Here's a rhetorical question:
how do you create a quilt?
My guess is, your answer would be,
"Well, one block at a time."
It's a legitimate response, but there's another answer:
one row at a time.
During this first episode, learn how to stitch
three of the six rows in this quilt
using only one type of quilt block,
a trusty half-square triangle.
Plus, add a few squares of solid fabric.
I'll show you how to design, stitch, and enjoy
a row-by-row quilt.
"Trusty Triangles," a row-by-row sampler quilt,
that's what's next on Sewing With Nancy.
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- With row-by-row quilting, you can make a large quilt,
a table runner, a lap quilt, a baby quilt.
It all depends how wide you make each row
and how many rows you put in the quilt.
This happens to be 84 inches in width,
and each of the six rows are 12 inches, finished size,
so that would make a beautiful table runner
in different colors that would match your home.
But before we get into working with the blocks,
I'd like to talk about half-square triangles,
because that's the only type of piecing
that is done on this quilt.
And you'll see six different designs
or possibly more.
And we have four different sizes
of finished half-square triangles:
six, four, three, and two.
We're going to start with this top row.
And in the top row, we have--
you can just see the half-square triangles.
And--depends how they're pieced together,
shows you exactly how the configuration
or the design flows.
This next design, these "Twirling Triangles,"
really makes things-- there's a square,
you can see, has a lot of motion.
And then the third-- one of the third items
we're going to show today is the "Teetering Triangles,"
made with squares again and half-square triangles,
this time 6 1/2 inches.
It's kind of deceiving how this all goes together.
The fabric color combinations are pretty bright and bold.
I used ten fabrics
with three different colors--
or coordinating colors,
each in hues of light, medium, and dark.
It's always safe to go with these light, mediums, and darks.
And then I have a tenth fabric,
a "blender," that I call, that goes--
blends between the greens and the blues--
a blue-green fabric.
Now, you may not want to work with solids.
You may want to choose a print.
So here, I have selected light, medium, dark
of the olive green, the tans,
the pretty garnet color,
and then a blender that goes, this time,
almost with all three different color combinations.
So sky's the limit when it comes to choosing fabrics.
Creating half-square triangles
can be done in many different ways.
And if you're wondering, okay, half-square triangles,
I showed you these, but here they are
before they're sewn together,
the four different sizes we'll be working with
during this two-part series.
And you're going to create two at a time.
So how do you do that?
For each
half-square triangle strip,
you're going to cut the strip
7/8 of an inch larger
than the finished size.
So for 6-inch
finished size, you'd make this 6 7/8.
This is a 4-inch. You'd make it 4 7/8.
Pretty simple.
And stack two fabrics together,
right sides together,
the way they're going to come together in the pair.
And we have a light and a darker.
And it's sticking together pretty well.
Let me see. One more time.
Do you ever have this problem? There we go.
You can see how that's going to create
a half-square triangle.
And then cut them into squares,
which I've already done,
and then do some marking.
There are many ways you can create half-square triangles.
I'm just going to show you two methods
that I think work well for me,
and that's to put a ruler at point to point,
and with a fine-tip pen, mark--
and I'm going to mark a little bit heavier mark
from point to point,
and then you can do the same on all sizes.
If you would
like to use a gauge
to make sure everything's lined up
and fits within the confines of the ruler,
on this ruler,
one side is dedicated to half-square,
the other side to quarter-square.
And I've put it down
to a 6 1/2 inch half-square triangle,
and I can just lock it into place.
That's before it's finished; it's 6 1/2 inches.
And then I have two fabric colors together.
Make sure that everything's lined up
so it will be accurate when you stitch,
and just mark down the center.
Simple as that.
And mark as many as you need.
Next, we'll go to the sewing machine.
I'll show you how to stitch, cut, press,
and you'll end up with two half-square triangles.
Often, instructions have you cut triangles
when you're going to create a triangle.
