How to Quilt With Flannel
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Flannel make a beautiful quilt, It is soft and feels wonderful. Here are a few tips and tricks on working with flannel all while making a nice big quilt.
Fabric by Marcus Fabric
Free pattern here www.marcusfabr...
Free tip sheet here www.marcusfabr...
Great tips for the flannel project I'm about to start. Thanks again for the video 😊
I know I'm late to the party, but I'm 1/2 way through making this quilt for my son, just the border, backing, and quilting to be done. I'm in love with the fabric. I've changed it up a little bit, it's all in indigos, machine quilted 1/4" down the seams, backed with minky, and then I'll hand quilt the rest of it. Thank you for sharing it!
Just now seeing this tutorial & the link for the pattern & tips no longer works😢.
@@karenaustin2909 the patter is around, it's just a bit fiddly to find it.
Laura, you are a girl after my own heart! How quilting flannel is treated is SO IMPORTANT if one wants good results in both cutting and sewing! I like using washable wool batting in my flannel quilts....enough cuddle and warmth for anyone on a cold winter day or night!
I'm making my first flannel quilt and bought the washable wool batting but what did you use for the back fabric? cotton?
and did you use a 90 needle to sew pieces with a cotton thread?
Your explanations are so 💭 clear and complete!! Thank you for your extreme professionalism. ❤
Using a hand weight is very nice to keep your ruler in place. It can be a 2# or 3#, easy to maneuver. Love watching your videos! Ty Laura! MJ
What a class act! And her skin is perfect too. I've learned a lot from her videos.
She is really, really good!!
Thank you for giving the extra tips! I enjoy watching your videos. They are easy to follow. I enjoy the sound and the speed of your voice.
Love the flannels, Laura! Thanks for sharing.
Another great and well explained tutorial, Laura. Thanks so much! Pam
Love sewing with flannel, thank you Laura for another great tutorial. Merry Christmas and Happy Quilting everyone ✂️📏🎄❤️🇨🇦
Thank you and Merry Christmas
Every video you create, inspires me!
Thanks for this really masculine quilt Laura it looks great. Love those fabrics will need to check them out.
I am just made a 60 x 60 flannel quilt top with one piece flannel backing and had a devil of a time. I had considered using batting but it was out of the question. Then when you get it sewn together you still have to bind it and I used cotton thinking it would be easier but it wasn’t- I increased my binding to 3.5 to allow for the extra thickness too.
My sons dream quilt, he loves flannel. I just cant find any in Hawaii. So im going to your links. Thanks so much for all you teach! 🌺✌️❤️
Love it! Thank you especially for your Genius organization of the cutting and sewing sequence.
That looks so cozy!
Hi and thank you very much and enjoy the holidays! 😎🌸🎈🎁🎄
Loved all your cutting hints. The two rulers are great! xoxo from Arizona.
Laura, I watched this video even though it was made 6 years ago. You always give such good instructions in your videos and I love to see your videos. In this one, you said you should always wash the flannel before you begin cutting and stitching. I have been wondering for quite a while now and this seem to be the appropriate place and person to ask: I have several layer cakes and jelly rolls of flannel fabric but I hesitate to do anything with them. What do you suggest? I think you are probably the best person to ask this of and I respect your reply. Thank you for any help you can give me.
Merci Laura et de Joyeuses Fêtes ! 🎄🎅🍭☃❄️
thank you and Merry Christmas!
I love flannels
Everyone has different opinions about washing fabrics. One mentor told me, wash it like you are going to use it. So I would have used my regular cycle and not gentle, as Laura suggested. However, I would have had a lot more strings. Also, be careful with plaids. Laura's design was woven but sometimes it is printed on and not always printed on the straight of grain. So be careful when blocking and pressing. With love from Arizona.
Great information, thanks for sharing:)
I would love to see you do a comforter. I would love to see you make a comforter.
I know this is an older video, but I just found this quilt pattern and your video. Thank you for the great tips on working with flannel. I hope you can help...all of the links I've tried (including the one in your video description) for the free pattern are DEAD links. DO YOU STILL HAVE THE PATTERN THAT YOU COULD RE-SHARE??? I'd love to make this quilt for my husband for Christmas. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated!!! Thank you!!!
Great quilt for this time7 of year.
I am a flannel junkie!!!
Boy Laura, they say we will get our first snow next week( Rochester ny). I can see myself wrapped up
In your quilt and watch it snow!
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Thank you and Merry Christmas to you too:)
I need to make a quilt for my 7 feet tall grandson like this. Nate Roberts first year of College in August 2018 yes he's our Basketball Star .this is the kind of quilt I'll do for him. Great Laura TFS..can one hand stitch a quilt like this
Marilyn Kolako you could use his school colors that would be cool! proud grandma :)
You can hand quilt. Because the fabrics are thicker, be prepared for your quilting stitches to be a bit longer. For me it's good, as the longer stitches add to the rustic look. xoxo from Arizona.
