Ombre Twinkling Twilight Star Quilt (NO FPP!) | Midnight Quilt Show with Angela Walters

twinkle twinkle little

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how I wonder what you are a

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and that's what you are and that's what we're working on tonight the

twinkling

Twilight

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and I have a bonus video for you where I

show

you how to easily piece together a quilt. are you a pieced quilt back culture type or a solid back culture type well we'll find out let's get to the fabric so I have the kit for the Twilight Twinkle Quilts which is a bit Hard to say, Twilight's

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anyway. What's good about it? This kit comes with all the colors I need and I think they almost look like a sunset with the purples in the bleed.

I don't know if that's the name of the color, but I feel like it's some kind of sangria red. and the beautiful gold ones and if you're looking for details on where to find the kit or the pattern you can check it out in the description box below so I'm going to

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t cutting out all of these beautiful

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colors and the white background so our stars can start to shine , so I'm going to take each of my star fabrics and cut them into strips, straightening the edge and then cutting now that I have my strips, these wider ones will go towards the side that I'm going to use. my Tri Rex ruler to cut them in a second.

These will be cut into some smaller squares very quickly. Now that I have some squares cut out, I'll do the same with the background fabric for these larger strips. cut them out using the Tri Rex ruler. You've seen this before. I've used this in other episodes like Grotto. Remember that really cool quilt that had a curved illusion, but was so easy to quilt. You should go see it's a pretty fun one, so this particular quilt has you cut out this elongated triangle shape, but they also want you to do it in the mirror image, so if I flip it over, I'll get the other image too , but since that takes too much time, what I'm going to do is fold the fabric so that the wrong sides are together and then I'm going to cut my pieces to line up with that three and a half line that holds it in place and then cut gently. and what I will get are two blocks with mirror images of each other.

Now for the next one, all I have to do is rotate it and cut it like this, that means I can cut out a lot of these quickly. I'm going to keep cutting. some of these cut out some of my other colors and then we'll see how this twinkling star comes together. Okay, it was hard work, not really, but I felt like I needed a little sip, so I have my squares, my starting pieces. some other blocks, let's start sewing this batch together, so these triangles will combine with my white background triangles to make what looks like a half square rectangle, so when I take one of these here and flip it like this, that's the block. that we're going to get and the funny thing is it almost looks like this is the back of a piece of fabric but it's not it's just that lighter

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color and I think this different color shift is what's going to really make it shine , so I'm going to need to make four of these and then I'm going to make four with the opposite side or the mirror image block and they'll look like this, so sewing them together is very easy, but I want to point out that they're going to have some weird little angles next to each other from the other, so when I turn them over what I want to see is that little dot sticking out from there, what that does is take into account the seam allowance that we need for this block now if I want to make sure that that doesn't slip .

I can use my trick. Oh, I don't know why there's a Cheeto on my PIN plate. Oh, you never know what you're going to find, so I'm going to pin this together and then sew a quarter inch. along that seam, so when I press them open I'll have my little half square rectangle like this, now I'm going to do four of these and four in this direction so I can assemble my block and still have many The triangles are very close together, but I'm going to make them out of the way because I'm going to

show

you how these blocks combine.

Now, starting with the purple, I'm going to line them up this way so that the bottom ones are flipped over and Ultimately, these are going to be the star points of my block, but not only do I need to do this, but I also need to make a mirror image of this, so let's take the block mirroring it and bury it all. I'm sure there might be a couple of cases where I won't get them quite right, but I think it'll be fine, so next time it will be like this and then like this, perfect so you can see the slight difference, but sew them together it's as easy as folding them and quarter sewing them down the side and let's see the first one beautiful and the second fantastic now what I'm going to do is press them and make a lot more of those the blocks are pressed and that's when it gets very It's obvious that maybe my piece isn't perfect.

Look how this one has a little gap between the stitch which is actually what we want because that's going to be taken into the seam allowance and give me that nice stitch. Now here it comes to the end. border, that means that when I sew it with the seam allowance I'm not going to have a happy star now to take a second and fix that, not because I'm a perfectionist, but I have to have at least one block in this entire quilt where see okay, right, if the camera wasn't on, I probably wouldn't have fixed that one that's better and press, which you can see here now.

I have my space between the dot on the edge, so this will be a happy star. Now I just have to do that about 96,000, well just a few more times, so using the points for my stars that I have, I'm also going to add these four patch blocks. I didn't show you how to make them because I was really improvising. to a big song, so I have my four patch block that's going to go in the center and it has the two background squares and then I'm going to take out my star dots and start lining them up and what I really want to happen is I want the color fabrics to touch and the white fabrics to touch, so that will help me have an idea when it comes to laying out this block, that I have it the right way, so as I place it where it needs to go, I'll have this.

A beautiful little twinkling star that makes me very happy, so now I have my dots and I have to complete the rest of my block, two of them will be the background squares, the white fabrics and the other two will be four. Patches All four patches will have the white fabric facing outward. Oops I may have sewn that one backwards let me find another one that is pretty fantastic this is what the block looks like and at this point all I have to do is sew the block in two rows and sew the rows together to that in the first row the quilt is placed and what is happening here is that we take out the first flock and the next one turns so that they come together and form almost half a square right there and this will have a very fun secondary pattern.