Rather, we're cutting squares,
and I just want to explain why I do the squares instead.
If you would cut along the bias
to create that half-square triangle,
you're going to have a lot of pull
or a possibility of the seam to waver.
So by keeping it intact in a square,
it usually goes a lot easier
without having to get the squares out of shape.
Now, as far as stitching, we're going to use
a presser foot that has a 1/4 of an inch guide,
or you could use a foot that's 1/4 of an inch wide,
and align the edge of the foot or the guide
on the mark that you did down the center of the block.
And you stitch one block,
ending right at that point,
and then kiss the other block right up to it,
and sometimes I lift the foot and get this underneath,
one more time here, just getting it lined up.
It's really important
to have 1/4 of an inch seam allowances
because the size of the block is cut
so that it will give you
an accurate finished size.
So if you've made a generous seam allowance,
you're not going to have a square.
So then we'll go back and stitch
the other side of the block--
or the other side of the marking, I should say,
going from one stitch to the other--
chain stitching from one to the other.
Now, I'm going to end up with-- whoops--four blocks
when I'm done with these two stitchings.
You could stitch many, many more,
but you get the idea
of how to chain stitch fabrics together.
Then after chain stitching,
you're going to simply cut apart the fabrics
between the...
Blocks-- cut apart the chain stitching
between the blocks-- excuse me.
And then you can do some further cutting
at the cutting board.
I have a ruler, and you don't really have to measure.
You just have to make sure that you're going to get it right.
You're going to get them in two. Cut them in half.
Each block-- each block will give you
a light and a dark.
At the-- at the pressing area,
I usually press the seam flat
and then press the seams to the darker fabric.
And I like to top press, pressing from the right side
to make certain that I do not get
a little pleat in the fabric.
So I get one block,
press it flat.
Get an assembly line after you've made many of them.
Press it to the darker fabric,
and you have two.
With the stitching-- marking of just two blocks,
you can easily get the squares,
and you can see how fast that is.
So this is the concept that we have of making
half-square triangles.
Whether they're going to be
six, four, three, or two inches
in their finished size,
they're all made in the same concept.
So cut, stitch-- mark, stitch,
and cut again, and after pressing,
bingo, you'll have two blocks.
And now I'll show you our first row-by-row quilt.
My first row design, entitled "Opposing Arrows,"
is a great way to begin your row quilt journey.
Your eye most likely will focus on the center design,
then following the opposing arrows
to the left or to the right.
Arranging half-square triangles
to give the sense of movement
adds to the pleasure of the creative process.
As I mentioned, you're going to see many ways
of positioning half-square triangles,
and this is a very dramatic way to start the process.
Great table runner,
or it could just be a whole quilt of this design.
We have 6 1/2 inch squares, 48 in total,
different fabrics, seven in total,
and you can see that the arrows are created
with two half-square triangles,
and the positioning of the colors
creates the great design.
We have one, two, three, four,
and then we repeat some of the colors as we go along.
If you want to make the quilt
narrower or wider, you know what to do.
Just add more or take some away.
To get that dramatic arrow that you see in the beginning--
in the middle, I should say--
you'll need to share one fabric with two different blocks.
We have four different
colorways, and we have--
this is number one and number two,
and they share the dark green fabric.
And then I just chose different colors as we go along.
You're going to create four of the first colorway
and eight of all the other three ways.
And we'll stack the fabrics away,
and I'll show you how they go together.
Starting in the center,
we'll just meet the brilliant green colors to the middle,
and this is the center medallion,
the center block, as you can kind of see.
And then I'll just go in one direction,
and then grab this colorway number two,
and when you meet the dark colors together,
you can see that big arrow that is created.
And then just keep on keeping on.
Now, if you want to make it wider,
you simply add more fabrics,
just repeating the colors.
And then I would repeat the blue
and repeat the turquoise, and I'd have
half of my quilt row complete.
Then mirror-image it on the other side
and put it together.
