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Sew Together & Finish Your Cricut Riley Blake Quilt Kit

Steps & Tips to Finish Any Quilt featuring the Cricut Riley Blake Quilt Kit Example

Sew Together & Finish Your Cricut Riley Blake Quilt Kit

Sew Together & Finish Your Cricut Riley Blake Quilt Kit!  Trying to support you in having no UFO’s (Unfinished Projects)!  I really want to give you all the tools to complete your quilt!

Getting Cozy with a Tribal Throw Christmas Quilt web

This Tribal Throw Quilt is so COZY that I made myself some hot cocoa and lite the fireplace!  It was so cozy that my Cavalier Spaniel, Lady, had to come snuggle too!

Here is the video all about finishing the Tribal Throw from Facebook! I’m sorry it went a bit fuzzy, as I was streaming live to Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. I will need to re-shoot this video…

Here is a photo of the finished Tribal Throw Quilt with the long arm quilting I did.  Check out the original version, because I had plenty of fabric from the kit to make more blocks and eliminate the borders.  The black binding is hard to see in this image.   Don’t you think the Pine trees close to my home was the perfect place to snap a picture of the finished quilt?  Click the image or link below to view the Tribal Throw Quilt Pattern in Cricut’s Design Space.  

Let’s break down the different aspects of making/finishing the Tribal Throw Quilt.

Cricut Maker Tribal Throw Quilt Finished web

Check out all the extra fabric that was left over from the Cricut Riley Blake Quilt Kit.  You can count on me making more holiday projects with this left over fabric.  If the Cricut Comfort & Joy Quilt Kits are all sold out, I will buy additional bolts that you can purchase some by the yard for future holiday projects.  I’m think of hot pads, table runners, stockings and MORE!  I’m ready to make lots of holiday gifts this year.  Hmmmm… Do you have any ideas of things to make?  Click the image or link below to view the Comfort & Joy Quilt Kits on Cricut’s website.

Check out all the extra fabric from the Cricut Quilt Kit
Riley Blake® Comfort and Joy Throw Size Quilt Kit

First of all everyone is asking where they can find the pattern for the Tribal Throw Quilt.  You can find the Tribal Throw Quilt in Cricut’s Design Space.  Cricut Design Space is kind of like Pinterest where you can see all the things you can make with a Cricut Maker or Cricut Explore.  You can visit Cricut’s Design Space by downloading the APP on a Smart Phone or iPad.  OR you can browse Cricut’s Design Space on you laptop or desktop computer.

How to select your thread and quilt backing to finish your quilt

After your quilt top is sewn together, it is important to think about how you want to quilt your quilt.  You can watch more of my live videos to see me explaining the process.  You guys actually helped me decide!  Someone on live video suggested I quilt all of the white spaces in the quilt so the “tribal” quilt block pattern would really shine.  I love to use a light cucumber shade of green sometimes when stitching on top of white fabric.  If you lay a single thread from the cone on the white fabric you will see it blend and disappear.  I might have preferred a dark green background but with long arm quilting the top thread and bobbin thread need to be the same color.  Subsequently, I selected the lighter background of fabric for my backing knowing that I wanted to quilt the white spaces with a lighter thread.  How do you select your threads and backings?  In this picture you can notice the black binding.  I just love the black binding framing the Tribal quilt with no borders.

Love the Tribal Quilt with no borders

I couldn’t resist making more Tribal Quilt Blocks with the accenting hour glass quilt blocks.  I eliminated the borders but can you notice the shift in colors in the Hour Glass Blocks from deep red, to black and green.  I love that this quilt is more than what the eye initially beholds.  What do you see?

Perfectly Cut Triangles Cut out on the Cricut Maker

I will add a download that will summarize tips and tricks sewing together triangles in quilt blocks!  Stay posted or sign up for the newsletter!  Coming very very soon!  I just LOVE how the Cricut Maker cuts all these triangles out so perfectly!  Each quilt block in the Tribal Quilt is 7.5 inches finished.

Shop new arrivals from Cricut!

