American Quilters' Stitch Along | Block 10

Hey everyone, it's Lisa from Primitive Gatherings, and we're back again for another block of our American Quilter's Stitch Along featuring American Gatherings Fabrics. And we are on block 10 today. So Kaylee is on vacation, so this is pre-recorded. And we all get a break this week, but we still didn't want to not let you have a block to stitch. So let's get stitching this block. Block 10 is very easy. It's just four flying geese, four rectangles, and then our strips that go around the outside. So super simple. And we're going to start by putting the blue pieces onto the big geese. So come on over here, and we're going to be doing some chain piecing. If Kaylee doesn't trip. Sorry, we're still not in our studio yet. Too many other things going on. So all I'm doing is stitching a small triangle to the large triangle, and I'm doing all the right sides first. And that is called chain piecing, when you just keep piecing one after another after another. I know we have some beginners, so we have to go over some of those terms. All right, so to the iron just to press this one side. And again, this is what you call chain pressing, is when you lay one on top of the other, and you press. One on top of the other, press. Just like that, we're already done. Time to add the other triangle on the other side. Now I don't cut my dog ears off and tell them all done. I like to have those as reference points when I'm stitching. So when I put this on, this should be right in my quarter inch seam allowance, that corner. Okay, so now I have four flying geese units. And because I have to trim off the dog ears, I like to measure and trim at the same time. So instead of squaring or trimming everything, I'm going to do it while I cut off the dog ears. So I'm going to lay the long part of the geese triangle on my one and a half. And then I'm going to trim there, trim those dog ears off. And then I'm going to go, because they're two and a half, one and a half by two and a half, I'm going to put one and a quarter on the center of that point of the geese and trim that dog ear off. And then this one as well. So I just put it on two and a half and trim that dog ear off there. So if there is a little smidge, that comes off when you trim off the dog ears. So I'll continue to do that on all of the remaining geese units. So then you see how you line yourself up to do the same cut on all of them instead of just one at a time. That helps you be a little bit more efficient as well. All right, so there are my perfect flying geese now. And I'll just have to lay them out. So well, before I lay them out, I know that I have to put a rectangle to each of the pointy side of the geese. So this is going to go like this. And I just want to double check to make sure. Yes. So I'm going to sew all four of those rectangles to the point side of the geese. Okay, now I'm going to press them all to the rectangle. There they all are. So now we can lay them out figuring out, watch your pattern, which goes which way. That one goes down. That one must go this way. And then this one goes up. So there's our pinwheel in the center. Now those two go together. And I'm going to open those seams up. Pinwheel back together, matching up that center. Peek and look pin so it doesn't move on us. Another seam open down the middle. Okay, there we go. Ready for the sides. A little fuzz in the middle. Pull them out. Oh nice. All right, one last press. Oh, something didn't sew. Try that again. I didn't check my bobbin, so hopefully it's not that. Don't know. It's because I'm on camera. Messing with me. So there's a nice simple pinwheel. And we're ready for our stripes. There we go. Clean off this edge here. And this one matches perfect. Don't have to pin on this one. All right, last large stripes going on. All right, all that's left is some trimming. Grab the 12 and a half inch ruler. I'm going to trim this edge here first. And then make sure everything is kind of good. Yep, 12 and a half. All right, there we go. We have block number 10 done. So I'm hoping is having a wonderful vacation.