- Hi, I'm Deanna Springer.
On behalf of Nancy Zieman Productions and PBS Wisconsin,
thank you for joining us
for this special educational presentation.
Please add your questions for the presenter in the chat
and stay tuned for a Q&A after the lecture.
Then be sure to explore everything else
the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show has to offer,
including beautiful quilt exhibits
and an interactive vendor mall.
Thank you and enjoy.
[bright music]
[upbeat music]
Hi, I'm Deanna Springer.
And thank you for joining us
for the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show virtual edition.
- And I'm Dana Casey.
Welcome to our Sew a Celebration lecture.
- Although we're not together in person,
we're imagining you're right here
on the set of Stitch It! Sisters with us,
and we're excited to share our quick and easy projects
to piece and quilt for the holidays,
including table runners, home decor,
baking accessories, and more.
- Join us for our fun presentation
and trunk show of projects
to piece and quilt for the holidays.
[upbeat music]
- Deanna: We'll start sewing for the holidays
with our patriotic quarter square table runner
by effortlessly cutting, marking,
and stitching quarter square triangles
without ever cutting a triangle.
We'll start by selecting our fabrics
and we've selected the Land of Liberty Fat Quarter Pack.
It's all coordinating,
it's by Mind's Eye for Riley Blake designs,
and it's such fun red, white, and blue fabrics
that make a great quarter square table runner.
- Dana: It's a beautiful collection.
- Mm-hmm, so head to the ironing board
and starch and press your fabrics
and get them ready for the cutting process.
The next thing we'll do is cut our pieces.
So we'll need to cut our pieces.
And we'll start by cutting our crosswise fabric strips.
And we have a little board here to share with you,
the step-by-step easy techniques for cutting strips
and then subcutting into squares.
And we're using the No-Hassle Triangles Ruler.
The No-Hassle Triangle Ruler is great
for making quilt blocks,
half squares, and quarter square triangles.
And we're making quarter square triangles
for our patriotic table topper.
I think they look like pinwheels...
- Dana: They sure do. - ...when they're sewn together.
So that's why we chose that design
for our patriotic table runner.
And we know that we wanna make four-inch quilt blocks.
That's our pattern, our pattern tells you,
and it's all in the pattern
and it's on the nancyzieman.com/blog.
All this information too.
So we're starting by cutting four-inch blocks.
But to make four-inch quarter square blocks,
we can't cut four-inch fabric squares.
We follow the blue measurements on the ruler
for making 4-inch
or 4 1/2-inch quarter square quilt blocks.
And it tells us right there to line it up
with the guide for those 4 1/2-inch blocks.
And you used to have to look in a book
or find it another way. - Right.
- What size do we cut our squares to make quarter squares?
Well, not anymore. - No.
- It's all right here. - Mm-hmm.
- So to make 4 1/2-inch quarter square quilt blocks,
we're cutting 5 1/4-inch strips.
So you just crosswise cut your fabric strips,
and then you turn the ruler
and you subcut into 5 1/4-inch squares.
- Dana: My favorite feature of this ruler
is the color coding.
I'm fond of color coding, I do it in many things we do.
And here it just, if you want squares,
you do the green and half squares,
the purple and then teal is the quarter square.
- Deanna: Right, it's all color-coded for you.
And it's all compact right here.
You don't have to find a reference
to tell you what size squares to cut.
So after we cut our strip,
our strip of, we're using fat quarters,
so you could cut an entire crosswise fabric strip,
or just cut up your fat quarters.
And then we're cutting them into the blocks,
the squares for our blocks.
And the next step is to use our No-Hassle Triangles Gauge.
The gauge is designed for the same purpose.
The gauge shows the measurements
for half square and quarter square quilt blocks.
So we just line it up, depress the button, and slide it
to the 4 1/2 inch quarter square triangle block.
And then we trace.
We trace down the center of the gauge and we mark.
But that's not our stitching line,
that's a cutting line,
but we don't wanna cut the blocks apart
until after they're stitched.
So we use that center marked line
and we align our quarter inch quilting foot
to that line and we stitch.
We stitch on each side of that marked line,
and then we do some cutting at the rotary mat
or with a scissors,
we cut that block apart and that makes two blocks.
So when you open that, you have two blocks.
- Dana: Okay.
- Deanna: And you have a pair of blocks.
The next step would be to align the blocks together,
and we're showing it here, right down here.
And to make quarter square quilt blocks,
we align the dark fabric to the light
and the light to the dark.
And we do the same thing.
We bring back the No-Hassle Triangles Gauge
and we do some marking.
We've laid that on the diagonal and we mark.
We mark that quarter square quilt block,
and you can slide the gauge to that quarter square block
for 4 1/2-inch quarter square blocks.
Align that; you know your blocks are the right size
then if you're aligned in the gauge.
Mark that center line
and then stitch with the sewing machine
on each side of that center marked line.
And when you cut this apart down that center marked line,
you have two quarter square quilt blocks.
And then we need to sew our quilt blocks into strata.
- Yes. - So on the table runner,
you'll see that we've sewn four blocks in the center.
Here, we'll open it up. - Dana: Okay.
- Deanna: So on the table runner,
you'll see that we have a center fabric that we've cut
and that's just a half yard of fabric.
And we share the dimensions on the blog and on the website,
but it's 16 1/2 by... - In unison: 32 1/2.
- We have it memorized.
And it's 4 blocks here and 10 blocks on each side.
And we'll show you how we seam those blocks together.
Here's a row of four.
And a row of four, you make two of those.
And you can turn the blocks however you'd like.
We like to rotate the red and the blue
and just make an opposing pair.
Really, there's no rules.
You can seam together.
All the fabrics go together.
It's a convenient fat quarter pack.
You can sew your collection together
however you'd like and make, I believe there's 28.
