Churn Dash Variation "Star Power" Quilt | Midnight Quilt Show SEASON 4 FINALE Angela Walters

It's a Thursday Midnight Quilt Show style throwback and the turn block is back and better than ever and tonight I'm going to

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you a new modern take on that traditional block but first I know it's sad but this is the last episode of this

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, but no Don't worry, don't worry, you can turn your frown upside down because I have a special gift for Midnight Quilt Show subscribers where you can get your closing dose for free, let's do it , so I know I said I was going to go back, but I'm not going to go that far back, that's scary.

Oh, I was thinking no? I'm going back to one of my previous

quilt

s I made, which was a spinning

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, and this time I'll make a new, better version. This pattern is designed by Monique Dillard and is called Star Power, although in my head every time I think about it I hear it, so my first task I need to choose 12 of these beautiful fat quarters to be the blocks or the converted ashes of my quilt. and eight of them are bordered. The beautiful eyes are a little dark. Ooh, I like this blue, isn't it so pretty?

Matches my shirt. We'll go with that one, so this quilt I'm recreating is one I made for my brother-in-law as a Christmas gift 15 years ago and it has antique quilting from Angela. I can't wait for you to see how horribly atrocious it is. Alright. I think we're ready. I'm going to go ahead and

star

t cutting them up, so I'm going to take my fat quarters for the

star

blocks and stack them up a little bit so I can dice them and slice them and pretty much get them to the right size. I need you to be careful when stacking them, this helps me be a little more efficient, it's funny, we take large pieces of fabric and cut them into pieces to sew them into a single large piece of fabric, but it remains total.

To me, it makes sense now. I'm going to cut the fat quarters for the edges. I have them stacked together, that's pretty nice, and I'll cut them out and speaking of throwbacks, have you seen my first craft class? Oh, I just remembered. Being so nervous that they turned on the camera, I thought: I don't know what to say. The good thing is that Crazy has a new membership program, so if you are on the fence and not sure if you want to take the class or any of the others, you can get a free trial membership where you will be able to check them all out, including the cooking classes, the carpentry classes, all the fun things to learn the details.

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Watchmen I mean I think they told me it was special anyway you have to check it out and all of these squares are the same size it'll be a nice border now that I'm done with the ones I'm going to cut into the background which will really make those jewel tones pop. Each block uses two colors of fabric on some of the backgrounds, so I need to place background squares to match the fabric squares, it looks pretty, and then two smaller squares of this same one. fabric so now we're going to do a fabric scavenger hunt here we go and then I'm going to pick a second fabric let's go with this purple one and then I'm going to need some squares oh this is going to be pretty.

I'm going to turn this into a turned block like a traditional quilt. It has four large half square triangles in the corners and they are actually a very basic block for me. All I need to do is mark my line from corner to corner and then I'm going to join the right sides together with one of these big squares. The nice thing about the cheeks is that there's really no right side or wrong side and I'm going to sew a quarter inch on either side of that line halfway down. there and do the same with the other block, now I'm just going to cut that drawn line and each of these will give me two half square triangles.

I remember when I was a super culture I thought this trick was cool especially after I made a lot of half square triangles that don't use these techniques to save time and once I open it there we go like magic a half square triangle and the press that cuts it out and we prepare to do the rest of the walk, what does this do? The quilt is a little different than your traditional Dash

churn

, we're going to incorporate some flying geese, so I went ahead and asked my brother-in-law if he could show you that quote he made all those years ago.

Ago now, here's your more traditional dropout: block, you've got your rectangles here, but what we're doing is adding a flying geese block to give it a different look and look at that little band. I was super proud of myself when I did that. Now I want to see your old quilt. I showed you the line, so now you can show me yours, so post a photo on social media using the hashtag Midnight Quilt Show or the hashtag My First Quilt. We'll talk more about this in a moment, but first. I'm going to make the flying geese blocks using my rectangle.

I'm going to take a background square and do the same kind of thing I did with the half square triangles drawing my line. The difference is this time I'm actually sewing the line, I'm not going to sew a quarter inch on each side, lay it out like this and then I'll give it a quick cut. I'm going to press that and do the same on the other side and if you're super adventurous. You can do this without marking, but I'm going to go ahead and at least mark this one that way. I can have a nice flying goose square.

I'm going to zoom in and when I fold it back you'll see that there's a little bit should be right, about a quarter inch of background fabric space, which is perfect when I sew it, that will go in the seam allowance and hopefully, will give me a perfect good point. Now I just have to do it three more times using the same thing. fabrics now each of these flying geese blocks receives a rectangle of the background fabric and that will complete this unit boom now let's make the floor patch that goes in the center of that block and finally we can put it together this is where all the magic comes together , I have my center for the patch block, we have our cute half square triangles, remember the colorful part points towards the center and then the part that makes this fun too is that flying geese block unit and they will all point towards the center .

Well look man that's nice, now all that's left to do is place the blocks in two rows and then the rows together and see our turn. Walk around one last time to make sure everything is nice and in place and I think it looks fantastic now. I'm going to make more of these blocks and put them together before I can design my block, so I need to rebuild the edge, but it's not as difficult as it seems. I'm just taking all these squares and making a really simple model. edge now I like it to look as taut as possible, so this is where my quilting OCD will come out.

