i spent a week sewing my dream patchwork quilt (sewing vlog)

A scrap busting patchwork project - making my first ever quilt!

Handstitching details, learning how to put binding on a quilt & quickly realising how long it takes to make a queen sized quilt.

Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
Project Inspiration: 1:56
Selecting fabrics: 4:58
Patchworking: 7:16
Getting backing & pattern placement: 10:00
Quilt sandwich: 12:04
Hand sewing: 15:46
Binding time: 17:30
Debrief: 22:10
Reveal: 23:52

Let’s be friends!

* Sewing on a Juki DDL 8700 & My Lock 644D overlocker
* Fav domestic machine: Electronic Janome
* Snips from Fiskars
* Shot on Sony Alpha zv-e10
* Glasses are from Kits Eyewear

Hi! My name is Carly & I’m a self taught creative exploring all things sewing, crochet & textiles! I’m especially excited by secondhand fabrics, using fabric scraps & all things wild, wholesome & delightful. Thank you for being here & if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment or shoot me a message. Lots of love.

[DeborahGrissom-pz]

Okay, so full disclosure here--I am 71 years old and very rarely watch an entire video of this type, but you are hilarious and so full of life I just couldn't stop watching. Bravo to you for diving in to the deep end right off with your quilting adventure. I have been sewing since I was 14 years old and can tell you there have been a great many lovely crafting/sewing experiences that have made my life fulfilled and grateful so keep it up young lady and keep dreaming big, you are definitely talented and very entertaining. 😃💗

[pmew]

The diagonal seam is to avoid bulk by offsetting it. :) If it’s a straight seam, you double the thickness, which might leave little bumps.

[mglouise]

"i just moved so my life is a mess" --- yet the peg board is PERFECTLY arranged 😂 priorities that I can get behind 🎉

[SmittenKitten.]

I make "traditional" sort of quilt blocks, with precise measurements, painstaking quarter-inch seams, and lots of planning. This chaotic business actually made my pulse race with fear and excitement. It's like learning a language, then someone walks in speaking a fancy new version of that language that you somehow understand.

[elisabethjohannes]

I marvel at your „audacity“ to attempt making a handquilted queen sized patchwork quilt in less than a week as your first quilt. Congrats on the finished project. You are an inspiration.

[debbiedouglas]

Bed sheets make a fantastic backing and no seam is needed 🥰 Also, you can tack a piece of fleece to a wall and your pieces will naturally “stick” to it so you can move them around while you find what feels right. Fantastic first quilt girl! I love making mine wonky and unique and full of personality! ❤

[ArmadilloTara]

I showed my husband the clips of you repeating "spectacular" as evidence that there are more people just like me

[cerwelt]

Friends forever, spare granny from Texas! I’m putting together a crocheted quilt. My close friend passed away three years ago, and her hubby gave me all her favorite yarns and 31 crocheted granny squares. I’m bordering them and crocheting them now. A huge job, but a true labor of love. That he trusted me with the job was huge! Plus I’m also using five different sock yarns to crochet a vest in stripes (all different variegated colours of purple. So gorgeous. I’ve got soooo many projects in the works. Love your channel.

[jilliedillie]

That was fun to watch! Straight-on-the-grain binding has only ONE thread along the whole edge of each side of the quilt. That is fine for wall hangings or items that won’t be handled or washed often. Bias binding has what, 50, 100, threads every INCH along the edge, so will endure years of love, handling and washing before the edges start to fray.

[MadelineGrippi]

I have been researching many different quilt patterns, trying to make a plan. But I love this approach, just putting things together. I am so happy I stumbled across your video. Your quilt is so full of personality and life!! This is my new inspiration, thank you so much!

