How to Make a Ten Square Scramble Quilt Block | Shabby Fabrics

Hello everyone, I'm Tammy with

shabby

Fabrics. I am here today with a beautiful collection. I'm Camille. This is from Robert Kaufman. Debbie Beas is the designer. It is a collection of flower houses. I think it's perfect for spring. I love purple flowers in the spring. I always seem to see them first and this collection reminds me a lot of spring, so I'm here with a fun pattern called 10

square

scramble

. This is a free download. Click on the link below this video and you'll see that link there. You can click on that, it will take you directly to our website and you can download it for free, so you have your free pattern.

I like it too. This is called a 10-

square

scramble

because it uses a layer cake, making the 10-inch squares. so today we're going to use some 10 inch squares. We have kits available on this and I have a beautiful backup. I love this print. I love the color. It's absolutely beautiful. This support is available as an add-on if. You'd like those kits to be limited quantity so when they're gone they're gone but you could pick up a reading cake and

make

this

quilt

so here we go let me show you how I do this so first. All in all, I started with some 10 inch squares and just cut them out by hand.

These are not a real layer cake. I just hand cut some 10 inch squares just to quickly show you on video. I only took six of them and what I am. What I'm going to do is stack them together and I'm actually going to iron them together, give them a little bit of pressure to help those

fabrics

become best friends, right, we like that, I want them to snuggle up together. so a lot of times I give them a little bit of pressure here, a little bit of steam, when I use a layer cake package or 10 squares like that, a 10 square package that you can use when you use pre-cut cuts, you can usually just take like the ones. three, four or six tops, no matter how many you feel comfortable cutting.

I'm going to cut six now. I took my rotary cutter and put a new blade on this. A new sharp blade is a must with this because you're cutting through so many layers you're definitely going to want to use a new blade so here we go so I've got my squares they're all together in a nice little pile here right now I'm I'm going to take one creative grids ruler. This is a 4 1/2 by 12 1/2 inch ruler. This was a new rule for us. I found this ruler, it's perfect for cutting precuts because it's 12 1/2 inches. on both sides and it fits perfectly on my Creative Grids rotating mat, which I love.

This is my favorite spinning mat. I use this one uh we use it upstairs at The Sewing Studio probably every day we use our spinning mats up there and we love the creative. grids one is by far our favorite, so let me show you how to cut it. The first thing I'm going to do if my squares are oriented this way, I'm going to turn it to one side and I'm going to cut this into two 4 and 1/2 inch strips for an extra touch, so I'm going to square this side a little bit like this and take a 4 and 1 half inch strip there. come on and one more like that okay we'll rotate our map back in this direction now the first set I cut I need to cut a 4 and a/2 into squares two 4 and 1/2 into squares so again I know I have extra, so I'm going to square this up a little bit to even out everyone here on the side, looking at that stripe.

I want to

make

sure my part is straight. I'm going to make a half inch piece of 4 and A2 and another one like that and that's the majority of our

block

, set them aside right now, the next one we're going to make I need uh 2 and 1/2 in squares, I need four of them, so it will equal 10 I can see that my squares are not quite even, I cut them by hand, so I'm going to make 2 and 1/2 inches. Now it's no longer the width of the ruler, so I'm going to use the half inwards on the side. creative grid so you add half an inch at the beginning, one 2 in 2 and 1/2 is now a solid black line.

I love that for lining up; otherwise if I try to do it from this side I start with an inch 2 inches and a half and you see how the half inch is dashed sometimes it's hard to line up all those dashes and make sure you line up your ruler correctly so I love the flip function on a creative grid ruler so I'm going to use / on side here like this here we go so I need four two and A2 inch

block

s that are 2 and 1/2 by 4 and 1/2 and four yeah just I have a little bit left right there, okay, that's our block, that's your cut right there. this is a block that I completed here is where we go.

I will turn it around so you can see pressing the pattern is great, they have good pictures on how to cut what you are doing and what they are not doing. They don't tell you which direction to press, they tell you to just press, so I like to give you a little more direction and tell you the way I would press just so the

quilt

comes together a little easier for you. so let's find some pieces here, so we'll start with these two and this. The first thing in the pattern is to put them all together randomly and you can do it randomly, that's what we did for the quilt behind us, you could try to follow a pattern but we thought just randomly was fine and we started pulling the

fabrics

, so we had all these fabrics out and you're just pulling this to this, to this, to this and just put them all together until the end okay so we're going to do that so let's go ahead and sew these together so I'm going to use my extra fine Patrick pins from Clover and I'm going to put one in. at the end, like this and you'll see that I've placed this pin away from my seam allowance.

I made it so I can start here and sew to the end and I don't have to remove the pin, but this pin is I'm going to keep the fabric from moving at the end, that's where I usually have problems with fabric separating. These two corners don't want to stay together when you get there, they're trying to get away from each other, it's like no. stay together so I pin them to do what I want so let's go to the machine and get that right so today I'm using a sewing guide for quilting this is a miracle if you don't have a quarter inch on your machine. and you need help with that, these guidelines are pure magic.

