Hocus Pocus Quilt - Tips & Tricks from the Tucker Team
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
- it on my quilting bucket list for ages, but I was always put off by (you guessed it) all the bias edges that happen with traditional construction methods. Well, no more! In this episode of Tips & Tricks, I'll show you how I've Tuckerized the construction process (banishing those bias edges), and to get a copy of a brand new quick-n-easy project I've decided to call "Hocus Pocus" 🧙♀️
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Thank you so much for airing he ate half square triangle made from tennis squares. I’ve always thought that was a disservice to new quilters to learn that technique. It makes it far too challenging with bias on the outside edges. Love your intelligent tested tips. It seems everyone in their brother, even without experience or making TH-cam quilting tutorials.
Wow Deb that looks amazing. You are amazing with all your knowledge. Enjoy watching all your videos and using your tools. Thanks.
I love the way you teach so easy for me to learn this, thank you
That set of blocks is amazing!! This should keep me busy for quite a while ;-)
Such great teaching examples❤ Definitely a born instructor
Thank you Deb! I can’t wait to try this!
LOVE ALL your tools! Heart to Heart Quilt Shop used and recommended them for beginners and anyone who wanted precision in their quilting.
Way to go!!!!
WOW! I love this tutorial! These blocks are amazing! Thanks, Deb!
This "Tips & Tricks" is so useful. I'm going to try this pattern.
I like the speed of your presentations. Not too slow that my mind wanders and not too fast that I cannot follow your logic. Thank you.
Virginia in Ohio
You are amazing!
What an eye opener!
Incredible to have just found you! Excellent teaching.
This is almost funny: two years ago I was asked by my guild to do a short presentation on the disappearing nine patch (though I called this the disappearing hourglass). I too had tried the other company’s method of stitching around the outside of two 10 inch blocks and disliked it for the same reason - all bias. So I re-engineered it the way you did and did the presentation. Second item: last week a guild member posted a poll asking what is your favorite tool in your quilting room? Mine? The Tucker Trimmer of course, with the Wing Clipper a close second. Love your crystal clear instructional videos.
I always recommend the Wing Clipper--anywhere where I see folks disappointed with their results. And I dislike seeing them put together in less efficient ways too! Anytime I see bias on the outside, I get on my soap box and point out that there are better ways. I have many of her tools and they make sewing enjoyable because units finish just as they should without employing hoping/prayer strategies!
Fabulous ideas and very clearly taught. Thank you
Wow! And Wow! This version is fabulous!!!!! I’ve always been concerned about those bias sides because they stretch so easily. This is extremely easy to demonstrate to other quilters how to make nice big blocks for quilt charity quilts or even quilts for themselves. I’m going to use it for,our next charity get-together. Thanks so much!!👍👍
Awesome! I also love how you do everything with excellence! You're always so prepared ahead of time and have everything ready to show us, it makes it so nice! I personally get frustrated when I'm watching somebody and they take forever to get to what they're actually wanting to show because they're reaching and trying to find something and they'll say excuse me and leave the picture for like 2 minutes before they come back and so on and so forth. Lol So I appreciate how you do it.
Your fabric is gorgeous and I love all the varieties of the blocks! Who could choose just one? I could listen to your tutorials all day long. You make so much sense and your rulers are perfect! Keep 'em coming!!!
Thank you so much, I'm glad you've been enjoying the videos!
I, too, tried the "other method" and it was a wild ride. I ended up naming the quilt "Never Again!" I tried your method and I love it...with one big problem. I tried making all the designs you show in the video. The first star and the three examples on the top of the board are perfect. Then I tried those three on the bottom of the board. No way could I get the angled seams to meet. Then I printed the download and looked closely. TA DA! They don't meet! I can live with that. Thanks a bunch, Deb.
I love, Love, LOVE this technique and pattern❣️❣️❣️
My daughter wants a tie die quilt and I think this will be it using Amish black forth my tie die fabrics😍
Thank you Deb you make learning so much better
This is SO COOL! Quilting is so awesome. Look at those variations!
I had such a problem doing it by sewing around all four sides and slicing. Always had wonky blocks. Now I know why! Thank you so much
I just stumbled upon your tutorial when I googled disappearing 9 patch. Boy am I glad I did…..this was an AMAZING eye opener for this new quilter. Thank you, and I have subscribed so I can hopefully learn much more from you! Do you have an awesome ideas for a quilt made from button up shirts….I have over 20 that were my sons and I would like to make a fun quilt for his children to snuggle up with.🥰
Thank you. I made one practice block and it came out great. Not wonky. You made the process so simple.
Totally awesome!
Awesome! I tired the other method 😖 Your method is fantastic. Can’t wait to get sewing in the morning! Thank you Deb💐
You are so welcome!
