givio

Belfrybat, I like the constant fabrics you chose. It makes a calmer look. Someone will be so happy to have it!
Skipastitch, I like yours too. In retrospect, I think I'd have liked mine better with more constants. I added the constant green in mine, which helped me to like it better. It's growing on me... as Sewbizgirl mentioned about her top too.
Kassaundra, I love your little progress updates. :-)

NZquilter

Everyone's tops are looking lovely! You have all been sew busy I put mine down for the past week; I don't want it to become a UFO, but I was getting really sick of it! I might pick it up again next week though, after seeing all the inspiring finished here.

Kassaundra

Gotta love it when a plan comes together!!!! My idea worked. I should have done all the white thread quilting on all the blocks, but instead I did it on one block then joined them in the way I had planned. I took lots of pics of each step the way I did it. I'll work on getting those edited and loaded soon.

Kassaundra

Here is a sneak peek at the finished joining. [ATTACH=CONFIG]566221[/ATTACH]

Kassaundra

There are many, many ways to QAYG. This is the way I came up w/ to do this quilt w/ wider pieced sashing strips. It is working well for me, but I haven't started the long ones yet. I don't anticipate any problems just will need to be vigilant about keeping true seam allowance.
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Two blocks, a sashing front and back and a batting piece to fit in the sashing space.

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Trim the two edges that you are joining. (I don't trim backs until just before sewing to keep fraying at a minimum)

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You will be pressing a 1/4 inch fold on the edge of your pieced sash, a hot iron and stick glue will be your friend.

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Just one long edge is done this way.

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You will line up the edge of the block w/ the raw edge of the pieced sash (right sides together) and the back sash to the back of the block (right sides together)

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Pin matching seams and points. I am not a big pinner, almost never pin, but here it is a MUST for good results.

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Stitch, a 1/4 inch seam allowance is important so you won't lose points.

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Press your back sash in normal position (leave your front sash as it was sewn for now) I use sizing on the back sash seam as I press it to keep things more steady less likely to shift.

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Now sew the next square to the sashing edge matching raw edges right sides together. (the right side of the new square back and the 1/2 sewn sashing) pin here too, it will make your life easier.

Seems I've reached my pic limit so to be continued.

Kassaundra

Now, the rest of the story...........
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Stitch 1/4 inch you could do a scant 1/4 inch here to be sure to hide the stitching in an upcoming step, but the 1/4 works for me.

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Now you have both long edges of the back sashing sewn to the blocks and 1 long edge of the front sashing. I press the back sashing seams just to set them and w/ some spray sizing. I don't want any shifting and puckering or tucks. Measure the area of the sashing between the seams, this is the width of your batting sash. For me, for this quilt it was 2.25 inches.

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Place the batting so it is nested into the sash and not sitting on any of the side seams adding any bulk to them.

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Fold over your pieced top sash, press in place small spot gluing is helpful, pin matching points and seams, covering your joining stitch.

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Top stitch it down. You don't have to stitch both sides but I think it looks on purpose if you do. This is why I stitch the back sash by machine so I have complete control from the front w/ the top stitching. You will need to do some sort of quilting stitch in the sash b/c it hasn't been sewn to anything yet.

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Those same stitch lines as seen on the back

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I am doing a 12 block layout, so I will make 3 columns of 4 blocks then join the same way w/ a long sashing strip between them.

ddtrina

Kassaundra, thanks for posting directions and pictures for QAYG. I've heard of this but never understood how to sew it all together with the sashing strips. Thanks to your directions, I'm more likely to try this at some time in the future!

givio

Kassaundra, Thanks for showing your method. It might be helpful to take a look at your pictures and explanation as a refresher later-- you could make that a blog entry. It will be a bit tricky to find it again here in the thread after time passes. Doesn't linking to it only link to the thread, not to the post number?

playswithcolor

Clue 6 and yellow just didn't work for me. I borrowed ideas from others on the QB and came up with this.

Pagzz

playswithcolor it's very pretty