Hi everybody, it’s Jenny from the MSQC. And I’ve got a really fun project for you
today. Let’s take a look at this quilt behind me. Isn’t this great? This is a ribbon quilt
right here. Here is the block right here, this is the block. And it’s all made with
half square triangles. And I can hardly wait to show you how to do it. So to make this
quilt what you’re going to need is one packet of background ten inch squares and one packet
of printed ten inch squares. You’re also going to need ¾ of a yard for this inner
border and a yard and half for that outer border. That outer border is 5 ½ inches.
And it’s going to make a quilt that is 78 by 86, about, 87 by 86. Also the fabric we’re
using today is called Garden Splendor. And it’s by Wild Apple Art Design and it’s
for Robert Kaufman. And you can see it’s such a lovely springtime colors and prints.
It’s just really beautiful.
So to make this quilt what you’re going to do is you’re going to take a ten inch
square just like this. And we’re going to draw our lines corner to corner on it. We’re
going to couple it with a ten inch square of print. And then we’re going to lay those
right on top of each other match up your edges and we’re going to go to the sewing machine
and we are going to sew on either side of this line on both sides, a quarter inch away
from the line. So you want to set your, your needle so that it’s a quarter of an inch
away from the line we’ve drawn corner to corner. So let’s do that. And this is a
pretty easy thing to do. I kind of use the edge of my presser foot as my guide and we’re
just going to go right along the edge. And make sure you stay lined up. I got a little
bit wonky but I can still correct that. When you get down here to the bottom you’re just
going to pull it around and go down the other side again. Alrighty.
Now we’re ready to cut our square. I’m going to bring up my rotating mat. That’s
going to make it a lot easier and lay my square on here. What we want to do when we cut this
now is we are going to cut it in half vertically and horizontally. Then also diagonally on
all those lines. Since I have my vertical, or my diagonal lines drawn on I’m going
to, I’m going to start by cutting the horizontal and vertical lines because I can just lay
my ruler along the side and come in five inches because this is a ten inch square and cut
that, just like that. Alright now without moving your blocks we’re going to come over
here and we are going to cut on our diagonal lines just like that. On both sides. And with
this method we are going to get eight half square triangles. So that’s a pretty, a
pretty good use of time and fabric. We’re going to get eight of these. And we’re going
to bring these over to the iron and iron them. I’m going to put this back down. And then
we’re going to iron it over here. Alrighty. Now I like to lay them dark side up and then
just roll them to the back. When I have them dark side up like this I can really just about
set all the seams with one fell swoop. Setting the seams just relaxes that thread so that
it lays back nicer. And we’re going to go ahead and press these. So once you have all
your blocks ironed you’re going to want to make sure that they’re pretty close to
4 ½ and, and if not you’ll need to square those up. I have a little 4 ½ ruler right
here and you can see that I am really close. So you may or may not have to square yours
depending upon how perfectly accurate your seams are. So mine, mine are really pretty
good.
So now we’re ready to lay this out and make this block. Now the cool thing about this
block is that it is made in this row of three right here. And they are all made identical.
They’re just the same three half square triangles sewn together. Now how you put the
color placement on this will determine your pattern greatly because this is a really fun
one to play with using different colors. I’ve made it in several different fabrics and it
just looks so fun when you see what the different colors do with this ribbon, intertwining ribbon.
Alright so we are going to lay these out. And follow your diagram because they’re
all made the same and if you’re like me you get a little turned around sometimes and
we want to make sure that our, our three triangles are going the same direction. So we have one
facing up just like this one. Here this one’s up, this one’s up. This one next to it is
going to be down like this. This one’s down, this one’s down. The third one is also going
to be up like this.
Alright so now we’re going to sew these together. We’ll go over to the sewing machine.
And you want to make sure and keep them in the same places. Start a couple of stitches
on your quarter of an inch. Make sure the bottoms match up and sail down the side. And
then we get to add this last one, just like that. Alrighty. Now you’re going to do this
to all your half square triangles. Just three in a row that lays out just like this. I’m
just going to press these back. And you’re just going to have all your rows all stacked
up like this. Now you’re ready to put your block together. And this is our block right
here. We’re going to turn these so they come together this way. And then we have,
look how we have this ribbon that makes that, that ribbon look. So we’re going to put
these right sides together and we are going to nest these seams right here so let me clip
this thread. So make sure that one of your seams is going one way, one the other. So
that this part right in here, it just lines up real nice with each other. Alright so we’ll
go to the sewing machine and sew this together to make our block. And I’m going to line
these up, make sure they’re set on there. Line them up to my quarter inch line. And
stitch a few stitches and then I’m going to come down here to my first seam where my
seam comes together and make sure that one seam is going one way, one’s going to the
other and that they are nested up tight. So it makes a nice little tight seam. Then that’s
our whole block right there. Those three pieces and they’re all done the same. Turn them
so they form a block like this. This is so much fun. Alrighty, this is your block right
here, right here.
So here’s how it goes in the quilt right here, just like that. So let’s take a look
at the quilt and let’s talk about how we did this because really all we did was sew
these two together. See how now, this continual line right here that’s happening. And it
will happen as we sew each block together. So we have one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight blocks in a row. Because we’ve made them long you know we can do, we’re
doing six rows down but eight across, long ways like that. So it looks really cute and
all we’re doing is sewing the rows together. There’s no sashing, no nothing else, just
these rows. And it makes this. When I saw this row right away I thought, you know sometimes,
sometimes some quilts lend themselves to a second project. For me that second project
was a table runner. I just saw this as a really cute little table runner. And we’ve got
this one here. See how that’s going to look on your table for spring. That’s going to
be so cute. And these are just four blocks that are sewn together end to end to end.
And it makes this darling little table runner. So you can get a little bonus project as well.
I actually even did some out of Christmas fabric for my Christmas gifts. And so it just
makes a really cool project. So just remember all you’re doing is making all your rows
the same, just like this. Lining them up. Watch the diagram. Put two of those together
to make this block. Then just sew all your blocks together and you’ve got an awesome
quilt. And we hope you enjoyed this tutorial on the Ribbon Quilt from the MSQC.
I almost forgot the backing. Now to back this quilt you’re going to need 7 ¼ yards of
45 inch fabric. And look how cute ours is. Thanks for watching, we’ll see you later.