Layer Cake Quilt - Quilting Made Simple how to make
Layer Cake Quilt - Quilting Made Simple
track hi I'm Jenny from the Missouristar quilt company today I want to talk to you about aquick awesome easy project the layer cake quilt when a desiredesigns Allina fabric there's about
fabrics in that line and what they do is they put it togetherin these packets called layer cakes their cut into a inch square and eachlayer cake is has about two and three-quarter yardsof fabric in it and so wanna make a twin and two well you're getting the queen size rangethere so they're get really big really fast and they're so simple let's take a lookat this club behind me this club is made using circuit fabricby Jennifer patch in LA for Westminster and it's just bea utiful and basically all you'redoing is sowing squares together so what you're going to want to do isopen up your layer cake and you're just going to lay it all outfirst layer cakes are generally they'll have lights and darks in them soyou wanna make sure that you have all those a good mix of those see don'thave all your ducks in one side Night Lights you know that they're just mixedup and you don't have any too that are thesame next to each other and you're gonna lay out your rose so ifyou have one layer cake that's forty two squares that equal six squares across the topand seven squares down the side seven rows so then you're just gonna layit out and you're gonna start sewing togetherso what we're going to do this so I'm togethers we're just gonna put two squares right sides together and we'regonna so quarter-inch seems everything including us down the quarterfinancial and I'm gonna show you how to do that right now well head over here to the sewingmachine and we just so straight down the one-sided a quarter finance it and just so you know and a quarter of aninch everybody's quarter of an inch is is a little bit different it's kindalike a fingerprint that's why you start a project on one machine and finish iton my machine and it's also why if your friend helpsyou so blocks they'll probably be a little different size because everyone's quarter-inch it'sjust a little different so we're gonna set this team and we're gonna roll back are to blockso you have a nice flat seen and you're gonna do that all the wayalong for a top row in a second row and so on and tell you finish your quilt now thissmall party here is a two and a half inch strip and its gonna take about three quartersthe yard for that this outer border is a and eight-inchstrip and you can see that I have scalloped the edge if this service outer borderyou're gonna need about two yards and if you wanna scallop it I used tothe scalp in vines ruler at the Eleanor burns Taliban vines willI love that one and it's very good directions in and really easy to use and we have a tutorial on that too butat if you just wanna leave it straight darling absolutely darling if you use alayer cake that is mostly kind of manly fabrics it's a perfectquilts for a man and I mean every single one babyfabrics baby quilt it just goes together quick and easy they're great for gifts I'm areanytime you need a quick quote so if you're a beginner this is perfect for you and if you're anobvious and you just need something fast this is also the perfect quote for youso we hope you enjoyed this tutorial on the layer cake quilt from theMissouri star quilt company