Make a “Finish Line” Quilt with Jenny!
Jenny: Hi everybody, it’s Jenny from the
MSQC. And I’m here today with my husband, Ron. And we have a fun project to show you.
This quilt behind me actually stemmed and was inspired by a quilt that Ron made. So
we’re going to show you his quilt first. And this is it right here. Now every place
we go, when I go traveling we always go to fabric shops. And Ron buys fabrics. And it’s
always motorcycle or car related. Something like that. And he bought this motorcycle fabric
and he wanted to kind of iron them on like so that they were coming up the front of the
quilt. And he decided that he was going to a double jelly roll race. So this is a 2 ½
inch strip and this is a 1 ½ inch strip. So what he did was he sewed all of his red
strips together with a black square in between them. And then he sewed all of the white strips
together with a black square in between them. Then he sewed those two together and then
he did the jelly roll race with that. And so we got the whole thing done and going.
And it finished about this much too long. Like it was like a runway quilt, like it went
really long. And so we just cut that piece off to use for something else. And then he
actually ironed these onto fusible Heat N Bond. And, and then he just placed them on
here. Ironed them on. And then we just single stitched all the way around every single one.
And I say we, but mostly this was him. As a matter of fact I tried to cut one of those
out. If you recall we were sitting up watching television and we were cutting out motorcycles.
And I said, let me help you. And I”m cutting them out and I handed it to Ron, and Ron goes,
why don’t you just let me cut these out. You know, and I’m like, I’m like what
is the matter with my motorcycle. And he’s like, Jenny wheels aren’t square. So you
know he did his own cutting out, and he did that. And actually the quilting pattern he
chose as well which is kind of fun. I don’t know if you can see that up close but it’s
actual, let them focus in on that. It’s actual, see this guy is on a motorcycle, right
here, here’s the wheel and you can see the whole, the whole motorcycle motif that he’s
got going on here. And he loves it. So originally what we wanted to do was remake
this quilt for you and show you how to do it. And this is our quilt back here. Thanks,
Ron. Thanks for your help, honey. This is our quilt back here. And we looked for some
fabric that we could cut out and you know put little things on there. Nothing actually,
nothing was floating my boat. And all of a sudden I’m like we have these cool shaped
templates. We could do a lighter background and then do the colorful templates on it.
And so that’s what we did. So to make this quilt what you’re going
to need is one packet of 2 ½ inch strips. And we have used Silver Linings Essentials
by Wilmington. And they’re just gorgeous. You can see they’re all different but they’re
all just tone on tones and they’re just really really pretty. It makes a great background
color. You’re also going to need a roll of 1 ½ inch strips for your second one. You’re
also going to need your pop color. And we’ve chosen this gray color. And you’re going
to need ¾ of a yard for that. And that’s going to include your little border out here.
So we used our square, our pop color, brought it out into the border and binding as well.
The binding is ¾ of a yard on that. So you’re also going to need a little bit of Heat N
Bond which we have here. And you’re going to need a pop color. And we’ve used this
Wilmington Essentials and it’s just all different colors of that. And you can use
anything you want. You can motorcycles, you could use flowers, you could, you know depending
upon who this quilt is for, you could really personalize it. So we also used our templates.
And these are our orange peel templates. And I just think this flash of fun color. I mean
I don’t know you can’t really see it down here too much but we started with the big
ones on the bottom and then just ran them right up the side right here. And so it just,
we added the small and the large ones to it so that it would just, you know it had lots
of texture and lots of movement to it. And I just think it looks really fun. Now when
we made Ron’s we did it the jelly roll race style. We thought it would be easier to write
a pattern and to teach that a little bit different way. Plus you wouldn’t end up with having
to cut off part of your quilt because his did come out really long. I always call those
runway quilts. So to make this quilt we decided to build
it row by row. And what we did was we took our 2 ½ inch strip like this and for each
2 ½ inch strip you’re going to need a 2 ½ inch gray square. And so you’re going
to cut, take your gray yardage and cut 2 ½ inch strips. And you’re going to cut 24
of these gray squares. And then you’re going to cut 24 of the 1 ½ by 2 ½ inch strips
as well because those are going to go in our white strip which is coming next. So what
we did is we took our long strip, trimmed our selvedges off and sewed a gray square
to it like this. And then we just sewed it a quarter of an inch right down the side.