- I believe so. - In this table runner.
And here is two rows of ten, two rows of four.
And then we stitch,
we stitch this to the center of the table runner,
that navy blue star center piece,
and then once that's stitched together,
we look at the finished table runner
and you can see that the four pack
has been stitched to the center on each end
and then you sew the long in place.
And all that information is included
in the pattern and at the blog site,
as well as some quilt finishing techniques.
Next up, we're stitching our Love Letters table runner
with modified quarter square triangle quilt blocks.
[upbeat music]
To stitch our Valentine's Love Letters table runner
with modified quarter square triangles,
we'll start by selecting our fabrics.
And we've selected a pretty Valentine
pink and red and white collection
by Riley Blake Designs.
And we of course, went ahead to the ironing board
and spray starch your fabrics
and get them all ready for the cutting process.
But we wanted to showcase
with our Valentine's table runner,
the quarter square triangle.
And you can see the quarter square triangle
kind of looks like an envelope. - Dana: It does.
- Deanna: These are turned on their side.
And depending on how you look at the block,
they look like little letters or little envelopes.
That's why we wanted to highlight that
in this new table runner.
And this uses 4 1/2-inch quilt blocks
or 4-inch quilt blocks
when they're sewn into the table runner.
And we make all of our quilt blocks
with the No-Hassle Triangles Gauge and Ruler.
So I'll bring the fabric board over
and we'll pull the table runner out
and we'll show that we first cut crosswise fabric strips.
And we're using fat quarters again.
We love fat quarters. - Dana: We do.
- Deanna: The collections go together so nicely.
The fabrics in each collection are just fail proof.
The fabrics look beautiful together.
And we've just chosen a red, a white, and a pink,
and we need to cut crosswise fabric strips.
And the ruler tells us, right on the ruler it states
that if we want to make a 4 1/2-inch
half square triangles,
we need to cut 4 7/8-inch strips.
For making our modified quarter square triangles,
we'll need to make a couple different blocks.
A modified quarter square triangle
is actually half half square and half quarter square.
So it's a combination of two blocks,
but it's still super easy to make.
We need to cut two different widths
of crosswise fabric strips for this project.
Because the red fabric is only a half square triangle,
we slide the ruler up
and we cut 4 1/2-inch half square blocks.
So we cut our strips and we turn the ruler
and subcut them into quilt blocks.
We also have two other fabrics as part of the quilt block,
and the pink and the white are cut slightly wider.
There's one extra seam
when we start sewing our block together.
That means this strata has to be a little bit larger.
So we slide the ruler into place
and we cut crosswise fabric strips
that are 5 1/4 inches wide,
and then subcut them into blocks.
Again, it's due to the extra seam,
but there's no need to remember; it's all here for you.
So once we subcut into blocks,
we cut our fabric squares,
and then we place them right sides together.
And we like to place the light color fabric on top.
And then we bring our No-Hassle Triangles Gauge into place,
and we do a little marking.
And we mark, we slide the gauge
to that 5 1/2-inch half square marking, and we mark.
We mark down the center of the gauge.
And again, that's our cutting line.
That's not a stitching line.
So don't cut it apart yet, again,
head to the sewing machine and stitch,
stitch along each side of that marked line,
and it creates two half squares.
And once you cut that apart, here are the two half squares.
Just easy half square triangles.
And there's no stretching on the bias,
because we left the block complete.
Those fabric blocks were together
until we stitched them.
And once we cut them apart, it's easy breezy,
there's no stretching.
And we like to press.
We press as we go, press your seams towards the dark side.
And we like to use the wool pressing mat.
- Dana: We sure do. - Deanna: It's a nice tool
to use right on your ironing board
and with the steam of your iron, the heat of your iron,
and then set those seams with the tailor's clapper.
- Dana: Yes, one of my very favorite tools.
It's a great pairing.
- Deanna: Right, our sister Denise likes to call it
the quilter's clapper. - She does.
- It sets the seam,
it pulls a little bit moisture out when you're pressing,
and your blocks are always nice and straight
and perfect in your quilt.
- Dana: Yes. - Deanna: The next step
would be to add an element to it.
So to make it a modified quarter square,
we take this half square triangle
and we add that red fabric square.
And we again mark.
We mark that diagonal line.
And this one you wanna be careful with
so that you make sure, double-check your block,
that you're marking it the right way.
And Dana is, she's putting it diagonally,
opposite of that seam. - Dana: Yes.
- Right, and then you'd mark,
you'd mark down the center of that.
And that's your cutting line, your future cutting line.
And then you'd stitch on each side of that line.
And when then you open that up,
you have two modified quarter square triangles.
And then we need to sew these together.
We need to sew these together
to make the finished table runner.
So we'll bring back the finished table runner
and it's so easy just to make all kinds of assorted blocks,
or we call them little envelope blocks,
because they're little love letters.
And then we sew, we sew together a strip of four
for this end and a strip of four for that end.
And then two strips of 10 blocks.
So it's just making pairs, stitching pairs together,
making your long two rows of ten, two rows of four,
and then stitching them to your center quilt panel.
This is just a half a yard of fabric
that we've cut to 16 1/2 by 32.
It's super easy to remember, but it's in the pattern.
We tell you in the pattern exactly how to do that.
And also at the blog site, nancyzieman.com/blog.
Next up, we're stitching our Halloween table runner
with half square triangle quilt blocks.
[upbeat music]
We'll be stitching our Halloween table runner
with half square triangle quilt blocks.
We'll start by selecting our fabrics.
We've selected a Halloween fat quarter pack
and a half yard of coordinating,
kind of like a printed Swiss dot fabric for the center.
But we'll head to the ironing board first
and we'll spray starch our fabrics
and get them all ready for the cutting process.
And next up, we'll do some cutting for the squares.