Thank you so much for emphasizing the importance of straight of grain being on the outside edges of patchwork! There is one “guru” in particular who drives me crazy with ignoring grain in favor of “quick and easy” precut quilting. I can’t imagine the number of beginning quilters she has frustrated into giving up because their units are so stretched and distorted they won’t go together properly, and they’re finished project is so rippled and wavy it won’t lay nicely. Your video proves that it is possible to have it both easy and properly done! ♥️
I m SO glad you’ve figured out the math for us! 😅
Happy to help!
Wowsa! I had no idea that sewing around all four sides and cutting in half meant bias edges all the way around. Thank you for letting us know that fact. Didn’t realize you have a TH-cam channel so I’ve now subscribed. Thanks so much.
Glad to help and I hope you continue to enjoy the videos you find here 💜
I agree! I have done a disappearing hour glass block and those bias edges DO create problems. The biggest one was that my project came out with “ripples” throughout it! It was a good thing it was only a test project. After that I decided to use the method using your method. Much better results.
Also, try swapping out some of the units after cutting everything up) with other units from the same project. The results were amazing! I wish I could post a picture so you could see it.
This was the best known video to watch. You r totally amazing Deb. Please please keep sending these videos to very inexperienced people like myself. I am gonna try to find this ruler and hope it does not cost an arm and leg.
Nice video! Great instruction, thanks!
Amazing thanks
You are amazing... got most of your rulers.... love them all.
I've made several quilts the "other" way. SOOOOO frustrating!!! The 10" layer cakes are never the same and the math is impossible to do to get 9 equal pieces!! Thanks so much!!!!
Love love 💕 your videos
Amazing!!!😊
Thanks Deb
I'm impressed! Love what you have come up with this one square!!!
glad you enjoyed it!
Love it! Thanks for sharing. Have lots of fat quarters just waiting.
Ты удивительная волшебница. Я смотрю твои уроки и восхищаюсь мастерством. Спасибо!
And the Tucker Trimmer III is great for those of us who make LeMoyne stars the old fashioned way (Though I oversize my insets so I can use my Tucker Trimmer III to perfectly trim down). The guidelines on both diagonals, the middles make it a breeze. (I do have the Rapid Fire tool as well!)
UAU... adorei!🙏☺️
I could see making all 8 blocks in handout. Setting them on point. (3 across, 2 across, 3 across). About 60" before borders, good lap size. Only need to resize the original block that isn't cut and rearranged. Thanks for Tuckerizing this for us.
Brilliant
Thank you! I hate bias edges!!!
Thanks lady, were you an engineer in another time? Love the explanation of the bias edge, it will so help! Beautiful fabric line also.
I just found you and am I glad I did!!! I'm a beginner and have been so scared to try a large quilt I've just been doing very small mini quilts. I can actually follow your directions. I'm also ordering your Wedge and downloaded the HocusPocus. Thank you very much for all you do!!
I can’t recommend her tools enough! I have almost all of her rulers and they have revolutionized my quilt projects. The “Wing Clipper” is worth it’s weight in gold! I wish you many happy projects in your future.
I enjoy your tutorials!! Thank you!
Amazing how simplified you make it. Thanks 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
WOW! Love it....can’t wait to start....I already have the ruler...Thank you🤗
I love this, thank you so much! So helpful and straightforward
Glad it was helpful!
Can the starting squares be made smaller than 8 1/2" and if so do they all have to be in 1/2" increments? My head is exploding with all the great info in your videos. Thanks so much.
They can, but we have not done any math to work out other sizes. We stuck to just the one size.
I used 5" charm packs. As long as you cut your finished hourglass into more or less equal thirds (always measuring out from the center seams) it works. Let me see if I can recreate my math. 5 inches, once they're sewn into HSTs, get trimmed to 4½ inches. That makes your hourglass blocks 8½ inches. 8.5÷3=2.83. *Not* a good measurement! Let's take it down to 2¾ inches. Measure out 1⅜ inches from your center seams and make your cuts. The four corner squares will be slightly larger (2⅞") than the others, but that *does not matter.* Since you're just rotating everything and sewing them back together without shuffling them around, it will work. If this sounds confusing, try it with paper first and you'll see.
Brilliant! Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
I know the pattern you're referring to. Great idea but clearly your quilting knowledge is better. I've run into problems with those bias edges
The more that you can explore the more you will learn. We never stop learning.
❤️ this!!!
Your videos are brilliant and so informative! Thanks so much for sharing them with all of us. Do you, by any chance, have the dimensions for different finished sizes of the blocks used here? This demo started with 8 1/2 " squares (trimmed to 8"), ending with a 14"(?) finished block. Somewhere, do you have the corresponding sizes of finished blocks starting with say (trimmed) 2", 4", and 6" squares, as you do in all of your ruler tools?
