It's time for our second episode of "Quick Column Quilts."
Substitute the traditional quilt block
with a column or a strip of fabric.
The first quilt of the day is called Tumbling Tumblers.
Take a speedy approach to this time-honored quilt block
by rotating the shape 90 degrees to create columns, not rows.
Turn what was traditional into modern.
"Quick Column Quilts,"
that's what's next on Sewing with Nancy.
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A traditional Tumbler Quilt
has the template going in this direction
with horizontal rows in lieu of vertical columns.
Usually, there's only one size of tumbler per quilt
but here we've used four different sizes
4", 6", 8", and 10" tumbler sizes.
Here's the largest, 10".
I think this is the 2".
This would be the 8", and the 4" is at the other end.
They're separated by columns of the background color.
The interesting use of negative space
or that green background showing up in the column
is because I put several of the tumblers
of the same color in succession.
It might be a little bit difficult to see
but here are the tumbler shapes
that create that interesting negative space
so the tumblers look like they're tumbling down the quilt.
The color choices, I spent a lot of time
figuring out what colors to use.
Again, it's kind of a modern style, but we used the pastels
and then just for the hint of some contrasting pops of color
the orange and the plum are used sparingly.
If you used it too much
it would be a little bit too overpowering.
One thing about this quilt, is that when you're making it
large or small, you need to audition the fabric.
When my staff and I were making this
many times we took colors out and put them in.
It took a little bit of auditioning
so don't be surprised if you find
that you have to go shopping to buy different fabric.
Let's talk about the templates, how to trace on the fabric.
I mentioned there are four sizes of templates that are used
4", 6", 8", and 10".
You can print these off.
Or often you may find them at your favorite fabric store.
You may have them in your stash.
Or, I have a template that I'm going to use
that has all four sizes nestled in one template.
That tells you on this template
how long to cut a crosswise strip.
So, crosswise strips
the one I'm going to be working with is going to be 6".
It says on here to cut 6-1/2".
You just measure the length, of course, of the tumbler
or do what the pattern or template tells you.
I have a piece of fabric here.
As we did in the first program
I really recommend to use a spray starch
or a spray starch alternative.
You'd do a little bit more than I'm showing you right now.
But it gives the fabric some crispness
to allow you to really work with the fabric
and not have it bend out of shape.
Now to do some tracing with a fine point marker.
You put the template on the fabric
aligning the edges, and trace.
Rotate the template, align it on the previously traced line
so that you're not wasting fabric.
And you keep on keeping on.
I think you get the idea of how this works.
After you've traced the entire length
which I'm not doing right now, but just part of it
then you're going to do some cutting.
I'll look for my ruler, which is right here.
Make sure the fabric is aligned.
You could cut several layers at once
not just one layer at a time.
Cut out the tumblers, it's pretty simple.
You're going to do a fair amount of cutting.
So, cut away until you have
lots of tumblers cut out.
Now I have, on the side of my board, the four sizes.
Now you do some layout.
We started with one column
and I'll start with the very smallest, the 2" column.
I'll put several of the background color
next to each other.
There we go, it goes like this.
Then, start playing with color.
Again, it will not just be a one-shot wonder here.
You're going to experiment
with what colors work best next to each other.
Just keep laying out the colors.
Start with one column and then do some pinning
to put the pieces together.
Because they are not straight edges
you will have to offset the little edges by 1/4".
I just have a 1/4" marking in this.
We'll just do it this way.
This is 1/4".
I'll be starting to sew in that V of the fabric.
Then I place another piece, right sides together.
Again, I have that overlap of 1/4".
After a while, you'll get accustomed
to knowing what 1/4" looks like.
Keep pinning and overlapping, and offsetting it by 1/4".
This one is really off!
I can kind of tell that.
We'll check on the other end.
You just pin the entire row.
You're going to be doing this for each of the columns.
I generally start with one column at a time.
Now I'll show you tips on how to sew the tumblers together.
I have my mini column pinned together.
I'm going to double check again
that I have 1/4" seam and the dip in the V is 1/4".
On my sewing machine, I've placed a patchwork
or quilting presser foot
that has 1/4" extension along the side.
When I raise the presser foot
and align the fabric along the edge of the foot
then I can just sew that 1/4" seam.
As we get to the very end
sometimes you have to do a little adjusting
as you're stitching.
