 Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. I'm so excited because today is the first in a three-part series that I'm going to be filming documenting making a quilt with the help of my Cricut Maker. As you've seen in some of my other Cricut Maker videos, the maker is fantastic for us fabric crafters because it can cut your fabric for you. I've made everything from a little dog coat, having the Cricut Maker cut out the body of the coat for me even to just little basic accessories and it's been great. But now I'm going to put the maker to the test and I'm going to have it cut my fabric squares and shapes and whatever I need to make a quilt. If you've ever made a quilt before or ever even looked into making a quilt before, you know one of the most tedious parts of it is cutting the fabric. It is critical that you do a very good job and that it's very accurate and all of that stuff. It can be a little bit intimidating. Just the quantity of pieces that you have to cut and I think the accuracy too just really scares a lot of people away. I have made one quilt before but it was a part of a class so I had a teacher there who was helping me making sure I was getting all my angles right, getting all the triangles cut perfectly so it wasn't like I was just left my own devices. I really had a lot of really great help. So I'm hoping that through this process we will see that the maker makes cutting out quilt projects super super simple. The first part is going to be today's video and that is going to be me just simply walking you through the process of how to use Cricut, the design not the machine but the design space as well as some of their products to assemble everything you need to make your quilt. So the pattern and the fabric for the quilt. Thankfully Cricut has made this super simple. They actually have a partnership with Riley Blake. Very very well known in the quilt world both for really cute and durable and quality fabrics as well as really sweet quilt patterns. So let me show you how to use design space to find your quilt pattern and then how to use Cricut.com to find the fabrics that you're going to use for your quilt project. Okay so first things first, you are going to need to go to Cricut.com which will lead you to their homepage which looks something like this. Then you're going to click shop. So we are going to look through the quilt kits first so I am just putting that in the little search bar here and allowing that to pull up the quilt kits and once you get past these quilt panels you see that you will find the fabric quilt kits which coincidentally happened to be on sale right now. So this is going to be all the fabric that you need to make for this particular size quilt. So you see we have throw size quilts, we have baby size quilts and yeah that's it just the two throw size and baby size. So you can look through them and pick the one that you like the best. I did not get this one but I this was a very close close option for me. I thought that the fabrics in the um little dolly fabric collection were super super cute. So you'll see like a main picture of all of the fabric because this is exactly what the quilt kit looks like whenever it's shipped to you and you'll see they give some suggestions on different quilts that you can make with these fabrics. Look how cute that one is and varying difficulties. So this is intermediate advanced and they have some beginner intermediate ones as well so you just have to look through and see which one you know fits your skill set. We've also got little like examples of what the fabrics look like. You can also flip through all of these to see what the fabrics look like. Oh my gosh so cute. You can do that as well. So first things first determine which size quilt you want to make throw size or baby size. I'm 99% sure they say the final dimensions or maybe that is in the um maybe that's in the pattern. We'll scoot over there and see if we can find that waiting for this to load. So this kit contains enough fabric to make one faded memories throw quilt top. So yeah it doesn't necessarily have this size but it does have all the fabric um yardages that you will receive in the kit as well which should coincide with um the quilt patterns. So we are now in design dot quicker dot com which is design space. This is where I create all my projects. You've probably seen some of these before and we click new project. We go to projects and then searching projects we can search for Riley Blake and here are all the quilt patterns that you can choose from. You again just want to make sure that baby quilt um coincides with the baby quilt kit and then anything that says throw coincides with a throw size quilt kit. So you just want to make sure you are matching those two things up um and then you can pick one that you think you like and you can learn more about it here um in the product description. This is the finished size that I was talking about earlier and then here are all your fabric requirements which will let me find a baby one which will coincide with these kits. Let me find this is the one I ended up getting. Forget me not. So cute I love the bright colors and all of the reds and pinks. Okay so here it says one yard white then there are there's one that has two thirds of a yard and then a bunch that have a third of a yard. You see that there and then when you come over here there's the one yard the two thirds of a yard and here are the one third of a yard ones that are there and then the half a yard even for your binding. So all that's left to purchase after you purchase your um pattern which here are the prices of them um and you purchase your quilt fabric kit you just need to buy the backing you'd need to buy the batting and you'd need to buy like extra thread um to do all of the quilting but everything else you will have. So you'll end up with a completed quilt top and you just need the batting to go between and then the backing that is the backside of the quilt. So they get you 75% of the way there I feel like. Okay so that's it you just need to click make it to make your purchase and then it will um you know get you started on cutting which will go over next week and then you can add to your cart and make your purchase and then they'll ship you the fabrics which I guess took me maybe about a week to get um so yeah that's how you purchase your quilt kit super simple lots of really great cute options um and before I leave the shopping section of Cricut here I also wanted to point out that they also had where is hold on let me find it hmm let's see if I can find it in here it would be cutting mat those are the ones for your machine machine machine machine machine so yeah here are their self healing mats aren't those beautiful so it looks like this grid on one side and in the back side they have the roses this is the one I have with these like doily looking things they even have this really pretty purple one so you can grab a self cutting healing wait a self healing cutting mat um if you don't have one already it'll be really great to cut your fabrics down to the size of the mats for your machine um they also have this kit which I think is awesome um I got myself one of these too that has this um rotary cutter which I used earlier today for another project and it is awesome like really high quality there's an itty bitty button um that allows you to lock and unlock the um safety guard here but you get this enormous um you get this enormous um what are the ruler like a see-through I mean what are these things called just a big gigantic ruler but I love it because it is so wide and so long um that it makes cutting down to the to the mats that you need for the machine super super simple and quick and then behind that is the self healing cutting mat here are some product pictures of them using those yeah super cool um I like everything that came in this little kit so if you want to just get it all in one purchase the rotary cutting kit um and you'll get the three things that you would need to cut your fabrics down to size otherwise you can just get the self healing mat if you don't have one already um and that'll help you get that squared away as well so lots of good options from cricket they really are a one-stop shop everything you need to make a quilt um so head on over there if you're looking to get started so there you have it it's pretty straightforward once you get familiar with design space all of that becomes very intuitive and it's super super simple I love how it's already broken down between the sizes of the quilts um and then you just match up your fabric kit to that having all the fabrics already picked out for you is a huge help having them already sort of cut down is also a huge help so I feel like we're off to a good start feeling very confident leading into next week's video next week's post is going to be all about using the cricket maker machine to cut your fabrics I'll show you how to lay them out on your cutting mats and how to get everything set up on the back end on in design space to make sure that all of your cutting is done perfectly and will match up with the pattern once you're done cutting it may not make sense now but it'll make sense next week promise and then a few weeks after that I'll post the third video which will be all about piecing the quilt together so we'll take a look at the instructions that are provided with the quilt pattern um I'll show you some basic tips for piecing a quilt together and just generally discuss you know following the instructions and how simple that is and at the end of all of that I will have a quilt yay it's going to be a cute little baby size quilt I am super super excited to make it I think it's going to be really really adorable and I hope that you will follow along with me um as we embark on this journey so that's going to do it for today's video super quick super simple just wanted to show you how easy it was to design your quilts using cricket resources so hope you found that useful tune in next week where we'll actually get the machine out and get cutting until then I will see you guys very soon bye