There have been LOTS of questions about how much items are and where you can purchase them.  Visit Cricut’s website and you can browse all their amazing products…  Yes, I’m a Quilter, but also a gadget girl and love how intuitive Cricut is with everything they make!  Cricut’s engineers and product managers just keep thinking of incredible things to make for us!  I know most of them as I have taught around the country for Cricut.

Christmas in July

The Cricut Tribal Quilt has been a three part series.  Click the images below to review Part One and Part Two of the Tribal Quilt Series!

How to Cut Quilt Fabric with the Cricut Maker 4

How to Use the Cricut Maker to Cut a Riley Blake Quilt Kit

Be sure to join the Everyone Can Quilt Facebook Group or on Instagram tag me @StitchesQuilting or use the #stitchesquilting so I can see everything you are making!  I love the quilty community as we all come together and share!  Can’t wait to see what you create!  Let’s follow each other!  You can turn on notification to my social media so when I go live you will be notified.

If you are interested in using the Cricut Maker to Quilt or Sew, then join my friendly Facebook Group!  Let’s have fun “Stitching Together”!

Lets Have Fun Stitching Together

Ask any questions or thoughts you may have share below, I’ll be right back to answer them!

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How to cut Riley Blake Quilt Kit Fabric on the Cricut Maker

How to Cut Quilt Fabric with the Cricut Maker 4

How to cut Riley Blake Quilt Kit Fabric on the Cricut Maker

How to cut Riley Blake Quilt Kit Fabric on the Cricut Maker

Let’s use a Riley Blake Cricut Comfort and Joy Quilt Kit to cut out fabric with the Cricut Maker!  This Possibilities Riley Blake Quilt Kit with the Comfort and Joy Fabric Collection will make a Tribal Throw Quilt.

In this video, I will show you how to prep your fabric and start cutting it out on the Cricut Maker.

Steps introduced in the video above:

Cricut Easy Press Iron Fabric 2

Press your fabric with the Cricut EasyPress to put on your 12×24 inch Cricut FabricGrip Mat.

Cricut Rotary Cutter Prepping Fabric for Mat

Trim larger pieces of fabric from your quilt kit to the 12 inch width of fabric.

Cricut Maker Cutting Fabric from Apple iPad

Pull up your quilt pattern on your iPhone, iPad, Laptop or Computer.  Right now I’m getting ready to cut half square and quarter square perfect sized triangles.

Riley Blake Fabric on Cricut Riley Blake Mat 2

Place your uncut fabric pretty side down in the 12×24 inch Cricut FabricGrip mat.

Cricut Rotary Blade Cricut Maker and Large

Remember that the Cricut Maker has a tiny rotary blade that will cut your fabric accurately!

Cricut Cutting Riley Blake Fabric Quilt Kit

Can you see the cuts of the quilting fabric on the Cricut Fabric Grip mat?

Cricut Maker Cut Perfect Triangles In A Breeze web

Oh what clean precise triangles for piecing together a quilt!  I can’t wait to finish my Tribal Throw Quilt!

Perfectly Cut Triangles Cut out on the Cricut Maker

Love YOU GUYS!

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Using the Cricut Rotary Cutting Blade on the Maker ensures every quilt piece is cut perfectly. Part of the art of sewing a quilt is accurate cutting and the Cricut Maker is your best friend when it comes to cutting!

To view Part One of this three part video and blog series visit:

How to Plan a Riley Blake Quilt Kit with the Cricut Maker

 

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How to Plan a Riley Blake Quilt Kit with the Cricut Maker

How to Use the Cricut Maker to Cut a Riley Blake Quilt Kit

How to Plan a Riley Blake Quilt Kit with the Cricut Maker

Cricut Maker Possibilities Quilt Kit with Riley Blake Designs Comfort and Joy Fabric is a quilting treat together!  Have you seen a quilt kit that can become one of four quilts?