We'll be cutting blocks to make into half square triangles.
And we call them half square triangles,
but we're really cutting blocks.
We're cutting square quilt blocks.
We start by cutting crosswise fabric strips,
and we're using our no-hassle triangles ruler,
and we want to make 4 1/2-inch quilt blocks.
So we just slide the ruler up,
following the green measurements and find,
okay, if I wanna make 4 1/2-inch quilt blocks,
it tells us to cut 4 7/8-inch strips,
which we'll subcut into blocks.
So we've cut our strips, turn the ruler,
and you'll subcut them into squares.
We have our two fabrics, we've cut our squares.
And we like to place our fabrics right side together.
Then we do a little marking
and we like that light colored fabric on top,
and we mark with the No-Hassle Triangles Gauge,
and we slide the guide to that 4 1/2-inch block,
and it's printed right on the guide.
So just line that up.
If we're making 4 1/2-inch half square triangles,
slide the guide up, align corner to corner and mark.
Do some marking through those die cut openings.
And that is our cutting line, our future cutting line.
So take it to the sewing machine and stitch your blocks
and mark a whole bunch of blocks
and stitch them all at the same time
and chain piece them together for ease in piecing.
And we're stitching.
We're stitching a scant quarter inch
on each side of that center marked line,
and make sure you engage your dual feed
if you have dual feed on your machine.
- Dana: Oh, yes.
- Deanna: And attach a 1/4-inch presser foot if you have it.
And use those needles,
those size 90 machine quilting needles.
From piecing to finishing the quilt,
it works great for the whole process.
- And every time I start a new project,
I like to start with a brand new needle.
- Right, good tip.
Our mom maybe didn't always do that.
- I don't think so. [laughing]
- Mom used to sew until a needle broke.
We don't do that.
We change our needle, change your needle.
- Change your needle. - With your project.
And sometimes I change my needle throughout the project.
If I've done a project that used a lot of adhesive
or spray adhesive to layer it together,
I'll change to a super non-stick needle in this process too.
So use those needles,
they're designed for us to make the process easy.
So it's a great tip.
And then after we've stitched down each side
of that center marked line, we cut it apart.
So using a scissors or a rotary cutting mat,
we just cut down the center of that marked line.
And we've already done that here.
And when you open the block,
we now have two, two half square triangles and that's it.
We use our half square triangles to make that border,
but we did some creative turning.
We turned our blocks and arranged them
into a sawtooth pattern.
And that's the great thing about half square triangles.
You can arrange them into different designs
depending on where your lights and darks are.
You can arrange like we did,
we'll bring back the table runner.
We arranged the dark fabric to make a sawtooth border.
We had to make it spooky, right?
It's a Halloween table runner. - My favorite.
- So you'll see that blocks are placed on,
we turned them until we have that sawtooth border.
In the corner, it just makes a nice little turn
and then you continue with that jaggedy.
Next up, we're stitching Halloween appliqué coasters.
[upbeat music]
To stitch our Halloween appliqué coasters,
we'll start by using pre-cuts.
We're using five-inch pre-cut fabric squares.
These are just five-inch squares.
And you can buy these in cute little holiday sets
for all different seasons, or you can cut your own,
just cut with a square ruler some five-inch squares.
And for each coaster,
we'll need two fabrics for the back,
a fabric for the front, and a fabric for the inside back.
And I'll show you that in a little bit.
We also need two interfacing.
We're using two squares
of five inch cut interfacing of Pellon ShirTailor.
That gives us a little bit of stiffness to our coaster,
but not too much stiffness.
And we're also using Pellon's Wonder-Under,
and this is the paperback fusible web
that we use when we add the appliqué designs.
But we wanna showcase
how we make these quick and easy coasters,
because you have the option.
You don't have to appliqué these.
You could use decorative stitches
or just choose a fun fabric.
But what we do is we layer the fabric.
We first, we fuse at the ironing board,
the interfacing to both the front
and the back inside pieces.
So that's our first set.
And we place them wrong sides together,
and you may be thinking,
"Hmm, what's going to happen with that?"
But this is the front and this is our back
and we do some folding.
We fold, we fold our fabrics,
just fold those squares into rectangles
and we'll show you why we did that.
When we turn over the coasters,
you'll see that the back is purple.
The back of this one is orange.
This one is black, and they're fun little Halloween characters.
- Dana: Yes. - Deanna: But when you open it,
you can see that there's a little opening in the back.
And this is our technique
so that you can just sew four seams
without having to leave an opening for turning.
So we've aligned our back fabrics
and we're using two different color fabrics on this one.
And then we stitch,
we stitch down one side and one opposite side.
Don't sew all four sides at this point.
- Okay. - So we have this one stitched.
And we've stitched down each side,
I'll turn it the right way here.
We've stitched and then we wrap, we wrap the next seam.
That's why you only stitch opposing seams.
Then we use Nancy's wrap corner method
of wrapping that stitch seam towards the unstitched seam
and then stitch, stitch those two remaining seams.
You've caught all four seams within that stitching line,
those four stitching lines.
The next thing would be to turn it.
So we use Clover's Point 2 Point Turner.
Thank you. - You're welcome.
- And we turn, we turn the coaster right side out.
And you can see why we put the white fabric
on the back and the front.
And with the Clover's Point 2 Point Turner,
you can turn this easily right side out
and then poke out all your corners.
So we have four corners, because they're square.
In this one, we didn't decorate.
You could decorate your pallet coasters
with the appliqué printable.
And that's a free printable at nancyzieman.com.
You just search Halloween, land at our blog site,
we have over 290 tutorials, it's probably up near 400 now.
- Dana: It's getting close! - Deanna: But we say 290.
And then you can find those printables
and you could decorate, but you'd wanna make sure
that you use your fusible web
and put it to the back of your solid fabric.