And what we’re going to do here is I’m going to line these up. And we’re just going
to sew it right down the side. Now to get it the length we wanted we need to add another
6 ½ inch strip. So it can be any one of your strips here. And so you’re just going to
take some of those strips and you’re going to cut them into 6 ½ pieces because you’re
going to need one piece for each row that we do. Alright. Now we’re going to do the
same thing with the white strip like this. So here’s our white strip. And we’re going
to trim our selvedge ends off like that. Just trim that off. And then we have already cut
these little pieces right here. And so this is now 2 ½ by 1 ½ and we’re going to attach
this to the end of this. And add a six inch piece along to the end of this as well. So
I’m going to put this little strip in here and sew a quarter of an inch right down the
side and then I’m going to add my six inch piece on the end. Now the reason we added
this little six inch piece on the end is because we wanted to get it to, we were trying to
match Ron’s quilt and we wanted to make it that wide. And we also wanted you to be
able to rotate these. So just like this you see if we did this they’re all going to
end up the same. So what we ended up doing was looping these, sewing these together like
this and just making a whole loop out of it. Let me make sure these are lined up. Alright.
So now we have a loop. And then what we did was we just cut it wherever we wanted to so
that it would stagger back and forth. So let me show you how we did that. So just anywhere
along your strip that we want to you’re going to make a cut. And now this is going
to still be the exact same length as this one but it’s going to be staggered. These
squares are going to end up in different places. Let’s look at the quilt for a little reference.
So see how these are just kind of all over the place here. It’s just wherever you cut
them. And then you’re just going to start sewing your rows together. Now I have a piece over here that’s done,
that has those on it. It’s just a small piece. But you’ll be able to see here. And
so this is what I’m talking about. So as you start sewing them together you’re going
to get this great quilt with all these different colors of grays with the white ones sewn in
between. And they’re going to be staggered all over because you’ve sewn them together
as a loop and then just trimmed them where you wanted. At the end of the day you’re
going to trim up these sides so they all match and they go. Now for our added on color pop.
What we did was we took our templates which are our orange peel templates right here.
We used the big one for, the large orange peel template. We also used the small orange
peel template. At first we just started with the large one and then we just felt like it
needed some more movement. And, and this little mini one right here, you can get a whole bunch
of those out of a charm pack. And for the big one you can just get one here in the middle.
I have quite a few little ones here in my pile. So I’m going to go ahead and trim,
cut some of the big charm pack ones. To do that you’re going to need some Heat N Bond.
And I’ll show you how I attach my Heat N Bond because I just actually laid my charms
right over it like this. So I’ve got my Heat N Bond out here. And I decided on the
colors I wanted. And so I’m just going to lay them right next to each other so that
I don’t get any, no adhesive will stick to my iron we’re hoping. And so we’ll
just go like this do four of them for now. . And I’m just going to kind of overlap
them a little bit. Oop we don’t want another yellow. Let’s see how about a green. The
green will be beautiful. Alright so now we’re just going to touch these, iron them on. And
I’m being very careful not to get on that sticky part. That is not fun to clean an iron.
Alright. Alright so now what I’m going to do is I’m
going to make this go so much faster because I’m going to cut this. Let me move some
of this stuff out of the way. I get so much stuff up around me here. And you’ve got
to be able to see this. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to go ahead and cut this
back into fourths. I can probably actually fold it once I trim it. So I’m going to
trim this off. And normally I would just do this with charms. I would just cut the whole
thing with charms and, and we would have lots and lots of these. So I’m just going to
fold this like this and then I’m going to fold it like this. And then I’m going to
lay my template on here like this. Now there’s a couple of things you can do. You can either
cut this with your rotary cutter or you can trace around it and cut it with scissors.
We also have an awesome Sizzix die that you could use and just run them through the Sizzix
machine. All of our templates are also made into dies. And just like this. Alright, let
me trim off this little end right here. They all moved before I could trim it. Alright,
there we go. Now if you want to leave those whole and pointy, you can do that as well
too. So then let me tell you how we did this because
this was actually really fun. Natalie helped with this. And she’s really good at seeing
how things go together. And so this was actually hanging on my design wall so that we could
actually step back and take a look at it because you’ve got to get, you know you don’t
want too many of the same color in an area. You don’t want, you know, you just want
it mixed up and you want it fun. So we actually just pinned these on and we started from the
bottom like this and just kind of went out and made them up. You know fanned them out
like this. Then we started adding in these little ones over here. And I can see this
would actually, oop, see now you don’t want two oranges right there. We have so many pretty
colors to choose from. You know we want to go ahead and put some others on. And you just,
you just, it’s play by ear. You know it’s just fun. It’s just trying things out and
seeing what works and how did it go. Ours is almost all large down at the bottom down
here. And then it comes and swoops up like this and it just has a little bit of a curve.
