🌞 Happy Sunday everyone!! I hope everyone is really for really big blocks. They are fast and fun to make. And thank-you to Birch Living for sponsoring! Click here birchliving.com/quilts to get 25% off your Birch mattress (plus two free Eco-Rest pillows!) during their Labor Day Early Access Sale. Offers are subject to change. #birchliving
When I need a big table, I go to the library. When your kids are little, make friends with the school librarian (volunteering for a story time or two always has it's perks) or research your public library. Mine has conference rooms with huge tables that you can reserve for no charge. I always take my big mat when pin basting a quilt to protect the table. But if you like to work on the floor, there are huge rooms that they keep empty and put down as many folding chairs as you need... just tell them you don't need any chairs, just the floor space. If your public library doesn't have conference rooms, ask if you can work in the study area on a day that there's hardly anyone there. Also, try a college or university library. You can use many of them without being a student. (At my university it only cost $25 a year to be a student with no classes.) Mine is open to the public, but there are restrictions to who can check books out. Truth is my public library even has sewing machines and cutting machines and lots more... It even has a green screen. I'm lucky to live in a big city. 💕🌞🌵😷
@@Sylvia907 , in highschool, I worked at the library... shelving, checking out books, putting plastic covers on new books... I even got to filed cards in the card catalog (above the rod at first, but eventually, below). But thinking back, I don't remember the library being used much after school. And not at all during summer break... These are times when a quilter could have the place to their selves, hours on end. Sending lots of love 💕 from sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵. Take care of yourself and each other 😷.
Y'ever have one of those moments when you read something and then wish to bash your head against the wall because why the heckadoodle did you not think of that? Because of course! The Library would have a huge table! It would be so easy to do. And now I'm going to do that. I just need to wait for my next utility bill to get a library card
I just recently made a big paper piece quilt. My technique was a little less professional. I had to make the airforce logo so I used my child's kid projector and wrapping paper taped to the wall. Turned out pretty good 😂
You are a mind reader. I was searching madly for a pattern that is no longer in circulation, but I wanted to make one on a larger scale myself. Thank you thank you thank you!!! ❤❤❤
Thank you so very much! The mariners compass is the first quilt pattern that gave me all the feels. I have always been intimidated with the small pieces (I have large hands.). This is perfect for me! I thank you to the depths of my heart. My dad was a sailor, and I really need to do this in his memory ❤️
This is Awesome! I designed a large mariner's star quilt in EQ8 and have been putting it off because I hadn't figured out how to piece it. Thank you so much for solving my problem. This quilt will definitely move up on my list.
This will work great for some rather expensive fabric I have. (I know, all quilting fabric is expensive, too expensive if you ask me). This is a great way to show the fabric and since this pattern can be used for any occasion, the possibilities are endless. Thank you so much for the great video and the free downloads, it really does help having those resources available since quilting has simply become too darn expensive. Have a great week, everyone.
Oooooh! This idea would be ideal for some special fabrics I bought on vacation to New Mexico last year. The material I bought has such great designs I knew I didn’t want to cut them into regular patchwork sizes. You da best, KB.
I love this pattern and as soon as I get guts enough to try smaller FPP, I'll add this to my list. I wish I'd known about the Birch sooner. I just bought a new mattress earlier this year and I hate it. I can't justify another one just yet, but I'll keep this in mind. Thank you for all of your great ideas.
Thank you for sharing! I always learn from you. I always preshrink which gets the fabric on the grain. Then I starch to lessen stretching. I do tear my fabric first. I have seen the fabric off grain up to six inches. When the manufacturer rolls the fabric onto the bolt most the time it is rolled off grain.
Once again you have inspired me to try something new!!! I love the mariners star block and it's so nice of you to make it available to us!! Not sure if I have the computer skills needed to enlarge a pattern. Keep sewing and sharing!!
You make this look easy! I like the idea of upsizing a block to make it a one block quilt. This will work for so many blocks, it’s a great idea. Even upsizing to make a large 9 patch with the blocks could look great depending on the block. Thank you.
I love big block quilts!! I just moved to a house with a big house length deck that faces the road, it is just begging for a quilt to be hung over the side and photographed. I am just itching for a chance to start a new quilt!
Same! It's my go-to for an easy small project, and having a spare baby quilt to give means you don't scramble when you didn't know someone was expecting.
Your quilt looks fabulous! I felt a bit 🫨 trying to follow your steps but it was a busy Sunday with church & family. I’ll rewatch when my head is more clear!