I'm going to try really hard not to have two of the same block next to each other, not that I think anything bad will happen. happens, but keep it looking random and what I'm going to do is sew them together in groups of two and then sew those groups together until I have a nice long chain of pieced squares, since they're so nice and small that I'm not even going to bother pinning Who am I kidding? I don't pin anyway, but I definitely wouldn't pin them even if I were a piner. It'll make some sense, okay, look, I feel purple, purple, naked, like it matches my wine. "It looks like a nice Merlot, a little more blue and then I'll take these and sew them together.

This is where it gets a little challenging because again I'm trying not to keep the same colors next to each other, but I don't." It doesn't matter, it's okay, it has to be perfect, won't you relax? Angela, it's okay and I'm going to wait until I finish setting up this whole long line to iron it. It doesn't make sense because I don't have crossover scenes. It's okay though, I'm almost done, I just have to keep sewing pieces together and I'll have a long edge. I'll show you that it looks like what I've done. Each row has three blocks, which is nice because you don't have to make a lot of quilt blocks and you will have a little bit of frame between them, but unlike the frame I put on my old quilt, it will blend into the background and that will really give it a bit of a frame.

It will give the illusion that these upturned ashes are floating. I don't think that's the right band. Where did that come from? From there we go. I mean, it's late, but I didn't think it was that late, so now I have my front row. I think it looks beautiful. I'll sew it up and show you what the rest looks like. The second row is also finished, but between them is another row of sashes with some fun little pops of color. This will really tie it together and I love how it looks, the center is finished, but I'm not done with this survey yet.

I have to add the borders, never the pieced border I made and a solid border, but it's worth the effort, it will really make this quilt pop. Great, this is what the top border will look like and my fun reconstructed border. I'm going to add the same thing on the sides and see you here when everything is put together, always like peace borders, but when I have to quote them, I love it. When they are easy to put together like this, now that my quilt top is finished, all I have to do is take my beautiful batik backing, turn this into a quilt sandwich and move on to quilting.

I'll see you there, but I have to do it first. to show you how far I've come as a machine quilter, have you ever heard this thing that says every teacher was once a disaster? Yeah, I summed it up pretty well, so when I mentioned this quilt to my brother-in-law, he had just gotten my long arm quilting machine, so it's one of the first quilts I ever quilted long arm, so machine quilting It's, let's say, very rustic, very old, Angela style, but what I did was I used a pantograph and if you're not familiar with that.

What is that, I'm basically tracing a pattern from the back and here you can see this very special kind of design now although I'm making fun of it now because I'm much better, this was my best moment. work at the time so I'm proud of it and what's even better is that my brother-in-law was very insistent on having this quilt returned so he must be enjoying it too. Well, with this, let's go. to quilt the star

power

twist, so we can see how it looks on this quilt. I'm going to use a silver gray thread because I like how it shows up a little bit on that background, but it will blend in with the blocks and I'd like to see the quilting, it helps me see where I'm going, especially when it's so late at night and like the background fabric has this kind of fun leaf design, I'm going to do a meander of leaves all over it for now.

I'm going to keep that meander throughout this background area so that in any dark area I'll quote my sheet and what I'm going to do is just go to a point and then come back and that will be the The first shape is there and it doesn't matter how big I mean, I just need it to come to a point on one side and kind of close at the bottom and then from that point all I have to do is echo, echo, echo, echo. To my point, I'm going back down and then once I decide enough is enough, I'll do the same shape again, just pointing in a different direction, so maybe this one will look down more and then echo that too .

Since I'm running out of space, I'm getting ready to run to the next block. I'm going to make another leaf shape and it's going to stick out this way, so the trick is to make sure these leaves come out. in all different directions without getting stuck in a corner. Now the trick for this quilting design and any other quilting design is to make sure I use echo to move, so from here I'm going to echo around my sheet so I can get there. Go to this area and start working your way back here. One thing I want to point out is that most of the time I go back to where that sheet started, but sometimes there's no room to add the next one, so I might add half of one. echo where I go out to my points and then from there I branch off with another leaf so from here stop hold another little leaf and then echo echo echo it may seem strange at first but I promise once you complete that whole area it will look Okay, so there's the first little section completed and what I did just to show you a little bit closer is I quilted my leaf shape and then used echo to fill it in and make it bigger.

Now what I love about the echo is you. I already have that shape, I'm just going around it so my brain shuts off for a second, but then when I'm ready to add the next one, I'll just branch out by quilting my next little leaf and then echoing Now if you're trying this design at home , let me tell you that the secret to success is to keep the spacing consistent because then you won't have holes in your quilting, so I will continue quilting this meander of leaves. the entire quilt and this is actually what I call turning and early quilting.

Quilting is nice and quick, but I've put together some quilting diagrams, one showing how to make this leaf meander and another, an overnight version that shows you how. You can personalize these blocks and you can get them by looking at the chart. description below and hey, while you're there, you might as well go ahead and subscribe so you don't miss a video. Well, I'll go ahead and get this. finished, you know, if I'm comfortable in my chair, that means this quilt is finished and this star

power

throwbacktour - the quilt is a success, it's fun to look back and see how far my quilting has progressed and kind of a reminder of all these beautiful fabrics. well thank you for joining me in my quilting room for another episode of the

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