hello there you're here because you want to learn how to make a crumb quilt I
made this shelf specifically just for all of my scrap fabric and each of these
boxes here represents the different colors that are inside of the little boxes
I'm a very visual person so writeing the names on the outside of the boxes isn't
too good especially when they are on such a high shelf so I color code all of my scraps
into their little box so I know if I pick one box it's gonna be red I pick
another box it's going to be yellow so that's how I organized all of my scrap
fabrics so I'm going to get started on making my crumb quilt and this box is
obviously my orange box I am going to focus predominately at first on getting
rid of some of my overfill and scraps so I'm going to take this one and let's get
started on the crumb quilt I highly recommend that you have an iron near
by so get that plugsed in so I specifically want to focus on a lot of
my tiniest scraps or pieces of fabric that I know I'm not going to use stuff
that I've bought and it's like I just never used it so I am gonna put this
on I might be able to cut a bit off this get this used up maybe I should get
this used up so I'm going to get all of my bits that I want to use and then put
my other sections back so I can have everything all nicely lined up ready to
go I'm going to get my first pieces and I'm just gonna press them get that one
and you're gonna get another one and then the priority is with this is that
you've got some straight lines a crumb quilt is basically just a scruffy quilt
it's another word for a scrappy quilt so you're going to get these two here
and you are going to now sew these seams together so the priority
is just to always have a straight line so I'm going to go over to my sewing
machine and I'm going to keep all my settings on the straight stitch it's
telling me the J foot because my machine always tells me what foot to use
and these gray blocks here means that it's just a factory setting of whatever
they've decided to to use for the width and the length and the tension now the
needle that I have set up is a 90/14 needle I generally use the micro Tex
needle and also I'm gonna use my quarter of an inch foot with guide this
quarter inch foot is really useful and I generally use this a lot more than I use my
J foot because it helps me get my quarter of an inch seam and your fabric
pushes along here making sure that you have a quarter of an inch it's an
amazing foot so like I said I always use it. Don't get overwhelmed by your thread
choice I generally just use a common polyester thread and this is going to
have many different colors in it and I'm just going to use a white so use a white
or a grey and you should be good to go so I have my two seams lined up in my
sewing machine and we are ready to sew
now you're just gonna open your seams up and you are going to press so you can
choose to press to the lighter side most quilters press to the darker side so you
don't see that seam on your lighter fabric and other quilters will open the
seam up and press the seam open it's totally up to you as a rule of thumb
I'll generally pressed my seam to the darker side of the fabric let me know in
the comments down below how do you press your seams now this is where the fun
really begins we're gonna cut this end off right here so I'm just gonna line my
quilting ruler up and I'm gonna take this end off now remember all we are really bothered
about with making this Crumb quilt is that we have a straight line so if you
want to start cuting pieces left right and center that is really fun and play
with it seriously it's gonna be great so there's many ways we could go with
this we could put another piece here and have a piece here another down there
that's a bit boring tell you what we're gonna do we are gonna literally
take my ruler and I am going to cut and I'm going to take my next piece and I'm
going to attach it right on this side this is going to be truly your own
creation have fun with it and in theory I have two sections to work from now so
and we'll get my little scrap pieces of fabric and start building off these two
sections if you like me and you do applique work you're gonna have sections
that look like this and no worries all we need to do remember is create that
straight line so we're gonna create a straight line somewhere on this piece
and I've also got this straight piece here so I'm just gonna cut this little
tail off make a bit more prettier and I've now got this straight piece here
and also a straight piece that comes along here so now I can get my first two
that I had and put them right sides together remember we're always building
right sides together and I don't know if this is going to be too small this may
have to wait for another section I don't think this is gonna fit oh maybe it can
go there I think I can sew that lets go and sew this. Then all we do again is
open these sections up and then we're gonna press them so we're basically just
making our own pattern and we're doing it all freehand and as long as you
choose like fabrics within the same color family or like contrasting its
going to look really cool so I'm gonna let you guys stay with me while I
continue to build these blocks. That's where we're going to go we're going to
build a block size up to about six inches square and you continue to look
at your pieces and make sure like this portion here we need to straighten this
out we always have to work from a straight
line so you may still get some scraps from this and their might be pieces that you
will not be able to use like this so I'm just gonna put these in the garbage or
you could use this as filler inside of pillows whatever you use your little
tiny tiny bits for but I don't keep these I'm just gonna garbage these so
