postal packin' mama

I'm referring to the "Mile-A-Minute Quilts" book by Sharon Hultgren.
Has anyone tried her QAYG method of making the quilt in [usually] three full length panels, completely quilting them and then joining them, batting & all, with 1/4" seams, then press seams open & flat, then cover the seams with a tri-folded 2.5" strip that serves as a sashing or can just blend with the backing?
I tried it on scraps, and it doesn't seem to result in much bulkiness once the seam is pressed open & flat.
Anybody ever try this? Satisfactory?
Thanks.

amma

I don't see why it wouldn't work. Rhe very first QAYG method that I saw, was done exactly the way you describe. :D:D:D

C.Cal Quilt Girl

Seems like that might be much easier than working with all of the quilt at once :)
How did you like it?

postal packin' mama

I'm glad someone else has heard of it....I've been trying to get up my nerve to try it.

AlwaysQuilting

I don't use the strips on the back.
After I quilt all the sections of the quilt I lay two of them right sides together, pin the backing and batting out of the way, and sew just the top fabrics together using 1/4". Then I open the quilt flat (backing side up), trim the batting (if needed) so it lays flat inside the seam area, then overlap one section of backing fabric with the other, turning the raw edge of the top one under. Then I sew a wavy stitch down it.
I've been doing it this way for ages because I didn't like the sound of having all those strips down the back. But her way sounds like a lot less fussin' than mine. :-)

clem55

this sounds like the way I did my Grandmothers fan quilt. I saw it in a book called lap quilting, but there it was doing all the squares first, then handstitching the backing seams. Actually , for me that worked really good then, not sure about doing all the handstitching now. But, doing the same in a long panel might work even better, and using a decorative stitch by machine..... going to try again!!

AlwaysQuilting

I forgot to say I do the wavy stitch by machine. The only hand sewing I do on quilts these days is to put the labels on. I just don't have time. But once I repaired an old quilt for a family friend and I had to hand stitch all of it. I loved it! So relaxing. But I'm always in such a hurry to start my next quilt that I don't do it anymore.

postal packin' mama

Your method is appealing in that I'm quilting this king-size behemoth :o) with stitch-in-the-ditch. With the seam cover method, I'd need to handstitch the seam covers to the backing in order to avoid out-of-place extra seams that'd show on the solid-color fabric front.
By using your method, I could achieve final closure on the backing by doing SID along the turned-under backing "seam" by machine, same as the rest of the quilting, although I'd still do enough handstitching along that closure to ensure it'd stay in place when I anchored it with SID.
Thanks! Everyone's input is always so helpful & appreciated.

AlwaysQuilting

I just finished (this summer) a king size quilt doing it this way. It was still a monster especially when I was attaching the last one or 2 sections but I got it done.
Good luck with yours and post a pic when you're finished!

postal packin' mama

Glad to hear that it worked on a king-size quilt!
I was wondering about the stretching factor of the two top pieces: sounds like I'd need to stop quilting a little ways back from the raw edges that are to be joined so I'd have enough space to be able to pin back the batting & backing without stressing the to-be-joined edges. Then the top's SID lines would be continued across the newly joined area, right?