And the curve we did with these small ones so that it gives it this real kind of wind
blown look, almost like leaves which makes me think this would be a really pretty fall
quilt with leaves. So it’s just easy. We then actually we took
the pins out, we pinned everything on the board. Took the pins out. Took the paper off
the back which is super easy. You just roll it and it comes back. And when you see this
shiny side on your fabric you know that the glue is on there. And then Natalie re-placed
it on there. And she got the iron and touched it right away with the iron and ironed it
right while it was on our wall. So you have to make sure you have an iron proof wall if
you can do that. Ours is, it has flannel on it so it works really well. But she actually
just ironed it while it was still on the wall so that we knew it would all work. We then
went and did a tiny little button stitch all the way around these. You could do a little
zig zag. Ron did a straight stitch around his. But it’s just such a great idea because
it’s, we’ve combined two different strips. We still have the squares popping in between.
Because of the different sizes it gives it more dimension and texture. Then we added
these fun colors to it and it just really makes a fun quilt. So I hope you’ll try
this. I hope you have some fun. I’d love to see all the different things that you make
and put on it. And we hope you enjoy this tutorial on the Finish Line quilt from the
MSQC.
I'm watching your videos for the first time !! I really like your content ๐๐๐
What a good sport Ron is! Standing there with a quilt in front of his face while Jenny talks. Gotta love a man like that!
I was in love with both quilts the second the video started. I was thinking of using this idea for a Christmas quilt with the orange peel shapes modified to look like light bulbs and string them like Christmas lights. Placing the bulbs on top of the strip dividers and perhaps changing the colors in the middle to greens to look like a Christmas tree.
I love both the quilts!! What a great job and imagination!! 2 thumbs up!! ๐๐
LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!! Actually both! Ron's was so much fun! Would be a great guy quilt! And Jenny your version was so pretty!!! Gonna have to try this one soon!
I love the motorcycle quilt. Ron did a great job with it and the quilting on the back is also awesome. I like the idea of cutting things out and doing the applique. It looks like fun.
So fun, and beautiful. I love the gray with the bright color pops. There are so many possibilities for the basic design you and Ron came up with. Flowers, butterflies, leaves, snowflakes, kites, bicycles, and the list can just keep going! ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ
What a great idea, I'm going to make one for a grandson who's into motocross. Was wondering what I could do for his 13th birthday, now I know. Thanks so much for the idea. Love watching your tutorials.
I don't normally comment but, these are both great quilts. I Love Ron's quilt. Going to use the idea for my 16 yr old using skate boards. Good to see other men quilting. Jenny you do such a great job at teaching keep it up.
I'm not fond of the jelly roll race pattern but this is very cheerful.
For a quicker quilt, you could use small coloured patches on each row and leave out the appliquรฉ. It's very adaptable.
Que idea tan espectacular y muyyy facil muchassssss gracias sra Jenny
I sure Did enjoy this tutorial! That is a beautiful quilt. I think I would make it wider, which would be easy to do. So pretty as is, but I love the idea of fall colors with leaves!
Absolutely fantastic quilts. Lots of scope for the imagination in coming up with variations. Ron is so cute!
Nice.. deceptively simple
I love the orange peel quilt, greatest design Iโve seem. Nice design and inspiration Ron!
Love, love, love it!
Beautiful quilts! Both Ronโs and your! Love the pop of color and grey is the color this year!!๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป
Love them both but Jennyโs reminds me of a peacock:-)
I love to see this is a family affair. Just one question when you get the stickie stuff on your iron, how do you get it off?
Iโm new to sewing and just started quilting because of Jenny and her videos. Love this family! Is it to late to be adopted at 51? LOL!!
Happy 10th birthday Missouri Star Quilt Company! Congratulations and hereโs to the next 10 years.
I think it would be adorable is black and white strips, with the colors. Or conversely, colored strips with the orange peels in black and white.
