Once we have all of your triangles made, it really becomes a fun layout process so our next step, if you want to start ironing out or smoothing out your design wall, is going to be all play, all fun. And I’ll just quickly go through here and get a bunch. And you can see I’m stacking my triangles up and that’s why I wanted to keep those fabrics so that all of the pretty side was in the right direction. So make sure as you’re spinning your ruler that that blunt tip is always going over to one of the edges as you’re working. Now on the tip there is a blunt tip that helps allow for the seam allowance. And then from this point I can just spin my ruler basically 180 degrees. Make sure I get through all of those layers. Is you take your ruler, and I like to go ahead and line it up on this straight line here which includes that seam allowance for us, ok? And then I’m going to go ahead and just take a cut and a slice. Now one of the first things you’re going to do and you’re going to need these little half wedges as well as you’re going to need the full triangles. Because I’m cutting multiple layers and these are going to be our sewing lines so we want to make sure it makes good sense. I’m being very cautious as I work through making sure that my lines are nice and clean here. Or that way you know exactly where the right sides are. And making that stack of triangles you want to be able to just keep them all in sewing order. So what I want to say is first thing you want to do is take all of your strips you’re creating and make sure that you have your most intense colors facing up because we’re going to make a stack of triangles. And for this particular Elementals run that I’ve been working with, I noticed that. So sometimes what that will do is it means one side is not as intense as the other. Now when you’re looking at the batiks, one of the ways we get these fantastic print or these nice tight lines in batiks is we do lots of dyeing throughout different processes. So I can start teaching you how to do those triangles, right? So here I’m cutting that second strip and remember you’re going to want five of each direction of the strips but I just need a few of them to show you what we’re going to do next. So you’re going to need also five of these strips. 8 ½ inches right there and now you’re going to notice that the stripes are running perpendicular to the ruler. I’m just making sure I get the cut right. Don’t worry I’ve had plenty of coffee today. I’m just going to slow down for a second. And I want these to be really nice clean cuts. And I’m going to now lay my ruler so I’m coming right down here. So right now as I’m looking at this I’m going to set up using the numbers on my mat today. Because what I want to do is not cut too many folds if at all possible. And a lot of times when I’m cutting we’re at that challenge between too much fabric, too short a board. I’m going to take a moment and just look at my selvedges here to make sure they’re lining up nice. So what I want to do is I’m going to take this and I’m going to open it up and I’m going to prepare to refold it in this direction. But the next step gets just a little bit more tricky. So we have five that are running parallel to the stripe. Here’s my fold down here and my two selvedges right over here, right? And you’re going to make 8 ½ inch strips so they fit that triangle ruler nicely. Ok, the first thing is is we’re going to take our batik, the 2 ½ yards and we’re going to start by cutting it standard. Don’t worry those are big words, watch this. This is going to show you how I want you to cut your fabric so you get triangles with your stripes facing both parallel and perpendicular to your ruler. We’re going to have two different series of cuts so let’s get started.Īlso in the description below today’s video we have a fun free printable as we often do. Let me show you how we are going to build this quilt. If you need your fabric and your supplies, they are always available in the description below over at MSQC. So you’re going to need this and some fabric. And then I’m also using today the creative grids 8 ½ inch tall but it’s a 60 degree triangle. And it creates this incredible quilt simply using 2 ½ yards of the batik fabric. It comes in, I think, six or eight different fantastic color families. There is nothing more satisfying than finding one single piece of fabric that says, Hey baby, I’m all that you need.Īnd this is it! That’s right, Robert Kaufman’s Elemental Batik was all I needed for this fantastic, really crisp and clean stripe but it’s on a batik. A lot of times I’m just out hunting for fabric. And of course it comes from all over the place. Folks are always asking me, Hey Rob, where do you get your inspiration for the quilts you design.
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