Crumb Quilting Adventure - More Strip Sets and Chain Piecing | Ep. 4
Definitions:
- Crumbs made with little pieces of left over (almost trash) pieces of fabric - today we can make larger pieces look smaller. Sewn in different ways.
- Crazy quilt starts with something in the middle and you add pieces of larger pieces of fabric around that center. Wonky, different sized pieces. Not always cotton. Embellish the seams and pieces.
- Scrappy sort of like a crumb quilt but made with larger pieces of fabric. Made in rows. (I think scrappy could be a using different shades of the same color though out a planned quilt too. Or just cutting pieces out of random fabric but still making a planned quilt?)
- Strip quilt can be scrappy but it's made with strips. Can be same of different width strips.
- Patchwork quilt (she got distracted and didn't define - or maybe I got distracted and missed it!)
If you don't have small pieces, then start with the larger fabric pieces and use her suggestions for getting the small piece look.
Notes:
- How to make strip set - Only need one straight side, trim if needed. Larger fabrics are easier to work with. Put strip with straight edge on the top on the sewing machine. Add different pieces to the strip. Join the straight edges together. Trim selvages later.
- Filling the strip - sew so entire strip is full of pieces. Press the two pieces and trim down. She uses scissors. Stay with the angle of the new piece. Trim selvage at this time.
- Trim wider fabrics down at this time, but suggests sewing larger piece on, then trimming to be thinner.
- Attach larger pieces to what will be smaller pieces. Sew seam and cut back to smaller size.
- If wider strip then add fabric pieces to both sides.
- Sew larger, then cut to a bit smaller.
- If sewing two strips of different lengths, just sew until you get to the end. Trim and sew to something else or just trim and keep results or toss the smaller piece.
- Sew Y-seams to fit fabric in, or fold the edges and connect with straight stitching showing (top stitching).
- Do whatever you like!
- Try new ways of stitching and cutting and trimming.
This was mainly a review of things previously covered in the videos. Not one of her best instructional videos.
And I'm realizing I really do not have many small or oddly cut pieces of fabric. What I mainly have are pieces that were cut after reading an article by Bonnie Hunter on Scrap User's System. (I have not really been using the pieces that I cut in these various sizes.) But now I have a bunch of strips in different widths and can follow Darlene's suggestions for making them into crumb sizes and putting them together to be part of a small quilt project.
But really what I think I realized after watching Darlene's Crumb Quilting Adventure Episode 4 is that I meant to follow along and do the blocks she created in her Quilt Block Party series. So I may be switching over to that!
Darlene's Quilt Block Party Series - photos of the blocks:
I peeked ahead to Crumb Quilting Adventure - 5 and there is a new method explained so I am back on track with the Crumb Quilting Adventure.
And I'm realizing I really do not have many small or oddly cut pieces of fabric. What I mainly have are pieces that were cut after reading an article by Bonnie Hunter on Scrap User's System. (I have not really been using the pieces that I cut in these various sizes.) But now I have a bunch of strips in different widths and can follow Darlene's suggestions for making them into crumb sizes and putting them together to be part of a small quilt project.
But really what I think I realized after watching Darlene's Crumb Quilting Adventure Episode 4 is that I meant to follow along and do the blocks she created in her Quilt Block Party series. So I may be switching over to that!
Darlene's Quilt Block Party Series - photos of the blocks:
I peeked ahead to Crumb Quilting Adventure - 5 and there is a new method explained so I am back on track with the Crumb Quilting Adventure.
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