I love them. You can pick them up and put them back in your machine. If you clean the base of your machine with something like a lens cloth or something to help it stick. better because the oil from your machine will affect the adhesion on the back of this these come in two different packs you have a pack of six replacements and then if you want to set up your sewing with a seam fixative you also have the seam fixative stitching like Okay, I've got this set here at 1/4 inch and I'm going to go ahead and do it right, so we've got that stitched, let's press this and talk about pressing, so when we're pressing, heat up my iron, so when We were pressing these, we press them against the darker fabric, it won't matter which way you press them, but I would always press against the darker fabric, especially when you have a white here.

I don't want a shadow behind that white cloth. I would prefer the shadow to be dark green, not white, so I'm going to press this with the dark green facing up because I want my stitching to go towards the dark green, so we have the dark green fabric facing up. I'm going to press this to heat up that seam, set it open, you'll see how that came out straight for me, like this, there we go, perfect, that seam is now pressed towards the green, all right, now I want to attach that. to my to my big square, so again I'm going to line this up perfect, we're going to put a pin at the end and if you feel the need, you can also pin this seam allowance so it stays still. right where you want it, okay, so my pins are down.

I'm going to start here and go all the way to the end, okay, now how am I going to iron this? Well, let's look at the fabric, let the fabric tell us when. I open this up like this, that seam definitely wants to go towards the block, so this is how I'm going to let it go so that the block is on top, we set up our seam and press towards the block like this, I'm using yarn. pressing mat I love wool pressing mats, if you don't have one you should grab one, this one is only 14 by 4 and the perfect size for making small blocks like this, you can even press on the side of your machine so You don't have to be up and down with your big iron if you don't want to by placing this little pressure mat.

I love it, okay, this is what it looks like on the back. Okay, that's the top of our block now. I did this ahead of time and you can see that I pressed the green and then the block, so now when I put these two blocks together, these two seams will now nest together. I love a good nested quilt seam. All right, here we go, so I'm going to nest my seams in the center and I'm going to place a pin right on the other side of that seam. I show you where I put that pin, right here, the reason I put a pin on this side is like that machine is because you're traveling through here it's not going to move this fabric it's going to stay right where I want it to be when you put a pin here you are. stopping so that that fabric has to stay there so that seam will be perfectly nested let me also pin the end because again this is the part where I always have a problem so I always take the time to add a pin at the end so these corners stay together at the beginning.

I know that's going to stay together because that's where I'm starting here all the way down, so now we have our block together, so now what do we do with this seam? Because these blocks are going to be placed on a design wall. This is the way I would layout it, have all your blocks put them on the layout wall, then you want to have the ability to rotate these blocks however you want so they fit and get your color where you want, so I would press this seam okay , so let's do it, so the first thing I'm going to do is heat up that seam and open up my Fabrics.

I'm just going to gently pull on the fabric just to open up that seam. split the seam I love this Panasonic iron it has a sharp tip on the end it's not sharp I guess it's a rounded tip but it's very good for making an open seam the soulle plate just travels along there opening up that seam like I'm going to turn around. I'm going to give it a little more pressure from this side because I want those seams to lay nice and flat. There we are going well and there is our block. Here's another block I made so you can see if it was.

When putting this on a design wall, I wouldn't want these fabrics and these fabrics to touch, so I would rotate it. That's probably how I would put it together like this, so now with these seams open, now it's easy to put on. together, so you're going to hold it together like this and I'm just going to align this thread. I hope you can see it with the camera above and see how I'm lining up my seams. I'm just stacking them. on top of each other, okay, let's set that now, so I don't want it to go anywhere, so I'm definitely setting that one, this one sometimes in these seams like this.

I'll take the time to place a second pin. the other side of that open seam there we go now I know that's not going anywhere but you can see there's no nesting where you have this seam you have a solid block a solid block here's your seam so we don't have any nesting at all going to the other side, that's why no matter which direction you press this seam, the first one we did, okay, let me pin this right now. I know I already know what will happen when I sew through this. Do you see how?

This seam wants to turn. I already know it's going to flip over, so let's put a pin in it to hold it down. There we go now, when I sew over it, it's on the bottom, so I can't see it, but I know I'm not going to flip that seam, so I'll see it with the machine, okay, let's get the pins out right now, let's look at this sewing and you just want to go everywhere, don't you? I would choose one way. or the other thing, when I put this quilt together, I took the first row and pressed all my seams to the right, second row, all my seams to the left, that way, when I put my rows together, all my blocks nested together, that would be My recommendation, so I'm going to go ahead and make this do what I want it to do and press it on One Direction and then press it again from the front, that's how quick and easy this Quil will go I think.

You could easily do this in a weekend. What a fun and beautiful project for spring. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Please like and thank you very much for joining me. See you next time for a Shabby Fabrics tutorial.