hi everyone i am your host misty doan here at the missouri star quilt company and i'm really excited
about this if you haven't seen jenny's tutorial for her pixelated pumpkin that she made much
larger than mine be sure to check that out because it's so cute she made a full quilt of this
and it's just darling but if you know me and you've been around here for a little while you
know i like tiny and i like to make projects small and i also love to decorate for halloween it's
we just love to make costumes and and have the house all festive so i'm always looking
for a quick and easy project to whip up for the holidays and this one is certainly that and so
we have just taken the exact same concept that you see in jenny's tutorial and made it smaller
and i'm really really excited about it we're using the same pumpkin patchwork layer cake
by riley blake this is an exclusive for us here at missouri star quilt company that they helped
us put together to make this pattern so it's perfectly suited and has the right numbers of
orange and black to make this project and by using i know you're looking at this package of 10 inch
squares going like you really use this whole thing no you actually get two of these wall hangings
out of your pack and so you can make one for you and make one to give to a friend which is really
really fun so to begin with you're going to pick nine black squares 10 inch squares and 12 orange
squares from your pack for each of your wall hanging so you can just kind of flip through and
just grab whichever ones you know suits your fancy and then we're going to cut those into two and a
half inch strips and i have some that i've already cut a few strips off of but you can see here they
started out as ten inch squares and we're just going to cut them in to two and a half inch strips
and then we can sub cut these down into our two and a half inch squares by stacking them
and just using our ruler and cutting across this way and i love our missouri
star rulers that we have because they're perfect if you're working for pre-cuts
this is exactly two and a half inches wide so we know we can just use edge to edge on the ruler and
we've got our two and a half inch squares ready to go so you're going to cut your nine black squares
all down into two and a half inch squares and your 12 orange squares down the exact same way
and next up we need to make some half square triangle units and so we're going to take um
we need 24. so of all the the squares that we cut up we're going to take 24 orange
24 black and on the back of the orange you're going to want to either press a line draw a
line or if you have the diagonal seam tape like i have here on my machine when you're working with
two and a half inch squares it makes this really really quick and easy and so i'm going to go ahead
and just grab a few sets to get these going and we're just going to put them right sides together
and we can just mix them all up because we want this to be
scrappy so i'm just going to grab a few and we're going to chain piece these at the machine
because it makes it so quick
there we go i've got a few ready here and then i'm going to take my stack over let me show you
real quick if you do want to press a line you're just going to want to press back this direction
it's much easier to sew in a valley than it is on a peak and so by pressing wrong sides together
when we open this up we've got a little valley that our needle can run in and that will make it
much easier but like i said i am just going to use my diagonal seam tape and i'll explain that to you
as well so let's take our little pile over here to the machine remember you're going to have 24 of
these sets i just grabbed a few to get us started and we're going to line up corner to corner
and we're going to sew right on that press line so just right on the line and so you can see
i've got this point right in line with my needle and i can just sew right down
now i'm not even going to trim my thread i'm going to take my next set
and i haven't drawn a line here but you can see same idea i'm going to put this point
right there under my needle and you can see on the diagonal seam tape here the opposite point
is going to be lined up with this red line on that tape and if i keep the point on that red line
the entire time it's going through the machine i know i'm going to be sewing exactly point to point
and so i love this diagonal seam tape you can see i'm just keeping the point on that line as i go
we're just going to keep doing a few more and this is called chain piecing
there we go
i just want to get enough of these done that we have a good start on laying out our cute
jackal on her face so we're just going to keep on going
just want to make sure they stay lined up
just a couple more here
and the last one
there we go and now we can cut all of these apart
you can use the cutter on your machine or your scissors
and we're going to go ahead and trim off leaving a quarter inch seam
so i'm just going to use my ruler and my rotary cutter and if you wanted to go back and have
some tiny half square triangles you absolutely could and do another line of stitching on those
otherwise these are just waist so we're just going to go through and trim all of these off
there we go
that's one of the things i love about chain piecing is it makes the process
so quick because it's kind of like assembly line style you can sit and sew
one after the other and then we can sit and cut one after the other and so
i find that when i do things this way i have less mistakes because
i kind of just get into a routine of what the next step step is instead of going through the whole
process every single time so now we can take these over to our pressing mat and we're going to press
these i actually want to put my black squares up because i like to press to the dark side so we
will roll these back you can see how cute these are in all their different fabric combinations
make sure you've got a nice hot iron
we're just going to press these back
all right voila they are ready to go so now the magic of this is all in the layout so you can
either follow along based on the quilt that i have behind me you can follow jenny's tutorial but we
also have a really great little diagram that you can print off and it will show you exactly where
your black and orange squares need to go as well as your half square
triangle so let's just go ahead and start laying this out and we can start to see
the magic come together so i'm just going to start in the very top of my diagram which i know
is a black square and then i have two orange squares underneath
and a half square triangle with the orange pointing up and a solid black
and another solid black
and then that's going to be the bottom of the eye and so i'm just you would continue
all the way down but i'm just going to keep going across so you can start to see the eye
forming and so we're going to repeat that same thing we've got a black at the top some orange
and then our half square triangle goes the other direction here
starts to form the little tip that you see here at the top just like
that that's where we're working and then we've got two more black squares below it
so we've got one here and one here and i love that it's scrappy because you don't have to
worry about it i just kind of try to make sure i don't have the same two fabrics next to each
other that's really all i am watching for and so then again we just have another row
and because we have this angle going down we can add one more solid orange in there
and then we bring in our half square triangle down there and a black right there and you can see how
quickly this is all going to come together it's just all in the layout and it's actually 1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 rows across by 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 down and that is it it is so simple you can see it's all in the layout
and once you do that you're just going to you know separate your rows and add one square
after the other which i can show you here we're just laying our two and a half inch squares and
when i'm doing a project like this i actually usually like to use like a post-it note or if you
have pins for marking your rows this is a great project to use that on and so i always start this
is just the way my brain works there's no right or wrong so remember that i always start with the top
left is my row one and i always you know mark that top square so i know i'm always starting there
and so that's i would you know have a post-it note with one on it and i would stack up that
whole row all the way across and i would do that with all 19 rows going down so then i can pick up
row one and know that i can just take the top one and add one after the other as i go to sew that
whole row all the way across and then i'll leave that number one on that first square
so that when i go to put it back together it'll go down this way one two three four and again i don't
have any confusion when i go to sew all those together because sometimes on projects like this
that's where it gets tricky and so having those little tricks to help us remember to keep things
straight as we're moving from our cutting board or our design wall to the sewing machine is really
what makes it so much easier and more enjoyable so you can see how it all comes together with
just our simple squares and half square triangles and so it measures 32 by 38 and
i use this really cute ghost pattern you might be able to see it a little better on the back
just these little ghosts in the quilting that is just perfect for it so this is a great fun quilt
again if you haven't seen jenny's tutorial for the full size version be sure to check that out
and thanks again to riley blake for this awesome exclusive fabric pack that we have
here at missouri star because it's perfect for this project so happy sewing and happy halloween
and i hope you guys have a great day from the missouri star quilt company
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