But as I get to this V-shaped point
I'm coming right out at that V-shape.
Cut your threads
and you're ready to stitch the next seam.
and sew again with 1/4" seam.
Another option would be to pair up your tumbler shapes.
This would kind of negate doing that little layout design.
But you could place two together and sew them.
As I'm coming down the stretch, I wouldn't cut the threads
but then I'd place another pair and start to stitch.
Then after sewing pairs together
then you could certainly lay out the design.
This is just a little faster than always cutting the thread.
So, you have two options.
You can decide what you'd like to do.
Pressing is next.
Press the seam flat
then press it to one side or press it open.
I have some larger shapes right here.
I'm going to press it flat first.
Let me get it right here.
Just the way I stitched it, I would do the pressing.
And then press it open
just the way I recommend in garment sewing
you press it flat and then press to one side
alternating your directions.
Another option is to then set the seam
with a wooden clapper, a tailor clapper.
You don't have to pound it like I used to do.
You just press it
so that the moisture comes up through the wood.
You get a very sharp crease.
In this particular fabric
we have a lot of light colors and dark colors.
If you press the seams to the light color
you might get the show-through.
So, this seam has been pressed flat
and then I'll press it open.
I'm doing this more and more in quilting
pressing open seams
something that I really didn't do
in my early years of quilting.
Not having a lot of steam in there
and just press a wooden block
so that the moisture goes up through this area.
You'll find that you'll have nice seams
really set fine
because we had that 1/4" seam extended
you'll find that the edges are very straight
or relatively straight.
You may get a little hiccup like this
but that's pretty common.
In this particular panel, I pressed the seams
in alternating directions.
But again, if you have light colors next to dark colors
do that press open of the seams.
So, make columns by sewing with 1/4" seam allowances,
press with plenty of steam.
Set the seams by depressing with the clapper
and you'll have great columns.
Now I'll show you how to lay them out
for a nice design.
As you just saw, the stitching and the pressing
of the tumbler shapes is really easy.
The decisions that are important to make
are the placement of the color, the width of the columns
which one will go next to which.
That's what we're going to do now.
Here, I think this looks like about a 6" column to me.
I have two of the background colors back to back.
Then we would put another column down
and separate them by the narrow columns.
If we look back at the quilt
I'll tell you the widths that I used.
Here's that large, 10" tumbler.
Next to it is a 4-1/2" narrow column
the very smallest 4" tumbler.
This is 2-1/2".
Really, I just made this up.
You could choose any size that you'd like.
Here's a 3-1/2"
and then by that, a narrow 2-1/2" tumbler.
We have seven tumbler columns
and we have eight narrow columns.
You just lay it out.
What you'll find, that we did
that sometimes we had to take out a seam
or flip a column around
to make sure that it looked good together.
maybe I wouldn't want all this pink next to that pink.
I kind of liked it better this way.
So, it will be a very visual decision
in this particular case.
Then you'll meet right sides together
to sew the tumbling columns to the narrow columns.
Here is what you'll do next to trim.
Because we have 4", 6", 8", and 10" columns or tumblers
the tops will not be even.
You'll never come out even because of the shape.
So you're going to have to have
these tumbler columns a little bit longer.
After you sew them to the narrow columns
then square your quilt.
This is a very large quilt.
It's fun to work with.
You're going to have lots of different pieces.
You can see here the visual presentation
is fun to work with, just playing
and seeing which columns you'd like next to each other.
Each of us who makes this quilt
will have a very different layout, a very different look.
Sue, a professional long-arm quilter did the quilting for me.
That's something that I'm not very talented at.
You may not be, either.
You may want to consider finding a long-arm quilter
to do these great circles
the starbursts
that just kind of make this quilt come alive.
So, if you're interested in working with a tumbler
but rather than having them horizontal rows
you can easily put them in vertical lines
for a column quilt that has a lot of impact.
At first glance, hexagon shapes
cause many quilters to think "Oh, no, the dreaded Y seam!"
Not so with this speedy column quilt design.
The hexagon shapes are created
with two halves
eliminating the intersection of three seams
otherwise known as Y seams.
With this technique, faux hexagon halves
are stitched in columns with relative speed and ease.
You don't always have to make a quilt.
A table runner is considered quilting, as well.
You have three layers of fabric, a top, batting, and backing.
I like to make small projects, as well as large projects.
