gardnergal970

Charlotte...it appears that you are a very quick learner. Beautiful job!

dublb

OH Charlotte! It is just too cute. I'm not "into" Halloween but this is just darlin'!

charlottemarie

Thanks for your kind words! Yes I am totally hooked on QAYG. My hands are taking a holiday today though. The fingers got stuck so much I can hardly use them today! Today will be a quilt sandwich day for me. I love this technique, it is not what I thought I was going to do to finish a quilt. I used glue and pins on that binding. I was a very busy girl all weekend.

wildyard

Charlotte, congrats on saving your squares in such a wonderful way!!! Great job!!

I wanted to say that I always use safety pins to baste my quilts as I poke myself with straight pins and get blood on the fabric... ick! I have used glue sticks for other things and it works fine for me. I haven't had any kind of problems with it.

For sewing on my bindings, I don't use anything. No pins, glue, clips, etc. I just sew it as I go along and I never have a problem with it. My edges are trimmed and stitched first, so it's just a matter of aligning binding raw edges with quilt raw edges and sewing the 1/4" seam. I wonder what I don't know that causes others to have to pin and glue and have so much problem with sewing on bindings. Is mine a case of ignorance is bliss? LOL

I am pondering this QAYG situation. I have always used fleece for quilt backings and had planned to also for the QAYG. Now I am wondering how it would look having cotton for the joinings and the rest of the back fleece. I am pretty sure it would be a nightmare trying to use fleece for the joinings on the back. LOL

Boston1954

I just happened upon this thread today. It is very well written and the pictures are helpful for me, as I am very visual. I have a UFO of 12 maple leaf blocks that I would love to get finished. I do both hand quilting and by machine. I love the polished look of machine quilting and am looking forward to playing at that.

I will attempt to put a picture or two. It has been a long while since I have sent a picture. Hope they come through.

One picture is the actual blocks laying next to each other, and the other is an image from my Electric Quilt Program.

dublb

Boston - I love the Maple Blocks!! You plan is gonna be lovely! I can't wait ta see the finished quiilt!

Boston1954

Thanks so much. There are a lot of people interested in this particular subject. And isn't it wonderful that we live in an age where we can actually show each other what we are working on?

rwquilts

Boston, your maple leaf blocks are very pretty! I have some of those same fabrics. Can't wait to see how they progress...

charlottemarie

Linda, I just have a knack for making things difficult for myself. I am an overdoer.

Pinkiris

In the video that I saw of Nancy Zieman, she used her Clover mini iron. She touched the tip of the iron to the strip of wonder under that she had against the quilt, and then tore off a little piece, while keeping pressure on the iron. She commented that the hardest part was getting the paper off those tiny pieces.