EPISODE 26 - Part 1 (of 2) Backing your quilt - Making and Measuring Yardage
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- I show how I measure, figure out yardage, and construct my quilt backing for my recent quilt top I've made. Tips and various ways on cutting, measuring and sewing to get your backing perfect!
Jean you are a wonderful lady to watch. Your videos are not too long and not chatty at all. The reason I watch your videos is your kind personality, the chatting as it keeps me company while I am solo in my craft room. There's never a Long video because there is a pause button, or a stop button. People can carry on watching another day. If they don't like your style, then they can move on to somebody else's, who's is boring. You just be who you are. 98% of the people watching your videos do because of you're great personality. Don't change for anybody, don't alter your videos, they your videos. You doing a fantastic job? It's great fun and I learn so much in a friendly relaxing way. I just want to say a big. Thank you.
Thank you so much! I appreciate your kind words:) And thank you for taking SO much time to watch me:)
I have been there, I had to add to my backing lol I like to here you talk Jane. I like the the fact that you share with your subscribers. You be yourself. If no one else likes it they can go elsewhere!! Your Channel and we love you just the way you are!! 😍
That is so sweet of you! Yes, boo on naysayers!!! They can go somewhere else and be miserable!!1 :) Thanks for watching! :)
I'm so glad I came across your video. You made me smile and I enjoyed watching every minute. I am grateful. You are AWESOME!
Thank You very much for being on RUclips.
You are so kind for taking time to watch me:) Thank you:)
Hi I enjoy listening to you. You are kind and fun. Please don't stop making long videos I like them very much. You're the first person I have really enjoyed watching and listening to. I joined RUclips on your channel for the first time. Kelly
Wow...so kind of you to tune into me!! That really makes my day ~ the fact I can just be myself ~ whoever, or whatever, that is!! :) Thanks a million!! :)
Jean you be who you are, I like hearing you talk! I liked hearing about your life a couple videos back. I am blown away by the fact that you had 10 kids. Keep doing what you are doing its great!
That is so kind of you ~ Yea, others, not so much! "I babbled on too much"..too much talking" .......Oh well, can't please all of the people all of the time! I LIKE folks like YOU!!! :) And of course, there is that 'delete comment' button!! YAY!! LOL!! Thanks again! :)
Wait a minute... I'm here because of your talkative personality! You are charming and so much fun to hang out with!! Those who don't like it may move one. Not every style suits everyone. Know that we love you exactly the way you are!! I'm an introvert so I am drawn to people who aren't shy! xo
Thank you! I realize I can be grating at times, talk too much and too loud, but as the saying goes, "that is why there are menus"!! We all have a choice! Thanks for choosing me!! :)
Please please don't change i am learning so much watching your videos.and you make my day because you are so down to earth it's like having a friend.love Micky .
I am so please you are LEARNING something! That was my whole motive - to show others the (quirky and somewhat) unconventional way that I do what I do!! Thanks so much for being a friend!! :)
You’ve offered some great information on backing quilts and touched on all the main points for keeping in mind when getting backing material.
I am really enjoying your videos, watching them one by one.
Backing doesn't always have to be one fabric! Use large blocks, squares, different fabrics etc.!
I am glad you're doing better and if people think you talk to much they don't have to watch you I love your videos thank you for all of your hard work and time much love from Cali.
Thanks so much! That's right - they can always just walk away!! (But some still feel the need to comment - what's up with that???!?!) Anyway..thanks again for watching! :)
I love your babblibg, it makes me laugh and after the last few weeks I have needed to laugh I am crying too much.
Aw you poor thing...sending hugs....we all need a big hug. Sorry you are sad, but happy to have taken your mind off it for just a moment.
It's great you're listening to the comments and trying to improve, but honestly just make the video you want to make. The audience who enjoys your style will stay and the audience who have problems will leave and that's ok. None can please everyone, so you might as well please yourself and the viewers who enjoy YOUR style.
