Strip Piecing with Scraps! The Beautiful Descending Blocks Pattern.
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- This quilt pattern was originally made to be a doll quilt. It is the perfect size for a table topper though. I use fairly flat batting so that I can put "decor" on it. I hope you will dig through your scraps (or yardage) and spend an afternoon playing in your fabric for the joy of it!
Here is a link to the Descending Squares Pattern:
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I love this.. and thank you for validating my style of quilting..... i'm in this world to find the joy... not be judged or be judgy.... Your work is fun... would love to see you doing the FMQ as you did on this little quilt... the wavy echos!
I'll add that to the possibilities for future video's list! Thank you.
I like the quilts that are meant to be used and made from old clothes. But I also like the geometric ones on quilt book covers lol. I guess I'm trying to say it should have character, like a house should look lived in and homey, not pristine like a museum
Fun comment. Thank you!@@sarahkinsey5434
I love your videos like this. You reveal your thinking, thus encouraging us to do the same.....free the mind to do the work. Love the little quilts 🤩. Thanks for the video 😊
Thank you for the kind comment!!
Thank you so much for another great (and fun) video that gives us permission to just have fun and don't worry about being "perfect". I like that you don't apologize if you need to "fudge" (like on your borders) and just keep going. I love the border because it adds so much interest. Can't wait to see what you do next. You are so inspirational to me :)
Thank you for your kind comment!
was this quilted on the longarm or free motion on your domestic?
It was free motion quilted on my longarm.
Such a fun way to use scraps. I am beginning to love brights. I've always preferred earth tones.
As a finished piece it looked like it must have been so complicated to get all the square together in the center. And then as I watched the whole process I was just blown away. What a wonderful pattern, and thank you for making free until September!
I hope you have SO MUCH FUN making this!
Thank you! Love the tip about borders "going around the corner". Darling little quilts! You are one of the very few folks I enjoy listening to on a tutorial [I can count them on one hand]. Thank you for sharing 😀
Sew sew sew!!
Slap and sew. Love it! Yup, even this math brained person can do it. And that horse goes FAST!
You made me laugh!
So many color options. I love seeing all the different styles out of the same pattern.
Ugly ribbon? Why it's far from that....❤
I need to use clearer speaking. I really said, "A blue ribbon, at the Fair."
These small quilts are so beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you like them!
Thank you. I really like how you explain and demo your techniques for the projects.😊
I could watch your videos all day. Just love them. I would love to see more of your embroidery on a baby quilt. It makes the quilt so unique. I have copied some animals out of my grandkids coloring books and I am looking forward to trying my hands on this method.
I do love to add embroidery to SO many things.
you make me laugh! i love seeing that you have a new video out. your solution to "bad" sewing? brilliant.
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Two thread savers might work better in this situation, I think. Then you don't have to cut so close to the presser foot.
Great tutorial.
I'm pathetic. When I have two - I constantly lose one of them. In theory, I agree with you. In my own crazy reality... only one at a time really works for me.
Thank you for this pattern & your instructional video. I've always wanted to make a large 1" pieced quilt & this will help me to see if I will have the patience, but on a smaller scale. Much appreciated!
Glad it was helpful!
New subscriber and I'm in love with both quilts. I will be trying this. Thank you for the guidance and sharing!!
Thank you for this video.
My pleasure!
Thank you for sharing your tutorial! I love watching the process and your clear instructions! New subscriber!!!
Thanks for subbing!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on piecing the scrappy borders. ❤
I do love random feeling, scrappy borders!
I have never made a doll quilt…but now I am very tempted
Some temptations are SO worth succumbing to!! This is one of those!
Such a great tutorial! I just love listening to you! This is on my list…thank you❤️❤️
So kind of you to say.
I love this quilt and your clear and easy method..❤
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Awesome! Thank you!
Karen Brown over at Just Get it Done Quilts uses small squares of fabric to make bonus blocks as her thread catchers or leaders and enders
Yes, Bonnie Hunter calls those "leader/enders". Another great use for scraps!!
A beautiful little quilt.
I watched your video and enjoyed your attitude so much that I became a subscriber!
Wow, thank you!
i love this. quick and easy. love that you share your thought processes and give yourself slack. i've used the gallloping horse comment myself. these are the types of videos i love to see from you. thanks.
I appreciate your comment. Thanks.
Wow, amazing!
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We're grateful for your tutorials!
Glad you like them!
"Descending" squares? Why not "ascending" squares? Don't be afraid to be positive! ;D
Descending IS positive if you are descending into beauty my friend. (My actual friend!! Tee hee)
Love this concept! I used it to make a trip around the world quilt. Have not yet attempted a bargello quilt😊
So many wonderful quilts are waiting to be created!
What a brilliantly put together pattern! I so love how you make it ! I’m going to make this quilt for sure! I’ll start out small but I can see already how much fun this quilt will be to make in a larger scale! Love love your fun personality! ❤️😊
Thank you for your kindness. Have so much FUN with the pattern!!
Beautiful! Thank you.
Thank you so much for this video and your free pattern. I am a newbie quilter. Can you use this technique for a quilt as you go? Any suggestions or video tutorial you can share would be awesome.
