Quilting Rules we LOVE to Break!
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- Fran shares 5 quilting rules we love to break, and you should, too! As quilters, we all develop our own way of doing things. The quilt police may say you have to follow established rules, but today we are going to break the rules with 3-yard quilts! 🔽Quilt Patterns & Quilt Kits🔽
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Lookout Spot - www.fabriccafe.com/Lookout-Sp...
Turquoise Twirl - www.fabriccafe.com/Turquoise-...
Joyful Poinsettias - www.fabriccafe.com/Joyful-Poi...
Mer-Mazing - www.fabriccafe.com/Mer-Mazing...
Dog's Day Out - www.fabriccafe.com/Dogs-Day-O...
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Stepping Up - www.fabriccafe.com/Stepping-U...
Farmhouse Chic (only in the Easy Does It book) - www.fabriccafe.com/Easy-Does-...
Twinkles (only in the Make it Christmas book) - www.fabriccafe.com/Make-It-Ch...
Bold Blocks - www.fabriccafe.com/Bold-Block...
Nine Plus One - www.fabriccafe.com/Nine-Plus-...
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:17 - What is a 3-Yard Quilt?
00:37 - Stepping Up quilt pattern
00:53 - Rule #1
01:24 - Lookout Spot 3-Yard Quilt
03:48 - Rule #2
04:02 - Farmhouse Chic quilt pattern
04:25 - Turquoise Twirl 3-Yard Quilt
05:10 - Partial Strip Assembly Tutorial
08:11 - Rule #3
08:28 - Twinkles quilt pattern
08:54 - Joyful Poinsettias 3-Yard Quilt
09:55 - Benefits of Pressing Seams Open
11:12 - Rule #4
11:35 - Bold Blocks quilt pattern
12:01 - Mer-Mazing 3-Yard Quilt
12:50 - Economy Binding tutorial
17:41 - Rule #5
18:09 - Nine Plus One quilt pattern
18:30 - Dog's Day Out 3-Yard Quilt
20:34 - What Rules do You Break?
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Puppy quilt is adorable
Thanks for this video! I love the way you and your mom present and describe the quilts!
Thank you so much for showing your three fabrics together. I love seeing all the combinations, 1,2,3. 1,2. 1,3. 2,3. It just gives a great perspective for us at home.
You're very welcome, Debra!
Great variations in the fabric changes♥️🇦🇺
More great lessons for all😊
You have to have the most fabulously happiest face I have ever seen xxxxx
Thanks!
Fran your such an innovater! And a bit of a rebel lol 😆 It was very cool to see the fabrics move around positions on that first quilt. Love the visuals! 💗
Loved you video Fran, I learned a lot .💞🙏🥳
Everything you said about pressing seams open, plus it is much easier to match seams when they are pressed open. I've been quilting for over fifty years, and I almost always press seams open. Once in awhile, I press the border seams toward the border. It's easier on my quilt machine, too, when it doesn't have to go thunk through all those seam allowances.
I, too loved when you showed the fabrics in different positions (#1). I really do not care for a light fabric as a border fabric - just me!!!! About using diagonal seams for borders and bindings - I have to say YES - diagonal seams have been the bane if my existence! And with the prices of fabrics now it’s a great way just to be thrifty - especially when making normal charity quilts for kids. And then there is the economy binding - I was taught many, many years ago to always use a French fold (that’s a double) binding so it doesn’t wear out - but the way you make it seems like a miracle (again fabric savings)! I need to give this a try on a sample and show to my quilt guild as we always want to be mindful of costs for fabrics. Super video - and I made my screen shots all the way through as I always do for all your videos.
Fabric Cafe gave me the courage to try quilting. I had a set of strict quilting books that had made me nearly give up from all the rules! Plus, having only 3 fabrics to choose makes it much more my (simple?) style. I do put a traditional binding on my quilts, but I like the option of the double fold binding. I love how the patterns use nearly all of the fabric. No leftovers! Thank you so much!
Wonderful! thank you for the feedback! Quilting should be fun!
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I am a visual learner! It is difficult for me to imagine what the alternative fabric will look like! Even watching pieces and parts. You made it possible for me to SEE the different placements. Thanks a million!
Thanks for watching Diane!
I’m a visual also. She helps me.
Love your books! I have made at least a dozen and there are more in my future. Thanks so much. God bless.
Wonderful!
Great show. I got a good laugh out of the list of rules. I'm 61 and I've been breaking a lot of these rules all my life. I suppose adhering to the rules may be needed if one is submitting a quilt for competition but other than that I don't think the world will end if one breaks the rules. And as you say, "economizing" to get the most quilt out of 3 yds. All these years I've been economizing and didn't even know it. ha ha Can't help but wonder, why one of the rules is to sew binding on a slant. I fail to understand the difference it makes.
