Economy Block - Fussy Cut - Three Methods, Three Sizes

Hi, I'm Kara Braddock. I just finished the quilt. I wish I was at my sewing studio, but instead I'm walking my dog ​​and then I have to go to my day job, but eventually I'll get home to my sewing studio tonight. It's my kitchen table and I'm going to show you how to make the

economy

block

three

different ways in

three

different

sizes

. Stop, what did you wear three different ways in three different

sizes

? What the hell was I thinking? So volunteering before you think about it, is that it? sounds like me, look, I have no experience making videos.

I have seven grandmothers at school. I don't have camera equipment. I don't have lighting equipment. I don't have a sound system and God knows how you put it all together. I ask you to subscribe below or something like that. The first thing my brother is going to say is get some lipstick thank God I've chosen

economy

because I can't scream I don't so please forgive me all my bad lighting all my bad audio all my mistakes so here's the economic

block

that has the economic block has been around for a long time, chances are your grandmother made it and your grandmother's grandmother made it and your grandmother's grandmother okay, you get the idea, it makes it cool, it's the cut, which is Tonto's modern guild block lottery challenge for March, so if you're new You might be wondering what the heck a block is, so if you're a guild member you make the pattern of the month, you bring your final block to the old meeting, everyone gets a ticket and we do a drawing and one person can win them all and wouldn't want to win a bunch of blocks.

You almost have a quilt made. You will need rules, whatever works for you. Better use that one. I like to use square rulers of the same size. For the block I'm working on, you'll need not one but two pairs of scissors, one for paper and one for fabric. You'll also need a rotary cutter and cutting mat, and you'll need a glue stick. or with a ruler, it will make your life much easier, but it is not necessary: ​​add a quarter ruler and a stitch remover with a pencil and, finally, an iron and an ironing board. To get started, you need the cheap block patterns from which you can download them. the Toronto Modern Quilt Guild website, they are also available in the archives section of our Facebook page now, before you hit print, let's talk about scale, you want your scale at one hundred percent, if you click scale to fit , say no and just to be safe.

I have included a scale here that measures before cutting. The 10-inch pattern must be printed on accounting paper, which means it will have to be a copier in the office or at Staples. The patterns are on the solid line and the dotted line. These are the finished size templates if you are making a lot of inexpensive blocks. Templates are a great idea. These are printed on cardstock and the center is cut out, but you can use an old greeting card and cut out the center. Plus, we're now at the point everyone was waiting to cut these core blocks.

Take a moment before you jump into your good stuff and sift through your remains because there are plenty of diamonds to be found in this rough stuff of a name. economical block for such a demanding reason used to be called intentional cutting, but demanding cutting sounds like a much more fun series what is the definition of intentional intentional means calculated plan deliberate did you save the cutting instructions from the pattern or did you save them? throw them out like I did well here they are again and you can download them as a separate sheet of paper in the files so place your template on the fabric to make sure the design fits inside the square and then according to the cutting instructions to block a of the size you are using there are a couple of points to consider when cutting block B and Z b1 and c1 you cut your block into quarters B 2 and C 2 you cut it into halves and choose fabrics for block B and C remember that need good contrast, whether color value or pattern, we need to talk about stripes, not just stripes, but fabrics that are right side up and script writing that has two directions.

These fabrics are complicated when you cut them into quarters, they produce two different ones. pieces with strong elements that are perpendicular to each other and if you don't pay attention they will bother you when you use the b2 or c2 and cut them in half, they produce a totally different pattern this time the stripes are on a diagonal and when you place them they go in a spiral and Although these types of blocks work well for block B, they are strong directional elements, they may not be suitable for block C, it is a matter of judgment, sometimes these directional elements are not so obvious, so always The paper pieces of test can be quite tight, since you will need to fold the pattern on the lines.

Use an old greeting card and make a nice, crisp fold. Think of it as origami for quilters, so here is my first block cut out from E to E B. and I chose to use C 2 because that's what my scraps were, take your pattern, turn it over and place your block A in the center of the wrong side, secure the block with a little glue, then turn the pattern and block over. and fold back into those nicely wrinkled lines that your ruler cuts to a quarter of an inch. I know I'm trimming wrong, don't judge me, take two quarter feet of block and line up the long side with the top and bottom of the block.

