hi chef and builder JD Pendleton we are back in one of the bedrooms here I'm putting together a baby quilt for my grandson a lot of you have been so supportive and have written me such beautiful letters when you found out that in the last baby quilt lap quilt video that I made and you can go right here I'll post that link to that right here that I lost my granddaughter due to cord around the neck and two weeks before due date when they handed me her I'm telling you my heart was just broke I was extremely sad people complain that my birds in the background were chirping in that video for the first five minutes of the video and I also lost my bird a week after I lost the baby they got pregnant again and lost another one at about she was about 16 weeks 14 to 16 weeks pregnant and and we don't even know what that one was but the coat that I did for Lyla she was buried with that quilt well I'm not trying to be debbie downer today or anything I'm just telling you that I had a wonderful outpouring of viewers and all the wonderful letters and I really do appreciate all the wonderful things that you guys said well the good news is I am a grandmother they gave birth to a son Carter Carter Glenn about two weeks ago so I he came a little early so I didn't get the quilt made that I wanted to get made but here I am I've got and I've just I was washing sheets on the bed and I thought this white background would make a good from the mattress pad would make a really good backdrop so you could see this quilt better because it's got a lot of whites and a lot of creams in it so they wanted me to make them a John Deere quilt so what I have here is all kinds of materials that I have cut out for different quilts that I've made him already and this is just some of the the three and a half and three and a half squares and I thought you know what he'd handed me some fabric that was all had some of these in there and I cut them all apart and I made individual squares out of them and I realign them all and I ran them diagonally with the pattern here you can see how I did that and I went from a medium dark medium the blues and then darks lights and I kind of gave myself that striped look and I had some really good John Deere fabrics here that somebody had told me a while back on eBay and I just had a feeling it was going to be a boy Plus this whole sheet here that Jonathan had got me that I had cut apart and he also got me this fabric here which is really cute but because the squares or weren't you know three and a half inch squares and I really couldn't do anything with the squares no matter how I cut them out see I mean I tried different I tried cutting them out in different ways I just couldn't make I just couldn't make this work no matter what I did so we went ahead and I scrapped the idea originally had cut the mainsheet apart cut some of the pieces of fabric here that I had apart and made just a bunch of squares and this is the pattern and let me get better here so you can see it and this is the pattern that I came up with now a short a couple of pieces so I had to kind of work this corner but it's fine it's just a baby quilt it's fine so once you get your pattern set and you get the size of squares that you want on a baby quilt I usually go with a quarter of an inch seam allowance alright so once you get your pattern laid out we're gonna do just like I did in that other video and if you want you can go watch that video first just skip through the birds tweeting in the first two five minutes ten minutes of the video and you can get to the actual making of the quilt alright so just put a pin in the upper left hand corner okay and then we want to take and what you're going to do is you're just going to keep this on top and you're going to go like this grab the next one grab the next one okay so what I did then is and also this to you one more time you just take the top one like this because you have this in a specific order so you take that one and lay it on top of this one and then this one and then this one grab them all and then back down on this one etc okay and you're going to do this on down the entire row now when you get that row you're going to pick it up just like this keeping this one on top because it's the one that goes all the way up to here okay it's for a pattern and we're going to take it in and we're going to sew this on the machine alright so what we have here now is we still have our pin in this upper corner this upper left corner and we have sewn these together giving ourselves a quarter of an inch seam allowance now the call of your thread here just doesn't matter I went with a light color thread of what I had in the machine and what I had on the bobbin that's fine because we're not finishing the top of the bottom of this out that's not going to be seen yet I try not to use a really dark thread when I'm using a lighter color quilt just in that way in case there's a string inside you don't see it through the white fabric so you can kind of see my fingers through the fabric here a little bit so a lighter color thread so I went with what I had in there it was like a light peachy pink kind of color when I made that wedding quilt for my daughter alright so now we have taken with the same seam allowance and we have sewn all these together by sewing right sides together and we just kept adding the next one and the next one and the next one right sides together all the way down and that way we stayed with our pattern alright so now I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to finish sewing these other long strips and we'll be right back as we have our little lines right here and I'm gonna go with a quarter of an inch seam allowance and you remember that this was our top piece so I'm gonna find the right side this and I'm going to kind of sip this and back out the way that I kind of have it just like that right there okay so we know that the strikes went this way and at the John Deere you know so I can read it's gonna be matched up all the way across so I'm gonna give that a turn just like that right there I did not do a very good job cutting out that well I mean my scissors I did not have my roller scissors with me it doesn't matter this is just a baby quilt that we're not piecing anything special together this is just your beginner simple do it get it done well I'm I'm doing a very good job since I'm trying to square it up the best you can again I'm just gonna keep this about order minute single out some people tell you that you don't have to back stitch and normally you wouldn't if I was going to kick my next ones and then just start feeding them through like this then I probably wouldn't backstitch that you know I just come through here and just start cooking them apart and then open them all up press them open and then sew them together and