Originally Posted by Zephyr
Originally Posted by MTS
Originally Posted by Zephyr
Originally Posted by craftybear
Do you enjoy making the Quilt As you Go Quilts (QAYG)? Let's Chit Chat!
I have been working on this QAYG for quite a while. I have all squares echo hand quilted. The two groups on the right hand side have to be attached yet. I have used White and Warm for the sandwich, but surely don't know what I will be able to do for a border etc. and do I put W&W in that also?
You make it exactly the same way as you made the blocks. Pieced or one border strip - quilted to the batting and backing. Trim to size and it gets attached with sashing just like the blocks.
Thanks for the suggestion. I was intending to add a picture when tecnology got in the way. One day......
This is a group QAYG quilt my NYC Bee made for one of our members back in 2003. All the 12" blocks had to have a B&W backing.
(It's a running theme in most of our work - B&W and lime green.)
Originally, we had a piano keys QAYG border but it ended up being way too noisy so I replaced it with a B&W fabric instead.
As you can see on the back (pic was taken before all the sashings were sewn down - I prefer to do them by hand), the borders were just treated as big blocks.
Some of the talk on this thread is about making the back sashings disappear. I take the totally opposite tack - making it as lively and as interesting as possible.
Different strokes. ;-)