I'm cutting this piece here so I'm gonna make
three pieces out this one and then I need to just straighten this up you're
always making sure that you have a straight line and then I'm going to
place this piece here and I'm going to sew right across and I'm not gonna worry
that he's too long for this piece because I can rectify that later on so
as long as I have the two straight pieces I am good to go
and I'm gonna put this piece. So you should really Iron them so they're not
creasing I'm just gonna press this down
make sure I have a straight edge next to and another straight edge it
doesn't necessarily have to be the same size because we rectify that a bit later
on take these two pieces back over to my sewing machine and sew these seams
into place so you can see how this crumb quilt is gonna come along quite quickly
so let's say that you're sick of doing some quilting patterns and you just want
to get rid of all of your scrap fabric this is the perfect project for you
create a crumb quilt a scrappy fabric quilt
they are so fun and at the end of the day these are fabrics that are your
favorite fabrics that you've chosen from the store and you're gonna have them
pieced in a cute little manner I'm gonna keep building these two sections until
they get to six inches or it's probably gonna be over six inches I want to
square them off to 6 inch quilt blocks so I'm probably going to build them to
about 7 inches squares so another thing when I do on my pieces is I constantly cut
edges at each sides so I have different sizes to choose from out of my scrap
boxes so if all these different size edges on this one and I have bigger
edges on this one if you're finding that your quilt block isn't looking scrappy
enough like you're getting two big sections of fabric like this what you
can do is just cut through it don't be scared just start cutting and then use
this section in another part of your block if you have smaller pieces just
join them together like I did add these little squares and then what you can do
is cut them at an angle so they don't look so uniform and then join them to
your other section but originally I said I was going to do a six-inch block I
actually got to do a 10-inch block because I think it looks amazing
and I really want to show it off and I think if I just stopped a six inch of
piece it would be really small so I took this up to a ten inch block so
you're gonna want to do at least 11 inches all the way around because we're
going to square this up now and what you may find is that you'll have pieces like
this it's just thread while you've pieced
everything bits of frayed fabric so we're just going to tidy this up with some
applique scissors. So these here are really cool they go down a bit
so you can get down inside applique and they're really good for projects like
this so I'm just gonna get my threads and I'm just gonna cut away and make
everything tidier and I'm also gonna make sure that I press this walk down so I'm
going to get my square ruler out and it goes all the way up to a twelve and a
half inch square and I'm going to square this up to a ten inch block and the good
thing about this is that it's see-through so I can see exactly how
it's going to look like when I'm finished so first of all get a straight
edge so I'm just gonna cut along here and I'm gonna get a straight edge and
then I'm gonna turn my fabric around and I'm going to get another straight edge
so it's gonna be two straight edges one at either side what we're going to do
next is square up this quilt block and I'll zoom up close so you can see what
I'm doing so there's two straight edges that we cut are here and I've lined
up to this tab so this is a ten inches this way and 10 inches the other way and
I clearly have an overhang of fabric on the other side so this bit here and this
bit here overhangs to ten inches that we want for our block so I'm just gonna
make sure again that we're on ten and ten and on this other side all I'm going to
do is chop and then on this side I'm just gonna cut this so I'm going to end
up with a ten inch Block
then I'm gonna do the same thing with this block I'm going to make sure that I
press it and then I'm going to cut off all these little bits here and then I'll
square this block up to a 10 inch block also so what we're going to do first is
make sure that we have our two straight edges so I've got a tiny piece up here I
may need to have a new Blade to my rotary cutter and I'm just gonna line it
up on my cutting mat again to make sure that I get a straight y line we're going
to line it up with the ten inches by the ten inches and we're going to cut that
either side of the block making it that perfect 10 inch quilting block there we
go so as you can see here I've now got four blocks you can carry on and make a
huge quilt out of these I'm just going to use these four blocks as an example and see
how different they look like these this creamy color to this orange block you
can make it look absolutely amazing and what I would say about doing these is
try and keep them within the same color groups because I think it looks ten
times better so all orange and all whites and it
doesn't look as fussy then all I do is put these two back sides together and
start creating our quilt so I've got many how-to tutorials on how to do
different quilts and I have one on how to do a square quilts block quilt and
that will be the one that you would watch in order to know how to put these
together I hope you've enjoyed watching this video and don't forget to hit that
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think, are you gonna give it a try?
It's really effective and as always thank you
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