Cutting the Squares of Christmas Stocking Fabric

Video Transcript

"So now that we’ve cut the front and back for our little stocking, we need to start cutting out some squares. As you can see we have a rather large piece for a little quarter flat here. We are not going to cut up the whole thing. I’m probably just going to do two or three good strips because you can always cut off more later. These don’t need to be really big strips. You don’t need to measure them. You don’t need to do anything like that. It’s probably about a1 ½ to 2 inches big. That will be big enough because what we are going to do is we are going to fold these under eventually. See I’ve got a couple of strips here. Now what I am going to do is cut them into smaller little squares kind of like mini quilter squares and you can make them longer or shorter if you would like and you could always trim them later on as well but you want to go ahead and do this for each one of your fabrics. Just cut out some little squares there. Might do one more strip on this later. What I want to focus on for a second is our little flower pattern one because I want to be a little more careful with this one. Let’s see, notice how there is a real nice flower right in here and there is a bunch of them in different spots that are real cute. What I want to do is look for the best way that I can cut this to get some of these nice little flowers out. Sometimes it is nice to center your little flowers and have some sort of extra little pattern or something extra special. Got that cut. I can take and fold these up real nice later. Like I said you don’t have to cut up the entire thing. You just want to use a couple of strips about an 1 ½ to 2 inches on each of your little pieces and they will be ready for the next step which is we want to lay them all out into a little pattern. We are going to show you how to do that in just a minute. "