First they are dirt bikes, second I LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!! Absolutely love the dirt bike jelly roll race!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't express how much i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These quilts are beautiful! I do have a quick tip on an easy way to get adhesive off your iron (cause boo boos happen). Heat your iron to a medium heat and rub a dryer sheet on the sole plate. Takes the gunk right off and smells great too.
Wow beautiful quilt will Jenny you havenโt visited St. Johnโs Newfoundland Canada wish you would
Love this. So many ideas going through my head right now.
Very cool idea. I love how we can tell when youโre excited about a quilt your doing a tutorial for. And Ron is awesome! Have a great weekend and Happy quilting!! ๐๐๐ป
Love your quilts Jenny!!
The bit you cut off the end would probably make a great matching pillow sham.
I just love this pattern! Thanks so much Ron and Jenny! โค๏ธโค๏ธ
Now isin't this fun! You two and the quilts! I definitely will be doing this one as well. As always thank you Jenny and a special thank you to Ron.
I LOVE this quilt, my head is exploding with ideas!!!!
So nice to see Ron and his quilt is s fabulous! I love motorcycles. I would like to make the motorcycle quilt for my nephew who is a biker. Great idea. Thank you Ron & Jenni
I can see making this without the applique but just using pops of color as the little squares!
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LOVE the BRIGHT colors! IDEAS are endless….balloons, kites, flowers, any special day. THIS is GREAT!
I. Am. In. Love! Thank you & Ron for sharing your creativity & sharing!!!
Hi Ron!๐
I love this quilt and the bright colors! I've heard using heat n bond eliminates the need to stitch around the applique pieces. Have you tried both ways?
Love, love, love Ron's quilt. What a great quilt for a motorcycle lover.
Sew fun!โค๏ธ
Love this , I am thinking stars and stripes would be great!
Very beautiful. You and your husband are so adorable.
Awesomely clever! Both versionsโค๏ธ
Beautiful! – What a talented Family – and it continues with the grandkids, loved those videos recently.
Happy Friday all! Great ideas for a weekend ahead. Ron idea and creation is terrific! I am checking now to see if I have the correct MSQC templates. Easy to get if not. Serious Question to all positive comments. Just how does ever positive reply comment get a thumbs down? How unkind. Please stop…
Gracias por el tutorial
The quilts are beautiful Jenny. Yours reminds me of a peacock feather. Itโs absolutely beautiful.
I love this. I am trying to get my husband into Quilting. I will show him this. I figure if I get him involved, he might let me get a long arm for both of us.
I can see a new quilt in my future! โค๏ธ
Thumbs up for guys who sew!
I have those motorcycles, I used for the back of a quilt for my friend's toddler. I didn't know what else to do with the extra fabric. I kept trying to figure out how to fussy cut… didn't work. So thank you, Ron, for sharing your beautiful quilt! Thank you both, Your family has done more than you could ever realize, what a blessing. Bless you!
He has such good ideas !! Love the quilt behind too !
Ron had a great idea. This quilt has so many possibilities. Thanks for sharing!
Great idea on using leaves for a fall quilt. Any holiday could be used really. I like this!
LOVE this quilt – so simple but so gorgeous!
I love gray plus the bright colors, this is the quilt for me. Thank you ๐ MSQ
If you didnโt want to do the orange peel, this would be sharp if you just used the bright colors as the small squares!
Adding this to my To Make list! So pretty!
Thank you SSSSOOOOO Much Ron for that quilt idea. My brother owns a dirt bike shop in Springfield Mo. called Dirt Bikes Unlimited. He has been wanting a quilt for some time now and you just gave me the idea. He is going to Flip when he sees it. Thank you Jenny and Ron for this GREAT video!!!!
This got me thinking
–take a 2.5" strip of color and a solid 1.5" stripmaking the loops to cut and make them offset, but the squares would be from the printed strip and the solid strip – printed strip with solid sq., and solid strip with printed sq. . Wouldn't need another color for the squares, then.I like this! I also think that a new fall table runner will be my next project. I will have plenty of scraps for it. Thanks!
I LOVE THIS! Both of the quilts. Ron's seems MUCH wider than Jenny's. Can you give us the size of both finished quilts? Thank you.
Beautiful quilt. Very modern looking! Thought of making a baby quilt with brightly colored fish, ballons, hearts, etc. Also love the idea of the autumnal leaves. This is a very versatile quilt.
I saw this and immediately thought of doing the strips vertically like birch trees and the applique as the leaves in fall colors.
