Lovely "Friendship Chain" Quilt Tutorial!

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00:00Hi, I'm Donna Jordan from Jordan Fabrics. Today I'd like to make the Friendship

00:05Chain Pattern. This looks very interesting. I love the colors on it, but

00:10I want to use a multi-colored jelly roll, so we'll use this one from Moda and it's

00:15called Maeve. The pattern shows two distinct colors here. We've got the blues

00:20and we've got the reds. I think I want to just mix it all up. I think this would

00:25look good out of scraps and I think it will look good in lots of different

00:29colors. I'm gonna make the lap size, which is what's showing on the front

00:32side. So we need some strips, we need some background, and we need some borders. So

00:38let's get started. The cutting is pretty easy. Most of the strips, we're just going

00:46to cut them in half. So we have a piece that's about 20 by 2 1⁄2

00:55inches, so I'm going to go ahead and just slice all of these in half. Feel free to

01:04separate your strips into two color piles if you like. So we might pick out

01:10these darker and purpler ones for where the pattern calls for blue, and then we

01:15could use these pinker ones for where the pattern calls for red, and that will

01:21give us more of that chain look. The next thing we need are some background

01:27strips. There's just a couple different sizes. I can't give you the exact sizes

01:31because it's not my pattern, but Cozy Quilts patterns are very easy to follow.

01:36I like to use a little dumbbell weight here to hold my ruler down when I'm

01:42cutting strips. It's almost like a third hand up there, so I can hold it here, the

01:47weight will hold it there, and it tends to not move at all if you do that. I've

02:01got a few more to cut, but all of these strips also get cut right in half right

02:07along the fold. Next step is to make some strip sets. The first strip set is going

02:14to have one of these, then you can pick an alternate color, and then a background,

02:20and then we'll pick a different one from this stack, and a different one

02:26from this stack, and we'll end with that. So we're going to take these to the

02:32sewing machine and sew them side by side. To make the strip set, we've just got

02:38five strips, so we're just going to put one on, then the next, then the next, and

02:43I'm just lining up those pinked edges, stitching all the way down, and making

02:50sure I don't stretch either one of the strips.

03:00And I find it a lot easier if I finger press each seam as I go. So I'm going to

03:07press these all to one side, so I'm going to open this up here, kind of anchor it,

03:12and then pull my fingernail, or even the pad of my finger, right down this seam as

03:18I open it up with my hands there, and that makes it nice and flat. It'll make

03:23the ironing later on much easier.

03:30Actually, I had a second thought about the way this seam is going to go. Instead

03:34of going towards the light, I want it to go towards the dark. It's always better

03:39to go towards the dark if you can, then you won't get any shadowing from your

03:43seam allowance over here. So I'm going to press this away from the background, and

03:48I will do that with the next strip that comes on. I'll go away from the

03:53background and then towards the edge. Even though it's been finger pressed, we

03:58do want to iron it nice and flat, so I usually smooth it out with my hands so I

04:02can make sure I can feel those seam allowances going the way I want. And then

04:06I just press each one a little bit individually,

04:15and then add a little steam. I've gone ahead and stitched together the other

04:24two strip units we need. There's still five pieces in each of them, but the

04:29fabrics are in a little bit different order. We need multiples of all of these,

04:34but once we have all those done, the procedure is the same for every one.

04:39We're going to take these and we're going to sub-cut them. So I'm just going

04:45to cut off a little piece at the beginning here,

04:55and we'll get eight strip units just like this from each of these. So I'm

05:03going to make all of the rest of these and get them all cut up, and then we'll

05:07be ready to put them together to make our first block. I'm here at the machine.

05:11I've got two of this strip unit we made first, and then I've got two of the

05:20second one and one of the third, and we're just going to sew these side by

05:24side.

05:34And I am going to press these all the same direction, so I'm just going to open

05:44it up, give it a little finger press, and keep adding the pieces. We'll go ahead

05:51and give it a quick press, and because I separated the fabrics just a little bit,

05:59we are starting to see some little trails of color here, and I'm very happy

06:04with how that's turning out. For our second block, we're going to cut some of

06:09our remaining strips into squares, and we're going to make some half square

06:13triangles. Now the easiest method to make these is to mark a line right across the

06:20diagonal on the back, and I'm going to get a pencil and show you how I do it. I

06:23like to put the ruler down, not exactly from corner to corner, because the pencil

06:28has a little width, so I move it over ever so slightly so that when I draw it

06:34is actually from corner to corner. So now all we have to do is put one of these on

06:42top of one of these, and then stitch right along the line or slightly to this

06:48side of it, because when you fold we're going to fold it along that line. Fabric

06:54doesn't fold completely flat, and if we sew just a little bit to the side when

07:00we open this up, everything will match there. Now if you don't like to mark them,

07:07you can mark your machine. There's tapes you can put on your machine. If you're