With this table runner
we chose, obviously, a neutral for the background.
It looks like hexagons
but they're two pieces that have been put together.
There's a seam right down the middle.
That's why you can get the half of the hexagon.
I'm going to show you how to piece these together
because you're not going to end up with this dreaded Y seam
which normally you have a difficult time
getting everything to meet right in the middle.
Instead it will all be sewn with straight stitches.
You can modify your hexagon templates that you have at home.
We just traced these on poster board.
Here's the hexagon shape.
We cut it exactly down the middle
and then added 1/4" seam allowance.
This will be the shape that we're going to be using.
This is a 4" hexagon shape.
Then, you could also use, "or" I should say
a template that has half hexagons in it.
Here's the 4" size.
Much like the tumbling tumblers
you're going to cut crosswise strips of fabric.
Press it with starch or starch alternative
and then do the tracing.
If you got it before, you'll get it again
because this is really pretty simple.
I'll just align the edges with the edge of the fabric
and the template and trace, and then trace the other side.
Then rotate and line up your previous tracing
and trace the other side.
You get the it, it's pretty simple.
You can stack many layers together.
"Many," being three or four, not eight to ten!
Then you cut along your lines.
Use a fine point marker so that you get it
as accurate as possible.
I have two layers of this fabric stacked.
In the instructions that accompany today's program
we'll show you the exact number to cut
if you want to make this table runner just this size
and all the dimensions for the quilts
and quilt projects that we're showing.
We're going to do the visual layout again.
The visual layout is going to include end pieces.
If you're wondering what I mean by end pieces
on the template that I have
there are end pieces that square off the columns
which makes it quite a bit easier to get everything exact.
On this template
there is a finishing piece or an end piece.
You would trace this on the background fabric.
If you can just make believe this is the background fabric
because I ran out of gray fabric!
We use so much fabric for this program.
You can see that here's an end piece
when you flip it around--
We're just kind of making believe that this is gray.
I think you've done that before!
So you can see these funny shapes.
You have to do twists and turns
so that you get a straight edge and then an angled edge.
Again, it's of the background fabric.
You cut double the number that you'd need
for the columns that you have.
So if you have six columns, you'd need 12 end pieces.
Then do some layouts.
Here I have a layout that I'm going to start with.
Here's an end piece
followed by a half hexagon.
We call this the Hit and Miss Hexagon table runner.
Here we go, like this.
You'd lay out your entire table runner.
Then as before, you're going to do some pinning together.
Meeting right sides together, overlap the two.
Then, have that little "kitty ear" extend that 1/4".
Make sure it's about 1/4", and pin these two layers together.
You'd pin the whole column
down the whole column, all the pieces.
Meet right sides together, align them.
Make sure it's, you know--
you'll get very good at guessing at 1/4".
Pin right sides together.
You've got it, how that goes together.
Here again, I'm stitching that seam
starting in the V shape of that seam
and just doing those quick little seams.
Then you can press the seams as we did before
and start laying it out
just the way you had the individual pieces
but now you have the column sewn.
This last step is really important
because you have these finishing edges
that allows you to align these edges
as you put the pieces together.
You can see here that I used that option
of pressing the seams open.
Then, if you align the edges
and you align those little kitty ears at the end
you'll be able to get a pinpoint accurate seam
where the pin goes right through the other side.
After I sew this together, everything will line up
right at that Y seam.
Sew the columns together, put on batting and backing
have a friend do the quilting, if you'd like
or you can do the quilting yourself
and you have a speedy column quilt design
as a table runner.
A minimal amount of sewing time
can make a huge impact in another person's life.
Today's Nancy's Corner guest is here to share
why and how she developed Pretty Pockets.
Please welcome Maryanne Arthur
who joins us via Skype, from Maryland.
Good to see you, Maryanne.
Good to see you, Nancy.
Thank you very much for the invitation
to share our story of Pretty Pockets.
You're welcome.
You have an interesting story.
It didn't start out with the best circumstances until--
Explain to our viewers your experience
and then how you developed Pretty Pockets.
Sure, thank you very much.
In March of 2011, I had breast cancer surgery.
When I came out of surgery
I was flanked by four drain tubes and bulbs
two on each side of my body.
I do have a sample of a drain tube that I'd like to show you.