@@JustGetitDoneQuilts I’m familiar with FPP. I think it was upscaling it so much that messed with my head. But I’ll watch your FPP & freezer paper FPP videos - when I’m not so worn out!! 😉
Your quilt is stunning! So nice to see someone who does paper piecing WITHOUT stitching through the paper. Thay makes such a mess & ripping out all that paper is so time consuming & time wasting. Do you like your cordless iron? I'm thinking of getting one.
Make Modern emagazine has fabulous large quilt block quilts. I don’t subscribe to many these days but this one is great. Karen did a chat with them a couple of years ago.
Make modern is great! BTW If you like to read on a kindle or tablet see if your library has a digital catalog. My local library does and I follow several quilting magazines on there. Mine is free and I also don’t get cluttered up with the physical magazines. Saves me space money and keeps paper out of the trash 👍🏻
Karen, I tried to print the 60" Mariner's Star pattern but it only printed the first top left corner of the page and that was large size. How do I get it to print the other pages of the block? (I am using an new hp printer.) HELP!
Freezer paper!! …I looked and searched for butcher paper but kept finding only the unwaxed kind, plain on both sides. Then freezer paper popped up. Yes! That’s another name for what you used
I'm sure there is a good reason and I'm not asking Google correctly...but what's the advantage to using paper-piecing for something so large vs just measuring and cutting pieces without paper?
Thank tou for another fabulous video!!!! I found if I tried to download this pattern from my phone, it takes me back to the video? I will try again soon :)
For some reason, my printer sees he download as 1 page and will not break down the page to print on multiple sheets of paper. I am going to try to send it to my part time work place printer to see if it will print there. If not, I will try to print it at Office Depot or some place like that. I would really like to do this in a large queen size quilt also. Just have to figure it out. Thanks for the download and video.
I am a bit confused….the download is titled 30” mariners compass on your site, but the actual download says 60” mariners compass…which size is it? I would do either one. Also my printer also just sees one sheet of paper, how do I get it to print the download in multiple sheets? I love this pattern and would like to give it a try. Any advice is appreciated,
OMG….i didn’t think of that. Thank you so much, I will give it a try. You are such an inspiration to all of us, I just love this large block. Thanks for sharing all of your knowledge.
Great video and instructions ! But 🥲🥲 I don’t have a printer facility …..any thoughts on a way around that ! Thanks Karen , really enjoy your channel 🏴
🌞 Happy Sunday everyone!! I hope everyone is really for really big blocks. They are fast and fun to make. And thank-you to Birch Living for sponsoring! Click here birchliving.com/quilts to get 25% off your Birch mattress (plus two free Eco-Rest pillows!) during their Labor Day Early Access Sale. Offers are subject to change. #birchliving
When I need a big table, I go to the library. When your kids are little, make friends with the school librarian (volunteering for a story time or two always has it's perks) or research your public library. Mine has conference rooms with huge tables that you can reserve for no charge. I always take my big mat when pin basting a quilt to protect the table. But if you like to work on the floor, there are huge rooms that they keep empty and put down as many folding chairs as you need... just tell them you don't need any chairs, just the floor space. If your public library doesn't have conference rooms, ask if you can work in the study area on a day that there's hardly anyone there. Also, try a college or university library. You can use many of them without being a student. (At my university it only cost $25 a year to be a student with no classes.) Mine is open to the public, but there are restrictions to who can check books out.
Truth is my public library even has sewing machines and cutting machines and lots more... It even has a green screen. I'm lucky to live in a big city. 💕🌞🌵😷
Great idea
As a retired librarian the conference room tables are used many different ways.
@@Sylvia907 , in highschool, I worked at the library... shelving, checking out books, putting plastic covers on new books... I even got to filed cards in the card catalog (above the rod at first, but eventually, below). But thinking back, I don't remember the library being used much after school. And not at all during summer break... These are times when a quilter could have the place to their selves, hours on end. Sending lots of love 💕 from sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵. Take care of yourself and each other 😷.
Y'ever have one of those moments when you read something and then wish to bash your head against the wall because why the heckadoodle did you not think of that? Because of course! The Library would have a huge table! It would be so easy to do. And now I'm going to do that. I just need to wait for my next utility bill to get a library card
@@seaborgium919, at my library you only need a card to check out books. The facilities are open to the public. 💕🌞🌵😷
I just recently made a big paper piece quilt. My technique was a little less professional. I had to make the airforce logo so I used my child's kid projector and wrapping paper taped to the wall. Turned out pretty good 😂
You are a mind reader. I was searching madly for a pattern that is no longer in circulation, but I wanted to make one on a larger scale myself. Thank you thank you thank you!!! ❤❤❤
Glad it was helpful!