[paulaneary]

Darling Carly! I do not cut my binding on the bias because I am not a rule follower, and I think it is not that necessary. The reason the binding is connected on an angle has to do with bulky seams, it cuts down on bumpiness and helps the quilt lay flatter and hang better. Here again, I am not a rule follower and don't always do things the supposed "correct" way. I love that you are not concerned with perfectly straight edges, a lot of that strictness takes the fun out of the activity for me so I tend to IGNORE lots of rules. Have fun, number one priority when quilting for me. 💖

[VSMStuff]

Absolutely LOVE your quilt! I love your chaotic attack at quilt making, which is 100% opposite of the old school, old lady versions (fiy, I AM a old lady 😉). I am 60 yrs. old, my mother & grandmother made lovely, wonderful quilts, but the thought of sitting there hand stitching for hours on end like they did, makes me wanna hurt someone. LOL I have just this past year gotten into quilting, and I've been doing several of the different quilt as you go methods, 10/10 recommend. I am now working on putting together a bunch of patches my mother & grandmother had cut out at some point in their lives. I pulled the hand me down bag from my closet, and almost cried thinking of those two cutting so many tiny squares. 😢 over the next month, or so, I will be putting together tiny squares forming bigger squares until I have a quilt top. I wish I had space to have one of the old timey drop from the ceiling quilting frames like my mother & grandmother had, even if it meant me hand quilting, which I hate, but it would transport me back to my childhood, and sitting under their quilt playing, while they quilted it. ❤ Fyi, I stumbled upon your channel, because I was looking up patchwork, and very glad I found you. ❤

[christineschonmayr]

Did you say Austria??!! 😂
I literally just clicked on the video because - as a part time working doctor from Austria with 3 toddlers - I wanted to see which lucky person has got the time to work on a quilt for a week! Then laughed out loud when I heard you mention Austria. Now I have to binge all your videos over the course of weeks, but maybe never make a quilt of my own.
Although there is no shortof fabric scraps. 😂
Lovely video!

[JessJeans]

Next time you do binding, just keep the back longer and fold it over! I saw Rosery Apparel do her quilt that way and I JUST finished a quilt like that and it was brilliant!

Also, you join on the diagonal just to reduce bulk! Thats it 😊 love your quilt. Its perfectly chaotic and beautiful.

[kaytemnorwood]

Me when I watch your content: spectacular, give me a million more.

Your quilt turned out awesome! I'm working on hemming pants (boring). Exciting projects in the future.

On a side note though, I hope you're okay. I know you were really hype about the place you had in your last video, and I hope the fancy towels found a place in your life. Please remember; your life is important and beautiful, you're not just a content creator. I hope you're taking care of yourself.

Have a great rest of your month!

[catie]

I'm a quilter and all my quilts are warped. I like the look of it too. My work has always been heavily inspired by folk quilting where practicality is the primary goal with beauty as a more secondary goal that's determined by your stash. I try to do a lot of working from stash because of that. It creates an interesting look when you don't allow yourself to buy much, just like you did here.

Also, about quilt binding: bias binding stretches better to fit, so it can be good if you're rounding the corners of your quilt or something like that. It's not strictly necessary though, and kind of a pain, so people often skip it for scrappy bindings and things. The diagonal seam comes, in part, from the bias cut and in part from the need to reduce bulk when you're binding. If you use a straight across seam there, you get little seamed areas with a lot of bulk in one place, where if you use a diagonal seam it spreads that bulk out and makes it less noticable.

Also, you can do what's called a self-binding, which is where you make sure that your backing is long enough to fold over the front on all sides, and you just stitch it down that way. It makes for a lot simpler process and is used a lot in older quilts that were made for speed/practicality, and in beginner's quilts because it's so simple. I like a contrasting binding personally, bc color appeals to me but self-binding is awesome and I use it too.

[melissag]

I love the recap and review while reclining on the quilt itself! You're a fun sewist!

[mizhamilton]

Awhh so glad I found you! I LOVE the style of randomness and it reminds me of what we used to call a cazy quilt!

[ileina]

You are an absolute ray of sunshine! ALSO can we just take a moment to appreciate how long these things we use (like a quilt) ACTUALLY take to make! Incredible.

[sandrinou]

I am like you... Each time I finished sewing, I am very very tired 😴😴
I don't know why sewing makes me such in this state. But happy to see the result ☺