Great tips Fran!!!! I learned a lot!!! Thank you!!
This answers a lot of questions had about your yardage supplied. Thank you for clearing this up!
Glad it was helpful!
Great show, Fran! You do such a good job, and I love your enthusiasm.
I like when you create the rendering using the fabric In the kit. Showing the variations was also great. Thanks for doing it.
Great tips. If you watch very many videos, you'll see that some of these broken rules have gone mainstream. There will always be purists, but there does seem to be a trend towards doing things your own way. You're right on track 😂. Thank you for the video 😊👍💕
Oh my gosh, just started watching and I already love it.
I love your patterns and the fact you can make them bigger if you want . I had to modify the sew quick pattern because the fabric was only 41 inches wide and couldn’t get the 10.5” squares. So I broke the rules and sized things down to 10” and it’s beautiful.
This has happened with me too.
That can be so frustrating. unless, of course, you give yourself permission to be creative!
I had the same thing happen and bought the kit from Fabric Cafe. Thankfully math is my jam...so it was easy to modify. (I think I cut my blocks 10.25.) Love Sew Quick...so attractive!
I just bought your Make It Christmas book and can’t wait to use it! I’m going to make a reversible quilt for a children’s local charity.
Wonderful!
Most of the 3 yd quilts I have made, I've been able to cut the leftovers and do my favorite 2 1/4 inch double fold binding scrappy.
I love the economy binding...I've been using it on all my quilts (though I cut bias because I usually have ample fabric to do so on other projects). Love how flat and tidy they are!
Thanks for this video, Fran. I have used your "rules" for finding three yard quilts in my stash and love all the pattern options in your books (I have 6 of them). You and Donna have helped me feel a lot more creative and liberated in my quilting. You are all so inspirational.
Thank you for the great tips/tricks & rule breaking. I too press my seams open, glad to know others do too. I have tried changing fabric positions & will now try it more often. And economy binding is my favorite. It's how I finally got my binding to look good & it is the easiest way to bind a quilt in my opinion. Thank you Fabric Cafe, your videos, patterns and fabrics are why I love making quilts!
We're so glad to hear that, Sheila! Thanks for watching! 🧡
Love it Fran. Explaining it well. Love you all at Fabric Cafe’
Hi Fran, It was wonderful to be greeted by your beautiful smiling face! This was a particularly fun episode. I just love using one's creativity when making something. Thank you for creating a screen video illustrating just how varied our quilt choices really can be, just by switching the placement of the same three fabrics. It was surprising how different the looks were but each version worked beautifully. Making the quilt size stretch to create an even bigger end result just by using every last piece of the yardage is an idea my Mom would have.appreciated. She loved doing the most with the least; such as in.space utilization and storage. As a sewist, this would have been a suggestion right up her alley. It just occurred to me how brilliant these ideas you demonstrated are and how important they would be for designers and business plans to be able to utilize their materials and processes in the most efficient and.creative ways to be successful in terms of client satisfaction and fiscal responsibility. I think individuals in the business would find greater satisfaction in a work environment that had knowable structure that can be depended upon, while also building in a degree of flexibility that encourages ingenuity that can deliver clients with a greater range of options and enjoyment in their applications of purchases made. LOL. It just realized that I was being a student who has understood her professor's class and is repeating back what she had just learned. I also truly see and appreciate the ongoing commitment to your subscribers to help us maximize our abilities, outcomes, and time usage. I Love Fabric Cafe' from the inside out, and on all levels. All of your team really put the best of themselves--heart, mind, talent, and teamwork--into products created and services delivered and, although I am just one subscriber, I believe the synergy created works like magic and feels like love. So much work, such exciting and fun results!
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Thank you for all of your kind words and support, Anita! Without you and all of our community here on RUclips, we would not be able to do what we do. Thank you!! 💜💜💜
That fabric swap! 😱🤩
I love what you all do! Thank you for your tips and tricks. Love how you do the economy binding. I'm going to give it a go. Love all the fabric in the background, I'd be a very happy little vegemite if I could have them in my kit!! As someone who has lived nearly half a century beside the ocean, that green sparkly fabric in mer-mazing reminded me of the ocean. At certain times of the day, with a bit of choppiness out on the water, it honestly looks like God has generously tipped glitter all over the water! It sparkles and glitters like your fabric, sometimes more!! Love from Geraldton, West Australia.