I've made one-block baby quilts, but never a one-block as large as this! Wonderful technique and great explanation .
Thank you
Thank you so very much! The mariners compass is the first quilt pattern that gave me all the feels. I have always been intimidated with the small pieces (I have large hands.). This is perfect for me! I thank you to the depths of my heart. My dad was a sailor, and I really need to do this in his memory ❤️
Wonderful!
This is Awesome! I designed a large mariner's star quilt in EQ8 and have been putting it off because I hadn't figured out how to piece it. Thank you so much for solving my problem. This quilt will definitely move up on my list.
This will work great for some rather expensive fabric I have. (I know, all quilting fabric is expensive, too expensive if you ask me). This is a great way to show the fabric and since this pattern can be used for any occasion, the possibilities are endless. Thank you so much for the great video and the free downloads, it really does help having those resources available since quilting has simply become too darn expensive. Have a great week, everyone.
Your large block Mariner’s Star quilt is gorgeous! I love the colors you used too.
Wow, good for you Karen, this isn’t for me but very impressive to watch you put this together. Maybe some day thanks Karen for sharing. 👍❤️🙂
Also. Well done-teaching us.
❤ thanks for all your videos
Glad you like them!🤗
This is a fabulous tutorial on making your own paper piece pattern in large scale. Thank you!!!
I love this. I gift throw/picnic quilts, this would be perfect,
This is great! It might even win me over to paper piecing… maybe.
Oooooh! This idea would be ideal for some special fabrics I bought on vacation to New Mexico last year. The material I bought has such great designs I knew I didn’t want to cut them into regular patchwork sizes. You da best, KB.
That's a great idea!
Gorgeous! A really amazing block!
I love this pattern and as soon as I get guts enough to try smaller FPP, I'll add this to my list. I wish I'd known about the Birch sooner. I just bought a new mattress earlier this year and I hate it. I can't justify another one just yet, but I'll keep this in mind. Thank you for all of your great ideas.
This is a neat way to quilt
Love this, Thank you Karen.
Love the big star!!!!
Thank you for sharing! I always learn from you. I always preshrink which gets the fabric on the grain. Then I starch to lessen stretching. I do tear my fabric first. I have seen the fabric off grain up to six inches. When the manufacturer rolls the fabric onto the bolt most the time it is rolled off grain.
Thank you!
Once again you have inspired me to try something new!!! I love the mariners star block and it's so nice of you to make it available to us!! Not sure if I have the computer skills needed to enlarge a pattern. Keep sewing and sharing!!
Awesome!❤
Great instuctions Karen. Your big blocks look amazing👏♥️🇦🇺
Wonderful tutorial. Thank you for the video 😊
This is absolutely genius. 🎉🎉
You make this look easy! I like the idea of upsizing a block to make it a one block quilt. This will work for so many blocks, it’s a great idea. Even upsizing to make a large 9 patch with the blocks could look great depending on the block. Thank you.
A great idea for QAYG!
What a gorgeous quilt! You certainly knew what you were doing!!! Good job!!! thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing amazing quilt
Never thought about a one block quilt. That is right up my alley, so to speak! I do large blocks better than a hundred tiny ones😊
I like big blocks!
What a gorgeous quilt.
I love big block quilts!! I just moved to a house with a big house length deck that faces the road, it is just begging for a quilt to be hung over the side and photographed. I am just itching for a chance to start a new quilt!
My favourite big block quilt is your Stashbuster 3. I've made it three times in different fabrics as a baby quilt. It looks great every time.
Wonderful!
Me too !
Same! It's my go-to for an easy small project, and having a spare baby quilt to give means you don't scramble when you didn't know someone was expecting.
Thank you for sharing this content and offering your free reference guides. I look forward to seeing future videos.
Glad you like them!
Beautiful quilt ❤
Very cool
Thank you for all the information in this video. As always you’re precise in the information you give
Beautiful Karen ❤it
Thanks for this, I really appreciate this. I might just do this once I get hold of some freezer paper
I love this one. What a great way to make a quilt as a gift without a ton of time cutting and piecing.
Excellent video! Thank you!!
Thanks for sharing great ideas & instructions
Love this video. So helpful for big block wonders.
Glad it was helpful!
Your quilt looks fabulous! I felt a bit 🫨 trying to follow your steps but it was a busy Sunday with church & family. I’ll rewatch when my head is more clear!
