5 Ways to Start Crumb Blocks

Hi everyone, it's me, Dalene, I'm back with some

crumb

quilting. If you don't know about

crumb

quilting, you obviously have to watch this video, but I have a whole series called The Crumb Quilt Adventure. The playlist link is below in my description box. It's an addiction once you

start

you'll never stop but I thought I'd create a video that shows you five different

ways

I use to

start

my crumb

blocks

. The crumbs should be small, but I'll show you how. You don't have to use only small pieces to make something look like a crumb block, as long as your block ends up looking like it has a lot of small pieces, it's a crumb block, if all your pieces They're big, so it's more like a mosaic. or maybe crazy quilting, but a crumb block is supposed to look like most of the pieces are crumbs, we're going to use some of my crumbs and I need to start putting them on eBay again, I used to and I haven't . and these are just two trays that I have, these are deep, I took out the top two, I like a lot of this stuff so let's start with method number one, oh yeah, and if you like this video please subscribe, I just found out that this tray is actually two trays, aha, the addiction is real, you will never throw away any more scraps for the first method, we are going to use real crumbs, these are just small pieces that you normally know most of us throw away even things like this. small one that I keep I have some here that have like a fuse that was ironed on the back I can use those you don't have to trim them you don't have to iron them let's go to the machine you just take two crumbs find two straight edges or they don't have to be straight, you can just sew a straight line and just sew them together right sides together, don't worry about seam allowances or anything like that, grab two more, send them in and just keep doing that, they don't have to be the same size, look at this one sticking out Once you have a bunch of those you just cut them out, press them open and then start making four patches again, don't worry about the colors, don't worry if they match in size or not, I have a four patch right here , you don't have to match your intersections, in fact, it's better if you don't, so I'm just going to send these two through these little four patch

blocks

that are very uneven are really good centers for anything else you want to do, Even two patches like this, you can make a bunch of them and throw them in a bucket and you'll have a center of a crumb block started, but I'd go with four patches now if you only have crumbs and nothing else to use the way you start making bigger blocks because you can't just add small pieces around it, it doesn't work that way, you need to start putting four patches together, take any one. two, I like these two together, look how the intersections don't match up at all, that's what I love and again, no trimming is necessary at this point, just sew two together and two more, you can stop there and start collect a bunch of these, you know? and cut them out and sew them together or if you want to make it bigger keep adding however it fits let me sew these two together now you'll notice this looks very patchwork it's not my favorite way I like to make some of these but I like other things on the strip games, that's all weird but this is perfectly fine and it's a real crumb block and like I said you can keep adding pieces until you have a size block that you want to cut out, let's move on to the method. method number two, number two uses strips and crumbs, very easy, you take any strip you have, you take a crumb, you put it on your strip with right sides together and you sew it, you add another crumb and another crumb and you just fill your strip When it's done, you can press with your fingers if you want or you can take it to the iron and just push back all the little bits and then you're going to cut now if you use angles like this like I did, you want to make sure. you leave enough room because you never know, you know which direction it's going to go when you cut like here.

I would cut with this angle of this piece. Now we're starting to go awry. I like that and just trim them, they don't. It has to be perfect and you end up with centers similar to what we just made by putting together just two crumbs. It's a good way to use your shard strips. I'll see this one. I'm going in this direction if not. If you have enough room to go in that direction, then I can change the angle. You can use narrow strips like this or you can use wide strips. You can also sew some of your two patches on there and even put a full border on a large piece like In this case, I would just trim a bit of a border and sew the same thing.

You're just going to press with your fingers and trim. See, this is the one where I sewed two patches onto my strip and then this guy has a border on one. On the other hand, I like strips on my crumb blocks, this could end up being a lot narrower when you're done because you could sew something right here or you could make it crooked or anytime you can trim them even crooked and then just start. From that, you know, cut something out and make it a new center for a larger block. Next method number three for this method we will use only short strips, most of them take up the entire width of the fabric, but I like to cut them. to something more reasonable, easier to handle and we can also change the order of the colors so they're not all exactly the same, so you do whatever you want and this is how we put them together, we'll send two. across use narrow use wide you can use crooked everything works don't throw away these cutouts now I'm going to send two more and two more once you have a bunch of these made we're going to start connecting them you just open them up you're going to sew them together to create sets of strips.