OK, who would like to see Ron do a full video duplicating his quilt with the motorcycles? Maybe to give away to Quilts for Kids or Project Linus. I like both of the quilts he has shown.
I love the idea of making this into an autumn quilt with leaves but I think I would vary the leaf shapes like oak, maple etc. perhaps in mottled, ombre or batik fabrics in bright autumn colors and also use warm neutrals and cream instead of the silver gray and white background. The swirl gives the quilt great movement and with leaves it would look like they were windswept. This autumn I will be on the lookout for some great fallen leaves in different sizes and shapes to trace as patterns. Love it!
I LOVE YOU. I hope to do a vacation to your store real soon.
Love this quilt! It looks like flower petals floating in the breeze. It would also look nice with fall leaves.
Such a clever idea. So pretty. Love the pops of colour.
"Thanks Ron.. go away now." -my husband
Lovely quilts. I always look forward to your tutorials. These quilts have so many options, you could add bird, animals or flower motifs on the stripes. Great idea! Thanks!
Absolutely adore this quilt. And I got my sizzix orange peel dye last week….cant wait to get started.
That would be beautiful with a light colored (fall) background & cut outs of vibrant colored leaves, like Jenny said. It would look like leaves blowing in the wind or across the ground. That would be beautiful!!!
The writing of what you are saying covered everything you were doing in front of you on the table…especially since you didn't use the overhead camera
I love Ron we need more of the families
I LOVE THIS! Thank you Jenny and Ron for the great idea that can be taken in so many directions.
My son races motorcross and I would love to do him a quilt. Where in the world did you find the motocross fabric?
Where did Ron find the motorcycle pattern? I would like to make one for my husband with motorcycles in Harley Davidson colors.
Just so fun!!!!!
To avoid having to cut off the bottom of the overly-long jellyroll-race quilt use only 30/32 of the jellyroll strips, QED! ๐ ๐ข
Jenny, when you said you used a "button" stitch to tack down the applique, what is that? Even with a straight stitch, it seems like alot of turning and maneuvering under the needle, especially with Ron's motorcycles. Or did he free motion around his? This is a really cute quilt. Always love you're tutorials. Thank you.
Love the quilt poor Ron's arms
so creative, love this pattern.
Wonderful quilts. You really know how to crank the brain with all these great ideas. I have 2 unfinished 1600 quilt tops…. gonna play around with orange peel shapes… just might click.
I love both of your quilts!! Ron you have a lot of patience to cut out all those cool motorcyles, love the quilt! Love the gray and white stripe with the blocks, and you can add anything to the top!! Thank you for another great quilt Tutorial Jenny and Ron!! Happy 10th Birthday!!! So happy for YOU!! What an accomplishment!!
Love these quilts-thank you so much!
Very pretty quilt.
I loved this idea! I thought it would be great to applique a peacock at the bottom. Thank you so much for 10 wonderful years of inspiration.
For a fall inspired take on this, I would run my strips vertically and have a few leaves towards the top and much more on the bottom, so they'd look like they were falling. For Spring/Summer, I would have to do butterflies, they are my favorite! Maybe even create 4 miniature versions and represent all the seasons! My imagination is running away!
I love it
Aww look at you two and what an awesome quilt x
He's so cute!
I love his motorcycle quilt and this idea! Thank-you!
Love everything you do Jenny, but I have not seen Ron before. So pleased to see what a great job he did… Has to be a great man to join in on all you do to keep us quilters having fun….
BEAUTIFUL! Speaking from a similar experience while making a sport t-shirt quilt that had blanket stitching around each emblem square; one might want to stitch around the colored templet objects while the top of the quilt is in sections- such as in horizontal thirds. My daughter and I each had our machines at her apartment. It got very difficult for us to maneuver our halves of the whole top in two parts through a home sewing machine while adding the blanket stitching around the edges of the ironed on temples pieces.
We used a wool weave of cranberry and off white as the base to hold the โironed on emblem squaresโ. The weight o& the wool weave made each of our top halves heavier to work with. But we used the woven warp/weave pattern to scatter the emblems and keep the emblem squares aligned on the straight. We spent a total of 24 hours one weekend to complete it with the labor of the two of us on our 2 elna machines.
where can I find some material with 4 wheelers on it and a person riding them I did go to esty and they are sold out of the print I want do you have any ideas I did check on line
Can you use and wash it???
Great quilt Ron!