- Sure.
- And you'd want to embellish your front
before you put your back on.
- Dana: Otherwise, you would just sew it right shut.
- Deanna: Right, or you could choose a fun fabric.
You could choose a fun fabric
and do no stitching to the front.
There's really, it's a low sew project,
just four seams,
but then you can get as creative as you want
with the decoration.
And you can stitch your appliqués in place
with beautiful threads,
like the Isacord polyester embroidery threads.
- So many different, nice, fun colors.
- But you can sew for different holidays too.
- For sure. - So we made some
for Independence Day or red, white, and blue holidays.
These don't have the appliqué,
but we just used decorative stitches
and just randomly stitched on that
outside five-inch square.
And then when you turn it over, you have that opening.
And we've multipurposed that opening.
It's not just for ease in turning,
it's a pallet coaster for the front,
because it's a blank pallet
you can decorate however you want.
On the back, it's an opening for a wine glass,
and you're excited to show that.
- I am very excited to show that.
- So you just put that envelope
on the bottom of a wine glass or a juice glass.
And you could also just set your glass
on top of the coaster as well.
And if you're having a Halloween party,
you could choose to make different,
like we did here.
Use the backing fabrics as different fabrics
and then you know which glass belongs to which person.
And I know that you want to be the purple one.
- Dana: Yes.
- Deanna: And I'll be the orange.
- Dana: And our two other sisters can join in
with the green and black. - Deanna: Right.
Next up, we're stitching our wine tote and fun fabric caddy.
[upbeat music]
To stitch our wine tote caddy,
we'll start by selecting fabrics.
And depending on what holiday
or celebration you're stitching for,
just choose two fat quarters
or two half yards of coordinating fabric.
Because our wine tote,
you can see the inside of the tote from the outside.
So it's fun to pick some contrasting fabrics.
And we're just gonna cut simple rectangles.
But this isn't just a wine tote.
We like to use this for a housewarming.
And then we've tucked a little bit of spaghetti
and maybe a little spaghetti sauce.
- Dana: Well, some special sauce.
- Deanna: Oh, look at that, we have our own
Stitch It! Sisters marinara sauce, news to me.
Great, they'll love it.
So you can use this for a housewarming
and private label your own spaghetti sauce.
Cute, Dana, very cute. [Dana laughing]
So also handy for a wine tote or a little gift bag.
It's a great gift bag.
- I love homemade gifts, I love giving them.
- And then we can make it for any season.
We've made it for a patriotic holiday for today.
And we really start by cutting easy rectangles.
These are just rectangles of fabric
and we cut two rectangles for the inner tote.
Or if you want this to be the outer tote
for spaghetti night, it certainly could be.
- Dana: For sure.
- Deanna: We've cut two rectangles and we've backed them
with Pellon ShirTailor interfacing
to give it some crispness and so it stands up on its own.
We also cut two rectangles for the outside of the wine tote.
And then we just cut,
we cut a little bit of curved edge
and just make sure that your shape is all the same.
And that curved edge makes the handles on the wine tote.
But we start by sewing the back inner lining
and the front inner lining together.
So I'm just Wonder Clipping this.
And that's the first seam we stitch.
We stitch that with a scant quarter inch seam
or use the edge of your presser foot.
This is an easy, breezy project.
You can just use the width of your presser foot,
just be consistent with all of your seams
so your project lines up.
So we've stitched that center seam,
and we do the same thing with the outer wine tote.
We put that right sides together,
and we stitch, we stitch that seam,
that seam at the top of the wine tote.
And we've already stitched it here.
The next step would be to place them right sides together.
Then, I've placed the red on top of the navy,
and then we stitch those curved seams.
So it's flat construction, flat construction.
Here's that seam we stitched first.
These will be our second seams that we stitch.
So stitch that curved line
and traditionally, we'd have to clip a curved line.
You'd have to take a scissors and clip,
clip, clip, clip every quarter of an inch
and cut out a notch.
We like to use Clover's 45 millimeter rotary cutter
and a pinking blade.
And just flip your rotary mat over
when you're using decorative blades and we trim,
we trim those seam allowances,
pinking the edges, which will make it easy to turn.
- Dana: Yes.
- We like to use Clover's Clip 'n Glide Bodkin.
It's a bodkin with a clip that grasps onto your fabric
and that won't let go, and it's flexible.
It's flexible, so we can pull,
say elastic through casing or ribbon through,
or trim through casing.
But we use it in an unusual way for turning,
because this is so narrow,
we can't pull our hand through there,
we like to use the Clip 'n Glide Bodkin.
So you just clip it on by the seam allowance
in the lower corner, and then you feed it through.
You feed that through to your Stitch It! Sister,
and you grasp onto that and you pull that through.
And you grab on, yep, and it's pulling through
and it's coming through that opening.
So we've designed it
so that's as narrow as you wanna go comfortably.
But you also like to use the seam stick.
- I do.p- I saw you using the seam stick
when we were making samples
and you kinda pushed the seam stick through.
- Dana: To help that, help guide it,
when you're doing it by yourself,
that's a little bit of extra help.
- Deanna: Sure, a wooden spoon from the kitchen would work too.
- Dana: Yes.
- And since we're making a festive tote here.
So we usually use this for pressing, for pressing seams.
We're not using it for that today, but we could.
Because the next step would be to press.
We'd press these seams and get them nice and flat
and you could pre-press them
before you turn it right-side out too.
And do a little pressing at the ironing board
and align your seams.
So we've aligned the inner wine tote
with the outer wine tote and then we meet.
We meet right sides together and align those seams.
Now, you may think that you just stitch, and you could,
you could stitch this all the way around all three sides,
but we like to do a little bit of a high end finish.
So we align, we align our seams.
We align the blue to the blue and the red to the red.
