Quilt as you go
05-04-2013, 03:03 AM
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Thank you for this thread. My next quilt will be QAYG for sure, as I don't think I will be able to handquilt anymore as my right thumb is acking like crasy... and I am interested in the "no sashing" QAYG method Thank you, thank you !!!
05-04-2013, 04:49 PM
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I just recently finished a “quilt-on-the-go” and want to highly recommend the book that I used, Quilting-On-The-Go by Carolyn Forster, and I also wrote a review for it on Amazon (Jill K) that describes this different method using frames to blend the blocks together rather than sashing to separate them http://www.amazon.com/Quilting-----g...ting+on+the+go Before I started that quilt, I made two very simple small quilt tops using fabric I saved from about 20-30 years ago that I had used to make dresses and doll clothes for my daughters, and just some interesting prints I don’t know why I bought back then. But I decided I wanted to try to make a quilt, so started cutting 2 1/2” squares and sewing them together and ended up with two (ugly) quilt tops, and wasn’t sure how to continue, when I got this book and took out all the old scraps again because I thought I found an easier way to make a quilt. I picked a very easy pattern and I finished hand piecing all the blocks (I made 30 blocks so it would be king size) when I decided to participate in an online BOM mystery quilt http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...l-t211327.html so I quickly pinned all the batting and backings on the quilt on the go blocks and every time I finished work on the BOM I would have another block handy to quilt. Well, the quilt-on-the-go is finished, all hand pieced and hand quilted and king size and it felt like it didn’t take any time at all, and the BOM is another quilt top folded and put away until I work up the courage to put it together and quilt it.
I only took one picture of the process, which shows using Pinmoors to hold the batting together so it wouldn’t slip apart, and I slid a very thin ruler under the area I was stitching together so my needle wouldn’t catch the quilt top. I also did that for the backing. I actually completed the two halves, and then put it together down the center. My quilt police also gave this quilt his seat of approval for being fun and easy and finished!
I only took one picture of the process, which shows using Pinmoors to hold the batting together so it wouldn’t slip apart, and I slid a very thin ruler under the area I was stitching together so my needle wouldn’t catch the quilt top. I also did that for the backing. I actually completed the two halves, and then put it together down the center. My quilt police also gave this quilt his seat of approval for being fun and easy and finished!
05-05-2013, 03:51 AM
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That is beautiful.......thanks so much for posting!!
Originally Posted by kitty123
I just recently finished a “quilt-on-the-go” and want to highly recommend the book that I used, Quilting-On-The-Go by Carolyn Forster, and I also wrote a review for it on Amazon (Jill K) that describes this different method using frames to blend the blocks together rather than sashing to separate them http://www.amazon.com/Quilting-----g...ting+on+the+go Before I started that quilt, I made two very simple small quilt tops using fabric I saved from about 20-30 years ago that I had used to make dresses and doll clothes for my daughters, and just some interesting prints I don’t know why I bought back then. But I decided I wanted to try to make a quilt, so started cutting 2 1/2” squares and sewing them together and ended up with two (ugly) quilt tops, and wasn’t sure how to continue, when I got this book and took out all the old scraps again because I thought I found an easier way to make a quilt. I picked a very easy pattern and I finished hand piecing all the blocks (I made 30 blocks so it would be king size) when I decided to participate in an online BOM mystery quilt http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...l-t211327.html so I quickly pinned all the batting and backings on the quilt on the go blocks and every time I finished work on the BOM I would have another block handy to quilt. Well, the quilt-on-the-go is finished, all hand pieced and hand quilted and king size and it felt like it didn’t take any time at all, and the BOM is another quilt top folded and put away until I work up the courage to put it together and quilt it.
I only took one picture of the process, which shows using Pinmoors to hold the batting together so it wouldn’t slip apart, and I slid a very thin ruler under the area I was stitching together so my needle wouldn’t catch the quilt top. I also did that for the backing. I actually completed the two halves, and then put it together down the center. My quilt police also gave this quilt his seat of approval for being fun and easy and finished!
I only took one picture of the process, which shows using Pinmoors to hold the batting together so it wouldn’t slip apart, and I slid a very thin ruler under the area I was stitching together so my needle wouldn’t catch the quilt top. I also did that for the backing. I actually completed the two halves, and then put it together down the center. My quilt police also gave this quilt his seat of approval for being fun and easy and finished!