Suzi Saint James GET YOUR OWN CHANNEL!! RUDE!!
Laura Fifer I'm trying to figure out who was rude here?
Also, if you are going to hand quilt, test different battings according to how hot your son gets as flannel is warm on its own. As Laura says in the video, one option is to not use any batting, just the pieced top and a back. The thicker the batting the harder it is to make tiny stitches. One blogger says wool batting is the easiest to hand quilt, but in my opinion it's also the warmest and most expensive . xoxo from Arizona.
This quilt is very good for heavy winter.but in India now a days there is no heavy winter. Yes lightweight flannel is useful for us.
By the look of things, I think the initial smoothing should be done one layer at a time. Unfortunately the under layer wasn’t straight, you can see this in some of those grey check pieces, they’re off. No criticism, I’ve been struggling with this myself! My material is absolutely like tripe! It won’t stay still.
Hi Laura, great video as always. I’m a fairly new quilter so please pardon my simple questions here. Do you prewash your fabrics in cold water? What temp in the dryer? And, do you have a specific detergent you like to use for your fabrics?
I do use cold water as that is how I would wash it after it was made. I use medium dryer and only dry each piece for 7 min. and then do as I did with this flannel. I do like something like Woolite
Hi Laura! I enjoyed your tutorial but both the tips and tricks worksheet and the free pattern have disappeared. Could you please make sure the things you refer to have the correct location? Thank you!
I would do this as a QAYG being such a big size and sending it to along arm quilter is very expensive here.
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@Ibrahim Malcolm Definitely, I have been watching on instaflixxer for years myself :D
Laura when i went to the sites it had a caution message about someone watching lol just so you know, the quilt tops beautiful!
Patrice really! That's funny I'll have to go check it out. Thanks
I attempted to post the screenshot, but it would not copy and paste, so I copied and pasted the link to the page with the warning message that your posted link opens up.
Laura, the second link you posted did open up to Marcus Fabrics webpage, this time without the warning page.
I have never seen this before, but I have never had a problem with the site. Thanks for keeping me posted:)
Thanks a lot Laura! 😎🌸 I’m making a throw flannel on top and fleeçe on back. It’s the first time I sew something that big with flannel so I used Best Press but after the cutting. I have noticed that you starch before the cut. I think I will try this next time because I find it is quite a challenge to to work with a 68 »x58 » piece of flannel. I have made throws last year with fleece and Minky Sherpa and it was easier, I must admit. Is it just me?
What do you think? Thanks. 😎🌸
Flannel has a lot of give to it. If you starch it first, before cutting it will help stabilize the fabric. You can always double starch it :) if need be. After you press and cut it, try to press it as little as possible. The heat of the Iron will make it soft again. You can finger press it as you go along. The starch will come out in the wash. Fleece and Minky are thicker and do not give as much well sewing. While sewing with flannel is a walking foot is helpful
Good morning and thanks a lot Laura. This information is precious and very helpful. Will do that.Have a great day! 😎🌸
Laura, love this pattern and the techniques you teach for using flannel. The link for the Marcus site does not provide the pattern. How could I get this? Thanks.
Thank you for sharing
Thank you!!! This will be perfect for my sweetheart mother-in-law who loves this scrappy flannel quilts. I have never made one, and will be printing the tips document and the pattern. Thanks so much to Marcus for this. Do you have a Facebook page for pictures updates, like your recent episodes of quilt of the month series?
Thank you and yes just go here facebook.com/sewveryeasy
You're linked to tip.Sheet and pattern is not working.
Some people say that you should sew bigger than 1/4 inch seam? What are your thoughts on this? They press seams open.
Because I am quilting this I just use a 1/4" but if you are wearing something I would recommend a larger seam allowance
Is using a sewing machine”s auto locking stitch as effective as manually pulling up the bobbin thread and making short stitches? What is your preferred method of beginning and end your quilting rows?
I still like to hand knot! some things are hard to change
I kept waiting to see how you did the actual quilting stitches. Will there be a Part II?
Not too sure how I'm going to quilt it yet:)
I love this pattern, just curious what type of starch you use? And do you have a video on your technique? I hear so many say, starch/dont starch....
Yeah two starch or not to starch that is definitely a personal choice. I personally love starch! After my fabric is washed it helps put some crisp into my fabric and it helps stabilize the fibers. And I just use the regular starch that you get in the laundry department
Hi Laura I love your video. Where can I find the Free Pattern and Tip Sheet? The links appear to be broken. Thanks!
Brilliant quilt Laura, would a walking foot be good for stitching this quilt to help stop it stretching? Thank you as always, Shirley.
