Hi everybody, it’s Jenny from the MSQC. And I have a great project for you. This is
based on an old block called Delectable Mountains. And we have made it new and usable by using
pre cuts to do it. Let’s take a look at this quilt behind me. Isn’t this great?
I mean it’s got these great little up and down movement. It makes kind of a sob lady
thing in here. Just so many elements in this quilt and so many things you can do with it.
So to make this quilt, what you’re going to need is one packet of printed ten inch
squares. And we have used Wildwood Way by Florian Finch for RJR. You’re also going
to need 40 ten inch background squares and some yardage. The yardage, your background
yardage is going to put this little border all the way around it. And you’re going
to need ¾ of a yard for that. For the outer border you’re going to need a yard and ¾.
And it’s a 6 ½ inch border. So nice big border. It makes a quilt that is about 91
by 88 so it’s a great size quilt and really a fun project to make. So let me show you
how to do this.
So what we’re going to do is we’re going to take one ten inch square and we’re going
to take one printed ten inch square. Now on our background square we’re going to go
ahead and iron a line that’s going to be our sew line right down the middle. And you
can either iron the line or draw the line. So we’re just going to fold that diagonally,
iron the line. This gives us an ironed sew line. You want to put your printed fabric
down first and you want to put your ten inch square on top of it. Make sure that your ironed
line is going down. If you, if you flip it over, it’s just way easier to sew in the
ditch than it is to sew on top of the mountain. And if you put it the other way that line
is going to come up like this and make it a little harder to sew on. So we have ours
this way and sew a quarter of an inch on either side of that line. And we’re going to go
to the sewing machine and do that. We’re making a giant half square triangle and we
just want to sew a quarter of an inch on either side of that line. So set up your machine
and go right down. Put your presser foot right on the side. Go all the way down, flip it
around and come up the other side. Now you want to be pretty careful about this quarter
of an inch because what we’re going to do, the measurements are going to matter on what
we’re going to do.
So first thing we’re going to do right now is we’re going to cut this in half diagonally
just like this. Right on our fold line. We’re using our fold line as our guide, corner to
corner. And then we’re going to press these open. You’re going to do this to 40 of your
squares, just 40 not 42 but just 40. Like this, I’ll go ahead and do both of them.
So once you get your seams all nice and flat then we’re going to take our two half square
triangles over here and you’re going to want to separate them into two piles. So these
are, you know if I line these up they’re exactly the same but we need to cut them differently
so we have one block coming this way and one block coming this way to form that mountain.
So what we’re going to do is we’re going to make two piles of ours. There will be 20
of these squares in each pile and, and then you’ll be able to cut them. So now we’re
going to cut these into strips. What you want to do because our block is now 9 ½ it is
no longer ten inches, you want to take the finished size of your block and you want to
divide that by four strips. So the finished size of your block divided by four will give
you your strip size. Our strip size is now 2 ⅜. That’s because we want four equal
pieces. Now 2 ⅜ is a little different measurement so what I’ve done here is I’ve taken a
piece of painter’s tape right here and I’ve put it on the 2 ⅜. The ⅜ line is the little
line just before the half. And so this will remind me because I might remember on the
first four but by the time I start cutting them and I’m automatically cutting I’m
going to go right to that 2 ½ . And they’re just going to and if you do that this one
is not going to be the same size. So we want to do these at 2 ⅜ . And we’re going to
cut them just like this. We’ll move that one out of the way. We’ll line our ruler
up right along the edge of that. And you’re going to cut four of these out of each half
square triangle. And you want to make sure your blocks are oriented the right way. So
this one is, so this one is, we want these to go opposite ways. Don’t forget that,
that’s really important. Alright so now what we’re going to do is we’re going
to turn these strips around. So we’re just turning them around right upside down like
this. We’re going to sew these together. And it’s going to make the first half of
that mountain block.
So we’re just going to go over and we’re going to sew these together a quarter of an
inch and I’ve got my quarter of an inch lined up here. You want to be pretty accurate
on these quarter of an inch. You know sometimes it doesn’t matter. On this quilt it matters.
So once you get that done, we’re going to press these open. It’s a good idea for all
of your seams on the back to go the same direction. So I’m just going to lay this on here. Press
from the top, flip it over. And then you’re just going to add the next strip and the next
strip until you have a block that looks like this. I can’t get my fingers under there.
Alright so your block looks like this. You’re going to make four of those. It takes two
from each block orientation to make the block. So let me show you that. Because you want
them to come together like this. And actually we’re going to put our colors together.
We want to put our colors together. That’s what’s so fun about a quilt like this is
if I just turn those the other way they’re going to do a whole different thing. Now one
of the things you have to remember is that these are now taller than they are wide so
you can’t actually turn them. You can’t make a mistake and put them wrong. But you
can do this. So, so what we’re going to do is we’re going to put these together,
four of them like this, just like that. That makes our block. So now what we do is we’re
going to sew a quarter of an inch on this seam. A quarter of an inch on this seam and
then sew the whole middle together like a four patch and that’s going to make our
big block for our quilt. And we’ll just do that to all of our pieces. And
then we’re going to press this out and see what we’ve got.
Alright, oh this is so pretty. Alright our center seam looks good. Everything else matched
up really nice. And this is your finished block right here. Isn’t that fun? Really
fun. So let’s look at the quilt behind me so we can see how we set these together. Now
we’ve got one, two, three, four, five across and we’ve got, because they make such long
blocks, we’ve got five big blocks across and one, two, three, four down. And it makes
almost a square quilt. You know, and just remember if you want yours a different shape
you just add more blocks, just add more blocks. So then what we do is we just sew these together.
And I’ve got some sewn together right here we can show you. So we just sewed four of
these across like this. And look it makes this little diamond in the middle.
So once you get your quilt top all together we are ready to add that first border. Now
the first border across the top and bottom is just a straight 2 ⅜ strip. And remember
we did, we are using 2 ⅜, that’s a little bit different size. But we wanted it to match
our strip size. So also then when you come down the sides we did something a little different,
we put these little cornerstones in here, snowballed our strips so that we could finish
out this little diamond. And it just gives it that little finishing touch. So how we
did that was the very top strip right here is only 9 ½ inches. It’s the width of the
block. That’s the first time we hit one of those diamonds. But the next three pieces
are 18 inches and so what you’re going to do is you’re going to cut your these background
ones 2 ⅜ and then you’re going to cut some 2 ⅜ inch squares off of your two leftover
pieces that you did not use making your mountain blocks. We’re going to sew diagonally corner
to corner. Trim that off, iron that back. So then when we put them together, they’re
going to go together like this. And it’s going to make that outside peak and you want
to do the same thing on both sides. Once you get those on you’re going to add your bigger
outer border. And your quilt is going to be finished.
So we hope you enjoyed this quilt. It’s a fun new way of setting blocks together.
We’re calling it Grand Adventure because it’s just like climbing mountains. And we
hope you enjoyed this tutorial on the Grand Adventure quilt from the MSQC.