05-05-2013, 04:18 AM
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Originally Posted by SandyQuilter
Lucy:
Please, please do not do quilt as you go in individual blocks. It's an absolute crazy maker trying to join four quilted corners together, especially on the back. That is the reason I wrote my first book, Quilt-As-You-Go, back in 1983 and its second edition 5 years later. All told, the books were in print for 15 years and my method got rave reviews. Instead, sew the blocks into long strips. For instance, if the quilt is 4 x 5 blocks, sew 4 strips of five blocks. Cut the batt the same size and the backing slightly larger. Baste together as normal. You can quilt it in a frame similar to a needlepoint frame, rolling the quilt as you go. Start in the center of the strip to quilt and go to one end, then roll back to the center and quilt to the other end. The only accommodation you need to make is stop quilting ½ inch from the joining seams. Leave threads hanging so that the quilting can be hand finished, or tied off and machine quilted. When two strips are quilted, join the top as you would normally, then butt the batting edges together so they lay flat (trim if necessary) and whip stitch with a loose tension and white thread (you don't have to outline quilt). The final step is to lay one side of the backing flat, lay the adjoining backing edge over it, fold the raw edge under, trim if necessary and hand stitch the edges down, catching into the batt, but not the top. The final step is to finish the quilting over the seam lines.
The ONLY difference with this type of assembly is that you have seams where every strip is joined, but you usually have back joining seams anyway. From the top, the quilt is identical. And you have a portable project that joins with straight seams--no matching corners. Even machine quilting can be done with this method. No forcing a large quilt through a small machine throat.
Good luck.
SandyQuilter
Please, please do not do quilt as you go in individual blocks. It's an absolute crazy maker trying to join four quilted corners together, especially on the back. That is the reason I wrote my first book, Quilt-As-You-Go, back in 1983 and its second edition 5 years later. All told, the books were in print for 15 years and my method got rave reviews. Instead, sew the blocks into long strips. For instance, if the quilt is 4 x 5 blocks, sew 4 strips of five blocks. Cut the batt the same size and the backing slightly larger. Baste together as normal. You can quilt it in a frame similar to a needlepoint frame, rolling the quilt as you go. Start in the center of the strip to quilt and go to one end, then roll back to the center and quilt to the other end. The only accommodation you need to make is stop quilting ½ inch from the joining seams. Leave threads hanging so that the quilting can be hand finished, or tied off and machine quilted. When two strips are quilted, join the top as you would normally, then butt the batting edges together so they lay flat (trim if necessary) and whip stitch with a loose tension and white thread (you don't have to outline quilt). The final step is to lay one side of the backing flat, lay the adjoining backing edge over it, fold the raw edge under, trim if necessary and hand stitch the edges down, catching into the batt, but not the top. The final step is to finish the quilting over the seam lines.
The ONLY difference with this type of assembly is that you have seams where every strip is joined, but you usually have back joining seams anyway. From the top, the quilt is identical. And you have a portable project that joins with straight seams--no matching corners. Even machine quilting can be done with this method. No forcing a large quilt through a small machine throat.
Good luck.
SandyQuilter
05-06-2013, 06:51 AM
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I was intrigued with Eleanor Burns tutorials on QAYG. Her Quilters almanac was done this way. She actually made two, one for her and one for her sister Patty. I am giving you the link to 4 videos, which the first three shows how to add each row to the quilt and the last one shows how to finish it two different ways.
http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac03.html
http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac06.html
http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac09.html
http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac13.html
Hope this helps you finish your quilt. Have a nice day.
http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac03.html
http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac06.html
http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac09.html
http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac13.html
Hope this helps you finish your quilt. Have a nice day.
05-06-2013, 07:23 AM
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I have been unable to do free motion quilting on anything larger than about a 5" square. My thread bunches up on the underside of my peice of work. I thought maybe it would be easier to quilt as you go, but still my blocks are larger than 5". Is this just my being very new at all of this or could it be something I am doing wrong or n
05-07-2013, 06:06 AM
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Thank you so much! I look forward to watching these.
Lucy
Lucy
Originally Posted by Pattycakes
I was intrigued with Eleanor Burns tutorials on QAYG. Her Quilters almanac was done this way. She actually made two, one for her and one for her sister Patty. I am giving you the link to 4 videos, which the first three shows how to add each row to the quilt and the last one shows how to finish it two different ways.
http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac03.html
http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac06.html
http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac09.html
http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac13.html
Hope this helps you finish your quilt. Have a nice day.
http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac03.html
http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac06.html
http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac09.html
http://quiltinaday.com/theater/quilt...almanac13.html
Hope this helps you finish your quilt. Have a nice day.
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