Today Tes has a great way to use up your scrap fabric strips! Check out the pdf guide to see a few different examples of how it can be used.
Scrappy Split Stripe Quilt Block Guide
Video transcript:
Hi I’m Tes Scholtz with Tulip Square and today I’m going to show you how to take all your scrappy little strips and turn them into this scrappy quilt block
cute isn’t you’ll love of this one all of the measurements and things that you need are in a PDF you can download in the description and also we show you there how it’ll look in different configurations and stuff so always make sure to download our PDFs they’re free for our quilt blocks and it shows you everything you need so go ahead and get that
and then we will head over to the sewing machine and make this Split Stripes Scrappy Quilt Block say that 10 times fast
okay let’s make some scrappy squares shall we to start off with well I’ve got four of these
7 inch squares and we’re going to set those aside for now and I’ve got all of these strips that I’ve cut out of my scraps now these are all between seven and a half and eight inches long you want to make sure they’re at least seven and a half inches long make sure you have room to trim a little bit if you need to
and these are some of these are an inch wide some are an inch and a quarter some are an inch and a half and then the two on the ends are a little bit wider
a little bit just to make sure I have plenty of room to trim if I need to so I have enough for one square and then I have another set so I have nine strips of various sizes in each one
okay so the first thing we’re going to do
First we’re just going to sew all of these strips together so this will be one square and then this will be one square so let’s do that
I might have accidentally switched at some point but
that’s okay
another good reason why to leave a little extra to trim off
I’m just going to press these both and doesn’t matter what direction just whatever is easiest
now I’ve got these and I definitely did switch at some point because I don’t think those two were next to each other I’m going to trim both of these to 7 inches square
now we have these two squares cut to 7 inches and we’re going to take each one
and one of our background color we’re going to line that up really nice then
you’re going to draw a line diagonal line right down the middle
and then you’re going to sew a quarter inch on either side of that line you want to do them both the same so your stripes lining up this way
go this corner to this corner on both of them
nice quarter inch seam
now you’ve sewn on either side of that line we’re just going to cut it in half right on the line that you drew
now we’re just going to open these and press them
now you have four of these
There is the one half and there is the other half
you’re going to take
two of them that came from one half
Put them like that
Then you’re going to take the other ones and place them like that
Then you’ll just pair these up
sew that together
sew that together
now you’ve got your two halves and we’re just going to sew it together right along there
line up your center seam
and there it is your scrappy split stripe Quilt Block
and there you have it a scrappy split stripe Quilt Block wasn’t that fun and easy and you can vary the
stripes however you want anything you want imagine this as a whole quilt would love to see that if anybody makes this as an entire quilt please send us pictures because we’d love to see that so if you liked this block and you like this video please hit that like button subscribe to our Channel and hit that little bell if you want to be notified every time we put up a new video don’t forget to check out our website at tulipsquare.com where you can find all of our free blocks and our patterns as well and don’t forget to share this video with your quilting friends we will see you next week with a brand new video and until then happy sewing