Learn How to Net Piece! (with a free quilt pattern)

1. Net Piecing - Welcome and Class Overview: Hello and welcome. I'm Jenny of Nolli bean, a modern quilter and quote pattern designer. And in today's class, we are going to be net piecing. It is also referred to as web piecing. So essentially, I am going to be sewing up an entire baby size quilts in one sitting. And so it's, you could think of it as like chain piecing on steroids. So if you're familiar with chain piecing, we will chain piece and entire quilt top and then come back through. And so we don't cut threads and then we're going to come back through and keep it all together. And so I'll share pictures, videos, tips along the way. And if you do want to follow along, you can do this for either an entire quilt top like I am. If it's a larger quilt top, you can break it down into smaller panels. I've done that before where I've sewn an entire quilt top with caught quadrants. Or you can even just do this if you're piecing are a kind of a complex block, you can also just do this to piece together your blocks. So if you would like to follow along with me, you don't have a project in mind in the resources of this class. I do have a free pattern that you can download and make the exact same baby size quilt that I am. And with that, let's go ahead and get started. 2. Net Piecing - Class Project: Alright, so let's think about our class project. So in this course you're going to learn how to net piece a, either quilt, top of panel or a block. Your choice on what you're making is the exact same method I pieced and entire quilt top. For the class project, you can either download the pattern that comes in the course materials and make that quilt. Or you can take any project that you're currently working on and use that. But I would love if after the class, if you could take a picture of your completed piece and upload it in the class project. 3. Lesson 1 - Getting Organized: Alright, so the first step is to get yourself organized. So in my case, again, I'm sewing up an entire baby size quilt. I have my quilt ready. It's up on the design wall. If you don't have a design wall, you can also use your floor or what I use for my design wall. This is a tablecloth, like a table protector that goes underneath the tablecloth. You can get at Target Walmart going into summertime, pretty cheap. And so I just take one of those, put it backwards, thumbtack. I literally haven't thumb tacked into my wall with the felt side out and then the fabric just clings to it. It's wonderful. I love it. But before we get started, you will want to have your quilt and or block whatever you're working on, prepped and in the order that you want it to go, then we're going to be taking column by column and keeping it in order. And so we'll have, I will have a pile of column one with this on the top, second, third, fourth, fifth, all the way down. I will next have another pile with this one on top. Second, third, fourth, all the way down until I have, I have 12345, six columns in this quilt that I'm selling. So I will end up with six files. I'm going back through and I'm getting my pile. So I'm starting with the top block. I'm keeping everything in order and keeping all of my orientation the same. And I'm just setting them in piles so that I will have my six piles in the order of the quilts ready to pick up and start sewing in the next step. 4. Lesson 2 - Creating the Net: Okay, so we're gonna start sewing. So we have our first two columns. I have them laid out in the proper orientation. And I'm just going to take the block from the first column, blocked from the second column, line them up right sides together. And so a quarter inch seam. Now I'm picking up my second block from the first column and second column chain piecing them. And then I'm gonna do the exact same thing for all of the blocks. So then I'll pick up my third them right sides together. And I'll continue this until I have the two piles completed. Okay, so now I have what I just changed paste and then I picked up my third column blocks. So you're going to open them so that you can get your second column lined up with now your third column blocks. Again, be aware of the orientation of the blocks. Placed them right sides together. And so a quarter inch seam. So the first block is sown. I'm going to come and open up the next set, grabbed my next block. Carefully lay it on. And you'll notice I'm not putting these blocks and it's because I have smaller six-inch blocks. If you have large blocks that you're sewing together, you might want to grab your pins and do a little bit of pinning just to make sure they don't shift. But you can follow the exact same process. And then I'm going to continue doing this until I have my third column sewn onto my first second columns. Next, I share a time-lapse as I finish sewing. Here comes column three. And then immediately column three, I'm gonna be doing my last columns. And then once all of your columns are sewn together, don't clip any of the threads in-between and the net is finished. And we'll move on to our next lesson. 5. Lesson 3 - Optional Pressing: Okay, so we have now chain piece all of our columns together. And you should have something that resembles something like this. So all of your rows are now sewn and the threads are holding them together. So you have a big net, or my son who's obsessed with spiders would call it a web. Now, we're going to decide you, you get to decide whether you want to press the themes that you have so now or if you want to continue on and now sewing your rows together. Because this is an entire quilt for me and it's a fairly large panel. I am going to go to the sewing table and press my seams. But if I'm working on a blog or a small panel, sometimes I'll just go right into the other side and start sewing my rows together and then I'll press everything when it's all done. So if you're pressing, you can follow along. If you are just going to keep on selling, you can skip the rest of this lesson and pick up with sewing the rows together. 6. Lesson 4 - Completing your Panel: Now we are ready to, so our rows together. You'll see I'm going to take my columns, I'm going to reorient it on my pressing table so that I can easily pin row one to row two. So I like to use my scenes and line it up. And I'm just pinning row one to row two. Again, I am painting because this is a quilt top and they're larger. If you're now piecing a block, you may not feel that you need to pin, so pitting is optional here, but I am opting to pin. And now I'm at my machine and I'm going to sell up what I just pinned together. And again, it's right-side together with a quarter-inch theme. And I'm just going to go down. And so row one to row two. Once I'm finished, I'm going to clip my threads. And now I have rows 12 together. And now I'm going to repeat the next step, sewing row three onto row two. And again, I am going to go ahead and do some painting since I'm piecing together quilt top and I do want all of my seems to align. But again, paintings optional. But if you're pinning, go ahead and line everything up and then you're going to run this through them sewing machine as well. Finally, I'm going to share a time-lapse sewing the final rows together. I'm going to pin everything running through the machine. Next row, pin. And the final row, pinning and sewing. 7. Lesson 5 - Pressing and Finishing: Okay. We did it. So we have our fully pieced panel in my case, it's the entire quilt top. So now I'm going to go back to my ironing board and I'm going to press and I'm going to press obviously the seams I just sewed, but I am going to go back over the seams that I pressed at the first round and just kinda make sure that they're still in place. For this particular quilt. I opted to press my seams open so I'm going to pay a little bit of extra care with those seams that I pressed the first time. If you haven't pressed yet, definitely don't want to press the entire piece at one time. And the cool thing, if you have a smaller, either like a block or a smaller panel and you're pressing everything all at once, you can literally press pretty much all of your seams in the same direction. So obviously you'll, you'll pick a side and just press the entire panel that way. And then you'll rotate it 90 degrees to get the other seams and pick which direction you wanna go and press all of them that way. And so now I'm going to head to my ironing board and press and then this quilt top is finished. 8. Net Piecing - Class Wrap Up: Okay, we're done. So after you have finished pressing your quilt, your panel, your block, whatever you decided to make. We're finished. This is done. So in my case, I have a completed quilt top. I'm hopeful you have a completed quilt top as well, and you're shocked at how quickly this went. This is one of my favorite ways to peace something, especially if for quilts that have simple, large blocks and it's just creating a pattern. It goes pretty quickly to sew it up this way. I made the baby size North view. If you downloaded the free pattern and you're making it comes neither BB or throat. When I made the throat, I broke it up into four different quadrants. So I didn't have such big panels, but then I only have four panels to sew together that worked well. And then if you're sewing something that has an intricate block with a lot of peace and you can use this exact same method and get that block piece pretty quickly once you have all of your components, line them up and same way. So, um, that's them all in one direction and you're done. So I would love if you take a picture of what you made and share it as a class project. And thank you so much for joining me.