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Make a Pennant Quilt with Jenny Doan of Missouri Star! (Video Tutorial) - YouTube
Channel: Missouri Star Quilt Company
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Hi, everybody. It鈥檚 Jenny from the Missouri
Star Quilt Company and I have a really fun
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project for you today! Take a look at this
quilt behind me. Isn鈥檛 this fun? This is
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a Pennant Quilt and, of course, I see pennants
in all different ways. You know, I see them
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in school colors, I see them in birthdays,
I see them in boats, I mean, I just see pennants
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for everything, so I just love this Pennant
Quilt.
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So, to make this quilt, what you are going
to need is one Layer Cake and we have used
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Daysail by Bonnie and Camille from Moda. You鈥檙e
going to need a yard and a half of background
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fabric and the background fabric is going
to be in between here and your sashing across
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here and your sashing around the outside.
You鈥檙e also going to need about a yard and
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a quarter of border fabric. We put a 5 inch
border on our quilt. And then you鈥檙e also,
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one more thing, you鈥檙e going to need about
9 yards of ric rac and the ric rac just makes
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the string for the pennants to hang on and
it鈥檚 just darling. I鈥檝e used a three quarter
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inch ric rac. You can use whatever size you
want. I鈥檝e even used the jumbo and it鈥檚
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just so cute.
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So, let鈥檚, let's have some fun with this
and let me show you how to do it. So, to make
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these pennants, I used the simple wedge ruler.
Now, I have my son, I talked to him about
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designing this because one of the things that
I have a problem with is waste. I don鈥檛
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like waste and most of the triangles out there
are set up to go right in the center of the
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layer cake and you get a lot of waste with
that. Here is why I like ours. Ours is called
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the simple wedge and if you put your wedge
to the edge, just like this, and make your
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cut around here, you could put a whole other
wedge on the other side. So, let me show you
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how I cut that out. So, I take my layer cake
and line this wedge right up on the edge.
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I鈥檓 going to go ahead and cut in here and
stop right there and I鈥檓 going to go ahead
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and cut over here and then I have this wedge,
right here. This is my first wedge.
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Alright, for the second wedge we are going
to come up here and put our wedge on the edge,
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just like we did on the other one. And you
have to be pretty careful when you鈥檙e doing
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this. And we鈥檙e going to get one cut and
two cuts and this is all the waste you have,
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just this tiny little bit, and you鈥檙e going
to get 2 wedges out of here. I missed that
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one side right there. Let me grab that really
quick because we are going to use these. This
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is so fun! I really love this quilt because
when you get all your wedges cut we鈥檙e going
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to stack them in two piles, like this. So,
out of each layer cake you are going to get
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two and we're going to put them in two piles
and were only going to use one pile for this
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quilt because I have a whole second special
project for you with the other ones. So, let
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me show you how I put this together.
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So, I have my stack of wedges here that I
cut out and I鈥檒l toss one of these onto
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there. And I did the same thing with my background
fabric--I cut them out. So, once you get all
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of your white wedges cut, then it鈥檚 time
to put them together. To do that, what I like
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to do is, I like to make sure that all of
my white wedges are facing with the fat side
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facing down. I鈥檓 going to put that wedge
on the bottom and I鈥檓 going to bring my
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colored wedge and put it on the top. So, we
want them to end up this way, and we want
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the color to always end up on the right hand
side because, if you put them on either side,
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you鈥檙e going to get mixed up. It won鈥檛
be white, color, white, color, white, color,
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it will be, you know, color, color, white,
color, color, white, you know, or whatever.
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So, here is how we are going to lay this together:
so, you can see the points, right here, I鈥檓
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going to put it point to point. So, the very
point of my wedge, right here, you can see,
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is going to come right to the point. Then,
we are going to go and sew this a quarter
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of an inch all the way down, so you will be
able to see that. So, let鈥檚 go to the sewing
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machine and do that. I will do this a couple
of times because I want you to see how these
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lay on here so nice.
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Now, because I am an assembly line sewer,
what I will do is, I will bring my whole stack
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of whites over here and my colors and then,
what I will do is, I鈥檒l, right away before
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I cut that one, I will put another white wedge
up here and lay my next color wedge on top
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of it matching my top point and just sew down,
quarter of an inch. If they are not exact
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exact, it is not a big deal. You want to get
them close, but if they are not exact, it
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is alright. So, I鈥檓 just going to go ahead
and sew a few of these together so I can show
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you how to put a row together.
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Okay, I have one more to do here and I just
want to make sure you have this down. So,
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we keep our wedge with the wide side toward
us. We take our other pattern piece and we
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lay it wide side up to the narrow side and
we are going to match up our points. Lay it
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right on there and sew it a quarter of an
inch all the way down. Alright. Now we want
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to cut these apart and iron them open. Now,
I like to lay my pieces over here on the ironing
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board with the colored side up. I鈥檓 going
to set that seam and I鈥檓 going to roll it
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back. So, colored side up, set the seam, and
roll it back. That means that your colored
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fabric seam allowance is going to go to your
colored side of the wedge, which is going
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to hide it a little more especially if you鈥檙e
using a light background like I am. There
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we go.
