Quiltingboard Forums - 3 QAYG finished charity quilts

I finished these three this week--had been working on them the last few weeks and just finished them all this week!

The first is made up of 2" squares--10x10 and I made 20 big blocks and then combined them. That means 2000 squares. [ATTACH=CONFIG]401912[/ATTACH] I hand stitched the sashing on the back but did the binding completely by machine.

Back side:
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The next two were made up of 4" blocks. Once again...I wasn't really thrilled with my squares--they were very ordinary squares (color wise--mostly very uninteresting) and some I was quite tired of after seemingly taking forever to use these up. I tried to work the 4" down to almost gone, but I still have at least three more large quilt tops worth of 4" squares to sew together out of squares already cut.

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back of this one
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and finally:
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and
back:
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Both of these are QAYG and I used scrappy blues and pinks for the back. One of them I used the blue binding and on the other, I ran out of that blue so I switched to digging out 2.5" strips in pastel blues and pinks out of my 2.5" strips bag.

I used the method that Leah Day proposes on her website in joining the squares except that the for these two quilts I did it ALL BY MACHINE--no hand stitching. I made it so that I was sewing from the front side and top stitching the front down instead of stitching from the back as is the usual recommended method.