
and one more
all right now what we're going to do is we're going to trim off this side
just like this and if you want to you can go ahead and sew like a half an inch over from
that line and then those little squares will already be sewn together as well
but for the sake of today's video i'm just going to show you how to do this
all right now what we're going to do is we are going to go over to
the iron and we are going to press these open and i'm going to lay the black to the top
so that our seam hides behind the darker fabric
all right and then you're going to do this so you're going to do this to six
sets and then when you put them in what you want to realize is that you can use either side
so it can go this way like this you know or over here it can come like this so you know you'll use
either the orange in or the black in for whatever it is that you're going and you'll need 24 of
those total to make it because we've got some here around the mouth we've got some around the nose
around the side of the eye up here in the corner there's a few and we've used the black to border
it now across the top we've got we've got one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen by one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen 19. so it's 16 squares wide by
19 long we didn't put a border on it we just bound it but look at the binding i asked him i said if i
could have a stripe for the binding i would love it and of course riley blake found a stripe for
the binding and it just looks adorable the backing on this is that nice orange that i showed you
and if you look carefully especially on the black the quilting on this we used was our spiderwebs
quilting and it shows up so perfectly in the black and we used orange thread it makes a great quilt
the size of this quilt is 72 by 85 so it's a great size perfect for hanging on your porch i have
several friends that have birthdays on halloween this would be a great gift for them it's something
that you'll be able to make easily before that day arrives and we hope you enjoyed this tutorial
on the peekaboo pumpkin from the missouri star quilt company hi everybody it's jenny from the
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