And we do a little pinning and we stitch,
we stitch that long seam.
Be sure not to stitch the bottom seams.
So it just naturally wants to lay this way.
You stitch those two sides seams,
stitching the lining to the lining
and the outer fabric to the outer fabric.
And when you turn that right side out again,
you'll have a tote that's stitched on those sides.
And then the last thing would be to stitch that lower seam.
So imagine that these side seams are stitched
and we just stitch that lower seam.
And we give gusset tips too,
if you want to put a little gusset
into your wine tote,
and we can bring one of the finished ones up.
If you want that little gusset, we show you at the blog site.
So we just go to nancyzieman.com/blog
and search wine tote.
And you'll find tutorials and tips on how we made these.
And we do like to do a little top stitching too, optional.
You can top stitch around the edges.
So in here, we have a little bit of Halloween wine,
and there you have a Valentine one.
And the Valentine one, we did a little bit differently.
We stitched a dot fabric to a floral fabric.
Instead of sewing the red to the red,
it would be red to blue.
And then it's kinda reversible
and it's just a little bit different tote,
but that's how easy it is to make our wine totes
and our fun fabric caddy is made the same way.
It's a little bit bigger though.
You'll recognize that shape. - Yes.
- Instead of sewing the side seam, we inserted a rectangle.
So we just sewed a rectangle to this
and we also have inside dividers in there too.
It's a very similar design,
just head over to the blog and search fun fabric caddy.
[upbeat music]
Next, we're stitching our folded fabric hot pad.
[upbeat music]
To stitch our folded fabric hot pads,
we'll be cutting simple fabric squares,
and to make our hot pad, it's just stacking and folding.
They're simple squares,
it's 10-inch squares or 9-inch squares.
The ones we're making today are 10 1/2-inch squares
because we chose a fabric panel.
So you can, you have options.
We'll be cutting several squares and you can choose,
you're the designer.
We've chosen four different fabrics to showcase
in our 4th of July hot pads,
but we're also making some for grilling season.
- Grilling! - So we'll be grilling out.
And we wanted to make some hot pads
to go with an apron that we made earlier.
And we chose a panel.
So that determined,
the panel determined how big we cut our squares.
So we just fussy cut our squares out.
And this wasn't so square,
it was a little bit rectangular, doesn't matter.
We're gonna take the 12 1/2-inch square ruler
and we're going to cut.
We need to cut one fabric square for the front of the potholder,
four for the woven back, and one for the inner back.
But we need a little insulation in the middle.
And we're using Pellon's Insul-Fleece.
So also cut a square there.
So whether it's 9 or 10 1/2, cut your squares all the same.
And then we stack, we stack layer them.
So we've stacked the inner lining fabric
and then the Pellon fleece or the Pellon Insul-Film.
And then we put our Hot Stuff panel.
So right now it looks like a traditional hot pad.
If you were to bind this, you have a hot pad,
but we like to do a little stacking.
We stack this and we fold our squares first.
We fold our squares into triangles,
and then we align our triangles with the edge of the seam.
And then you weave them,
red and black and red and black as you're doing this,
and you'll add yours,
and then we can just keep adding them
and then weave them together.
And then the last one gets tucked under.
Align the raw edges
and then as long as you have your raw edges aligned,
you can flip these over and get your weave just right.
- Dana: Oh, sure. - Deanna: And on the next one,
we have it already woven together.
Magically, it's woven together.
Our layers are stacked,
we have our inner fabric, our Insul-Fleece,
and our outer fabric.
And then we have our triangles woven into place.
And we just Wonder Clipped.
We Wonder Clipped that together.
And we'll be stitching that with Nancy's wrapped corners.
So to make Nancy's wrapped corners,
we stitch along each side seam on the right and the left.
Don't stitch the top and the bottom yet,
because we wanna do wrapped seams.
We like using wrapped seams
because it makes nice, crisp corners
when you turn your potholder right side out.
So we've already stitched the side seams,
and then we wrap, we wrap that fabric towards the project
and we stitch the seam.
But we have quite a few layers here.
And to stitch that successfully, we like to use the big jig.
So put that underneath your presser foot
as you start stitching.
You don't want to have your presser foot at an angle
when you start stitching all these layers.
You'll kind of stitch in one place
and you won't go anywhere.
So put your big jig underneath your presser foot
and then stitch those seams.
And then you turn.
Once the seams are stitched,
you turn your potholder right side out.
And with the help of Clover's Point 2 Point Turner,
we can push those corners out.
And you could do some trimming.
There's some bulk in those corners.
You could trim out some of those triangles
and we'll turn this right side out
and push out those seams.
We're pushing out each corner
with Clover's Point 2 Point Turner.
Do a little fussy folding
and make sure your fabric triangles are woven,
and then when you have all your points turned,
you turn it over and you have a finished potholder.
And we'll bring our other one back.
And you can see once you do a little pressing
and fussy folding, you have really nice woven potholders,
and there's no seam to leave open in turn.
There's no binding to do,
just really fast stack and stitch potholders.
- Yes.
- And we wanted to talk about panels a little bit today.
We like to use panels for making aprons,
for holiday projects, for any occasion.
There's panels for lots of occasions,
including aprons and Christmas aprons.
So if you're in a hurry to make a holiday gift
or, you know, to change your decor for the holiday,
there's so many panels available.
And this is a fun Christmas apron panel
with some ribbon candy straps,
and the instructions are printed right on the panels.
So you can just easily follow that
and add, say a coordinating fabric for the back
and some interfacing would be nice too
to give your apron some body, your apron straps.
- Yes, panels are near and dear to my heart,
'cause my very first dog growing up was a panel.
- Right, Ollie was stitched from a panel.
And what you maybe didn't know when you were really young,
when Mom bought Ollie panel,
she bought three or four of them.