I ought to show you how to do that on the next quilt but this time I have a certain pattern on going with you know this direction so I am going to go ahead and tack the the beginning and the in stitches so I'm going to hit my reverse button we're just a couple of tack stitches just to make sure that it doesn't come undone do even display waist thread waist more thread see it's about how much you waste per per row but this is the way I like to do it everybody has their accreditor another way of doing things this is my way of doing things okay so when I open this up right sides together and you're looking at the quilt oh my John Deere's will be upright coming all the way down at that angle as a matter of fact all these patterns have an angle so I'm just going to stick with it and do the flip stick with it and then do the flip just like this so I have this fitting a certain way I don't have an automatic raise on this machine I do have other sewing machines where alright and then there we go and we're just gonna keep going until we have this whole line then I'm gonna sit like this again in front of it I want my John Deere here to read up right with this John Deere you're just gonna show you again we're going to finish here like I said I'd to cut some fabric down that already looked like a quilt that was like printed that way and that's why this looks the way that it does I'm gonna use my rotary cutter that would have been nice that right and we know where to start that this is at the top this is the next one the first stripes go this way all right there we go and we're just gonna keep on going we're gonna use this right I'm just using the edge of this right here is my quarter inch seam allowance guide all right we're halfway done doing this section all right we'll be back when we're getting ready to pull to us so all the sections together long wise and we'll be right back okay okay I'm gonna finish sewing these we're halfway done sewing the quilt quilt top and when we come back we will sew these together along this edge right here and what I do is I just pick it up and pinch it right here and I just carry it over to the machine just like that right there so you can see I got a nice diagonal striped pattern going at this point and what I'll do is I will sew these two together and then also these two to this third one then also these three to the fourth one and so on all right this is so easy to do we'll be back when we're ready to sew those links together all right so I've got all the pieces sewn together now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to give this a flip like this on the first one just like that I'm going to pinch up here in this corner on this side right here this right here is the side that I'm going to sew and then when I get that hope so it's not even right there and when I get these sewn together right here and I get that seam sewn together then I'll open it like that it will sew it did this seam to the next one and I'll pick it up here and we'll do the same thing again all right so we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna start sewing the strip's together and like I said when I pick it up I just pick it up in this corner so I know what side I'm sewing right here okay so much of that to you one more time okay give it a flip right there give it a flip pinch that corner take it to the Machine and you can pin it or not pin it I'm usually pretty good about not having to pin it and what I do is I just match up all of my seams like this right here it might mean that you open them or it might mean that you turn them one way or the other just like that right there you can see that okay like this one if I turn it that way I'm just gonna run it through the machine like that right there okay and we'll be right back right so I have these two here sewn together now I'm just gonna take the third strip take the two right over like this pinch this upper corner and I know that I'm gonna sew that piece right here okay I'm gonna show that to you one more time okay you sum of these two together give it a flip on the next one pinch that corner and take it on to the machine because that's where we're going to sew next see like that right there and that will keep our pattern running down and a Dayan and a diagonal all right we have the first three strips sewn together and now we're gonna do the same thing we're just going to sew on strip number four and when we get number four sewed on then we're gonna send one strip number five all right and we're just going to keep on going until we get these all sewn together so this is an 8 by 10 on the squares so we're 8 wide and 10 long and you can make yours as big as you like this is just a crypt quilt that I'm making for my grandson so it's you know he's a newborn he's it's gonna be a while before he's gonna this won't fit him eyes a lot closed or something matter of fact I'll probably be worn out by the time that happens okay now I don't even pin these joints together you can but I don't find it necessary because when we get done we're just going to be using the yarn ties and we're just going to take a needle and put the yarn and we're going to tie these off on all the corners so so this does not have to be perfect alright alright we'll take this to the Machine we've got this corner right here pinch so we know this right here is our side we're going to sew all right and we will be right back right we've got this pinched right here put it through the machine on the left side let's see quarter inch seam allowance these lineup you might have to push these opposite directions of each other yes I do and again this is just my method of doing it that's how we do it leaked wise sure you cut off your extra strands here if you need to be sure and get yourself a seam ripper you never want to sew and not have a seam ripper I have several of them on hand I'm going to iron this and I'm going to iron all of these downs and in the right directions and I will have a nice iron to top okay now when we do that we'll be right back okay and just like we did the other quote from the other video we've got our backing layer and this is just a really soft flannel it's really really super soft for baby then I did another double layer of batting hair it's folded it in half and here I just left about an inch and a half along the edge and then we take our drill top and we stretch it right to the edge of the batting okay alright then we're going to take this here and we're gonna grab some pins and we're going to fold this over about a half of an inch we're going to hold this down and then fold this right over just like that right there and we're just going pin it right here and we're going to do this all the way down the quilt just like I've showed you the other video and this is how we do the quick bite game okay