About six inches of the tube goes into your body
and the rest of the tube and the bulbs
dangle at your side, and hang down past your waist.
As you can imagine, these were heavy
when they filled with fluid
and they're very painful against raw skin.
So my ingenious partner Ann Marie
ripped apart a pair of our daughter's pajamas
and covered the bulbs with each leg of the pajamas.
for the duration of my recovery.
A few days after my surgery
I went into my doctor's office for a checkup
at the University of Maryland St. Joseph's Medical Center
and another patient was in the waiting room.
She had the exact same drain bulbs.
But she had taken all four of her drain bulbs
and put them together in a brown paper bag
and stapled that bag to her waistband.
So, I came right home that day
and actually cut out and designed the pocket
as a hip, soft, wonderful way to corral drain bulbs.
The hitch is, I'm actually not a sewer!
So I recruited Ann Marie to sew two pockets for me.
She put them together
and we delivered them the very next day
to Miss Joan at the hospital.
She loved them.
The folks at the hospital loved them
and we began production at home.
You don't make a penny from Pretty Pockets.
You donate all of your time and energies
in spreading the word of these pretty pockets.
They're made of nice flannel.
They're soft.
You just pin them into place.
Yes, that's correct.
When we were talking about this earlier
you were mentioning that since 2011
you've had a lot of contacts.
Tell our viewers, it's kind of monumental today
as far as this outreach today that happens.
It is phenomenal.
I cannot tell you how wonderful this story has become
from the very beginning in my home
to over 500 people who have contacted me
in the last four months to receive a copy of the pattern.
There were so many integral people
who stitched the story of the pockets along the way.
I'd love to be able to highlight a few of them
if that'd be okay.
Sure, of course.
Well, beginning at home
my partner Ann Marie came up with the idea
of actually covering the bulbs.
Then her mother Judy is a very avid sewer and quilter.
She, for the last two years, has cut, sewn, and produced
hundreds and hundreds of pockets that we've distributed.
She made a contact for me at the Jo-Ann Fabric store
locally with Regina, the sewing manager there.
Regina has hosted several sew-ins
over the course of the last two years.
The sew ins were picked up by a media newsletter
here at home, called The Patch.
From The Patch in Baltimore
a woman in Florida read the article online.
Her name is Rob Newton
and she runs an online embroidery newsletter
for a company called Designs by Sick.
She contacted me personally by phone
and asked if she could rerun my story
and promote Pretty Pockets as a giving project
to her 30,000 people on her newsletter list.
Wow.
It's amazing.
Five hundred of those people have contacted me personally.
One of them, named Debbie Wright, referred me to you.
Well, it's like connecting the dots
I'm glad you can give it to other people as well.
Not only are Pretty Pockets used by breast cancer survivors
but other people with all kinds of surgeries.
Yes, that is very true.
I was promoting it and even my gift tag says
it's a free gift for breast cancer patients.
But the more people who contacted me
they were asking me if they could modify the pattern
for other types of surgery.
Some of the drain bulbs are different sizes
so folks have taken the pattern
and designed whatever they needed
to accommodate friends and family members in need.
They can just be pinned to your clothes.
They don't need to be stapled or placed into a paper bag.
You can make them in fun colors,
and you put a fun message with them, too.
I do, my message on my tag reads
"A discreet and spirited way to secure post-surgical drains."
It's a charming story, I thank you.
I'd like to report to our audience
that your surgery was in 2011,
and now you're cancer free.
I am cancer free, yes, thankfully.
That's great news.
Maryanne, this was charming.
We'll direct our viewers to our website
at nancyzieman.com
where they can click on Nancy's Corner
and view your introduction and go to your website.
It's a free pattern, right?
It is a free pattern.
I saved it in a pdf format, so people can download it.
I even saved a template
so all you have to do is cut the template out
and trace the fabric over the top of that.
It's very easy to do.
And feel free to modify the pattern
according to your own needs.
Share it with your friends, don't keep it a secret.
Please remember this project in the future
because there's such a need for it
with so many people having surgery.
It's not just for one time a year.
Keep all those fabric scraps and create Pretty Pockets.
Thank you, Maryanne.
Thank you for watching at home. Bye for now.
Nancy Zieman has written a book
entitled "Quick Column Quilts"
that includes instructions for 13 quilted projects
and all the techniques featured in this three-part series.
It's $18.99, plus shipping and handling.
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