Love the idea of breaking the rules 😂. And better still you use almost ALL the fabrics which is such a wonderful idea. Very few scraps left over. I’m in Australia and buy meterage so 3 metres, which of course is just a little more, but usually enough to get an extra block or two or three, and often can get a square quilt! Or a cushion to match.
Fran, thank you for the visual on the economy binding. I was always wondering how you guys made it work. Now I am REALLY excited to try it. And honestly I have broken so many rules that if my grandma was still alive … she would be calling me a rebel. She taught me to sew. My favorite rule to break is if I baste stitch a seam I tend not to take it out, I sew right over it because the quilting hides a multitude of sins so why not a basting stitch or two. 🤣
Thank you for the explanation and showing how to create the economy binding. Showing it has made it much easier for me to understand. .
Yay! We love the economy binding. Glad the visual aid was helpful!
Fran great show today with all those's tips. 👍Thanks for this video, looking forward to the next one.
Glad you enjoyed it
Fran thank 😅you for showing the sewing finishing. I’ve got one twin size quilt to make and several of the lap size ones. I just had a shoulder replacement done,so when this heals up so I can sew I hope to crank them out. I’m so looking forward to making my first 3-yard quilts. Continue to make them simple.
You are so welcome!
I must admit that I am a double binding with diagonal seams snob. That said and after watching this video, I am ready to try your economy binding. Thank you for showing how this binding is made and explaining the reasons.
You can do it!
I always get excited when you have a new video! Love them all!
Yay! Thank you!
thanks for making pressing open seams not so renegade. I also feel it is more relaxed to match seams with them open and worry if I pressed the wrong way. Love your videos !
Absolutely awesome! Thank you for constant learning quilting ideas💕
You are so welcome!
This was a fun one to watch! Thx
Another great informative video. I love all your tips. Thank you so much.
This was FABULOUS!
thank you for everything
I never press seams open. At least not on purpose. Besides, the dark side has chocolate! 😄 I like the double-fold binding because instead of folding raw edges together, I put them in the middle and then have nice folds to work with when stitching the binding on. Too many times I've had a raw edge slip out. I absolutely love my thermal thimbles. They have saved my fingers many times. I love those mermaids.
Sew much fun! Enjoyed these rule breaking ideas.
Loved this. ❤
Excellent video. So happy you discussed partial strip assembly. I was cutting one of your quilts that had that in the instructions. Honestly I was a little confused. When I go back to that quilt this weekend I will re-watch this video.
It's one of our most common questions, so we wanted to cover it in a video to show how easy it can be! Good luck, GiGi!
I really like the economy binding but I did not like the fraying of the binding fabric. So I choose to make continuous bias for the single fold binding. I can make it from any fat quarter whcich makes enough binding for a crib or lap quilt. Plus I can use a fun coordinating fabric sometimes. That’s my rule breaker!
I love ironing the seams open. The top lays flat and easier to quilt.
I deviate occasionally from the pattern... if I am cutting the boarder I will measure what I have left and divide by the number of strips so I use every last 1/4 inch of fabric. Will also do same for binding. I try and elimate as much scrap as possible.
I love creative uses of fabric!
Fran - Thank you so much for all the Tips and tricks you give us, I really like to hear about them, when I watch the Fabric Cafe videos that you post, these rules were great cannot wait to try the border one and the others as well. Is there a way you could print and post them on the website? Have a wonderful day.
Thank you for the tips on the economy binding, for some reason I can’t seem to figure it out when I try. I will save this video to assist with the visual and practice. I like the idea of less is more. Any tips on how to make the cute squares in the borders like on the Urban Chic pattern? I just can’t seem to get that correct and end up eliminating the corner square. Is it just practice or is there a Break the Rules Tip?
We cover corner blocks in this video.
ruclips.net/video/_N8OGVynEH4/видео.html
I just did a 3 yard quilt out of 3 mens dress shirts with some scraps left over
Wow! Would love to see a photo of that!
What are you using to Protect your fingers? The light blue. Great ideas too. Thx!
And then you answer my question lol. Thermal thimbal
Love yall! Do you have serger patterns? Please let me know. Thx!
We don't have specific patterns for serger, but that could be a good subject to explore in a video.
I wish you would let us know the manufacture of your fabric
We use so many of the top brand companies and often mix brands in one quilt kit to get the look we want.
Hi Fran, what software do you use to audition your fabric options?
EQ 8
I’d rather used 21/2” binding on these quilts
Wonderful! We can make it without the quilt police!
When it comes to quilting, tell the quilt police to go work elsewhere! :)
Love your videos and the awesome books. I always break the rules. No quilt police here! 😊🪡🧵
Love that!