Now, stitching it together
is a chain stitching technique
much like I did earlier with the blocks--
by sewing the blocks.
But this time, I'm going to meet the lower row,
right sides together to the upper row.
Now, I'm working on a white piece of flannel.
You could work on, perhaps, a towel.
I like to use this as my carrier tool.
Plus, the texture of the fabric's surface
keeps the fabric pieces from rotating--from moving,
and you can take this to your sewing machine
so much more readily.
Now I'm going to rotate this 45 degrees.
And you'll soon see that I'll be stitching
the side of the blocks together,
chain stitching all the way down one side.
And here's that close-up.
You can see where I'm just stitching
from one block to the other,
making kind of a honeycomb attachment
sewing these blocks together.
After you've done the stitching,
then you're going to do some pressing,
pressing, this time, in alternate directions.
And I'll unroll my next flannel
to show you that this small section has been
chain stitched together, but then
when I flip to the opposite side,
you'll see the pressing technique.
And starting at the lower sample,
I've pressed one way,
the upper sample, the other way.
Left to right, left, right.
And the reason is that
to sew the row, you're going to--
you can keep them chained together,
and they-- you nest the seam allowances
so that one seam allowance goes in one direction
and the other-- so that the seam is perfect.
And here's a close-up of just chaining the rows together--
or stitching those remaining rows.
And here we have a portion of the row completed.
And you can-- pretty easy to put together.
28 blocks, 6 1/2 inches when you start off--out,
and when you're finished, it's a 12-inch width,
and if we look once again
at our finished row,
you can see the drama of this quilt row.
Easy to put together,
and I think you'll enjoy the process.
What might appear as one large triangle
teetering on top of a triangle half its size
is really an illusion.
The "Teetering Triangles" block is created
with 6 1/2 inch half-square triangles
and a 6 1/2 inch square.
Simple as that.
A few leftover triangles come together
to form the center medallion.
It's all a matter of placement and color.
That's the magic of quilting.
The "Teetering Triangles" row
is placed at the bottom of my quilt,
so we have it kind of shifted up a little bit
so you can see that bottom row.
And we're going to analyze this block.
And one big triangle illusion on top of another one,
but really it's one, two half-square triangles
and a solid 6 1/2 inch square.
And then the fourth component
is another half-square triangle.
I've chosen three different colorways
to go in the blocks.
And you can see, I sometimes like to work
with light, mediums,
and darks within each block.
You can--your quilt will look different than mine,
but make sure you have plenty of contrast
so that you can see those triangles very evidently.
The background fabric, I usually like to use a medium,
or particularly
a light will make it very easy to see.
So, again, these are 6 1/2 inch half-square triangles
that you've made--
one of the small and two of the large
and then this block.
So we have the light, medium, and dark of the fabric.
And we'll set that aside and then do some layout.
Just laying these quilt blocks out visually,
the way it's going to look when it's finished.
And like before, when sewing them together,
you can do it block by block.
Meet right sides together,
row one-- column one on column two,
and sew the sides,
and then after they have been stitched,
just sew that center seam, the row seam,
and you'll have a quick block.
Now, the center of the row--
I didn't know quite how to work with this,
because these were very directional,
so I thought, "Okay, I'll make a medallion
of leftovers," 6 1/2 inch squares
of colors that were used within that row.
So choose whatever
fabrics you'd like to come together in the middle,
and have the darker fabrics...
Or halves of the half-square triangles, meet.
Ta-da, just like that.
You can position them however you'd like,
and it's a bright statement right in the middle.
You'll make three blocks-- excuse me--three blocks, yes,
of different colorways, and then make two of each.
So two of each, and after the center,
you can see how I mirror-imaged them.
I don't make all these samples.
You know, my staff and I work together,
but I said I made all this-- I certainly didn't.
But you can see how it's done
and kind of what drama this creates.
So another row that you can create of your quilt.
