Hi, itís Jenny from the Missouri Star Quilt Company. Weíve got a really fun tutorial
for you today. When I first started in quilting one of the things that drew me to quilting
was the beautiful Cathedral Window quilt. I fell in love with that! It was amazing,
and I asked this gal who was doing it, how to do it, and as she explained it to me I
thought boy never in my lifetime could I ever do that!
Well then, recently somebody showed me how to do it that is quick and easy. So, Iím
really excited to show you about that today. This is what youíre going to be able to do.
Weíre going to be able to make a quilt that looks like this. So it has the Cathedral Window
look and you can do it in a fraction of the time. So let me show you how to do that. Iím
going to set this over here, so, you can keep drooling while youíre watching.
So, the way Iím going to do this is Iím going to use this circle magic ruler. If youíve
got one great, if you donít you can pick one up at the shop, or if youíre really creative
you can use the circle cut ruler that we have, because what youíre doing is making circles.
So, let me show you how to do that.
This is what the ruler looks like right here, and the markings on it are significant. Youíre
going to lay your ruler, and I did it on top of two pieces of a Layer Cake, you could probably
use more if youíre careful, and the regular rotary cutter works. You just follow around
the edge of the circle, and weíre just going to cut all the way around here. Let me make
sure Iím getting this up. Weíre going to turn it a little bit.
There we go, weíre all clear on that corner. Letís turn it a little more. This is the
problem us leftyís have. Weíre one directional cutters. Alright, let me get that little piece
right there.
OK, so now weíve cleared that off. Now right here youíre going to notice on this ruler
it has these little holes in it and youíre going to want to mark these holes with your
pencil. You can use any pencil this is all going to be on the inside. So, weíre going
to mark these points on here. Just like that. And then weíre going to go in and weíre
going to sew ºî all around the outside of this circle to enclose it and make it a pocket.
So, letís go to the sewing machine and do that.
OK, so what weíve done now is weíve sewn ºî all the way around the outside edge.
Our right sides were together. So, this has completely enclosed this now. This is a completely
closed up circle, and so weíre going to go back here, and I donít know if you can see
on this ruler right here, but where we made the first two dots it says, ìSlit here to
turn.î
So, weíve got our two dots that we made in those little holes right here. Show you again,
and then what weíre going to do is you have to pull the fabric apart because youíre just
going to slit on one layer, and youíre going to make this slit on your top layer or the
layer you want to be in the middle of your fabric. So, Iím going to make a little tiny
cut here. Got to not get that other fabric. This is the part where you have to be really
careful. Letís see, pull that other piece out. OK so I made a little V, and now Iím
just going to cut straight across like this. And then, what youíre going to do, youíre
going to use this to turn it.
So now weíre going to turn it. You donít really need to clip it because itís all an
outside curve. Weíre going to push that through, and then what I like to do is I like to take
the, well you can use your Purple Thang, or your pencil, or if you have a good finger
nail, and just run it along that seam on the inside there to push that out. So when you
go to iron it itíll just make it easy and flat because youíve already kind of opened
up that seam. So, then what weíll do is, weíll head over to the iron, and weíre just
going to iron this flat and make us a nice even circle. So, let me go iron that.
One of the things I do when I iron this is I kind of roll that seam back and forth with
my fingers to make sure that it all comes out to the front edge. A lot of times you
can get a little fold in there, and that wonít be good for this particular pattern. So, I
just kind of roll it, make sure the seam is out to the front, and press right along that
edge. So, you want a nice clean circle, and I think weíve got that.
So, now that we have our circle all ironed, weíre going to lay our ruler back on the
top and weíre going to make it get that circle as close on that line as we can. This part
has to be marked on the front. So, weíre going to take our pencil and mark it on the
front in these four holes right here. So, we have the four holes marked, and then what
weíre going to do is weíre going to watch these marks but weíre going to take a ruler.
So, once youíve marked your dots, what you want to do is take a straight edge ruler and
youíre going to draw a line from dot to dot.
So, here we go, weíre drawing our line here. And what youíre making is a square inside
this, and these will be your sew lines. So, line up our dots, there we go, draw a line.
Hereís our dot, there we go. OK, so what youíre going to do is, youíre going to do
this on all of them. Now for mine I used a Dream On Layer Cake but you could use any
cake this would be darling in anything and for my back piece, of course, we love the
Bella Solids that are already cut, so, theyíre real easy and quick.
So, now that you have your circle ironed, youíve put your dots on, and drawn your line,
the next thing weíre going to do is start making long rows of these. S
o, what weíre going to sew is weíre putting our presser foot right along, this is going
to be our guide, thatís not going to be where we sew. Weíre actually going to sew, if your
foots right along here your going to sew in about ºî just right along here and youíre
going to sew right off the ends. Now youíre only going to do it on one seam because youíre
going to make long rows of these and so Iím just going to pin this together to show you
whatís going to happen. So, weíre pretending Iím sewing, and then this will open up and
then these parts will fold down like this.
Now, I want to show you over here on the finished quilt. Let me just move this. Over here on
the finished quilt you can see, see weíve taken a row, and this is the outside row,
and I left them down. You can fold them up, but I like the look of a scallop so I left
them down, and weíve got where you just sew this seam and you going to sew circles to
it for as long as you want it. Then you sew the next row with the circles together.
Hereís your seam again. Youíve laid it over and then you finally can put this row together
and you just do the same thing. You lay your circles flat like this. Youíre going to sew
right along this line, and then when you put them together this way. Youíre going to lay
them flat and youíre going to sew right along these lines because all your lines are marked
remember, so it just makes it really easy to go ahead and stitch right along that edge,
and then youíll come back later and youíre going to top stitch and sew all this down
right here to make the Cathedral Window look. Isnít that awesome? I mean itís just so
quick and fun!
Anyway, we hope you enjoy this tutorial from the Missouri Star Quilt Company.