I do most of my quilts that way. Most are tied but have done a couple with decorative stitches on my Viking and it worked just fine.

That is the Eleanor Burns method, I never had any luck not getting wrinkles... but I do remember

We always called "birthing a quilt" when top, batting and backing were basted together and ready to be quilted.

I have done this method , but I also put binding around it without cutting it off as I felt it gave it more
support around the edges as that is what wears out usually on a quilt first, I did tie the quilt .

I have birthed several quilts, then quilted them. They came out fine. In the 70's I saw Eleanor Burns do one and tie it and I made several like that as well, but I like them better quilted.

I've just Googled Fran Roen and there are heaps of sites to look at. Good Luck

I do this on quilts for the kids and then machine quilt them on my long arm, I like the edge as is and don't trim or bind it. Great for baby or kid quilts. Even did a scalloped edge double wedding ring. I don't baste but do pin to keep the batting from shifting to the bottom.

I do most of my baby quilts that way...and sometimes even throws...It works a bit easier for me.

I did one that way. It was a quilt top with fleece backing(no batting). I turned it right side out, tied it, sewed about 1/2 inch around the edge and it was done. It has held up well.

I complete baby quilts for my quilt guild in this manner to avoid time consuming binding. It works well and I machine quilt usually straight line or stitch in the ditch. I have also used on king or queen size without any difficulty except the wear and tear on your arms wrestling all that fabric around. Lol

I belonged to a group that did this for charity quilts. The biggest problem was if the top and back were not properly squared......ended up frequently with puckers on the back. Still, it is quick and allowed us to finished a great many more than if we had tried to do it the traditional way. Funny, but most people did not want to go past "the top". IMHO, the work begins AFTER the top is done....:)

I don't like the term either.

I only did one quilt with that method...decided I would rather take the time to baste and quilt and bind the quilt...it just looks better to me.

Birthing a quilt.
 

I seen Eleanor Burns do this technique on her Alminac quilt series. In this quilt series she showed two ways of quilting or sandwiching a quilt. It was cool.

http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac13.html

This is the site that showes how they are both done. Hope everyone enjoys

Have a nice day!

LOL I thought I had invented this method in 1977. We were snowbound and to amuse the seven-year-old I suggested we make a quilt featuring his art. Snowbound! We had to use what was on hand: polyester double-knits, batting remnant, flannel and transfer crayons for synthetics. He picked the square sizes and colors and worked all day on pictures. I heat-set the colors, set the blocks with red strips (more double-knit) and layered the quilt. It was so thick and puffy I thought it would be impossible to bind so stitched the layers outside in and turned it, stitched the opening and we tied it with yarn. With this (and later quilts) the trick was to keep the backing taut and fullness in the batt and top. When turned this resulted in the top slightly rolling to the back on all sides. I've done it on crib and single sizes but never on a full. BTW the fabric and colors of the double knit and the transfers are as bright as when made.

I've done something similar but never trimmed off the seam and added a binding. It was usually to tie it (not my favorite method but sometimes the one of choice for certain projects) and so we left the side seam like a pillowcase would be and stitched one end closed.

please explain what birting a quilt is for us that that dont know. is there a picture oe tutorial I have never heard of this sounds interresting.

I only do this when I make a biscuit quilt. I sew a piping around turn , tie it and sew the opeing. I like doing my quilts as I have always done, the traditional way and sewing on a binding.

I will try and explain- hope my directions are clear- If you have ever made a pillow case or a long tube that you sew the right sides together and leave on end open . then turn this inside out - the quilt top and bottom of the quilt are placed right sides of fabric together with the batting on top of one of these, sew around three of the sides and part of the other side, so you are securing the batting, top and backing together then turn this inside out through the opening you left, and sewing that part together. Then you have the quilt with the right sides of fabric on the outside and the batting is inside - this is what everyone is talking about - I too dislike the term birthing, prefer the pillow case term. (If you have a pillow case that is turned wrong when washed and you turn it inside out when you dry it, this is the same thing only you are doing this to a quilt and putting the batting on either the top or bottom, sewing and turning it.) Hope this makes sense it's the only way I know to explain it.

I have not seen anyone sew around the quilt and then turn it, but it sounds completely logical to me! I have just finished a back and front of a single bed quilt and could easily have done it that way before quilting it. My back was pieced as well as my front and I was very carefull to make sure both sides were measured exactly. I used repeats of 8" blocks. When I layered it, they sides, top and bottom came out evenly. Then I began to worry that I should add a border to the back for a LA quilter's sake. My next fear was that the border added to the back might accidentally show when it was finished and I surely did not want that. What you describe sounds like the best way to do it. It certainly couldn't hurt anything.

My mom in law just gave me a bunch of old quilt magazines and I read about this but could not make heads or tails of it since I have been learning to quilt the more traditional ways. I do know that the cheaper templates make much easier work with a rotary cutter than cutting out with scissors and paper templates--LOL. Not to mention having to resize pieces because full size patterns were not something they printed.

Oh, I forgot to add, when I use this method, i round the corners because I haven't been able to get a decent sharp point after turning.