Don't pull fabric when ironing, it will stretch and then you have unevenness.
Love this tutorial!... THANK YOU!!! 😊❤
Another magnificent piece! I love it. Reminds me of the ‘trip around the world’ quilt. Which I made, and I ripped my seams as per watching you. Worked great. This weekend I’m making an ironing board extension(like yours)......then, I’ll be making this little gem. Keep on making videos. I love watching them, over and over and most times re creating what you’ve made! You’re awesome💕🧵👏🏻
Thank you for your kind support.
What size is a baby quilt..?
Honestly, it is whatever size you want it to be. I generally make them 36 x 36 up to 40 x 60 (crib sized)... @@AustinAnderson-e3p
Is this the start of a Baragello?
Strip piecing like this IS how you start a bargello! Similar.
I totally agree with the judging thing 😅
Beautiful!
You are teaching just everything I was thinking.... Too cool
Thank you for your comments!
love your quilts and color play. I say done is better than perfect. Happy quilting!
Yes! Thank you!
Fun technique. Thanks for sharing.
I’m a bright color lover at heart but I keep buying and quilting subdued colors.
What’s up with that????
I love to quilt but sometimes the big project make me stagnate.
This is just what I needed to see!!!
Thank you for helping me have an epiphany!!!!♥️👍🙏🤓🇺🇸
I sew bright for children. A lot.
Just found YOU! And love your quilting ideas! Will be following, and already plan on making a couple of your patterns. Thanks a bunch…of fabric!😊
Awesome! Thank you!
I love this video and your joyful and encouraging teaching style❣️ This will be great for using some of my stash. I will be using larger squares so I can make larger quilts. THANK YOU.
Wonderful! Great Plan!
Thank u for this video! I have already completed my center and rewatching this video to get ideas on borders. I wanted to do a small square table topper and then this wonderful video came up. Perfect! In the past I did a raw edge weaving table top which I like but the descending bloc pattern is easier to do. Your video on machine binding was a huge help too. Thank you so much!
Wonderful!! I'm so glad that it went well for you!
I love this!❤
I'm new to your family!
I have been quilting
since 1988..
Bonnie Ohio ❤
Awesome! Welcome!
Genius!! I was looking for something a little more complicated to use with my leftover strips. This is just what I needed. I may try with 2 1/2" strips to make something bigger.
Great Plan!! I bet you will love it.
Love the podcast. Very clear and informative. I’m just not sure if I understand what happened to the second set. Did you sew them to the bottom of the first set? Thanks again. I love all the quilts you made.
With this tutorial I just made the same pattern, but two different separate miniature quilts. I just did the same project in two different colorways to show it's versatility.
I happened upon your videos and I'm delighted to find them. I have so many leftover scraps of fabric that I can't bear to throw out. They are all about 2inches by 2inches. Do you think they would work to make a small quilt such as the one in your video? Thank you for sharing!
Yes, you could easily make a quilt with them. You will just have to lay them out and sew them individually instead of strip piecing!! I love saving scraps and making beauty! Best Wishes!
This is so sweet! Thanks for sharing! I've just cut my strips for trip around the world using your method. I'll get them sewn soon. When complete, it will be the "other side" of a tshirt quilt for my daughter. Not the back side, mind you - she wanted a pretty side! I'm excited to try it with the mutes tones 😘
Sounds like you are having loads of fun!!
You are just marvellous! Inspirational, unique little projects. I look forward to next video, thank you
More to come!
I’m so glad to find you, and this quilt… I am going to get my machine out and start sewing again. I love your fabric picks. Thanks for this video.. 😅
Wonderful!
I get confused too! Thank you for solving my confusion problem! Will definitely give this a go!
Happy to help!
Thank you, just ordered the pattern. Your explanations on the process and color choicesare very informative.
Wonderful!
I love these doll quilts. They are sew cute snd easy. I’m like you, I slap it on and whack it off! Life is too short to agonize over things.
Yes! Thank you!
I love love love your videos. I would love see something using batiks. You have a great sent of colour and I love simple quilt patterns.
I just bought a new batik fabric today. Tee hee...
I am watching umpteen guilts made on You Tube thinking I will find the perfect quilt to make. I am a newbie at this. The one you demonstrated is so pretty but I would like a twin size in this pattern. Is this possible using your piecing method? Such a great use of long scraps.
Yes - absolutely. You can even use bigger squares. Just draw up a pattern and size it. You could put it together in sections until it is the size you want it.
So why use 17 colours but not 17 strips? I like the idea of bonus piecing instead of just using the same bit over. Why not use the other set to chain piece, instead of using a thread saver at all. That horse saying is a traditional phrase, from centuries ago possibly. My sister likes to say, it's not rocket science.
You can do pieced cornerstones or sashing for a quilt as leaders and enders, and get them all done at once? You can do 4-patches from odd squares, for bonus quilts as you go?
You are so practical and effective I love your tutorial and you help me a lot because I do donations quilts for Linus Project we are blanketed that is what they call us. But zi am happy to do my quilts but my brain some times it runs blank thank you 😮
I love that you make comfort quilts!! They lift your soul. Keep up the great work.
