Honey Buns
What is a quilting honey bun? Honey bun is a term for 1.5” precut fabric strips, which is popular with quilters for binding and finishing quilts. These 1.5-inch quilting strip honey buns are typically solid colors and come in a variety of tones from darks to lights.
Instructor
Sarah Galbraith
Sarah Galbraith is co-founder of Missouri Star Quilt Company. One of her favorite parts about starting Missouri Star is the life-long friendships she and other employees along the way have made with Missouri Star fans.
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What is covered in Honey Buns?
What is a quilting honey bun? Honey bun is a term for 1.5” precut fabric strips, which is popular with quilters for binding and finishing quilts. These 1.5-inch quilting strip honey buns are typically solid colors and come in a variety of tones from darks to lights.
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The tutorial video is 00:02:12.
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Video Transcript
Today we’re gonna talk about the Honey Bun. I’ve already talked to you guys about the Jelly Roll and that’s the 2 ½” strips, and the honey bun is an 1 and a ½” strips. It’s the same concept but they’re just smaller. So, you can do lots of different things with them.
Hang on a minute and I will open it up and show you what I mean! So, you would take it and you’d open it up. See, it’s just the same concept as the Jelly Roll. It’s just the 1 ½” strips and I believe there’s 40 to a Honey Bun. And let me show you some of the different projects we’ve done with them.
This is one little project that we did with a honey bun. We just sewed the strips together really, really simple. It goes together really fast, it’s just a notebook cover, so, we just kind of made a little flap and it goes through really easy.
And then we did this little tissue holder, and you know, it’s like the same thing with a jelly roll you just sew the strips together. You know, you can cut different patterns out. A lot of times we’ve used them just to kind of add color because it’s just little bits. I know we have some examples that I have to get to you guys another time.
You can do log cabins, so it’s a lot more scrappy but it’s just really cute, and they’re already cut so you don’t have to sit there and cut forever, and it’s really fun.
So, let me go show you one quilt we did with them. So, a Honey Bun you probably aren’t gonna make an entire quilt with just sewing into little strips. That could be tedious, you could do it but… So we’ve used it to kind of accent different things on quilts.
So we’ve used this one to do stems and it coordinates and it just adds a little bit of spice, it changes it up a little bit. And then over here we just sewed them all together and used it on this edge of a border. It just adds so much interest, and color, and I just love how everything goes together but still kind of is a scrappy look without all the work!
So, that’s like, my favorite thing about these precuts anyways. So, here’s our ideas and we’ll come up with more, and show you guys later!