You can make the whole quilt out of it
or just portions of it or a table runner.
If you'd like to make a baby quilt,
you can certainly just make three different sections.
Make it whatever size you'd like,
making a quilt row by row.
"Twirling Triangles"
is an ideal quilt block design
for our sampler row quilt.
The juxtaposition of half-square triangles
gives the illusion of motion.
Plus, the various combinations of colors
in each block provide an opportunity
to see how light, medium, and dark fabrics
play together in a row.
When we look at the quilt row,
you'll see seven different combinations, as I mentioned,
and there isn't any direction to this quilt design,
so we just march them right across the row.
Color combinations
always using and-- what I chose to use--
the same common background fabric,
the lightest of the yellows,
and then two colors that complement each other.
Again, you can choose any color combination.
You really can't go wrong
when you put colors together
that you chose to go together.
The size of the block
is a 4 1/2 inch square and then
the 4 1/2 inch half-square triangles.
And there are eight half-square triangles
in that juxtaposition that I talked about
that make that twirling effect.
I'll show you how this works.
And all the rows in this quilt
are 12 1/2 inches in width--
or height, I guess I should say,
and you can make them as long as you'd like--
the rows as long as you'd like.
So you're going to make eight half-square triangles
that are 4 1/2 inches.
So I have them made, and I'm going to
lay this out for you.
Now, I cheated, and I decided ahead of time;
I knew how they were going to lay out,
but you're going to have to look at the diagrams to see--
notice how the twisting and turning--
this is the center.
You could use a solid if you wanted to.
And then here, we have the lower row.
But notice the configuration,
the flip and flop of the blocks,
so that the twirl effect
is effective through here.
Now, I purposely put a solid in the middle
because you can audition whatever color you'd like
for the middle section.
Now, I chose the turquoise color
in the block itself, but you could also see
if perhaps a dark green or a lighter green
is what you would choose.
So you have lots of options.
And do that auditioning of fabric.
You don't even have to cut the squares.
You could just place the fabric underneath
just to see which color combination you'd like.
And remember, when you're cutting the square,
the finished size
of the block before sewing together
is 4 1/2 inches,
so here, we have a 4 1/2 inch block.
Then to create the block,
to sew all the components together,
I always like to meet row one on top of row two
so that the presser foot will go down
the left side of the block.
And here's a close-up of chain stitching this together.
And after you have row one and two sewn together,
then you'll simply add row three.
And I have the next block coming up.
Or the sample.
And here we have them chained together,
and I'd like to show you about pressing,
because when pressing,
we have the fabrics pressed--
in this instance, we pressed the fabrics to the inside
toward the darker color,
and on the top and bottom row,
we pressed the seam allowances to the outside
so that again, when you sew those seams together,
they're nesting together very nicely
so that you can create the block.
Seven blocks is all that you need
for this row of quilts--
this quilt sampler.
Choose your favorite color combinations,
and then in the second program,
I'll be showing you how to make
three additional rows.
And we stitched the rows together
with a 4 1/2 inch strip,
and then I had my friend Sue do the longarm quilting
to make the quilt really pop.
I'm not an expert on longarm quilting,
so I let the people who are do the best job possible.
And just the motion that is in the quilting,
you have to admire that, because it really helps
this quilt shine.
So three row-by-rows
is what we've shown today,
and next time, three more.
♪
When something isn't working,
you figure out a way to fix it.
That's exactly what my Nancy's Corner guest,
a breast cancer survivor, did after having surgery.
Please welcome Deon Maas,
who is the inventor and the designer
of the Anti-Ouch Pouch.
Welcome to Sewing With Nancy,Deon.
- Thank you for having me, Nancy.
- This is a great idea, and it's
a great service project to make for others,
but tell our viewers how and why you developed this.
- Well, I was sent-- after my mastectomy,
I was sent home from the hospital
with a conventional pillow. - Mm-hmm.