Yea....I think you're right! I have enough people who don't seem to mind me babbling on and heck with those who do!! :) Thanks so much for the encouragement!! :)
I love the "rambling" ... It means you are real and not reading from a script.. Dont change your style to impress the snobs! I have on occasion when doing my backing realize i didnt buy enough cuz i didnt have a plan yet but loved the fabric so what i do is cut the length down the foldline and use the extra fabric from the top and piece chunks together and put it between the 2 lengths i have and now my backing is big enough. Its like a mini quilt on the back. Also if there are any "stray" blocks it makes for a fun backing as well ..
Sounds like you know what you are doing and it's great! Yes, piece, jiggery-pokery it about ~ its' all good!! Thanks so much for watching :)
Jean Truelove i started sewing at the young age of 4 for my dolls and at age 7 for myself.. Growing up tall 4 ft 24 in the 70s meant i made my own clothes and in the late 80s stumbled onto quilting!!! The skies parted and angels sang... This is what i was meant to do!!
Yay your back so pleased i agree with most of the comments we love your way of talking and just the way you are thank you Jean glad you are feeling a bit better
Yes I am back - to a certain extent!! My back tooth just cracked and broke and fell out of my mouth!! Off to the dentist hopefully for me tomorrow! But I will continue to do what I do~ And thank people like you who appreciate it! :)
Hahah I love when you said "maybe your perfect, I'm not". Hahah. love your personality
I subscribed to your channel because of the laid back chatting /tutorial style. I get an occasional complaint but you need to remain true to your own person. Millions of videos they can go watch. Keep up the great work.
Thank you! Yes, I am Me and intend to stay that way! There are always naysayers but they can move right along! Thanks so much for sticking to me and my way of doing things! I appreciate it! :)
We all babble.."go for it...do your own thing. We like it.
Babble babble babble.....yes, this is what WE DO!!! :)
Hi Jean. Glad you feel better today. Thanks for this, I'm ready to back 3 quilts!!! One of them is 78" x78", this is the biggest of the 3. I've ordered 6 metres online. It should arrive Thursday, woohoo, can't wait. After seeing this, I think I will join mine in the middle. It's a very busy bright African print - yummeee lol. Keep on doing what you're doing please Jean. I love your tuition videos and hearing about what you have to say, let the maungy pot people go away lol xxx
Hi Ann!! Yes, I am feeling a bit better, but go figure....my back tooth just broke out of my head and I need a dentist ASAP!!! Aaarrgghh!!! But never mind...such is life! So!! You are ready for your backing ~ You go girl~~~ !! Sounds lovely! Thanks again for liking me and, yea.....miserable people can go and be miserable with other miseries!!! :)
glad your feeling better. I don't think you need to change you style of video i really enjoy the way you do them its part of what makes them fun to watch and learn from. i think it makes me feel like i am being spoken to and not lectured at thanks
I so don't do 'lecture'....!! :) Thanks so much for tuning in and taking time to visit me!! :)
Awesome video and so very informative. Love how you talk to us as tho you're in our living room helping us with tips and tricks on our quilts. Your backing turned out great after matching the pattern.
Thank you! I'm just uploading a Part 2 of learning to back - this time using pieces/patchwork way of doing it! Thanks so much for watching me!
I love watching you, Jean! Hope you are feeling all better.
Thank you so much! Yes I'm feeling a bit better - cough still hanging on and need the dentist ASAP as my back tooth just cracked in half and fell out!!!! : ( I'm falling apart!! :)
Loved your video! You are so sweet and down to earth. You made me smile today! Very useful for me, I’m on my second quilt and said after the first one, I said I’d never do another! Then I missed it, lol 😆
Aw you are so kind! Thank you very much! :) Quilting is a bit addictive, isn't it?!?!~? LOL!