Nancy Smith, who designed this pattern, is a genius in her head. Great, now let's talk about the star in the room. There are a lot of stitches in this block and you can see that some of them turned out beautifully. Fantastic, some of them not so much. I may have had a momentary lapse of I don't know, but here's the thing: There are so many stitches in this quilt that it doesn't matter when it's all done, you'll see it all. It's that overall effect of the fabric and it's going to look amazing, so I'm going to sew the rows together nicely.

If there's one thing I can say about this quilt top it's that I already finished those stitches and they were tough, well, I'm not quite done yet. I need to put some borders on this, she has some narrower borders on the sides, so here we'll put some smaller ones and the same on the bottom and then she has a nice wide border on the top, so these borders are going to Make it look like those stars are twinkling and shining right in the center of the quilt, so I'm going to add those borders and then piece the quilt together and I have a bonus video for that, so check out the description box below. and see you when it's time to start quilting after all the sharp points and straight lines in this quilt.

I'm ready for a break, so I'm going to go for something swirly, something curvy, how about a paisley feather, one of my favorites? Go to machine quilting designs to have my quilt sandwich holder ready to go, don't forget you can watch that free video that shows you how to make a back quilt piece, just check it out in the description box below and I will do. I got into quilting and since I'm working on a larger quilt and I'm quilting swirls I'm going to use my gloves because the grippy tips help make it easier so I decided to use my clear foot because I thought it would help.

I see where I'm going and I like how it jumps over the bulky seams, but the problem is that when I'm quilting Paisley it doesn't give me a consistent echo because the foot isn't perfectly round. This one I think is going to give a nice consistent echo, but am I just going to rip this out and start over? Hell no, you'll never become a better quilter by ripping it out and it stops there. Sona, make sure you stuff it with more padding so you can't even see it when I'm done, so the Paisley feather is really easy to quilt.

Basically, start by quilting a nice elongated swirl, it doesn't matter how long you quilt it, just place it in that space and then you'll echo it around it when it comes back. all the way to the beginning and then repeat it again, keep repeating until you end up at the bottom of your swirl because from there we'll start adding your Paisleys. Now the Paisleys are just a little bit also your drops, so just pull towards the spreading drop. nice and thin getting back to the point and then echo echo echo this design has a lot of echo just keep repeating until you're ready to add your next Paisley a nice thin little teardrop shape and then echo echo echo now I'm quilting these Paisley and echoing a around it, building them around that original swirl that I quilted it and these are going to be the petals or the parts of our feather now, once I quote my Paisley and start getting to the center of my little swirl if I don't.

I don't have space, I'll just echo inside or add some baby paisley, but then once everything is done I'll echo outside of that swirl again around the paisley until I get to where I want to add my next swirl. This design is the only thing you want to keep echoing, echoing, echoing and filling the spaces. Now let's see how this Paisley feather looks. This is my favorite design. Well, all of them are like my favorite design, but I really love this one. There are many things. texture that all that echo adds to it and remember, if you think it doesn't look good, keep turning it around until it fills up.

Now I'm doing this on the edge because you can actually see what's going on, but once I get into the middle of the quilt or all those beautiful ones. I'm going to make it a little bit easier for me by extending the clothing lines and just making a squiggly feather, which is the same thing, but much faster, so let's do it, so quilt. the feather meander is a lot like quilting the paisley feather only without all the echo so I'm going to start with a little swirl that comes on top of itself and then from the center I'm going to start adding my petals which are like shapes of half a heart working with my Going back to the beginning, once the feather is ready, it's time to quote more, so I'll echo until I get to a place where I can add another swirl and more petals.

Swirl, echo of petals. There are only three steps to this design, so. just keep repeating until you fill the area. Okay, I just cooled it down a few feather meanders, but I want to show you why I love this design. It's perfect for going over areas of your quilt that may be bumpier than others, for example if you have a seam or stitch that's a little difficult to get through. I can work my design around it instead of having to go through it so I love that it's a lot quicker because it won't be as noticeable and then I put all my efforts into Paisley now I know I've been talking a lot about feathers.

Paisley meanders, don't worry, I have some free quilting diagrams that I drew just for you and you can download them by going down to the description box below and I'll get the link, well I'll keep quilting and show you what it looks like when I'm done. I wish on a star and my wish came true. This quilt is finally finished. I love how the ombre fabrics are. make them shine from the top and I love, love the texture that the quilting adds. Adding a paisley feather to the border is an easy way to make it look more intricate without spending a lot of time on the quilt. and if I do say so myself, I think the back looks almost as good as the front.

If you want to see it, you have to watch that bonus video I made about the peace and the back of your quilt and you can find it in the description. box below, hey, leave a comment below and tell me if you like the reconstructed or solid backs and we'll see which ones were popular and make sure to subscribe while you're there, happy to quilt.