Hi it's Jennifer from Shabby Fabrics. Today I'm gonna show you how to use the
June Tailor pre-printed batting to make this adorable Christmas
stocking it's quilted on both sides and it has a cute little lining. This is
the Swell Christmas collection from Moda and I love decorating for Christmas and
I love the retro Christmas fabrics that are out right now.
It's so fun with the June Tailor pre-printed batting and we've done some
other projects with that. You'll be seeing more of the pre-printed batting. I
love projects that are done when you're done! You don't have to now go and quilt
them. So that's what I think I love the most about the pre-printed batting. When
you get your holiday stocking quilt-as-you-go batting, it looks like this. You've
got your two halves of your stocking and you can see the lines the shape of the
stocking and numbers. Now the numbers go 1 all the way through – let's see how high
up do they go on this one? Looks like number 8 on this one and then they pick
up here on number 9, 10, 11, 12, so they keep you moving along with the numbering
system, and I wanted to show you if this is a brand new product, you've never used
something like this I want to show you how easy and fun it is. We had an
absolute blast and I can't wait to make more of the stockings and fill up my
mantel and decorate my whole house this year in Swell Christmas. You'll want to
choose your – what they're calling a backing – but it's really the lining. It's
the inside of the stocking. We have chosen, we couldn't resist Santa being on
the back. Now they're very specific to not press out your batting. It could
shrink it, it could distort it. So we went ahead and spray basted this to our
background fabric which is now going to become the lining; this is the red
Christmas Santa. We also went ahead and stitched around the shape. That's also
included in your instructions with the pre-printed batting. We went ahead and
sewed that down on the lines so everything is secure.
Now you'll decide how you want your strips organized, and of course we had to have
Santa in the middle, which is right here. That piece just lays down. Now I – the
part i'm working with is not the stocking that starts with number 1 thru
8. I've got the stocking that starts starts with number 9 and goes all the
way through number, let's see, that's 16, so in this particular case I'll
start with 9 and I'm just laying my strip down. Piece 10, let's see what
piece we had next, it looks like this one. Unlike quilting where you would expect
to lay that strip right next to it right sides together and sew, you're going to
shift that to make sure you're fully covering that space and once you're sure
that you are, and I have plenty of fabric there, I'm gonna go ahead and just go
right sides together. I'm gonna pin that together, take that to a sewing machine,
and I'm gonna use the quarter-inch seam allowance. If you've got a walking foot
this might be a nice thing. You're sewing with batting. Kind of just grabs all the
layers together. With the Bernina there's a dual feed system. This is the Bernina
770. It has a dual feed system which is now engaged, so I basically have
feed dogs on the top and the bottom. It's one of my favorite features of using the
Bernina for projects like this. Now I'm gonna go ahead and start. It's not
critical; I can start outside of my blue lines on certain projects from June
Tailor's pre-printed batting, it's important you start on that blue line.
Here I can start before it and it's not going to have any bearing on the project,
so if you start a little before, that's fine. Let's – And you don't need to back
stitch so we'll just sew our quarter-inch seam.
Now because, just like I mentioned, not ironing is a good thing. I've ironed
batting before and it definitely created a kind of a shrunken net area I was
ironing just a wrinkle out but not the rest of the batting and it did shrink it
just a little bit and also it created a little bit of distortion, so for that
reason I'm not gonna use heat right now. Instead of using a steam or a hot iron
I'm gonna use the Clover Roll & Press to get that seam nice and flat. It gets
the same mission done of opening up that seam but I'm not applying heat which is
definitely NOT recommended at this point. Then you'll come back and you'll put in
your next strip, and let's decide what that was. Looks like they used – I think they used
this one. Same thing. Make sure you're filling that spot that – you're not
up here or you're gonna miss this section. You're gonna adjust that till you
know it's where it needs to be, right sides together, start here, sew there, and
flip, and you're going to be going back and forth. The project goes back and
forth like this all the way. Then once you have that done, let me show what
that looks like. Okay looks like we got a little bit further down the road,
and let me get this one. This is all the strips sewn together here. So when we
got all the strips on we're like okay you know how do we see this
line to cut out the shape of the stocking? Because this is what we're
going for. This is the other half of that. This is what our goal is. But we can't
see the lines. But remember how we went ahead and sewed the shape of that
stocking? That's why. Because now we'll be able to go and sew or cut directly on
that. This is the I love these scissors. This is the Bordeaux 200 from Clover.
These scissors, while they are little on the spendy side, are fantastic. Tammy
was saying everybody in the sewing room is always wanting and grabbing for these
scissors because they are so sharp, so precise; they just cut beautifully,
they're comfortable in your hand. So we're just gonna cut out the shape on
that stitch line. That's why you sewed your stocking. Because remember how your
stocking was basted – actually spray basted to your backing fabric, right? You're
batting was already spray-basted to your your backing so you really didn't
necessarily need to stitch that down, but this is why. Because this is your guide
now of how to cut this out. Okay so now I have my two halves and as you would
expect you will have right sides together, pin that, you'll sew your
quarter-inch seam allowance, so you might even go a little bit more than that,
and that's when you really want to use a walking foot, you've got a lot going on
here. So you're a quarter-inch all the way around, you're gonna turn that out,
and then your instructions will guide you into creating your batting – excuse me –
your binding and then you have a little hanging tab. Now if you're not sure about
the binding aspect of it, following this video will be the Magic
Binding video. Tammy has such a cool way to do the binding where you really can't
see the beginning and the end, so I recommend that technique. So I hope you
enjoyed learning how to use the Quilt-As-You-Go June Tailor batting. It's
so much fun! Be sure to pick up your kits available at Shabby Fabrics.
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