Hi, itís Jenny from, the Missouri Star Quilt Company.
Weíve got a fun tutorial for you today.
This is one thatís been asked for and asked for and weíre going to teach you how to do
the scallop edging on the edge of a quilt.
This is the ruler I use.
There are lots of rulers out there.
Theyíre all probably fine.
This is just the one I use.
We have it available here in the shop itís from Quilt In A Day.
What I like about it is it can help you do vines, the wavy border, or the scallops.
So, itís three different uses.
OK the first thing weíre going to do is measure our quilt.
We have this darling little quilt.
This is made with three Charm Packs from Rural JardÌn.
I hope I said that right Iím not French you know, but this is adorable quilt, we have
a small border on it and weíre going to scallop the edges.
So, when you open up this ruler, you get a little book inside, and the book is really
helpful because it gives you all kinds of information and tells you exactly how to do
it.
It just takes you through it step by step, and so, weíre going to go over here to the
part on the scalloping and this is the table that you use.
So, the first thing we do is we measure our quilt.
This quilt measures 60î by 52î.
The next thing it tells you to do is subtract 4î from each measurement, and you donít
have to remember that because itís in the book.
So, when you get your new measurement which 60î from 4î is 56î you just go down the
side of this table right here when you get to 56î it tells me that I can do seven 8î
scallops.
So itís like set out for you so it makes it really easy.
Now let me show you how we mark that.
The first thing youíre going to do now is youíre going to draw a
diagonal line on your corners, and you just do this from the corner to the edge of your
block youíre going to draw a diagonal line.
I just go ahead and do it in pencil.
Thereís your line right there, and you do that on all the corners.
Then youíre going to take your scalloping template, and right here you can see it says
scallop, line up with the edge of the quilt.
So you put this line right on the very edge of your quilt.
Now remember it said we were going to have 8î scallops so what Iím going to do is Iím
going to put a little piece of, this is a post it note but you can use painters tape
to help me remember where my 8î scallops are.
Right there, and then weíre going to put this corner of this 8î here even it on the
top, and then right to the edge of this scallop.
What this is going to do is give you that nice curve for the corner.
So, then weíre going to go along here and you can mark it with a pencil or you can pin
it every 8î.
I like to do this before I draw it out to make sure that it fits.
If thereís any discrepancy in your placement itís easiest to come in from the edges and
make up that little difference middle.
So, weíre just going to pin along here on the eights and see how it works out here.
There we go.
Alright, so thereís another one, pretty sure this is going to go all the way over to the
edge.
Going to grab some pins here.
Alright here we go, is our next one, and see how we just use that little edging of that
tape on there, and whatís so easy is that it just tells you in the book how many you
need.
You donít have to figure it out.
You know, I used to use a half of a plate, or a cup, but you just never know if
thatís going to work out perfectly, and this just works out perfectly.
So, there we are at the eight and see how it just comes right to the edge of, this is
our corner again.
Got to line it up here on the top.
Donít forget that.
And itís going to go, right there.
So, now what weíre going to do is we go back.
Because we know this is going to fit, weíre going to go back like this, and weíre going
to line it up again using our pin marks, and our edge marks and weíre going to draw in
that line.
Remember you do this all after your quilt is quilted and ready to go.
Then weíre going to draw this all along here and see how that scallop is taking place now.
Make sure your line stays lined up on the edge, and this is the only, or one of the
few edges that you actually really need a bias binding for, because when it goes around
the curve you need that bias.
So that it can bend and it doesnít have the folds in it.
Itíll just lay really easily.
Alright, weíve got the whole side done here, and weíre over to our diagonal line.
Then weíre going to come around this corner and weíre still keeping our line even with
the top weíre going to come around the corner and weíre going line it up with this, Iím
going to take that off right here, see where this line is?
We move this so that the 8î is right there matched with that line, pull this up, there
we go.
You just got to get those lines right, you want to have a nice corner, and then you can
draw it in.
Then, now before you want to go down this line you want to do the same thing and mark
your 8î all the way along here.
For the use of this weíre going to go ahead and trim this out and show you how that looks.
So, we just finished all the tracing and as you noticed I used a regular number two charcoal
pencil not generally the best thing to use on your fabric but it shows up well for the
camera, but I wanted to show you some of the things we have available at the shop.
Weíve got some great marking pencils.
This is one of those fun ones that you can carry that has the different leads, and these
kind of things.
These are generally better they wash out very well and very quickly, but we needed to show
it for the camera.
So now weíre going to trim it out, and this is sometimes a scary thing for people because
youíre trimming on your finished quilt, but itís necessary.
So, we just come right along this line right here, and weíre just going to trim this out
right to the edges, and you can see the scallop taking shape.
Isnít this going to be darling!
Once you know the size of those scallops you can just go ahead and mark all the way around.
OK, so weíre going to finish cutting this and Iíll show you how to put on that bias
binding.
OK, so here we are at the corner and weíre just going to go ahead and trim right around
this corner here.
The middle of your scallop should hit this diagonal line and if it has a little bit of
a peak you just want to round that off so you have a nice corner.
Let me turn this, so I can get to it with my left hand there.
Weíre just going to come right around there, you clip up to those edges.
There we go, keep going all the way around till itís all trimmed.
OK, so we made this binding using the continuous binding method for the bias.
Weíve ironed it in half.
Itís just a 2 Ωî strip and we ironed it in half and I like to start my binding on
a scalloped edge, someplace inconspicuous, so I wouldnít start on the corner, but Iíd
start it kind of in the middle here and you just put it on like normal.
So weíre going to slide it under this foot, and because the bias binding has a pull to
it, it moves a little easier, you can just move it around these curves, and I just want
to show you, I donít do any tucking on these curves.
What I do is I get down here, I kind of let my needle be in the down position, I lift
up my foot and Iím going to turn the whole quilt and then just pull that bias around
it.
So, I donít do any tucking or anything like that.
Weíre going to go around this.