BonnieJP

I made a QAYG project that I was very pleased with. The process was:
1. Quilt the cotton batting to each block (or group of blocks)
2. Join the blocks with a 1/2" seam
3. Trim the corners of the seams
4. Use stitch in the ditch to attach the one piece batting to the completed front/batting.

It was easy and I liked the way it turned out.

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Jordan

I like your quilt BonnieJP. It is my favorite colors and you did a good job on it.

Sewing Cynthia

Thank you all for sharing your experience! I think I will give it a try.
Bonnie JP - beautiful quilt, and beautiful pups!

origamigoldfish

I have done QAYG on a small project to try it and I enjoyed it a lot. Much easier to quilt the design I wanted a block at a time without having to shove the whole quilt around. The only problem I had was that my tutorial used the standard quarter inch seam, which is really not enough when joining blocks and batting in one layer. If I do it again I will try another method. I had to do a lot of resewing and actually hand-embroidered a couple of patches onto it...it turned out darling, but that was not the look I was going for.

nativetexan

there should be tons of tutorials here on this too. I've done a king size but in sections (3).

Onebyone

QAYG is not a fast way to quilt but an easier way to get the quilting done. I learned from the best, Georgia Bonesteel. She introduced QAYG decades ago as the way to handquilt a big quilt. For a QAYG quilt to not look like a QAYG quilt, it takes precision and accuracy especially in joining the seams.

Tish05

My first quilt was like a QAYG because I made hexis (using my embroidery machine) and then joined them together with the seam allowances to the front, which I then covered by hand sewing bias over the seam allowances. That made the back smooth, but since it was a honey comb, I liked having the bulk of the seams on the front. I also enjoyed the process of covering all the SA's with the bias by hand. I found it really relaxing. There are pictures here: Honeycomb Quilt and in my album.

Kitsie

Yes, and I loved it! The quilt is my Jane Stickler (Dear Jane). I hand quilted each block.

Sewing Cynthia

Gorgeous quilt! Kitsie and Tish05

QuiltnNan

I did try it one time for a baby quilt. I really wasn't keen on the process. I don't make huge quilts, so the traditional quilting process works just fine for me. I think the only time I'd try it again is if I find some blocks to quilt on the embroidery machine, then assemble 'as you go'