Quick & Easy Wedge Scrap Quilt

In this video, The Opinionated Quilter take a pattern using a wedge ruler and leftovers from another project and simplifies it to use scraps. She makes a super fast, super easy (no seams meet) Project Linus quilt.
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[@lizreynolds4554]

Thank you for sharing your ideas and opinions. I agree.🎉 I truly love your experience with cutting and wasting fabric. I cannot afford that. I LOVE THAT QUILT behind you with all the colors and especially the one with the strips, faster and so cool, less matching. I am newer in this process, so easier is GREATER!! YOU ARE AMAZING.🍀💖🌹🌟 AGAIN, THANK YOU. Huggles Always 💖🍀

[@sharonlyman3029]

Tks for these. I've screamed (in my head) about these same issues for years. 1. Good to know I'm not alone. 2. Appreciate how you don't slam the person but critic the method. Often I believe it's because they don't know better ways of doing this. Love your channel.

[@theopinionatedquilter]

Thank you so much.

[@janislong279]

I've seen Jen from Shabby Fabrics use the Corner Clipper and what she does is lay the small square on the larger one and then lays the ¼" line on the ruler from corner to corner and then cuts through both fabrics before sewing. Then she sews ¼" from the edge. She says that it saves her the trouble of drawing the line on the small square. I personally prefer to do it by drawing the line, sewing then cutting. Great tutorial. 😊

[@Jabezgirl57]

Bonnnie Hunter has you sew 2 lines on the corner triangles then cut between. Then you "scrap" is a completed HST. She then uses them in the borders etc. Brilliant. Thanks for this video, another on my wish list!

[@theopinionatedquilter]

Thanks for the info!

[@pebblem4612]

Love all your quilts. I am a no waste person myself so thank you for all the tips. 🌼🌼

[@theopinionatedquilter]

You are so welcome!

[@gwendolynhanks]

Great video, you make some valid points. Using your preferred method (oversizing the squares, folding them, cutting them down to make 4 triangles, attaching those to the 4 sides of the center square, then trimming the block to size) certainly saves on fabric yardage, but has a greater chance that the seams will be stretched or wonky. Your preferred method requires attaching the triangles by sewing on the biased EDGE, which can be tricky for even the most experienced quilters/sewists, but especially troublesome for the novice ones. The other method eliminates that margin of error, since the sewing of the bias is not done on the edge but rather toward the center of the fabric. Yes ultimately this method has more waste of fabric, which fills the scrap bins, but for many people that is a small price to pay for removing the margin error that their blocks might be stretched out and wonky. 🙃 I’m interested in seeing the quilt pattern and video, will you please link it. Thank you for creating great content. Looking forward to your next mind poking, thought provoking, opinionated video.

[@theopinionatedquilter]

You are correct that you are sewing the bias edge of the triangle to the square which is straight of grain. I like to starch my fabric to prevent stretching of that bias edge.

[@notesfromleisa-land]

Amen Sistah! I'm a big believer in no waste, best tool and practice, and never use two blocks when one will do (e.g. 2 TIS for diamond rect or2 HST's for flying geese). I cringe at the lots of waste FG method v. the no-waste. The folded corner clipper is an MVP. For clipping snowball blocks, far more fabric saving to cut the replacement fabric from strips using FCC (or other HST ruler with seam allowance). If you sew it on with a scant 1/4", the fold should work--but anytime there is bias, slightly oversizing and trimming is down is worthwhile, and what I typically do. And I use if for pre-mitering binding strip joins which is (in my opinion) the fastest way to join binding (an more accurate as not diagonal wobble to worry about) as there are less steps. Antler Design Simple Folded Corner ruler (D. Leko has small and large). His large ruler as the advantage of being one of the few on the market that has lines perpendicular to the diagonal...which is a huge help for my construction methods on certain blocks. (and great for making trapezoids for hunter's star)

[@theopinionatedquilter]

Thanks so much for the info.

[@dc5600]

I'm a no waste person too and I've been hearing you talk about the Tucker tools. I just ordered the Tucker trimmer and wing clipper. I liked your comment, sew it pretty darn good and then trim it exactly. Love your wedge quilts.

[@theopinionatedquilter]

Thanks for watching.

[@AvivaHadas]

Yom Kippur is coming, what a niche reference. Kesiva v'chasima tova!

[@morebaloney1539]

Learning so much

[@theopinionatedquilter]

That is so great to hear. My goal is always for the viewer to learn something.

[@AvivaHadas]

Kesiva v'chasima tova! And thank you again for a fun video.

[@theopinionatedquilter]

Thanks for watching!

[@AvivaHadas]

I have the original folded corner clipper (I think the original maker retired, there are two now creative grids and Doug Lekos, in addition to the the very very original easy angle ruler) I've been collecting tools for 20+ years... When I use it, it is so I can trim first and then sew. No idea if its more accurate or not. Too many variables in the process, it is just my preference - occasionally.

[@notesfromleisa-land]

I just mentioned Doug's ruler. I have the large one and the small CG Folded corner clipper. I would not quilt without either in my arsenal.

[@heathermartin8656]

Exactly. You line up with the extra 1/4 inch of fabric included, then cut and sew. It helps to do it this way if you are using a foot with an edge to help with accuracy of your 1/4 inch.

[@angelikaimnaehglueck]

10:21 i agree soooooooooooooooooo much

[@angelikaimnaehglueck]

9:08 👍👍👍

[@theopinionatedquilter]

Thanks for watching.

[@photographybyday]

Catching up

[@kattybob1749]

I am thinking, using a 5 inch square, if you don't mind seams in the middle of the wedge, is to cut one wedge from the middle and then sew the other two pieces into a wedge. No waste apart from trimmings. Hope I'm right. watched rest of video then realised, that would give you triangles not wedges, but its a thought.

[@theopinionatedquilter]

Triangles would work for this layout. I would just be a different quilt.

[@kathylee1261]

How do you size the square that you cut to add to the side of the square center?

[@theopinionatedquilter]

It is all in Deb’s Square Squared ruler. She has you precision cut the center square then she gives you the cut size for the other two squares.

[@suekelly840]

How much larger are you cutting the two squares that you're going to cut on the diagonal to make the Square in a Square?

[@theopinionatedquilter]

It is all in Deb's Square Squared ruler. They are larger than you need and then you use her tool to trim them down to exact.

[@suekelly840]

@@theopinionatedquilter Thanks. I think I have that ruler.

[@katehenry2718]

I know I'm not hearing this right.... what is "dimon dreks"? I have a Northern Illinois accent too but I"m missing this one.

[@theopinionatedquilter]

It's Diamond Rects. It is Deb Tucker Tool.