So as you wore Ollie out, every once in a while
she'd put Ollie in the washing machine
and she'd come out brand new. - Dana: Wow!
- Deanna: Overnight, Mom had stitched you a new Ollie panel.
Ollie the panel dog.
It was kind of a Raggedy Ann red, white, and blue.
- Right, and when I became an adult
and I sewed the last panel,
I figured out that she put every one of those panels
inside as stuffing.
So I have from 1 to like 15. [laughs]
- You sewed your very last one,
and then found all of the rest of the Ollie outer fabrics
worn out to cheese cloth practically on the inside,
but fun story about panels.
So you can make wall hangings,
easily stitch wall hangings, potholders,
all kinds of accessories for any occasion for the holidays.
And we like to use the Hot Stuff Barbecue
for the grilling season to make potholders and beyond.
Next, we're stitching our Jellyroll table mat.
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To stitch our Jellyroll table mat,
we'll be using 2 1/2-inch pre-cut cotton batting strips.
We'll also be using Jerry's Jellyroll Jig
and 2 1/2-inch pre-cut fabric strips.
2 1/2-inch pre-cuts are so handy,
they're ready to be sewn right into your project.
And I know you like to use them for piecing quilt tops.
- I do, I like to make column quilts
with my 2 1/2 inch pre-cuts.
- Right, column quilts are a great project
for 2 1/2-inch pre cuts,
and they make great binding as well.
- Oh, absolutely. - And we're using them
with the 2 1/2-inch batting strips
for creating a table mat.
And this is so fun to sew.
You can make one for every occasion
and every holiday and all the different fabrics
that are available for the different occasions.
And we're just using the 2 1/2-inch batting strips
with 2 1/2-inch pre-cut fabric strip.
And we just align those together.
And then we insert them into Jerry's Jellyroll Jig.
And this is a really handy tool for making the table mat.
And as you feed the fabric and the batting together as one
through the jig,
I like to use some Clover's Wonder Clips
and pin that together, pin those layers together,
because the first step we need to do is sew,
we need to advance the maker
as we're attaching clips in stitch.
So head to the sewing machine and insert a denim needle.
You want a nice denim 90 needle
to stitch through all these layers.
And we show it stitched already in this sample.
And I keep this right in my lap with the supplies
in baskets next to me. - Dana: Yes.
- Deanna: And it's on the floor.
And then I'm just doing it continuously.
And you just advance the maker and stitch.
Stitch that straight line all the way down the entire strip,
and this strip would be stitched.
The first step is to stitch the entire strip.
Depending on what size you want your project,
you just keep adding strips together.
You'd wanna sew all your 2 1/2-inch fabric strips together
as one long strip before starting your project.
And then stitch the entire length
with that straight line stitch.
And you just can see it here.
The next step is to start coiling.
And for our table mat, we cut a center circle.
And you can just see,
we put a layer of batting in there
so that it's the same thickness.
And we have a backing fabric too,
from another fat quarter from this collection.
And we've started with that center circle.
We've kind of fussy cut that America saying
out of the fabric.
And that gave us a circular center to start from.
And then you just start stitching.
You start stitching that fabric coil
to the outside of that design.
And you can change your fabrics
when you sew your original strip together
and just make a really fun table mat.
And you can make it for any occasion
and in any shape almost. - Right.
- So this one we stitched for Easter,
and we didn't start with a center fabric piece.
We just started by folding the fabric onto itself like this.
I've started a red elegance rug.
I sewed an entire pre-cut together
and I'm making a rug with this.
This is as far as I am right now,
but we just stitch the two together
and then just continue adding
around and around and around and around.
And it doesn't have to be round.
- Dana: No. - Deanna: You can make oval.
So we made it oval for Easter. - Dana: Or egg-shaped.
- Deanna: You said it was egg-shaped
and I didn't think about that until you said that.
Right, so they're really fast and really fun to make.
And pre-cuts are available
in all kinds of colors and seasonal.
And this is a nice Christmas one
that would make a beautiful table mat.
So we hope you'll give it a try.
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- Deanna: Find our quick and easy projects
to piece and quilt for the holidays
and so much more at nancyzieman.com/blog.
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Thank you for joining us today.
We hope you've enjoyed our Sew a Celebration projects.
>> THAWR FOR JOINING THANK YOU FOR JOINING USHOLDER POTHOLDER INSUL-FILM
INSUL-FILM OLLIE 2 1/2" PRE-CUTS
PRE-CUT DENIM
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>> HI.
I'M DEANNA SPRINGER.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR THE
GREAT WISCONSIN QUILT SHOW AND
THANK YOU FOR TUNING IN FOR
"PIECE AND QUILT FOR THE
HOLIDAYS."
I'M HAPPY TO HAVE DANA HERE
REMOTE FROM OUR STUDIO IN BEAVER
DAM.
>> HELLO.
HAPPY TO BE HERE.
>> I'M IN THE STUDIOS OF PBS
WISCONSIN IN MADISON.
SO WE'RE DOING OUR FIRST STITCH
IT, SISTERS REMOTE.
I SEE YOU HAVE THE PROJECTS IN
FRONT OF YOU THAT WE MADE IN OUR
VIDEO AND I HAVE SOME HERE, TOO.
WE HAVE LOTS OF QUESTIONS
ROLLING IN, SO I'LL GET RIGHT TO
THE QUESTIONS.
AND THE FIRST ONE IS FROM
SHARON.
SHARON IS ASKING, ARE YOU GAIL'S
REALLY SISTERS, LIKE FOR REAL
SISTERS WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE
KIDS?
YES, SHARON.
WE ARE.
WE WERE BORN AND RAISED IN
COLUMBUS.