You are going to sew on these two lines. The tricky part is that you are sewing blind. You are sewing on the wrong side. You can't actually see your work. So do you really need to see me so we all know how to sell? do you know how to use a sewing machine, ok, your stitch length should be 2, then we turn it back and remove those triangles and press, we're going to turn it over and then we'll repeat everything one more time, don't worry about the paper , it's not precious, break it if you need to make it a fold, trim the crease, trim a line, a line, like this, and press and just repeat the sequence two more times on the edge of the outer block fold, so press the fold trimming, so press to trim your block.

I add a touch of glue to the corner blocks just to set them in place and that's it, what's the downside to this method? It makes beautiful corners, there has to be a down side, you have to tear off the paper on the back and how easy was that. Mistakes I made with this block, those triangles broke when I wasn't paying attention over and over again or they slipped. I found that if I put a little glue on the seam allowance, those triangles moved less, not sure how I made this one. You have news? Hockey freezer paper and we make plastic, it's not that easy to find, but it's available.

Freezer paper is crispy and waxy on one side, it's not wax paper which is about half the thickness and waxy on both sides, so take your pattern and cover it with a sheet of freezer paper with your pencil and your ruler trace the dotted line of your pattern on the freezer paper this is the size of your finished block then trace all the remaining lines of block A and block B using your paper Using scissors or a dull rotary blade, cut out the pattern of freezer paper and, just like the fold method, increase along the lines, the fabric is cut exactly the same size as the pieces of paper.

The freezer paper method only works if you have a very hot iron. fabric in the center of the freezer paper turn it over and center the paper on the block press this is not just ironing, you have to hold it down get enough heat to melt the wax pull the paper back and fold it fold line turn and fold again trim to a quarter inch, you will sew a straight line as close to the freezer paper as possible so as not to sew the paper you are sewing all the way to the edge repeat on the opposite side, press with your finger before turning it over to iron again so that fold, trim the fold, trim a line, sew a line, so if your needle catches the paper, it's no big deal, just pick it up and press again, so this time the dance is the iron crease. trim to iron the fold, trim to iron the crease, so give it a good final press, okay, so this step is actually very important if you're going to mess up a step, don't mess up this step, you don't need to trim too close to the paper. but to a quarter inch and why do we use the freezer paper method very busy at the beginning but quickly at the end?

The mistakes I made with this method were actually in the original pencil, you have to be precise because if you're not precise in the tracing, you're not going to be precise in the sale, so you're probably wondering if we're done yet, we're not done yet. finished. We have one more block to make, we are going to remove the support wheels, so aside from the guide your sewing machine is sewing the cut sizes for the pieces in this method are a little smaller you will also need information on the sizes of cut out four blocks B and C both can be found in the Files section the two small ones and a half inch this is perfect for getting rid of those lovely squares, old pieces of jelly roll and those bindings you always said you would use so in this method precision is the key, you must hit these corners without the paper guiding, be careful with the bias on b2 and c2, the bias is along the long size, which makes it nice and stretchy, but on b1 and c1 the bias is actually on this side.

Here's the tricky part: the trimming instructions say the center block is nice. The even numbers are reminiscent of the Pythagorean theorem. If you use the Pythagorean theorem and solve for B, B turns out to be just a little bit more, so when you move the needle a couple of points to the left, you cut the pieces with the instructions for the method C, you take your block and we're going to fold them in half and then you do this in half, then you line those two up together, these triangles on the end should be the same size, so give them a folder with finger pressure, just take your fabric scissors and cut out these wings and so again, press well and cut out following the instructions on the chart. remember the trim measurements are in parentheses when sewing the pieces in block B, precision is key here, your needle should touch where the previous two. the seams meet, we are sewing on the bias here so be careful not to pull and stretch the piece, cut one last press, you can see there is not much embellishment in this method and we are done so the million dollar question is what method use.

I like it better so for the 10 inch size I found the freezer paper method to be the best, there were those floppy wings on the side with the paper splicing method and I didn't like that and for the smaller ones I'll be honest, no. It's very small, so I found the piece of paper. It really helped me with my accuracy with freezer paper. Let's just say I couldn't keep it stuck. It kept falling off when you put it back on. You have a line on all edges. It was just messy, so if I'm always too hard I can make it work, why use paper?

Thank you so much for showing up, thank you, thank you, thank you for watching. Hope to see you at our next meeting, please like, maybe even subscribe. I have learned a lot. Maybe I will.