I am so glad you are back ,I would say where is true love I don't see here any more then I was looking to see what I would next and there you where working on the quilt I have always wanted to but I thought I couldn't do it but I saw you doing it and you explain it so nice that I said I can do it. So I went to my phone and couldn't fine it but it was right there in front of me so I went back to my phone and ask you and you where so kind to text me right back thank you I love the way you explain your work pleas don't go off again or tell us when you will be back your great keep talking I am always talking and they tell me I talk to much that is part of life God bless you and family and always keep true to yourself .
Thank you for your kind words! I don't quite know what people out in the You Tube world see when they want to see my videos...do they come and go? Or can you sort of 'dial them up', and view them? I really don't know! But I am glad you found me!
Thank you Jean I feel better about being able to do the backing. I love the
fabric you chose. :-)
So pleased you are more comfortable doing it! Thanks so much for watching! :)
I think most of us who watch you, do so because we love the conversational style of your videos. Down with the "tutorial snobs" who think everyone needs to fit into a certain format for their videos! Boohoo on them! There are plenty of other tutorials for them to watch if they don't care for the way that you do yours. I always feel a bit confused by why anyone would bother to leave a negative comment on a video they didn't enjoy. I see videos all the time that just don't do anything for me or where that person's style is just very different than my own. And my response is to simply turn it off and watch something else. It would be too time consuming to comment to every video I didn't personally care for. Why take the time to do that instead of just moving on to a video I DO like? I'll never understand. I think there are just a lot of unsatisfied people out there that feel like they need to let everyone else know about it. I certainly don't feel any emotional investment in a video I don't like. Our culture is so different from the way I think inside my own head and live my own life. Simple pleasures. Low stress. Major on the majors and minor on the minors. Find something you enjoy and let the rest move on past. We love you and we love to hear about you. I love that I can grab a cup of coffee and sit down at my machine while I watch and listen to you as I go. I think most of us wish we lived near you so that we could spend time with you in the same room on a regular basis. I know, for myself, that I would love to have you as a friend. Keep doing what you do, the way that seems natural for you to be doing it, and just be exactly who you are, because that is the person we came here to watch. You are already perfect as you are! Boohoo on the tutorial snobs, lol!
Aw, keep it up Brenda, and I'll mention your name in EVERY one of my videos!!! :) :) (just not your lousy 2 1/2" square - that idea stunk...:) LOL!!! And yes, Boohoo on tutorial snobs....B O R I N G.......!!!!!! :) Thanks again for supporting little ole me!! :)
Brenda Wallgren Brenda you have said everything I totally agree with. It is difficult as a RUclipsr myself, to understand why folks waist time telling me I talk too much!!
Yeah, I like your style, Jean, and your love of sewing and quilting sure comes thru!
Love you I'm using videos to learn how to quilt guess you could say I'm self taught learning by the mistakes I've made on each quilt I've made in the past. would have been so much easier if I had found your videos frist. Thank you so much I'll keep watching from South Carolina
So pleased you found me ~ I am a bit all over the place, but we'll get there in the end :) Thanks again for watching!! :)
Hi, just would like to say welcome back, glad to see you back and feeling well again.
Sweet of you! Yes, feeling better, not 100%, but on the way! Thanks!
Jean i love watching you 10 kids wow any how i enjoy your tuts
Oh thank you so much!! Yea...10 kids....nuts huh??!?! :)
I think the "babbling" adds SO MUCH to your presentation. Otherwise I could watch Martha Stuart. Please don't change anything. You are wonderful!
Oh If you love babbling - you will LOVE me!! Yea...Martha Stuart is so NOT the queen of babble!! :) Thanks so much!
Great video you are teaching me so much!!!! Thank You!!!
I'm so glad! Keep watching ~ I'm a bit all over the place, but we'll get there in the end!!
Thank you for this information. I have a quilt top that I have been wanting to get a backing for and Now I know how to do it. Thanks again. Love your videos.
Oh you are welcome! I also completely forgot that I piece my backings also - in a patchwork method! That way you don't need so much yardage from one print - you can use different prints and cut out squares and make it patchwork style, and it makes it completely reversible! Thanks for watching me! :)
Very clear and all the information I needed, thank you for sharing.