it's over on the machine make sure this is tucked in real life got my full tuck and I will move the needle over to the and we'll do this probably about an 8 - maybe 3/16 of an inch from the from the inside edge here and and we'll set that on you can hand you can hand foot this if you want to but if you do you're probably better off making this a single layer of batting it makes that a lot easier to quill all right so I'm gonna go ahead and pin this and we will peel right back okay we have the quilt bound and you can see here where I just did the tech on the corners this is a little thicker than the other cotton fabric that I was using for the flannel so it's a little harder to get my presser foot to go through such a thickness as this but you can see here that I just I just double tucked it brought it over pinned it just like that right there so the back just rolls back over and I just tucked it and and pinned it in just like that right there all right now we're going to come here on the machine let me zoom you in alright come here onto the machine and I've turned off the side light so you can see what was happening a little bit better here and I've done is I've taken my needle and I've pushed my needle over you see that hold it over like that I'm gonna grab my hand I'll try to get this side so you can see why I love the dude on this I hope you can see and I'm gonna go forward and I've got my thumb right here on this thread right here and I'm using this mint call or thread so you can kind of see what I'm doing here and I wanted to get rid of some the pressure off my presser foot a little bit make sure I got my setting on about three stitches there we go and you can see how we are sewing just right here along the edge normally you don't want to sew over pins but sometimes when I'm finding a quilt you kind of don't have any choice but if you can't avoid sewing over pins then I definitely suggest you pull them out alright so we're gonna go on around the quilt and when I get to this corner I'll show you how I come to this corner what I do is I sew straight like this I lift my presser foot give the whole quilt a pivot like of this on the needle and I come down this way and then I kind of back back out down this way right here again a lot harder when you're doing this see look how thick that is so I'm going to have to remove this pin to reduce some of the thickness again now I'm gonna sit my needle in here lift my pressure foot and I'm going to give this a pivot okay you kind of work that around until it works but before I do that I'm going to go ahead and try to back stitch and kind of slow this little lip best I can careful you don't want to bend your needle nothing runs like a deer okay and here it is I've got about four and a half hours in it you know I still have to find it yet with the yard but but no I think it turned out really beautiful with all the different fabrics that I had saved the joinder fabrics I was short a fabric here so my so I had to stop that one these right here didn't follow along in that but I ended up making it work and um I'm not really happy with it I love the way that the deer run right through the middle get it the deer run running deer you know John Deere runs like a deer anyway yep so if any of the John Deere owners out there get that little thing but um but yeah and then we went with every other one that had the deer in the center here and so that worked out really well all right so be sure I'm leave a comment below let me know what you think of my John Deere baby quilt and how simple and easy that this is you can do this and if you have any questions like again leave that question or comment below be sure that the subscribe button yeah yeah unless he says give me the thumbs up and and let us know what you think okay I promised you that I would talk about biting but will and all I got here is some soft baby yarn it's perfect for baby quilts it's just really soft and durable and and what I've done is I've got a larger needle here with a large eye on it that you can put the yarn in and I just cut me off a long tail just like this okay and then what we do is we're going to tie it to bind it so I just come in here like this in the corner come back through the corner like this right here pull it through like this you can tell about like that come straight down like this back through make sure you go through all layers leave a little bit right here I'm just gonna keep going like that right there and it doesn't take long at all to blame the quilt you can sharpen your needle actually or get a little bit sharper needle than I have here remember to leave a little bit loose right there yeah the scissors and cut cut your loops just like this and then you tie them one two and then you kind of evenly like that right there I'll show that to you one more time you just tie it like this one so you don't type 2 type 3 early and give it a turn okay and when we get done we'll have a beautiful tied quilt everybody loves these quilts they're easy to make they make great gifts they're great for your own family make one for Grandma it's make them for the nursing homes people the nursing home they love getting gifts like this they really do don't they John yes and I'd be sitting here next to me watching it you bring the quilt and this is just another way to do it you can hand stitch this and you can cook this if you like but I just find that this right here it's just really easy and quick it's fun and and that's all there is to it right here all right show you up close one more time take the needle in like this make sure you go through all layers and just pull your yarn like this right here sorry the camera pull your yarn through make sure you go through all the layers make sure you fill up in there make sure you feel the metal of that that the needle up underneath there keep going with that and then you just cut and trim and then here we do one tie to tie hold them both up and give it a trim just like that right there all right show you one more time here one tie don't do it too tight I think I did a little bit too tight there but give it a trim and then we just continue to do this across the entire quilt and you can see here how that looks see we just tied all the corners and every corner see that and especially on red quilts or pink quilts this looks really good on a white quilt this is a little harder to see you could probably use the John Deere green or even the John Deere yellow as far as yarn goes if you want it to be a little bit more bold but I really like this soft baby white and I can use this on adult lap quilts or anything else so this is going to get used and plus I also crochet so that's a nice soft shimmery shimmery yarn and again I'm going to show you this needle up close what I'm using it's just a large eyed needle laughing