07:11really brave, you can just go from corner to corner. I've made so many of these

07:16that I will often do this. I will just start in this corner and aim for the

07:22other corner, and check before you do a whole bunch of them. Make sure that

07:32everything is meeting up there, and it looks like it is. So we'll go ahead and

07:36make a bunch of these. Next step is to fold this open, and I like to do that by

07:41putting the background down and folding open the print, making sure the edges

07:46line up, and then give it a little pressing. Then let's trim away these back

07:56two layers so we don't have so much bulk. So I'm going to cut it so there's a

08:00quarter inch seam allowance left. You can use your blade or you can use scissors

08:04like I did. Here's how the next block starts. We're going to use a print in the

08:10middle, and we're going to use four of these backgrounds in all four corners.

08:15Then we're going to pick four of these guys out, and we're just going to twirl

08:20them around the center. So this one gets twirled once. You can always just put it

08:25here, twirl it the same way. This one here, one twirl there, and it makes a little

08:32star. So all we have to do is sew them in rows. Sew the rows together.

08:45For pressing the seam allowances, you have to make a decision. I like to press

08:56these to the outside because there's extra bulk here, but that means we're

09:00pressing them towards the lightest color. So let's just see how that will work out.

09:05I really do think that will make the block the flattest, so we'll press those

09:09away, and we'll press these towards the center, which works out well because

09:14we've got these extra seam allowances there. And then these two will go to the

09:19outside, and this will lay nice and flat when we sew these rows together. To

09:24finish up the block, all we need to do is cut some strips out of this, and those

09:30will go on the top and bottom of this block. Then we'll take our remaining

09:35strips, sew them on either side of the background, cut it into strip units, and

09:41then those pieces will go here and here with these in the corners. And then our

09:47block, our second block, will be done, and we'll be ready to lay the quilt out. I've

09:51got all of each block done, and we're ready to lay them out. This is always the

09:56most fun part for me. So the block can be turned any way, it's the same in all

10:00directions. We'll do one of those, and one of these, and we're just going to

10:05alternate throughout the quilt.

10:11That's all the blocks. I haven't even looked to see if there's any color

10:16matches anywhere, so if I end up with two of the same here, I'm just gonna spin the

10:21block around. It just is automatically very balanced and very good-looking. Now

10:28is a good time to take a picture with your camera and make sure all your stars

10:32are turned to the right way. When I made them earlier, I had a couple blocks

10:36turned the wrong way. Very easy to stitch it together from here. You just make the

10:42rows, sew the rows together, then we're gonna have an inner border that's the

10:46same as the background, and we'll do a printed outside border of something

10:50flowery, then we'll get it loaded onto the quilting machine. I've got the quilt

10:55all loaded up, and now we get, whoa, to pick a thread color. There's lots of them

11:00that would work. I was interested in doing the gold. There are some gold

11:05prints in here, and it does make a nice neutral. That would work. Of course, we

11:11could use this dark lilac color here. Matches very well. I don't think I'm

11:18gonna want something that dark in the background. Same with this one. If you

11:23want your quilting to show, it would be a good choice. I just think I want

11:27something a little more subtle. This isn't gonna show at all in the

11:32background. Doesn't really fight with the top, but I do think the lavender is the

11:39best choice. Pink matches well. This blends a little better in the darker

11:46areas. For the quilting pattern, I'm gonna do posies. This is one of my favorite

11:51patterns. Let me make it a little bigger so you can see. Whoops, wrong way. I like

11:59the leaves. I like the flowers, and almost all of the prints in the quilt have

12:05flowers, so I think this will look really good.

12:51The friendship chain quilt is all done. I'm very happy with how it turned out. I

13:06used darker prints in all of the stars, so they are pretty prominent. So when I

13:13picked out all the fabrics I was going to use, I left those aside to use here.

13:16Then you can see a slight color change. A little bit pinker here, a little bit

13:23purpler here. Now you don't have to do that. If you're making this with scraps

13:26or a multi-colored jelly roll, this would look great even if there weren't some

13:32different color bands there. The pattern, it calls for 21 and 26 strips, but I was

13:41actually able to get it all from one jelly roll. So I had some pieces left like

13:49this, I had a couple strips left, and I had to take a couple pieces apart to

13:54make maybe the last few of these, but I didn't need any extra strips for my

13:58quilt. You might want to buy extra fabric because then you can get better color

14:03choices of what goes where. The quilting pattern, it's very understated, but you

14:10can see these flowers here. You can see that nice leaf. I love this pinkish

14:16magenta binding, and let's see what the back looks like. Ah, lovely print. Quilting

14:22totally recedes, but we've got these nice daisies here. I don't know if I mentioned

14:26this is a collection from Moda called Maeve. Really nice and cheerful. Very

14:31happy with how it turned out. Thanks so much for watching our video today. We

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