If you had a bunch of strips like this that are two together, you would keep sending them until they are four together and then you start adding them. between each other I'm going to stop here, but I'm going to open this one and add this guy. Strip sets like this are your friends when it comes to crumb quilting. What I like to do is use them as strips to just add on. to some blocks now this is just a really old piece that I found in one of those trays and I don't even have to cut it out yet, I'm just going to leave it and I'm going to sew it, we'll cut it out everything that sticks out on this side is the beginning of another block, this can be thrown away, then you open it, look at it and you can decide how much of this you want in there, it's al

ways

better to be a little generous. because you can cut that out at any time look, look how cool it is, you can make these sets of strips as long as you want for method number four, we're going to make another set of strips, but this time we'll just use crumbs. you're going to take your crumbs like method number one and just sew two together you would make a bunch of these you'll open them up instead of making a patch of four with another two you'll just sew them together and I'm going to make a long strip if you have many crumbs that are approximately the same size.

Well, it's a good time to put them together, but I don't mind trimming them, so let's put this on this end. I like to keep one. pretty even edge that way, there's actually just one other edge to trim now again, you'd put two more across two more patches along it, open these guys up and make them longer, let's do it this way, you know, some long strips and pretty ones that are really quick and easy and again they can be used to go around one of the crumbs, like look right there, I can crop right here, let's add that here and look at that one more time, you can crop it out and then when you sew something in there, get those little bits of color, let's do it and see how cool it is, see the little strip placed here.

Awesome for the fifth method, we are going to use large scraps, but we are going to make it look like they were small to begin with, but we are not going to cut them out first, it is easier to sew with large pieces than to cut them all into crumbs and sew them together, you can even using things like quilt blocks left over from other projects, you know, strips that are a little wide, whatever's wrong. strip and one thing is if you have some squares, these are not the same size, but let's do this, I'm going to put the two squares together and if I didn't, I'm just going to sew each edge.

I have a patch of four here, let's say I only had two squares. I could cut the center, but I don't want to because I want to keep this intersection, so I'm going to cut like there now, I just stitched on each one. side now let's open these guys up and see how we have something that looks smaller, you would never know it started out big, let's do something with this one, but let's do it this way because it's wider. I'm going to sew the same thing on each edge. I'm not going to cut the center, let's just cut here and here.

Now I can trim that extra bit of black. Now look how we're coming out with some pretty little pieces. It was very easy to sew it together. I don't have to start with little squares, same thing here, now this guy, this border is a little bit wider. I'm going to sew right under this side. It was fun. I don't think I've ever done it using a four head. black, there's a lot of it there, so I can trim it if I want or something else I can do instead of trimming this and having a little black piece hanging by itself.

I'm going to put something on it. I have this perfect size. I'm just going to sew that in there and I could leave it like this or at this point I can go ahead and trim it the way I wanted so there's a little bit of black on each side, but look, we captured that one, I know. I've probably done all of this on that quilt crumb adventure. I'll link it below. I'll probably add this video to it too, but you know, I haven't watched that show in a long time. I have no idea. I think it's at least a couple years old.

I just thought I'd show you some things again just to give you a little refresher and maybe if you've lost your love, maybe you'll get it back again, so there's so many things you can do. use pieces like this, I mean just look at all the stuff you get here, you get the gingham, you get some color, you get some black and you can just put something big with this and then do like I showed you, just cut things up . below it's all good, it's all fun I hope you try it I'm so tempted to do something with this now I told you it's an addiction the strips weren't even the same width but I just sewed them together and now this one is wider so I'm going to cut it right in the center, now I'm just going to sew some strips all the way down.

I'll show you. I'll take another strip and maybe go about an inch down. Look, I'm going to use this little piece of crumbs that are already together another narrow strip again jumping about an inch this is a strip that has some crumbs attached super cool I'm going to cut close to this second stitch line right there, let's just trim this stuff here, look, look what we have, look how cool it is here, look an amazing fit next to this guy, lucky, lucky, now they could have been closer together, but I'm okay with this and last but not least Importantly, we have this that can be. cropped oh my god I have to stop guys thank you so much please subscribe because I think I want to do more things with migas.

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