- And the problem was,
when you put the pillow under the arm,
first of all, it was overstuffed,
and so it just felt like a lump there.
- You didn't need that. - No, it wasn't comfortable.
And then when I wanted-- when I felt well enough
to get up to do the important things of life,
like sewing...
- [laughs]
- I would have to clutch it with this arm.
Well, after--during surgery, they remove
lymph nodes, and so this arm is sore,
so having to clutch the pillow didn't work at all.
- So necessity's the mother of invention.
- Yes.
- And show our viewers how this works.
It's simple but clever.
- Yes. I needed a little bit of padding
in the underarm area
where the lymph nodes had been removed,
and I also needed it to stay in place
without my arm having to clutch it...
- Sure. Mm-hmm.
- So I designed
a triangular-shaped pillow.
It's narrow at the top,
wider at the bottom,
with the adjustable strap,
so that when I put it on... - Sure.
- It hung in place,
offered just a little bit of padding in the underarm area,
wider down here to hold the arm away,
and it just gently nested the arm.
- And the important part about this
is that it's lightly padded or stuffed...
- Mm-hmm. - With fiberfill
in this area, and it, with gravity,
settles to the bottom, and that's where you need it.
And you've made these with...
adjustable straps
for longer people, shorter people.
And you mentioned that, depending upon
your activity, you could adjust this.
- You can adjust the straps depending on your activity,
and then you could reach inside
and adjust the fiberfill, because I found
that I wanted it padded differently
when I was working on the computer...
- Sure. - And another way
if I were cooking or sewing.
- Mm-hmm. Now, Deon has offered free instructions,
and you can go to NancyZieman.com
and click on the Anti-Pouch--
Anti-Ouch Pouch--excuse me-- and make these.
But you make these in mass.
You live in Central Illinois. - Mm-hmm.
- And explain this great project that you have--
community service project.
- Well, I turned the instructions--
the free instructions over to the
American Sewing Guild... - Mm-hmm.
- And they have them on their website.
- Great. - And it was
the 2008 National Community Service Project
for American Sewing Guild.
In Central Illinois, we make them in mass.
We have a production line. One person might, uh...
- Yes. - Sew the straps.
Another person turn them. Another person stuff them.
- And in ten years-- you're a ten-year survivor.
Congratulations. - Mm-hmm. Thank you.
- Ten years, you've made, just in the Illinois chapter,
a lot of Anti-Ouch Pouches.
- We estimate we've made 5,000 to 8,000
just in Central Illinois,
and when you multiply that
by the American sewing groups
and other sewing volunteers making them
all over the United States over a period of ten years,
we estimate tens of thousands have been made
and donated free of charge to mastectomy patients.
- And you said also,
people who have broken their arm
or have a lumpectomy--
there are many other uses for these.
- Yes. - So you can make them
with your friends.
You could make them in your sewing group
or individually and give them away.
That's just a great idea.
Unfortunately, many people need these,
and then they can possibly pass it along to someone else.
- There's more need than ever;
because of the modern enhanced mammography...
- Sure. - They're discovering
more breast cancers, and so there's
more breast cancer patients.
- And perhaps discovering them earlier.
- Yes. - So that's a great thing.
Well, Deon, I want to thank you for being our guest,
and I encourage our viewers to watch this at home--
or, to make one of these at home and give away.
The gift, as I always say, is in the giving.
Thank you for being our guest.
- Yes. Thank you for having me.
- And I hope you've enjoyed this first program
of "Trusty Triangles," a row-by-row sampler quilt.
Next time, we'll be back
for our second program of this series,
where you'll learn-- or you'll see
those third rows I didn't show you about--
well, you'll learn all about those.
Remember, you can go to NancyZieman.com
and re-watch this program
or literally hundreds of Sewing With Nancy videos
online, where you can learn at your convenience.
And I hope that you have done that
and you will watch some more.
Well, thanks for joining us,
and, as always, bye for now.
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