Monthly Minis Quilt-Along | Month 9 | Very Merry Mini | Lisa Bongean | Primitive Gatherings

Hey everyone, it's Lisa from Primitive Gatherings and today I get to talk about our ninth Monthly mini and it's called the very merry mini quilt so you can download or purchase this pattern on our website And here she is It is December so We have the red and green and cream quilt. It's just gorgeous Alicia did a very good job on this one. So today There is only a bunch of half square triangles And I'm just going to kind of walk you through getting ready Just in case we have a bunch of new people that are just coming on So I want to kind of go backwards and start from the beginning So all of the nine monthly minis that I've been talking about have come out of these two fat quarter packs Garden gatherings, so if you want to use our fabrics, we still may have some of these available Please check on our website for that And then we also have just the kit for this one if you are interested in just this one We will have kits available for this as well. All right, so I'll clear these out of my workspace You're also for this quilt going to need 3-quarter inch Triangle paper now our triangle papers here at primitive gatherings come two ways They come in a sheet which we call triangle paper And then we also have them that come in charm shape so about five inches So we have triangle charm paper or triangle paper So if your pattern calls for triangle paper, you want the sheets if it calls for charm paper, you want the five inch ones? Okay, so move this a little out of the way The first thing you're going to do when you get your fabrics and there's nothing wrong with using your own fabrics as well this fabric takes five fabrics and we have a nice dark green a nice red a light red a Light green which is really cream with green and then we have a background. Okay So those are the fabrics now when you're getting ready The first thing I want you to do if you've never done this before is to starch your fabrics Some of you have been doing this forever with me, but like I said, we always have new people So what you're gonna want to do with this is you're gonna want to lay it out on your surface you're gonna lay down a towel and you're gonna lay this on the towel and you're going to Line up this nozzle with this red dot here and then you're literally gonna spray this whole thing So it's soaking wet and then you will hang them all on a drying rack. You're gonna let them dry naturally and Then when they're all dry, you will press them with steam flatten them all nice and so they're ready to go So I do have a little bit of pressing to do here. So I'm just gonna take these and press them quickly and Mine are not starched. So I'm just kind of winging it for this demo for you. So I'm just gonna flatten them all out upside down Not quite big enough I'm used to my big ironing surface at home or at the retreat centers here. We have nice big ironing surfaces And we don't have to do any of this moving back and forth like this All ready to go now, so I'm just gonna slide those over there for a minute I'm gonna go and look at my pattern here and I'm gonna cut some triangle paper Configurations as the pattern tells me so here is my sheet and I'm going to Let's see. I need one two two full sheets So I'm just going to line them both up like this I'm just going to take my rotary cutter and I'm going to trim away This edge here Now you don't have to do this if you don't mind wasting a little bit of fabric And it really probably doesn't matter on these ones, but when you have a lot of them on the same sheet You have to put them end to end to end this little half-inch adds up All right, so I need two full ones Those are right there and then I need one with two by six So one two, three, four five six, so I only need This much right here. So I'm going in the middle there and then I'm going to trim the other edges And you can use a ruler as well if you need to If you feel better with that and then I need a four by six. So one of these this is coming off And then another two by six There's a bunch of different combinations of half square triangles. There's a two and then one two by four So you could just do this Set a waste in another sheet Going to do this now Just want to show you this You're going to leave the whole line intact here. So you're only going to trim on the outside of it There like that so you're leaving all those cutting lines intact you don't want to ever just sew on a line Or trim on a line that's already been cut. All right a little bit of housecleaning here Now we're all set He's on my lap here for a minute so the first combination that we need is a full sheet and a Two so we need this So our pattern tells us To cut Ten and a half by twelve so you can do that Or you you're going to your light red and light green. So these two fabrics right here You're gonna lay right sides together with the light on top. So the red looks a little bit darker so I'm gonna lay that right side up and then I'm gonna take my Light and lay it right sides down So then you can just do this Or this whatever which way you want to cut it it really doesn't matter we have plenty of fabric here so you just do this and take your Ruler You move it out of my way. I slide it up. Thank you Alright, so then we're just going to give ourselves a little bit of room here Maybe about an eighth inch away a little more So then this one is ready to stitch and then next up we have light and dark red together and that one is a full sheet Take this one right here And then our red Lay the dark one down always get in the habit of dark one on the bottom and light one on the top Lay that I always like to match my salvages so I know where I'm at in my fabric All right. So then I just need this one on here now be careful when you have your salvages that This is not on the salvage part so I can just sneak that one out of here too. That one is ready Okay And then next up we have dark and light green so we don't need any of those Here is the dark green Here is my light green Which is really cream with? Light green. All right, I'll leave this right sides together Automatic automatic and there will be a time when you will sew these fabrics wrong. We all have done it So don't be too hard on yourself. It does happen. So this one is the four by six here So we probably can just utilize This space here instead of going into that nice big hunk there Make sure it's plenty big enough there. Yep. So why not just cut that? All right, next up we have to pair a light red with the background so here's my back some of my background Light red and background. Where did I fling that one over here? Okay So here is some of our light red now this one we need two by six, so this is this one here Okay So not that much background and light red And I'm gonna put the background on top So I am gonna switch these around So we'll put this one on the bottom this one on the top And then the paper goes on and then we have one left light green and Background. All right, so take this one and the light green And we just need that last little one These two guys here. So these could be one or they're working like this And then there will be some other cutting for some couple squares and some rectangles out of the remainders of these fabrics But we're not going to do that today. I just wanted to show you How to prep all of these? Triangle pieces so the pattern will tell you which ones go together They'll show you a diagram exactly how the paper goes on and now that you have all these now It's time to stitch them. So I'm just gonna kind of show you How you're gonna do that? So you're gonna put this on and you can put some pins in it But what I really like to do is I just like to run one row so I'll just go and then you don't have to really pin anything so Looking at this paper. I hope we got a nice close-up shot for you But you're going to stitch on all of those dashed lines all of the Instructions for the triangle paper are on the cover of the sheet and the most important thing that you want to do is you want To take your stitch length and shorten it to about half of what you normally stitch at so I usually stitch at a Smidge below two on my machine and I'm gonna put it all the way to to one because we want this paper to purple Perf perforate off nice and easy All right, so we're going to just stitch that all those back and forth on your machine and then once everything is all stitched then you're going to come and you're going to trim the perimeter and Then you're going to start trimming on all the solid lines on all of everything. That's solid You're going to cut apart solid so you'll trim here. You'll trim in between everything Lots of cutting to do on those. So just remember to slow down Stitch Accurately and cut accurately and then you will be able to make this quilt nice and accurately now I just want to give you a quick little peek on how easy this goes together. I'm going to show you this right here so you're making some strip units and then The half square triangle units are in here and you're going to make two of these and the quilt goes together on a diagonal so simple Repetitive and it's going to look like you are did something really really hard because when you see the finished quilt it looks very intricate All right. That's all I have for you today. Happy stitching and we'll see you next time for number 10 mini