Pat Sloan's QuiltersHome: Pat Sloan's "Lucky Charms" Sew Along - Part 1 tutorial. I am VERY excited to be hosting this "Lucky Charms" Sew Along with the Old Red Barn Flickr group!
Dana and the WHOLE ORB group are SO FUN that I thought it would be FABULOUS to hang out there for this Sew Along! All posts will be on my blog and my free pattern page. My Sew Alongs start out as a mystery and then I reveal the quilt after a bit. The SCOOP Size - 35" square with an appliqued center section.Learn - I will teach you how to do fusible applique by machine.. woot! The SUPPLY LIST - with slightly generous sizes 1 Charm pack- A standard charm pack is 42 squares. EXTRAThe Final quilt is 35" square. if you want a border 5"wide buy 2/3 yd of a border print for your charm pack.
Pat Sloan's QuiltersHome: Pat Sloan's "Lucky Charms" Sew Along - Part 2. Are you ready???
Let's do some piecing! First thing we do is open that charm pack and see what we have in the way of different colors. This pack has a set of white based squares, green and blue squares are a medium tone... With the red and browns being darker. This is a good mix. Select a center fabric that works with your collection. Cut the center 16.5" x 16.5" and put it on your design wall on point. Before we continue CLICK HERE to download Lucky Charms Part 2 directions The supply list had 2 companion fabrics of the same size. I'm going to use the red linen type fabric and the light color squares to do my star points.
But I have one too many lights.. which should I take out? When I fold this print in half it has lots of 'other color' so it will go for side strips. Time to make Half Square Triangles (CLICK HERE FOR A PRINTABLE HST Tutorial from my free pattern page) Cut 10 red squares 5” x 5”Select 10 very light squares from your charm packDraw a diagonal line on each light square. Pat Sloan's QuiltersHome: Pat Sloan's "Lucky Charms" Sew Along - Part 3. Here is the applique for the Christmas or Winter prints...
Holly and Berries are my favorites! And Here is the applique for the non holiday fabrics... spinning Flower fun! The photo tutorial is all with the holly until the end when I show you some flower things CLICK HERE to download Lucky Charms Part 3 tutorial sheet for this part (no photos to print). In this step I'm teaching you how to draw on the fusible and giving you some of my tips and tricks.
For the Holly I did fusible stems, but for the flowers I used a bias make to make bias stems. I have supplies at my website, and I have a book on Fusible Applique.. check it out! I prefer Heat n Bond lite (ONLY THE LITE, purple package) for this type of applique as we are going to be cutting away the centers and this fusible always stays together... read on... Trace the shapes on the paper side.
Leave yourself some room between shapes. Use all the available spots on your heat n bond. Pat Sloan's QuiltersHome: Pat Sloan's "Lucky Charms" Sew Along - Part 4 tutorial. Let's get stitching!
I'm using my Aurifil 50 weight thread from my kit. The thin thread blends in so the thread is not a 'feature' on the project. (CLICK HERE TO SEE THE COLORS) Pat Sloan's QuiltersHome: Pat Sloan's "Lucky Charms" Sew Along - Part 5 - The end! The Holly version of Lucky Charms and...
The Flower version made as only a center Let's sew those sides on then chat quilting it! Cut 4 strips 1" x WOF and sew to the center. Trim off the long ends .... and be sure the corners are square Now sew 2 opposite sides to the quilt. Pin pin pin... the sew the 2 sides on Press towards the sashing. Ta Da!! Wheeeeeeeee! I use 2 rulers for a piece this big. Here I'm using my biggest Sullivan Square and the Yardstick Ruler which is 37" long. Once again be sure your corner are square. Trimmmed up! Let's dish quilting.. as that is what you are REALLY here for isn't it?
I am going to show you the center on the flower piece. Remember I blanket stitched through all 3 layers on the flower center quilt? Drop your feed dogs and be sure you have your darning foot on. Pat Sloan's QuiltersHome: Pat Sloan's "Lucky Charms" Sew Along - Bonus Project. Do you remember these that that you trimmed away?
We are going to turn it into a mug rug!! With applique if you like! A BONUS project from your scraps! These are VERY skinny strips so you will not have perfectly straight lines.. and I LOVE that part of how it looks! Sew a few then press open... reverse the direction you stitch too so it won't 'wave' to one side Keep stitching until...