I love to here u talk u help me a lot .just made that quilt hope it turns out half as nice as yours, looking for backing now.. can do some free motion , love ❤️ it. Getting better all the time .thankyou. 🌹
Thank you! Free Motion Quilting takes TONS of practice! And then MORE TONS!! LOL! But one day you will Get it! :)
I have come to really love pieced backing fabric. It kind of makes the finished product "reversible," if you will. It takes a bit more effort than a single piece of backing fabric or doubling as you did, but it sure can be fun!
Actually thanks so much for addressing that! I too, have done pieced backings ~ I must mention that and show a few examples in my next video~ I completely forgot I did them!! LOL!! That way you don't have to get as much of one fabric and it gives 'reversible' options as you say! Thanks so much again for reminding me!!! WE can do this TOGETHER!! LOL!! :)
Love your tutorials... Please babble on. 👍
Babble - babble - babble......as you wish!! :)
Jean Truelove Lol
Another great video ms jean! Glad your feeling better!
Sweet of you ~ yes, I'm feeling better but guess what?!?? My back tooth just cracked and half of it just fell out of my head!!! Aaaarrgghhh!! Hopefully off to the dentist tomorrow~ Such is life~~ Thanks again!
You and I so totally could be quilting buddies.
LOL! Probably!!!:)
Glad you're feeling better, xo
Please don't stop "babbling" it is what makes your videos what they are if someone wants just instructions they can read text, Love your videos
OH!! Babble babble babble babble........and on and on and on........LOL~~~ Yes, I do like to chat - if you want boring and bland and cool and professional and perfect ~ please DO NOT TUNE INTO ME!!! :) Thanks for watching!!!
Thanks for making and posting a video on this topic. The only thing I'd advise against is pressing the back seam open. You did say you press it to one side, but that it's personal preference. But there's a reason: pressing a seam open means a weaker seam, which could "pop" the stitches with regular use of the quilt, and is tricky to mend. This is much less likely to occur when the seam is pressed over.
Thanks for watching! I always press my seams to one side...because of the reason you explained...but I have seen many a tutorial advising to press them open ~ which I don't do, like I said. It's a much stronger seam pressed to one side. Great minds think alike;)
Just finished a throw about 46" by 60 ". I had enough fabric from the front to piece a matching 12" wide strip. I cut the backing up the fold line and inserted the strip - two long seams to sew 😒 but a really pretty finish.
Clever girl!! Yes! Piecing the back is another brilliant idea! I actually was reminded by another commenter about this idea and completely forgot that I have done it!! Pieced backings sometimes take a bit more time, but make a truly reversible quilt! Keep on! :)
I love the way you are with your tutorials so down to earth I like the way you say it's your quilt do it how you want. As for the babbling you babble as much as you want. Look forward to seeing this quilt finished. Can you do a baby quilt as I am a real beginner just got my first charm packs.
Thank you! I've made a baby quilt a few tutorials back with a charm pack - I used the 'hourglass' block method ~ you must look it up! :) Thanks again for watching!
Super helpful as a very beginner
Glad you think so Jamie:) Thank you:)
Hi Jean..i was surprised at the extra inches for pattern matching...what it was 4" in center and 7" long ways...i like that you just get more for buying fabric..36" and36"..72...2yards. And a half for good measure..love it@!!
Yea...just remember that pattern matching DOES take more fabric - but THIS JUST IN....!!! I'm going to upload Part 2 of backing tutorials where I use patchwork/pieces for backing - tune in soon!! :)
Jean if you think you may be babbling it comes across as totally delightful. Had no idea you have 10 kids God blessed you which video was it I missed it! Love your videos Camille
So I must tell these other miseries that certain lovely people find my 'babbling' totally delightful"!!!! :) And yes, we are blessed - if you want to see my babbling about my kids it is in my video about my Quilt Show and Tell - the first 10 minutes or so of me babbling!!! Thanks for watching me babble!! :)
Beautiful job. I can't see the seam at all and that's before you ironed it. AWESOME quilt. Keep the VIDS coming, I love it. If you don't have a video for matching the fabric, would you consider doing one? That would be extremely helpful.