OUR PARENTS ARE DON AND SHARON
AND WE HAVE TWO OTHER SISTERS,
DENISE AND DIANA.
YES, TRULY WE ARE SISTERS.
SHARON IS OUR MOTHER'S NAME, SO
I'M WONDERING IF THAFS THAT WAS OUR
MOM ON FACEBOOK ASKING IF WE
WERE TRULY SISTERS.
THE NEXT QUESTION IS FROM SHARON
IN DETROIT.
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST HALF SQUARE
YOU CAN MAKE WITH THE HALF
SQUARE TRIANGLE GAUGE?
DANA, YOU HAVE THAT IN FRONT OF
YOU?
>> THE BIGGEST SIZE YOU CAN
MAKE, A FINISHED SQUARE, IS
6 1/4 INCHES.
>> IT'S 6 1/2 QUILT BLOCK.
AND SAME WITH THE RULER, THE NO
HASSLE TRIANGLES RULER.
2 1/2" TO 6 1/2 SQUARES.
THEY WORK SEPARATELY OR
TOGETHER.
ALL OF THE INFORMATION IS
PRINTED RIGHT ON THE TOOL.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO FINDING A
SOURCE OR LOOK ONLINE OR GUESS.
IT'S ALL HANDY RIGHT HERE.
SO GREAT QUESTION.
CLOVIS IS ASKING FROM INDIANA,
DOES THE PRESSING MAT GIVE OFF A
SMELL?
AND SHE'S TALKING ABOUT OUR WOOL
MAT, DANA.
WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD AND GIVE
THAT A SMELL.
>> SMELLS CLEAN AND FRESH TO ME.
>> RIGHT.
CLOVIS, I'VE NEVER SMELLED
ANYTHING WITH THE WOOL PRESSING
MAT.
SO, DANA, YOU'RE SHAKING YOUR
HEAD NO, TOO.
BUT IT PULLS THE MOISTURE OUT,
THE HEAT.
IT PULLS THE HEAT TOWARD THE
BOTTOM AND IT REALLY SETS YOUR
BLOCK, IN ADDITION WITH THE
WOODEN PRESSING, LITTLE WOODEN
IRON THAT WE USE TOO OR THE
TAILOR'S CLAPPER.
FRAN IS ASKING WHAT IS THE
WOODEN TOOL USED FOR?
CLASS THETHAT'S THE TAILOR'S CLAPPER.
TELL US WHAT THAT'S FOR.
>> ONCE YOU PRESS YOUR SEAMS
OPEN AND TO ONE SIDE, YOU THEN
PLACE YOUR TAILOR'S CLAPPER ON
TOP OF THE SEAM.
AND WHAT THAT DOES IS IT SETS
THE SEAM.
IT PULLS THE MOISTURE OUT OF
YOUR FABRIC AND YOU GET A NICE,
CRISP SEAM AFTER YOU DO THAT.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO APPLY A LOT
OF PRESSURE.
IT SOAKS THE MOISTURE RIGHT OUT
OF THERE.
>> THAT'S OUR SECRET HOW WE GET
SUCH CRISP SEAMS, PRESS AS YOU
GO.
SO WE STICK TO THAT AND THAT
GIVES US REALLY
PROFESSIONAL-LOOKING PROJECTS.
THE NEXT QUESTION IS FROM CAROL.
IS THE RULER SET UP FOR
LEFT-HANDED USELESS?
IT SURE IS, CAROL.
YOU CAN USE EITHER SIDE AND ONE
END IS DEVOTED TO SQUARES AND
SQUARING UP.
YOU CAN USE EITHER SIDE OR EDGE
OF THE RULER.
IT WORKS GREAT FOR LEFT-HANDED
OR RIGHT-HANDED USE.
GREAT QUESTION.
I'VE NOT RECEIVED THAT QUESTION
BEFORE.
DANA, A VIEWER FROM THE FLORIDA
KEYS IS ASKING WHERE CAN I FIND
THE PATTERN FOR THE TABLE
RUNNER?
I LOVE YOUR STUFF.
>> THANK YOU.
YOU CAN FIND THE PATTERN FOR THE
PATRIOTIC TABLE RUNNER AT OUR
WEBSITE.
CHECK OUT THE REST OF OUR SHOW
SPECIALS.
COMING SOON WE WILL HAVE THE
HALF SQUARE AND THE MODIFIED
CORNER SQUARE PATTERNS AS WELL.
>> WE SHOW HOW TO MAKE THOSE
PROJECTS IN THE VIDEO, TOO.
YOU CAN REWATCH AT
quiltshow.com AND SEE HOW WE
PUT THOSE TOGETHER.
ANOTHER QUESTION IS ABOUT THE
NEEDLE.
WHAT IS A NONSTICK MACHINE
NEEDLE?
WELL, SUE, THAT'S A SUPER
NONSTICK MACHINE NEEDLE WE'RE
USING.
IT HAS A SUPER SLICK COATING.
IT'S PROBABLY PROCEED PRY PROPRIETARY.
IT KEEPS ADHESIVES FROM
STABILIZERS.
I USE BATTING SPRAY TO PUT MY
LAYERS TOGETHER AND IT JUST
KEEPS THE NEEDLE FROM GUMMING UP
AND THEN YOU CAN KEEP STITCHING
WITHOUT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT
THAT GUMMY NEEDLE.
DORIS IS ASKING I HAVE OLD
SEWING MACHINES.
I THINK NEWER ONES HAVE WIDER
ZIGZAGS, SO I DON'T KNOW IF I
CAN MAKE THOSE JELLY ROLLS AND
RUGS.
>> THE GELRY JELLY ROLL RATS AND RUGS,
I USED A NARROWER TO A WIDER
ZIGZAG STITCH.
I WAS ABLE TO USE BOTH.
