w1613s

Just looked at a huge, beautiful quilt that was done in long, long strips. Every other strip was wide.

I have been trying to get comfortable with QAYG and a question struck me. Can a quilt be machine quilted QAYG, strip top to strip bottom, in long, wide strips joining the quilted strips with plain, narrower ones? Now that I am trying to tell you what I am mentally seeing, I wonder if the various strips can be any length and width. The operative issue is that what is quilted fits comfortably under the harp of a machine.

I have never seen a quilt done in this manner but it seems possible with a little "personalizing" to the requirements of the particular quilt.

What do you think?

Pat

Tartan

Yes you can, it's called quilting in sections. If the background fabric matches the added section, it virtually disappears. The tricky part is if the section is wider than the seam allowance on the sections being joined, you have to add batting under the join. You can either hand stitch the batting join or use batting tape.

PaperPrincess

Yes, that's the way I did it before I got my long arm. There are many different ways to join the quilted sections. Some are all by machine, some a machine-hand combo. There's a good book by Marti Michell that details several different methods, or you can google 'quilt as you go' to see different techniques.

http://www.amazon.com/Marti-Michell-...ng+in+sections

dunster

Like PaperPrincess, I sewed in sections using Marti Michell's book Machine Quilting in Sections before I bought a longarm. I highly recommend getting the book, because not only does it show different methods, but it explains - with examples - how to choose which method is best for your quilt.

Jan in VA

Yes, I have done this in strips, quadrants, rows, and block by block.
My mantra? "Ya do what ya gotta do."

Jan in VA