We have not done this in any other sizes. We did just one size for this video. You can experiment by making the triangles the size you want with scrap fabric and sewing them together and then see if you can divide them into about 3 equal parts as we did here.
@@DebTuckersStudio180Design Thanks for responding, I appreciate it!
So illuminating for a new quilter, thank you. Can you be more explicit about your fabric release I can't locate it yet in my search and I just love it in this quilt.
The William's Garden Collection will be shipping to shops in September 2020. Around then you will be able to start to find the fabric in quilt shops. The fabric is manufactured by Island Batik. You can use their store locator to find a shop near you that carries their fabric to see if they ordered the collection. islandbatik.com/store-locator/
This is great fun although I’m a bit surprised to see it called a “disappearing nine-patch”. Usually that begins with a traditional nine-patch which then disappears after being cut into quarters and rearranged. Same with the “disappearing 4-patch” which is sub-cut into nine pieces, the “disappearing hourglass”, and the “disappearing pinwheel”. Thank you for showing a better way of constructing the hst.
Wow that brilliant!
Great, thank you!
You are welcome!
Lovely fabrics, super blocks - much better way of doing things! Maybe one for a retreat (if we get to go on them again here!) would be ideal. Thank you.
@ Kerry L.
Right. If we ever get to go On a retreat again. I have one scheduled next month if Indiana doesn't go into lockdown.
Stay healthy and be safe.
Virginia
@@playme129 I'm in the UK and we were supposed to go on one in March and right up until the last minute it was cancelled. Luckily they deferred it to March 2021, but that was when lockdown started for us. So many things can happen until then.
Anyhoo keep your heads down low everyone - this is an awful thing to try and dodge!
xxx
Thanks for this tip. So glad I found your tutorial and can’t wait to try this technique. Love all the variations of this block. Just what I was looking for.
Any tips on cutting the fabric for your blocks?
LOVE this way. Since you are cutting inside the sewn block, how do you keep the cut edge from going to far?
I believe the answer is the cut is from edge to edge. It just looks like she is saying cut in the middle of the block.
Ellen Hagen ok, that’s what I was wondering but not sure. Will definitely try this method. 😊
Yes I thought the same thing when I was first watching it. But then as you watch you can see when she goes to flip on the blocks the she cut straight across from edge-to-edge or she wouldn't be able to flip the little blocks that way. 😉
cindi fairchild: Also, it really helped to look at her supplemental handout ... (her link posted below the video). The cutting lines are clearly marked with a dashed line.
Holly Waddell I loved this method so much that I made a sample block and did cut from side to side for the 4 cuts. Now it all makes sense. It was Monday was my excuse. LOL
Clever ❤️
Is there a different “formula”. if you want to use day a full 10” square??? Like cutting 3” from both centres??
HI Deb, we have not explored other size possibilities. I was aiming for a specific block size which is why I started where I did. It is always worth exploring. Try it out with some scrap fabric and see what happens.
Sa-weet!!
What size is the final block. I always have a challenge figuring out the Finnish size of a dissappear 4 patch
Rey Rodriguez: This is definitely not a disappearing 4-patch ... Deb's is much more interesting. Instead of starting with the 10 inch squares from a layer cake, Deb cut her own squares from fabric at 8 1/2 inches. After stitching two seams on the diagonal, she cut them apart, pressed open, and then trimmed to achieve her finished square at 8 inches.
I love this. The issue that I’ve had with disappearing blocks of any type are the inaccuracies inherent when using 10” precuts. They are never, ever the same size! This method makes sense so thank you.
You're welcome, I hope you give this method a try!
I’m going to! 😁
Your not kidding! It seems the fabric industry doesn’t know what 10” means!
Can I make a smaller version as I only have Tucker Trimmer 1 &2. I am in Australia
Viddy: This method looks like the perfect project to try starting with any different sized squares and just play with them. When slicing the unit apart, one would have to adjust the measurement made on either side of the center seam lines, either figuring out the mathematical proportions or by trial and error. Finished projects will vary in size but combining them would make for some one-of-a-kind quilts.
I used this method and tried most of these. Love the concept but I must be doing something wrong. The seams don't always match up. User error?? :-)
I would double check that you are trimming the square to 8" before you sub cut and that you are sub cutting at the right interval. Also note that you can not in this method switch the corner pieces with the north south pieces as they are different sizes. Try checking your sub cut increment to make sure that they are all 2 1/2" as if they aren't that would account for them to not match. If that isn't the case please email a photo to customer service and I will work with you there.
@@DebTuckersStudio180Design it was only that couple that didn’t line up. I trimmed appropriately on all of them. The first few were great. I’ll try again. Thanks!
Straight of grain woohoo