I WAS EXPERIMENTING WITH MY
MACHINE AND HOW IT WOULD WORK
BECAUSE I'VE NEVER DONE
SOMETHING LIKE THIS BEFORE.
AND THE WIDER WORKED AND THE
NARROWER WORKED AS WELL.
>> AND YOU HAVE AN ENTRY LEVEL
SEWING MACHINE, SO YOU DIDN'T
HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH YOUR
NARROWER ZIGZAG.
FRAN IS ASKING CAN YOU USE MORE
OF THE PELLON HEAT-RESISTANT
STUFF INSTEAD OF MORE FABRIC?
I THINK SHE'S TALKING ABOUT THE
POTHOLDER.
AND I DID.
I TRIED EXPERIMENTING WITH THAT
USING MORE LAYERS, BUT IT GOT A
LITTLE TOO BULKY.
AND TRUST ME.
I KNOW YOU CAN'T FEEL THAT
POTHOLDER DANA IS HOLDING, BUT
IT'S THICKER THAN A PURCHASED
POTHOLDER.
ALL THOSE LAYERS ADD UP TO
REALLY ADD THICKNESS.
AND I WANT A BEEFY POTHOLDER,
TOO, SO I TRIED TWO LAYERS AND
IT JUST GETS TOO THICK BEYOND
WHAT WE SHARE IN THE TUTORIAL.
AND THAT'S AT NANCY ZIEMAN.COM
AND SEARCH POTHOLDER AND YOU'LL
FIND THAT.
GREAT QUESTION.
LOIS IS ASKING WHAT SEWING
MACHINE ARE YOU USING?
I NOTICE IT HAS DUAL FEED LIKE A
PFAFF?
>> IT IS OUR NEW BURNETT SEWING
MACHINE AND IT DOES HAVE DUAL
FEED.
>> IT DOES.
IT HAS WONDERFUL DUAL FEED.
THAT'S WHY WE LIKE TO USE IT FOR
QUILTING.
IT ALSO HAS AN EXTENSION TABLE
SO YOU CAN REALLY DO A LOT OF
PROJECTS WITH YOUR QUILTING
TECHNIQUES.
THIS IS A COMMENT FROM SHELLY ON
YOUTUBE.
I LOVE THE PERIOD OF TIME PERIOD OF TIME POTHOLDERS.
I LIKE THE TIP ABOUT HOW TO SEW
THE SEAM.
THANK YOU, SHELLY.
THAT'S THE WRAPPED CORNER TIP.
THAT'S WHAT MAKES THOSE TURN AND
BE SO CRISP.
HERE'S ANOTHER QUESTION.
IS THERE AN ERGONOMIC ROTARY
CUTTER?
WHAT DO WE HAVE FOR ROTARY
CUTTERS, DANA?
>> THE CLOVER 25 MILLIMETER, 20
MILLIMETER AND I BELIEVE 60
MILLIMETER ROTARY CUTTER.
IT CAN GO BOTH WAYS.
IT'S GOT A NICE, COMFORTABLE
GRIP ON IT.
WE'VE DONE A LOT OF CUTTING AND
MY HANDS DON'T TIRE.
>> THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF
SILICONE AND I'D A WIDER HANDLE,
SO IT'S EASY TO HANG ON TO.
PEOPLE ARE HAVING LOTS OF
COMMENTS.
WE LOVE YOUR COASTERS.
THEY'RE SAYING, WOW.
STITCH IT, SISTERS ARE SO COOL.
QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT ARE YOU
WORKING ON NEXT?
WELL, I'M WORKING ON A FALL
TABLE RUNNER TO GO WITH OUR
NO-HASSLE TRIANGLE SERIES OF
TABLE RUNNERS AND I KNOW DANA IS
WORKING ON A LARGER QUILT.
BUT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO
STITCH SO MUCH BECAUSE WE ARE
WORKING ON OUR NEXT BIGGEST
PROJECT THAT WE'RE ANNOUNCING
TODAY TO THE AUDIENCE.
WE ARE OPENING A STORE IN
DOWNTOWN BEAVER DAM.
WE ARE CALLING IT THE NANCY
ZIEMAN SEWING STUDIO.
THERE'S A RENDERING OF THE FRONT
OF THE BUILDING.
IT'S AT 120 FRONT STREET.
THERE'S THE BACK OF THE
BUILDING.
IT DOESN'T QUITE LOOK LIKE THAT.
IT'S UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT
NOW.
AND STAY TUNED.
WE'RE SO EXCITED TO BRING
CLASSES AND A BEAUTIFUL RETAIL
STORE BACK TO BEAVER DAM.
I'M SO HAPPY THAT YOU WERE ABLE
TO JOIN US TODAY, DANA, AND SHOW
ALL OF THE THINGS WE'VE BEEN
STITCHING AND WORKING ON AND HOW
CAN THEY CONNECT AND FIND THE
SHOW SPECIALS WITH US?
>> YOU CAN FIND ALL THE SHOW
SPECIALS AT OUR WEBSITE.
YOU CAN GO TO THE NANCY ZIEMAN
BLOG AND CHECK OUT TUTORIALS AND
STITCH IT, SISTERS.COM.
DEFINITELY GIVE US A CALL OR
REACH OUT TO US AT INFO@ZIEMAN
PRODUCTIONS.COM IF YOU HAVE ANY
QUESTIONS.
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DANA.
GREAT SEEING YOU AND I'LL SEE
YOU BACK AT THE OFFICE.
THANKS EVERYONE FOR TUNING IN
TODAY FOR OUR FUN LECTURE AND BE
SURE TO HEAD OVER TO
quiltshow.com AND TAKE IN
EVERYTHING THE GREAT WISCONSIN
QUILT SHOW HAS TO OFFER.
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THE BEAUTIFUL QUILT EXHIBITS.
ENJOY.
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