Cricut Riley Blake Possibilities Quilt Kit Comfort & Joy

Which quilt would you make with the Comfort & Joy fabric?  Checkmate Quilt? All Wrapped Up Quilt?  Star Burst Quilt?  or Big Star Quilt?    To see this quilt kit for sale in the Cricut Online Store click here.  

Cricut Riley Blake Possibilities Quilt Kit Comfort & Joy Tribal Throw Quilt

But wait….  There is more… in Cricut Design Space there is a Tribal Quilt that also works with the Possibilities Quilt Kit!   I’ll make the Tribal Quilt for some Christmas scrappy fun to cozy up in.   I feel like it’s been awhile since I have made a scrappy quilt!  I can’t wait to sip some hot cocoa wrapped in this Holiday Tribal Quilt!

Cricut Riley Blake Tribal Quilt

Can you notice the tonal color gradient in the quilt layout with the row of lime green, dark green and red plaid?  I love the play of color patterning in the quilt!  Click here to view all quilts already available in Cricut Design Space.

Cricut Design Space for Quilting on your iPhone iPad and Laptop

Download the FREE Cricut Design Space app on your iPhone or Mobile Smart Phone, iPad to view the various quilt pattern already loaded into Design Space.   Log into Cricut Design Space on your desktop or laptop computer too. Browse through Cricut Design Space and “favorite”  the quilts and sewing projects you want to create by taping the yellow star.

Cricut Design Space Favorite Quilts

Up above you will see the drop down menu of “My Favorites” which helped me decide to make the Tribal Throw with the Riley Blake Comfort and Joy Possibilities Quilt Kit.  If you are a quilter you will love seeing all the quilts and sewing projects too!  I feel like it’s Cricut married to Pinterest while I favorite all the items I daydream to make!  To view your favorites in Design Space, toggle ge your category to “My Favorites”.

Cricut Design Space Tribal Throw Quilt

When you are in Cricut Design Space, this is what Tribal Throw Quilt pattern will look like.  Remember you can make this quilt with your own fabric or purchase the Cricut Comfort & Joy Possibilities Quilt Kit.  The Quilt Kit does not include the cost of the pattern, but last time I looked the quilt kit in the Cricut Online Store is $39.99 and half off!  Bargain!

Cricut Design Space Tribal Throw Instruction View

When using quilt patterns in Cricut Design Space, you can just digitally save the actual pattern instructions or print them off for handy convenience.

Cricut Quilting and Sewing Supplies with Riley Blake Quilt Kit

If you are new to quilting, Cricut can very affordably help you get set up with all the quilting supplies you need.  I’m excited about using some of their newly developed quilting and sewing products.   The new Cricut Rotary Cutting self healing mat, Rotary Blade and Ruler are excellent quality.   They all come very handy in the Cricut Rotary Cutting Kit!  The 12 x 24 inch sized Cricut Ruler is total awesome sauce to have full control when prepping fabric for your Cricut FabricGrip Mats!

Cricut FABRIC Scissors from the Sewing Tool Kit

Get decked out with the Cricut Sewing Tool Kit too.  The Cricut Fabric Scissors actually say “Fabric” on them so everyone in your family will know those scissors are YOURS!

Cricut Sewing Kit Fabric Scissors

 

Next weeks post will be all about cutting the Riley Blake 100% Quilting Cotton Fabric out on the Cricut Maker!  Should this quilt be a holiday gift or a special quilt for me?  Oh the possibilities!

How to Cut Quilt Fabric with the Cricut Maker
Click HERE to learn how to cut your quilting fabric on the Cricut Maker!

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Cozy Christmas Wreath Block Sew Along

Cozy Christmas Wreath Block Sew Along Lori Holt Bee In My Bonnet Riley Blake

What do you think of the Cozy Christmas Wreath Block hanging in front of my ironing boards? It’s just vintage Christmas beauty for the holidays!

You can see I am using my Corningware Pyrex dishes to help me sort out the different sized blocks to use.  Have you used your Corningware dishes in your sewing studio?