So glad you can't see my pattern matched seam! Yes! I will show you how I did it soon! Thanks so much!
Jean..you are super great..I've been watching you a few times a week..it's is almost like you are chatting with me about sewing....
* Nice..but kinda sad that I have no one to talk to..heck..I can not talk to anyone in general..🤔**
I buy 10 yard s...seems to be a good number😂
Aw that's nice of you!
10 yards is a VERY good number!! :)
Jean, have you ever thought about doing live podcasts? People could ask questions as you go along. Just wondering.
ummmmm.....I don't have a clue what a 'live podcast' is....! Tech savvy I am not. But would that mean I would be 'live' as in 'LIVE?!?!?! Wow! How exactly does that work? I'll have to talk to my kids ~ and maybe not....then I would maybe have to know the answers to questions!! :)
I love you just the way you are. You make my day happy and I smile every time I watch you. Live or not.
Hi Jean yes fabrics are extremely expensive but you can get bargains some times but we don't have the variety that you have in America but thare always online and a lot of places ship to Australia
Oh that is good to hear! :)
Hello! I am a new subscriber and I am really enjoying your videos!
Hello New Subscriber!! Thanks for watching!! :)
I'm new to your channel. Really enjoy your videos.😊
I'm so pleased you found me! Thanks for watching!! :)
I have been watching a lot of your videos and they are so helpful. May I ask what causes the rippling on my backing when I do a straight line quilting? I sew from top to bottom and then switch bottom to top. I pin baste my quilt sandwich.. Not sure what I am doing wrong?
Thanks for watching me! You may find that your stitch length is a bit short. Also if your machine has an adjustment capability for your presser foot, that might help to loosen the pressure. But most of all, if your machine comes with a walking foot, that is very helpful as it feeds the fabric both on top and bottom, at the exact rate. I find the rippling or puckering just a part of the charm and I'm not all that worried about it!
I was wondering if one has to use the spray to baste and if one has to use batting?
I have actually never used the spray to baste my quilts - only pins. But others have with great results. And yes, I always use batting, even for baby quilts.
sometimes I buy pretty sheets for the back
Brilliant idea! Wide, soft and super! :)
Pamala Gilbert That’s the way my Granny done when she didn’t have fabric. I’ve got a quilt top that I plan to use a sheet backing and I’m going to hand tie it, like my Granny done to some of hers. I have only made one quilt (I don’t have the back of the binding on due to using Minky-didn’t know any better😆) I have several quilt tops but I can’t figure out the backing & binding😂
great info
I had a look at that fabric store you mentioned fantastic but they only ship within the USA and since i in Australia cant use it oh well thems the breaks thanks anyway
Aw, bummer!! Yes, they are super! Are fabrics really expensive in Australia?
Just had to tell you all that I just found an awesome INEXPENSIVE place to buy fabrics - their sale fabrics are $5 -$6 for fabulous stuff!! Its called Brooklyn Fabric Company and I found them on Facebook, but I went to their site and got some gorgeous yardage on sale!! Check them out!!
I really enjoy your videos your quilts are beautiful. I have a question. You must have a lot of leftover scraps do you ever make scrap quilts?
ummmmmm.......I have TONS of scraps that I am in the (very slow) process of cutting up into 10" and 5" squares. I, in general, don't make 'scrap' quilts, as such, but I think I will start because I DO have a ton!! Thanks so much for watching me! :)
Oh mu goodness you poor thing hope it goes well at dentist lol o hate them but we need them lol
I know....my tongue keeps going to the scratchy 'hole'!!!! Yikes! Hopefully I can get an appointment asap! Thanks!
Tell the to babble on to someone else's channel