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So, now we have pieces that look like this.
This is how our piece looks now. Now we鈥檙e
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going to assemble in rows. Let me show you
how we do that: so, you鈥檙e going to lay
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them out. I need a little more room here.
You want to make sure all your pennants are
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going the right direction and you want to
make sure you have different fabrics together.
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You don鈥檛 have too many blues in one section
or whatever. Now you鈥檙e going to put them
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together as a row. You鈥檙e going to do the
same thing, you鈥檙e going to roll them up,
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like this, and you鈥檙e going to attach this
and you鈥檙e going to lay it point to point.
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You鈥檙e going to have these other seams that
come across, but that is ok. Your points are
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still there, but because of your little dog
ears here, it is going to hang off a little
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bit.
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We鈥檙e going to go ahead and sew these together
using a quarter of an inch. We鈥檙e just going
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to sew this down here. Let鈥檚 iron this back
so you can see where we are going with this.
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And you get a piece that is like this and
you are ready to attach your other piece,
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so you are going to do this for your whole
row. So, let me do that for you. So, then
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you are just going to continue adding this
on until you have a whole row. Again, you
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want to lay this back here. I just want to
make sure you guys get this. See how this
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corner is now folded that way? This is going
to hang off a little bit, right here, but
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if this corner was straight, you will still
be matching point to point. Do you see what
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I am saying about that? Sew a quarter of an
inch, always good to fold it back and look
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to make sure everything is going the right
direction, and we鈥檙e just going to lay this
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on here. We鈥檙e going to finish up our row.
I鈥檒l sew a couple more on here and I鈥檒l
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meet you right back here.
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So, now we pretty much have our row together,
so now we鈥檙e going to iron it nice and flat
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and this is what your row is going to look
like when you finish the row. Now, I just
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have five and these rows have seven. We actually
have seven across and six rows because of
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the way they hang, but, you will notice that
it is not square. We can鈥檛 actually put
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it in a quilt, we need to add one more onto
the end of this one. So, again, we鈥檙e going
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to take our one triangle and we are going
to put it on here. See how I set that on there
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and it immediately turns the corner? That
is not right, so flip it around, make sure
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it is going to go like that. We are going
to lay it up here, edge to edge. This is going
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to be the finishing edge of our row of our
pennants.
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So, now we鈥檙e just going to sew this down.
Then we鈥檝e got to go press this open, and
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I鈥檒l show you how to finish off this row.
I鈥檓 just going to roll this back a little
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so it lays down nice because I want my color
to go in. So now, here is your row and now
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we need to square your ends of, so you have
a nice straight up and down row to add a border
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to. You will see on this simple wedge this
little dash line, right here. That is very
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important, because, what we are going to do,
we are going to lay our wedge here and the
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dash line on the edge. Now it gives us a nice
straight line, right here, to trim up the
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end of our row so it will lay straight. So,
we will just do this, and now our row is perfectly
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straight. Can you see that? Let me show you
again on this side. Again, just take our wedge
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and if you happen to put it on here and, you
know that鈥檚 not a straight line, make sure
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you watch that. Right now I鈥檓 going to put
this here and put the dash line on the edge
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of the fabric. I know it鈥檚 white and hard
to see, but you will know when it鈥檚 a straight
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line right up the middle. Then we will just
cut this. So, then you will have a straight
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row and your pennant row will look like this.
Isn鈥檛 that darling?
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So, once you get your row all finished and
your ends trimmed, you want to check it to
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make sure it鈥檚 straight across here. Sometimes
when we put things together it can get a little
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wonky and you just want to lay a ruler on
there and clean up that edge so you have a
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nice straight edge to attach it to.
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You鈥檙e going to make six of these. You鈥檙e
going to have seven pennants in each row.
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Here is our seven, right here, and you鈥檙e
going to make six of those. In between each
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row you鈥檙e going to put a 4 inch sashing,
then, once you get all those sashing鈥檚 in,
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you鈥檙e going to sash all the way around
the outside, also, with a 4 inch sashing and
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then you get to add your rick rack. So, then
we鈥檙e going to put our rick rack; we鈥檙e
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going to sew it down. I used a zig zag stitch.
I used the seam as my guide. It was super
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easy. We just sewed the rick rack right along
that seam. Then you鈥檙e going to add your
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outer border. Your outer border, here, when
it comes together, it鈥檚 going to enclose
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your rick rack, so there isn鈥檛 going to
be any little frays or anything like that
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to interrupt your beautiful quilt.
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So, this is such a quick, easy project and
so much fun. We hope you enjoyed this tutorial
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from the Missouri Star Quilt Company.
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