+ Shirley Atterbury - Do as Laura instructed and pre-wash the flannel (as it shrinks more than regular quilting cotton fabric) and spray starch and iron it in the manner she recommended. Both will help; but using a walking foot for straight line quilting should do the trick; just practice on some scrap fabric first - she even says to do that for the piecing. But I do think any stitching on flannel is more tricky than regular cotton quilting fabric. I don't know, maybe she's skilled enough to do free-motion quilting too - I think her Bernina has more than a few specialty feet. A newer, more technologically advanced and quality machine seems to allow one to sew cleaner, consistent stitches.
A walking foot would be fine to use:)
Thank you for all the tips you give out with every video. I need them all!! I am trying to put my flannel backing together using a walking foot but the fabric at the top is not keeping in pace with the bottom. at the end I had an extra inch on the top and I don't understand why it's not feeding evenly. I prewashed the fabric, pressed, starched it and I pinned it. I just ripped it and am afraid to do it again. I didn't had that problem before but it seems that the bigger its getting the harder time my machine is having. I had it in my lap and on the side table trying for it not to be pulling.
What can I be doing wrong. Any suggestions?
You might need to pin baste more. Also see if starting from the center going out helps. As you quilt hold the front of the quilt up slightly as you were quilting so that it's almost sliding under the needle versus pulling under the needle. I hope that makes sense
Zig-zagging or overlocking the raw edges before washing and drying minimizes the fraying.
Hi Laura, I have a question I hope you can answer. My hubby is getting me a serger for Christmas and I wanted your input as to what features I would want so we will choose the right one. Also if you have brand recommendations. Our budget is in the 300-400 range. Thank you in advance!
Thanks for another helpful video! I love the use of a second ruler-that will help tremendously! Are woven flannels difficult to find, and is there a specific name for them? I usually see only printed flannels in stores.
As for the machine, test drive a few and buy the best that you can afford. You need to buy one that you Love,not what others love. As for the flannels, I have found that flannelette is usually the printed one and the better is flannel. Look, and feel the flannel and the flannelette and you will see the difference. hope this helps:)
SewVeryEasy it does. We found a machine shop and are going to it this week to try out a few and choose one. Thank you for the suggestions and also the help with the flannels! ☺️
Laura, I received an alert from Safari that the link may be an impersonation of Marcus Fabrics. I thought you would want to be aware of it.
I'll look into it thanks
Real informative, well displayed tips and I love that there are always links for tips and free patterns, the links for this tutorial are not safe. My browser could not confirm secure certification.... so I will not go to the link... Is there any error in the posting? If not Marcus Fabrics is not a safe link? Just curious how i might get the free pattern and tips sheet.
Thank you so very much!!
I have no idea why it is said that is not safe. But I can assure you I go to it all the time and it is safe.
@@SewVeryEasy That's because Google is insisting on SSL certificates for websites now. It doesn't mean the link isn't safe just that they haven't purchased a certificate so it gets flagged as an 'unsafe' or unsecured site.
@@Cordelia-again thank you for the information 😁
I think when you folded the fabric you aligned the lines at the top and were off by one row, resulting in half of your squares not being parallel to the pattern. Oops.
Hi! Great video! I need a little assistance 😊 I am making a baby quilt - the top is 100% cotton, the backing is flannel. I am going to be long arm quilting but I have heard that flannel is very hard to quilt on because it is stretchy. If I spray the backing with starch will that help? Or is there anything else I could do?? TIA if you can give me any help?
be sure to wash and dry the flannel first, buy good flannel (it really will make a difference) and yes a little starch will help.thanks for asking
Hello, I love your videos. I am not a quilter. However, I'd like to be. Can you recommend some of your videos to start with? I mostly do not understand how you quilt such a large area on a sewing machine bed? I do not have a walking foot. I have a very old Kenmore 258.18024. Thank you so much.
Hi Melani, give this a try czcams.com/video/hV3nFbeaHNU/video.html and I had a Kenmore for years!
I have my quilt pieced and basted but when I am doing the quilting (just in the ditch) the thread keeps breaking. Can you give me any hints on why that may be happening. I have a new needle, stitch length 3 on my Bernina, cleaned my machine but still having trouble. HELP
a few things, Check and make sure it is not the thread is it old weak thread, change the direction of the spool, and be sure there is no drag, and the machine is moving the fabric under the foot OK. Hope this helps
Link to pattern is broken, is this pattern still available?
This says it is about how to hand quilt with flannel but it’s not about hand quilting it’s about machine quilting with flannel
I'm getting a notice from my browser that the marcus fabrics website isn't configured correctly and that there is a security risk. Is anyone else having this issue?
Is anyone else experiencing just a black screen with this video? The audio is fine but no picture.
Where can I see how you put the flannel on the back??? How many pieces did you use ..etc...i am learning and need the how too on that part as well.
I have not quilted it yet. But I will only use just one piece of flannel on the back. Same fabric as the front and with nothing inside. hope this helps
Do you wash precuts?
If I can:)
how do I get this free pattern
marcusfabrics.com/cgi-bin/fabricgallery/projects.cgi?patternID=123#.WhzB5qJFqug
I missed something here. Lol...Clueless in Seattle
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