Space Blocks Kids Quilt

Hi I’m Jenny from the MSQC. Take a look at this great quilt behind me. Isn’t this adorable? The fabric is so awesome on this. This fabric is called Rockets and Robots. And it’s by Blue Skies Studios for Benartex. And it’s just darling. And I really thought it lended itself to this simple design which is just like a stacked brick design. I also used a panel in it. And so it goes with our panels and pre cut ideas. And I did, I just used a ten inch strip right here in the middle to break up the pattern and give it some pizazz and some umpf! So let me show you how we did this. This is super easy. You guys are going to love this. So for this project, again what you’re going to need is one layer cake and a ten inch strip of fabric and the panel. So let me show you how to do this. So you’re going to take your ten inch layer cake like this and you’re going to just cut that in half. And so you get two pieces like this that are five by ten. And so it makes it just really easy. That’s all you do. You just cut your layer cakes in half. And then we’re going to stagger them. So when you lay those out you’re just going to lay out your, your fabrics like this. And the staggering actually happens on the ends. So when you start the second row, you’re going to put your, you’re going to cut one of these in half and use half of it on the edge. And that’s going to give your stagger throughout the whole thing. It just works really simple that way. So we’ll put another one here. And you’ll see over here then we have room for a half block. So every other row will have this half block. So you can see them here. You know so you just cut your layer cake in half, lay them out. And then you’re going to use those half blocks on the ends and you can make this quilt. So this is the Rockets and Robots panel. It comes with 15 little pictures on it so there’s a lot of them to choose from. And what I did to make this strip was I just cut a ten inch strip of white fabric. And I chose the little pictures I wanted on here. I cut them out and ironed them onto Heat N Bond Lite. And then I, you know, peeled the back off and I just set them on the strip. And I set mine kind of wonky. You can see. They’re just a little turned and tilted, ironed them in place. And then I just machine appliqued around them. And you can use any method of applique that you want. I used a little blanket stitch and just went around mine. And once you get all those appliqued then you’re going to put it in between your rows of bricks. So I’ve got four rows below and you know, that many rows above. I just kind of wanted to off set it a little bit. But do you remember me saying that there’s like 15 of these on here. Well let me show you what I did with the rest of them. So I took the rest of the, some of the rest of these little appliques. And I again just sewed them on another and I think it’s ten inches or 12 inches of fabric that goes with the line. This yellow is part of the line. And I did the same thing where I just machine stitched around them and ironed them on, and I made this darling little body pillow. I put the two pieces together and I bound the outside of it just like you would a quilt because I wanted this little, you know, just something, a red pop on the outside edge of it. And I’ve got to tell you I finished this up and one of my little grandsons was in here. And he just ran toward me. He wanted this pillow so bad. So even little guys like body pillows. And, and, and so anyway I just wanted to show you what I did with the rest of those. So this is a super easy quilt. Just the brick blocks and a little bit of applique to make it exciting. And we hope you enjoyed this tutorial from the MSQC.