X's and O's Block Quilt

[Music] hi it's Jenny from the Missouri Star Quilt Company I want to show you a fun tutorial today called exis and O's that's the pattern we've used for this quilt behind me it's just quick and fun and so easy so let me show you just how that's done okay so here we are at the table because this pattern is called ex's and O's I love to use it for baby quilt because it's I mean it's just hugs and kisses for that baby so for that reason we're going to do it out of this lilan will it's got a just a fabulous colorway to it really babyish especially when you don't know what that baby's going to be and we're going to use a solid charm pack and what we do with this is we're going to take one of these squares out and we have to cut this into fours so let's go ahead and line this up and we're going to make four little squares out of it and since it's 5 in wide that means those squares are going to be 2 and 1 half inches and this is a really important thing to remember because whenever whenever you do a um do this quilt any size Square you use the corner squares are half that so if it's an 8 inch square then you use a 4in square and so on so it's kind of an easy one to do the math on which you know how I love easy math all right so now we have four of these squares and four of these is going to do two blocks so here let's take one of these and what I like to do is you can draw the line down the side cuz we're going to sew these we're going to put these on the corner like this and we're going to sew directly across the middle line but um to save time with the line I like to just press them in half so I fold them I take the corners and match them up fold them and just lightly touch my iron on that that gives me a line that's a really quick tip for um you know speed you don't want to you know press them too hard you don't I mean you can do whatever you want to really but it just works this way so then what we're going to do is we're going to lay this on this corner pin if you feel the need to and then we're going to go the sewing machine and just sew that down just going to sew right on the fold line and then what I'm going to do is I'm just going to pull this out release my thread right there clip it and I'm going to flip it over and do the other side so it's just quick as it can be there we're all sewn up and believe it or not this is the whole Square this is the whole block so let me clip these threads seem to have an amazing amount of threads on here so let's clip those off and then what we're going to do is we're going to take this little square that we've sewn that we're going to take this little square that we've sewn the two corners on we're going to lay our ruler just about a quart of an inch over trim that seam there we are open trim that seam and then we'll just turn this around love my spinning mat and we're going to do the same thing then we'll take this little piece over to the ironing board iron it out and it should and it should again come right back to the 5 in square so you're going to do this on you're going to do this on all your squares and it's just and let me show you how quickly that goes together I have some done here in another line so here's all of your here's all of your little squares that are done like this and the way you put these together is what makes the X's and O's so when you put your Fab your your blocks together you're going to always match solid to solid color to color solid to solid color to color so when we put these together solid to solid color to color no matter where you put them you put them solid to solid color to color and that makes your EG and then here's one this makes your o and you do solid to solid color to color no matter where you put them and it just makes that lattice grid and that sweet excess and O's I mean it just really makes a a cute pattern here's one I've done in charl Vu and uh it's just so cute it makes a darling table topper it makes a just a great little baby blanket this is with one charm pack and remember whatever whatever charm pack you use like if you want a bigger quilt you're you only use a half of your solid so if you use two two colored charm packs you'll need one solid or four charm pecks you'll need um two solids and four will make about a twin or a um or a large lap so we hope you enjoyed this quick tutorial on the exis andos quilt from the Missouri Star Quilt Company