Let's Make the Radiant Quilt!

So you know, Hoffman's fat quarter package is aqua gray coral, yeah, I remember what it's called, I know what you know and I pulled out coral and aqua to go with it. I know they look beautiful in it. My question is where are there a lot. creamy light right there will be coral or aquamarine and then those dark things in each square that is the other. I want to know which one you want a lot of coral or a lot of aquamarine. I would tend to put the coral where the light is. Ok, what do you think?

That is what I thought. Do we have enough cockles in that set? Do you think so? Just take a look at it and that will have something to do with what we put there. Okay, I decide to put it there. It's fine and I can write. to

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the blocks mmm but each fabric will be against the Aqua but not all of them will be against oh yeah, they will all be against the coral and they will all be against the Aqua but those colors look good with everyone, so it's okay, it's okay, the colors they are gorgeous ok don't be discouraged then

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your decision just move on don't worry about it yeah hello everyone I'm Matt Jordan from Jordan Fabrics here in Grants Pass Oregon today we are working on the

radiant

pattern of cozy

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designs my wife is heading to the store Donna, are you ready to go there?

I'm ready, let's go down and start this, okay, okay, everyone. Well, you might be wondering why I have some scratches here on my forehead. My three and a half year old grandson and I had a little wrestling match and he just outmatched me. I put neosporin on him now. I live in Grants Pass Oregon for people who don't know it's a city in southern Oregon, there's Ashland in Medford and Grants Pass in the Rogue Valley and Don and I moved here about 40 years ago, about 40 years ago, and we've We have raised our family here and have really enjoyed it.

It's been growing at a really nice pace. We have many amenities that we didn't have when we first moved here and overall we really enjoyed it. This is the warmest place. day of the year so far in April here and it's just beautiful as you can see everything stays relatively green here but right now it's really great all the flowers blooming on the beautiful hills around us it's very nice this is the project, these important projects, but this is the one here, so those are the fat quarters, they are beautiful and I think I like the lighter one better than those, as for yes, I like the lighter one better.

I agree with you especially, I think we talked about using it in that light. place there, yeah, awesome, yeah, awesome, that's going to look great, okay, I'll iron it and I'll get busy cutting so I can get busy sewing the

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pattern uses fat quarters and that's what we've chosen here. this beautiful fat quarter bundle of Hoffman fabrics called cockatoo and that's what I opened up here before so I can see if these fabrics will look good against the accent and the background, we're going to need two yards of the light accent and 1/3 of a meter of the dark accent because I'm going to do the twin size it's a nice big

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it says twin but it's 80 by 97 it's almost a queen size it's actually really big we'll need some borders too but I like it First I do the patchwork so you can see what's going to look good so I'm going to iron the fabrics and then we're going to cut them out and then I'm going to show you how we're going to cut out the fat quarters that I have. the accent and light background are completely steam pressed, very, very flat and I'm going to hand them over to Matt so he can cut them.

All the sizes are in the pattern now again this is not our pattern this is a cozy quilt designs pattern so I can't give you all the sizes but their instructions are very clear and make it very easy to make your quilt . Then I will iron all of our fat quarters, stack them, and prepare them for cutting. We have all the pieces cut out and this is a really easy quilt, it's one of those that looks a lot more complex than it is, so we're going to take a big square here and put the accent color on each side. and then we'll put it on the top and bottom, so we'll do that with all of these.

I'm probably going to chain the whole stack now, then we're going to make another kind of square and it's going to have this accent in the middle and we're going to pick two sides that are equal, top and bottom, that are equal, so we're going to make a bunch of these squares and a bunch of these squares and then we will merge them. and then you'll see, it's like magic, so I'm really excited to show you how we're going to make this block here a little bit easier doing just one block at a time, so I'm just going to sew the pieces together. together and I'm going to finger press everything right now away from the center and when I have the block ready I'm going to take it to the ironing board and steam press it nice and flat, everything is cut exactly the length needed for when you sew those two together seams, this piece will fit there exactly on the next block, it's exactly the same, just put the sides up and down.

I like to smooth them out before I iron them, so I can feel that my seam allowances are moving away from the center and they're nice and flat, same thing here now we're going to take the blocks that have the light accent around them and we're going to draw a diagonal line in the back, so I'm just going to go from corner to corner. I'm going to use a pencil. There are a lot of pretty chalk pencils out there, but this works great for me and we'll eventually cut that line so it doesn't really matter what you mark with.

We're going to put this block on top of this block, they're exactly the same size and we're going to sell them a quarter inch away from both lines and we're going to make some half square triangular blocks, except they're both tile. so let's see what it's going to look like so I'm going to line everything up carefully and sew a quarter of an inch apart which is the size of my presser foot and I'm just going to turn it over and go down the other side now I know. I just ironed the blocks, but I'm always worried about my seams stretching or pulling on the fabric a little bit, so I like to press it very briefly before I make that cut, so now we'll take it to the cutting board and cut.

Right on that drawn line, now back to the ironing board. I like to put the color light. We have a lot of light color there. I'll open it up and press it first so it's nice and flat. Give it a touch. Good ironing, look how fun that block is and that's all we need for the entire quilt. We just make a lot of these blocks and it looks a lot harder than it is. They're basically just half square triangles, turns out they're mosaics. I'm going to sew and cut the rest of the blocks and then we'll start laying out the quilt.

Now for the fun part, we have to place the blocks. You'll notice in this pattern that it could be considered the focal point. The point is not in the center of the quilt, it's up and over it just a little bit, so that's where I'll start placing the blocks and build around that. I just like to have all the blocks here and just start. build and then when I'm done I'll make sure I don't have two of the same color in the same place, so when I start I basically place the blocks in the pattern I want and don't worry too much.

There's a lot about what color is where and then when I have everything laid out I'll change things up. I'm starting to see the pattern appear now and we're getting these dashed lines of color, it's actually really fun, now there's an alternative. way you could lay out all your blocks and this is the way I make a lot of my log cabins. I put all the lights together like this so you can play with this if you want to make a different design, so now we have There's something really pretty about this and that's fun too, so I'm going to play with a couple of different designs until get it the way I want, then I'll sew the blocks together, put on a couple of borders and place it on the long arm, this quilt was so much fun to make and it was very very quick, those are the kind of cool light ties that look complex but they're actually pretty easy so the block here is our half square triangle that made each block and you'll notice that the center here, the center of the pattern is not the center of the quilt, it's offset a little bit and you get those radiant bands of color around them, they turned out very big now the pattern says it's a double size, but it's 80 by 97 inches, it's a pretty big twin.

I quilted it with a full pattern called African Labyrinth. We use a very soft peach print on the back, always the threads hanging from everything, so all the fabric requirements are in the pattern so I know how much to buy for the accent background borders. Now it turned out so cute. I decided to make another one. I love this bundle of fat quarters called a cockatiel. These are all Hoffmann boutiques, so in this one I used a really neutral background and you can see how. different, the coats turned out with this neutral background and then the dark gray border.

This would make a great tapestry to hang on the wall. This is the size of the blanket and it measures 62 by 71, but it is really pretty. I love the way the pattern turns out. I quoted it in the same pattern and used a plain batik on the back, sort of an elephant color, but you can really see the quilting. I tend to like the small overall patterns of these geometric quilts that have lots of dots and corners. I think it softens it a little. We have some curves and some angles that are really fun to do.

We hope you enjoyed watching our tutorial today on how to make the radiant quilt happy.