You might need to watch the first paper piecing video first
@@JustGetitDoneQuilts I’m familiar with FPP. I think it was upscaling it so much that messed with my head. But I’ll watch your FPP & freezer paper FPP videos - when I’m not so worn out!! 😉
Your quilt is stunning! So nice to see someone who does paper piecing WITHOUT stitching through the paper. Thay makes such a mess & ripping out all that paper is so time consuming & time wasting.
Do you like your cordless iron? I'm thinking of getting one.
Karen, thank you so much for this pattern. I so appreciate all of your hard work and dedication to the quilting craft.
What perfect timing! My grandson wants a huge Luna moth quilt. I have the pattern picked out. Just need to get started
sounds cool
Wow!! That would take a lot of thinking for my brain but it's so impressive that I wouldn't mind trying it!
What a great video. I really enjoyed it. Best thing I watched all day. 🎉❤❤❤
Thank you sharing the link to the quilt sizes, Karen
Yes looking forward to big blocks. Thank you
Oh I love it
Not sure about space but if there's a will, there's a way.
Hi Karen and everyone. So happy when I can catch you live, seems to be more fun. Thank you sharing your experience and expertise with us.
Wow! Awesome quilt and great directions. Love the whole idea.
They can be really fun
Make Modern emagazine has fabulous large quilt block quilts. I don’t subscribe to many these days but this one is great. Karen did a chat with them a couple of years ago.
Make modern is great! BTW If you like to read on a kindle or tablet see if your library has a digital catalog. My local library does and I follow several quilting magazines on there. Mine is free and I also don’t get cluttered up with the physical magazines. Saves me space money and keeps paper out of the trash 👍🏻
Karen, I tried to print the 60" Mariner's Star pattern but it only printed the first top left corner of the page and that was large size. How do I get it to print the other pages of the block? (I am using an new hp printer.) HELP!
Very helpful ❤
Thx
thx
Karen, Have you a video or plans for a video on the LEMONADE Quilt? My curiosity is is crazy!
Freezer paper!! …I looked and searched for butcher paper but kept finding only the unwaxed kind, plain on both sides. Then freezer paper popped up. Yes! That’s another name for what you used
Wow!
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I love the one block quilt but I worry about quilting all that open negative space
Just choose a thread colour that matching the background. I have also made it with straight line quilting
Oh damn! 😢 Some of your vids are waaay over my head!
I'm sure there is a good reason and I'm not asking Google correctly...but what's the advantage to using paper-piecing for something so large vs just measuring and cutting pieces without paper?
You could. But you need to manage the stretch. The block I have made would have been very difficult without the freezer paper to stabilize it
I’d like to make this and have been searching your website for the fabric requirements. Can you help me? I’ve already put fabric in a cart.
Thank tou for another fabulous video!!!!
I found if I tried to download this pattern from my phone, it takes me back to the video? I will try again soon :)
You are clicking on the thumbnail. Click on the download button
Thank you!!! I was able to download!! Can't wait to give this one a try :)
are there patterns that can be purchased with the templates already made large so I don't have to do the computer thing (I'm terrible at that)
Not that I know of
For some reason, my printer sees he download as 1 page and will not break down the page to print on multiple sheets of paper. I am going to try to send it to my part time work place printer to see if it will print there. If not, I will try to print it at Office Depot or some place like that. I would really like to do this in a large queen size quilt also. Just have to figure it out. Thanks for the download and video.
I am a bit confused….the download is titled 30” mariners compass on your site, but the actual download says 60” mariners compass…which size is it? I would do either one. Also my printer also just sees one sheet of paper, how do I get it to print the download in multiple sheets? I love this pattern and would like to give it a try. Any advice is appreciated,
The block is 30" and you need 4 to make the 60" Mariner's Star
@@JustGetitDoneQuilts thanks for the quick response, I appreciate your help. Any idea why it only prints on one sheet? I know that isn’t right. 😩
@@isewalot1234 you need to print it through acrobat
OMG….i didn’t think of that. Thank you so much, I will give it a try. You are such an inspiration to all of us, I just love this large block. Thanks for sharing all of your knowledge.
What brand is your quilting machine?
APQS
Do they have a latex free mattress? I have a latex allergy.
You’ll need to reach out to them to be sure
I love the idea of the big block, but this is confusing to me. I’m going to need to watch this a few times.
Download doesn't seem to be working
The colour swatch down load ? It works for me, I just checked it
Just click on the download button
Great video and instructions ! But 🥲🥲 I don’t have a printer facility …..any thoughts on a way around that ! Thanks Karen , really enjoy your channel 🏴