Video Transcript for: Jelly Roll Quilt in 32 Minutes with Qtools – Better than ever!

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If I needed anther cut I would need to change the cut on this. So let’s look at that, we’ve got our three strips that we need for the project but lets look at this and say okay would we know that we need to change it. So here I am lining up and this is where that fold or that crease may be getting us in trouble.  But I’m okay with it and as I line this up an I line up here and I line up here. I’m off just a hair, by a sixteenth of an inch like I was before.  This side is longer so we need to shift it that way again.  I am going to shift this slightly and here is were I’m going to cut it again. This is not a raw edge any more, it’s some raw edge with some scrap and so I know that I need to re-straighten when ever I don’t have my c lined up.  I showed you how to arrange so that you can make that first cut again. And so we’re going to over lap that for the Cutting Edge and since I don’t need another strip I’m not going to cut this. But I have my “C” lined up except I have my scrap here so we’ll cut this, turn it around and cut this like the first one.

That’s the basics of rotary cutting. I like having a shorter ruler so I can make a quick cut and I don’t have the ruler sliding on me.  The Cutting Edge makes it so I can make quick cuts exactly the same over and over and over.

I’m going to finish cutting my stack of strips here and it will probably take me 10 or 15 minutes and then we’ll get that prepped in order to do the Jelly Roll quilt.

The Jelly Roll Quilt:

So I have prepared my strips and let me show you these other two tools. We’re going to use Corner Cut on the machine.  It has a scant quarter line and so I’ll be able to line up the needle in the groove of the scant quarter, the perpendicular line up with something on my machine, and then place the Sewing Edge on the bed of the machine. The Sewing Edge goes on the bed of the machine on the part that is easily removed. You don’t want to take this on and off every time you have to remove the bobbin.  Make sure you cut it to the length that you need and have it just on the one surface, make sure all of the edges are down. The adhesive will start collecting lint so you want to be aware of that.  I want to demonstrate how I sew two strips together using the Sewing Edge.

Sewing Edge:

If I didn’t have Sewing Edge I wouldn’t be able to do this. I line up the two edges, I put three fingers under the strips and then I put my pointer finger in between them and my thumb goes on the top.  I’m able to manipulate my fingers between the layers to align them and this finger just holds the fabric right up against the Sewing Edge which gives me a perfect scant quarter. To test it after you sewn it you can take your scant quarter on your Corner Cut and check it with the seam and the stitch and make sure that you have the right size.

Now we’re ready to go with the scant quarter. Take the one long strip, divide it in half, the outside ends are the loose ends and sew this together. It’s 5:15 lets see how fast I can get this done.

Sewing!

And there is our quilt, finished. I like it, I like the way the black turned out!  I’m going to do some close ups so you can see they types of seams I did with the 32 minute piecing of this top.  Sewing Edge and the Cutting Edge make it so much faster and can be consistent and precise. Let’s look at some close ups. So look how straight those seams are. Let’s look at the back side.  Here we have some of the back side.  Here we have some the worst seams right here that I din’t get the two edges together but for the most part they are all right together and the seams are very straight. Very few if any of the little puckers or waves that can happen whenever you have don’t have something like Sewing Edge on your machine. Those are some great looking seams especially because of how fast I was trying to sew. I don’t sew like that most often though my husband might say ” Ah she was racing at the end.” But it makes it fun and easier when you know that the tools you are working with make your quilting successful. So hopefully this has helped and I’ve enjoyed sewing with you today.

Thanks for joining us!  I’m Marci Baker, and Enjoy Your Quilting!