I think your tutorial is going to help me a lot. I have been looking online for how to square up a quilt. All the other videos I saw say to cut all corners first but I was afraid the sides wouldn’t meet up properly. Your way makes much more sense to me. Thank you!
Hi from Kiowa, CO! Just realized we used to go to church together before we moved to Kiowa back in 2016. Glad to see your blog/videos have grown into what they have=) God bless
Good information. I like seeing how you do things. I just wish I had a big table to cut on. I use the top of my washing machine as my cutting area. It gets a little tricky but I get the job done.
I use both those size rulers to square up my quilts, too. When I first started quilting 2 years ago, I used your Quilting 101 series and always recommend them to new quilters. Great video!
I ran across your rag rug video im so hooked,, and your craft room tour was great,, i would love a video on how to cut 10x10 squares and how do you calculate how much material to buy for a specific size bed..my brain hurts 😫
Hi! I usually go by the pattern for requirements, but you can also do the math too! So you lose 1/2" for each seam so if you sew two 10" squares together you'll end up with a piece that is 10" h by 19.5" wide.
I have tried several times different methods and my quotes just always come out crooked or off sometimes I think I’m just trying to hard and I just leave them be! I’m going to try this method hopefully it will work for me
Should you square up a quilt before it’s even quilted? Mine always seem out of whack when I get to the last row of quilting on a longarm. It’s wonky every time and it starts out as square in the beginning on the longarm. Thanks!
I love the quilt and your informative video. What do you have on top of your table that you can rotary cut on? I would like to get one for my dining room table.
Hi Erica I purchased this pattern awhile ago. I will be attempting it soon. My question is when making the half square triangles for the peppermint block how big are the 4 1/2 square triangles each and how big is the final block when all 4 make the pinwheel? Thanks
I used to do this on the floor. So I would lay the quilt out, then slide my cutting mat underneath it. Just make sure to move the mat and don't cut your floor! :)
Hi, I don't have a video on how to square up a self binding quilt. I make sure my quilt top and backing are both square before starting. Once you do the self-binding method I'm not sure how you would adjust it once it's sewn in place.
What about, post-quilting, folding your backing fabric over on itself so it's 2 right sides together of backing fabric touching, on the back side of the quilt, tacking stitches or safety pins to hold these as high as possible towards the centre of the quilt back, then squaring up, cutting off the excess batting only. Then, unpinning /tacking and binding? Someone showed me how to do this, maybe could work for squaring up too?
@@missj6923 I had already started hand quilting. The entire queen sized quilt took 6 weeks, everything hand-sewn, even the piecing of the story book memory blocks. I started squaring up, and tried to do the back binding. I was so scared because I’m so inexperienced and this is my first project. It took two weeks to square up, did the binding including great mitered corners. I am currently in transit taking this quilt for my granddaughter in South Africa.
@@hazelem1266 Hand sewn?! That's so impressive and at that speed too! 6 weeks sounds so fast. Well done you!!!!!!! 🤗 I'm trying out a pattern from the Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine which I'm enjoying and hopefully will have finished soon too 😊
@@erica_arndt You are one of my favorite quilting teachers on RU-vid. Your “Just Keep Sewing” pattern was the first quilting pattern I tried! I had SO much fun making that quilt. Thank you for the inspiration and encouragement!
Hi, no I don't usually do that. I just add my borders then I square the entire quilt when it's done being quilted. The quilting always makes the edges a little wonky anyway.
If you would like to do straight line quilting you can draw lines on the quilt using a frixtion erasable pen, a Hera marker, a chalk marker, water soluble pen, etc. If you want to do free motion quilting, you can just use the blocks as your guide. So maybe quilt through one block at a time. I hope that helps :)
