QAYG outcome
#41
Wow, that's a lot of QAYG quilts! What method do you use, and what size is your harp space on your sewing machine?
#42
I've made 3 QAYG quilts. My very first one was a king size! What was I thinking. I didn't think I'd ever get it done. I'm looking for a better method than sewing all that sashing down by hand. I would sure like to learn a different method and not have sashing but I didn't know how thick and bulky the seams would be.
#43
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Arizona
Posts: 5,584
We were traveling back and forth to N.C. due to my mother's ill health and I needed something to do on the 12 hour drive down and 12 hours back so I created this quilt by hand quilting it on the trips. Then, when they were all quilted, I sewed them all together on my Featherweight sewing machine. Hand sewed the binding on also. I just carried the squares with a small tin with my sewing thread/needles/thread/scissors in a nice grocery freezer bag each time we went that year.
Well just how smart are you. I bet it made your trip feel shorter also...beautiful quilt thank you for posting
Judy in Phx, AZ
#44
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Tri-Cities, Washington
Posts: 757
I did a qayg for a double bed many years ago by happenstance. I wanted to practice hand quilting so I made up several large squares, quilted them up and then didn't know what to do with them. A friend showed me how to butt their battings up together, cut the top and backing pieces 1/4" larger and sew them together. I did the whole quilt putting it together by hand like that and it turned out beautiful. It was my own design and it's reversible. I love that it's so different on the front and back and that I got two quilts in one. It's one that I still really love and remember enjoying the process. I didn't know until this thread that there are several different processes for it. Guess I'll have to check that out. Wish I could figure out how to post pictures! Ugh!
#47
Once before on quiltingboard, there was a post of a place that gave excellent pics, step by step for QAYG w/o sashing such as was discussed earlier in here. The person had said that it is like anyone who sews does seams. I wish I still had that addy so I could post it here and to have for myself. I am a visual learner. Thanks for the reminder of that way of doing QAYG.
Marcia in TX
Marcia in TX
#48
Here is one I just finished. It's also the first QAYG. Things I liked: was able to use left over hunks of batting and random fat quarters for the back. I also liked that I could quilt a section at a time. I rarely have alot of free time at the machine, more like 30 minutes here and there. It would drive me bonkers to have a full quilt all bunched up and left in the machine until I had time to do more. Joining the long strips after assembling blocks into strips was a little cumbersome, but still much better than wrestling the whole queen size quilt at one time.
#50
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Beautiful Oregon
Posts: 320
I am new to quilting. I would have never started this new obsession if I hadn't heard of the Quilt as you go method. (Online.) I don't do any hand stitching. I attach to pieces of sashing, one on top and one on the other side of piece, at the same time. I turn it over and join the second piece on the machine, turn it over and finish, sewing the back piece to new section. I have even done the quilt as you go with each block separately, sashing each and every one, but I won't do that again. I use quite small sections still. 3 or 4 10" blocks at a time.
There are different methods of QAYG on You Tube. I learn at least one new thing almost every time I watch one.
There are different methods of QAYG on You Tube. I learn at least one new thing almost every time I watch one.
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