Love this! Thank you!
Damn amazing 🎉
Thank you ,God Bless ❤
Wonder if you are making the two strip sets that are same for one quilt if you could do the initial pressing one in one direction and the other opposite, then combine them??? Gut feeling this would only work if they were exactly the same. Just some thoughts.
Yes - that would TOTALLY work. Smart girl.
thanks for all you lovely videos!!!!!!! Ok now I have to give this one a try!!!!
Wow, these are all so beautiful ! Just love them. Need to try this for sure. Thank you for another great tutorial ! 😊
Have fun!
Beautiful. I did that and made pieced pumpkins. Also the outside of purses.
It is such a fun, fast technique!
Another great idea! Thank you so much for filming and sharing. The voice-over being added afterwards works perfectly. ⚘️
Please do a little video to show us how you did the quilting on the brights, it almost looks like a cathedral window curve in each of those little blocks.
You are the second person to ask for this. I have it on the list. Cheers!
I am so excited to try this little quilt! Thank you for sharing it!
Hope you enjoy it!
Basically you are making a Bargello pattern. ❤
Or a quarter of a "Trip Around the World" - etc... (Yes - so simple...)
Wondering about finished size of quilts
It's been awhile since I made this one. I'm not sure without doing more work than I have time for. I can tell you that it is a sweet doll quilt or table top size. Just do a little math when you make your own to make it the size you want it..
Decide scrappily. Love it! They turned out great
Thanks my friend!
Looks great. This tube method is just about my favorite way to make a quilt. So many options. Love it and love your videos.
have you done a tutorial on that beautiful squiggly quilting you do?
th-cam.com/video/oGg44IdCQYE/w-d-xo.html Here is a link to an OLD video that we made YEARS ago. I think you are talking about "Dwirling". If you go to the video and start watching at 16:16 you will find the dwirling instruction and then I quilt it, and you can watch that too.
All so beautiful Thank you for sharing with us x
You are so welcome
Someday I will try it as I am still a beginner but these are so very cute!
You can do it!! Soon.
Beautiful work
Love your tutorials, thankyou , on my must do list , Australia
Wonderful!
Love your cheerful attitude - you encourage us to have fun and not obsess. Thanks. Also great ideas
What fun!! Thank you so much for this technique.
You are so welcome!
WHere you have 2 strip sets, instead of using the thread saver scrap at the end of each strip sewn, I would start with it, then sew the first set, then continue onto the second set and back to the first set and not use the thread saver scrap until the very end of sewing the sets.
I would too. But sometimes, when I'm teaching, I try to simplify.
You are amazing! You inspire me! Love you site!!🥰
Thank you so much!
Thank you for such a great tutorial on this descending block patterns...I am not even a quilter and I am inspired to try this! :)
You can do it!
@@merrymabelmarket Thank you for your encouragement!
Great tutorial. It made me merry. I will try with my scraps.
Have so much fun!
Beautiful doll guilt..what size is a baby guilt?
Any size you want. Often, 36ish x 36ish all the way up to 40 x 60 for a crib sized quilt. I use doll quilts and give them to mothers as "car seat quilts" in the car. They love them. Later, the baby can use them to wrap their stuffed animals or dolls.
Thank you for this beautiful pattern!
You’re welcome 😊
Thank you for sharing. God Bless
I'm so glad you watched! You too!
Very pretty! Looks like fun!❤
It was!
Oh I absolutely love your videos. They are my favorites and I find myself watching them over and over!! You are so talented and I love your brilliant teaching style. Can I ask about your fantastic glass pin pot, what id it and can you give us all a close up? xx
Thank you for your kind comment.
The little crystal pin pot is a container (shaped like a wheelbarrow) that my mother bought me years ago. I just use pins in a way that I put them in there with the heads up. I know it is an odd way to keep pins, but it has worked for me for years. I like to use a LOT of pins (when I use them).
I will write a blog post about them and post it next Friday. So you can look on our website and see a close up picture after that time.
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Thank you for the pattern. Great explanation!
You are so welcome!
Beautiful 😊
You’re so organized! Amazing ❤
I do like order. It helps my brain to create.
Love this.....
Thank you for your positive videos
Thank you for your sweet comments about our videos. I'm so glad you watched and enjoyed!
Beautiful!
I will use this Patterson to placemates, thank you!! You make patchwork so fun.
What a kind thing to say. It IS fun to me.
@@merrymabelmarket is like perfection is the gold for many people. Like you I like the process, that's how I know I will love the result.
Thank you for the free pattern. I can't wait to try it!
Have so much fun!
Threadsaver! That's brilliant! What is the material that you press on top of?
I think you mean the cotton on my ironing big board? You can see all about it here: studio.th-cam.com/users/videoc-JES6cVTR4/edit
Around eight minutes and fifty seconds in - I show all about my big board.
@merrymabelmarket Thank you! I am learning so.much.stuff as I watch through your videos! Hate to think about how much TH-cam time, but it has been so valuable. I started your pajama quilting videos on your website this afternoon. 😊