Cozy Christmas Corningware Pyrex Dishes to sort Fabric pieces

The Cozy Christmas Wreath Block is fun to make and not difficult at all!  Let’s break it down…  From the Sew Simple Shapes Cozy Christmas Templates  you will need B-20, B-6, B-9 and B-13.

Cozy Christmas Wreath Block Templates to use

 

I’ve pulled the template pieces with my background aqua snow from the Pixie Noel Fabric Collection by Tasha Noel.  For the wreath I am using one of Riley Blake Design basic gingham green fabrics!  The bow pieces are made from the vintage roses and red snow once again from the Pixie Noel Fabric Collection.

Trace the template pieces directly onto the Pellon stabilizer.

Stitch the desired fabric using the Pellon Stabilizer as a guide with right sides of fabric facing together.

Cut a small hole in the stabilizer and then turn your wreath inside out.  Follow each of these steps for each piece that you need to create the Cozy Christmas wreath.

Cozy Christmas Wreath Block with Aurifil thread to applique

 

Here are the pieces of my Cozy Christmas Wreath Block with my Aurifil Happy Color Thread now ready to be stitched together laid out on the 10 inch Lori Holt Design Board.  You can also see an upclose photograph of the NEW Lori Holt Cute Cutting Mats.

You can see that I have laid out all the pieces and pinned them together to get ready for the machine applique.  Remember you can always hand applique this block together but I am choosing to machine piece it so that I can get this done quick and then allow the family to use it lots during the short holiday season.  Maybe I’ll even spill some hot cocoa on it while I’m using it as a lap quilt and can quickly spot clean it and wash it in the washing machine. Â đŸ˜‰

Stitch the pieces of the Wreath Block together.  I started with the green Aurifil Happy Colors thread and the green gingham fabric.

Continue through appliqueing either by hand or machine each of the pieces of your block together.

Cozy Christmas Wreath setting up the sashing strips and blocks

 

Here I am using the 18 inch Lori Holt Design Board to layout the sashing strips and pieces blocks that frame the Wreath Block.  This helps me balance out the colors of the fabric.  Remember that I am using the red and white swiss polka dot fabric by Riley Blake as my background in the block.  I use recipe book holders in my quilting studio to hold design boards or instructions to quilts.  I find them very handy.  I also find having lots of the Riley Blake Basic red, navy blue and green gingham around are handy for holiday seasonal sewing to add to project like I added into this block.  Now notice that I don’t have the layout quite right on the design board with the outer blocks.  This is something to notice hopefully prior to stitching!!!!

Cozy Christmas Wreath Block Sew Along Lori Holt Bee In My Bonnet Riley Blake

Finally here is the final block with buttons taped to the block to get an idea of how it will look embellished with the Cute Little Lori Holt Buttons!  Don’t you just LOVE the block displayed on white ric rac infront of my newly painted ironing boards!  I have a tutorial that will post tomorrow of how to find old ironing boards and then paint them to decorate your sewing studio with lots of vintage love.  I painted by ironing boards red, navy blue, light blue, pink and yellow!  I am just in love with them and every time I look at them they make me SMILE!

Please let me know if you have any questions about the block or quilting in general.  Stitches Quilting right now has the ABSOLUTE best prices to purchase the supplies needs for Cozy Christmas and other items that you need for the holiday season.  All items that are needed in the tutorial are linked so you can purchase the items from clicking the link.

Stitches Quilting Fabric Labor Day Sale

Don’t miss our Labor Day Week long sale at Stitches Quilting too!  All prices on inventory are marked on sale and a coupon code is not needed.  Free Shipping for orders over $100 in the United States.

Cozy Christmas Sew Along Lori Holt Bee In My Bonnet Giveaway

BUT…… most importantly don’t forget to enter the Stitches Quilting Cozy Christmas Giveaway that you can enter on the website, Stitches Quilting Instagram and Stitches Quilting Facebook Pages.  Here’s a hint since you are ready the blog go to all three places for multiple entries for chances to win big!

Best Wishes for Lots of Happy Stitches,

Deanna Wall Stitches Quilting Stitching Through Life