Let's Make A Quilt As You Go

Many of you have asked about the
method of making a 
Quilt As You Go 
quilt,
So, here's my tutorial.
First you start out with blocks that you
have pieced (or plain fabric blocks)
Sandwich them with batting and a back,
 and then quilt them on your machine.

Before getting ready to join them.
 trim them all to same size.

Next you want to cut strips 
one inch wide and 
some two inch wide.

Next you fold and iron the two inch strips so
 that they make a doubled inch wide strip.

After making your blocks . . .
which are two fabrics sandwiched together
and quilted, you use these strips
to join them. 
I put the folded strip on the backside of my quilt 
and the one inch strip on the top.

Pin them in place.

Then sew them to your quilt block.

After they are sewn on they will look like this. 

Next you spread the one inch strip flat
and pin it to the block that you are joining to. 

This is the important stage where if you have more than 
one block in the sections that you are joining 
be sure to match your seams and pin.
Otherwise they will stretch and not match up.

Next stitch only the one inch strip to the next block.
ALL STITCHES ARE 1/4 INCH WIDE.

After doing that, your front will lay flat
and look like this.
* Note:  I made my blocks 30 inches square
using nine 10 inch squares of fabric.
I did this before joining them.
You can join your blocks at any size that you prefer, 
but anything larger than a 30 inch square makes it harder 
to quilt
on a regular sewing machine. 

 The back of your quilt will look like this.

 I fold this over the raw batting edges
and hand hem them.

 This makes a very nice back.
If you want to do everything on the machine,
then you might want to reverse 
and sew the two inch folded strip to the top.
Then sew it down with your machine.

Here you see the front of the two sections  
that I joined together.
After hemming the backs,
you are ready to join these two sections 
the same way.

This is a joined 60 inch section.
I have plans to add(in the same way)
boarders to the top and bottom.
I'm making this to spread over a twin bed.

I'm also adding some applique to this
before I finish it and add my binding. 

There will be pictures when I'm finished.


I'm doing a balancing act of 
gardening, canning, and quilting, LOL.
I would also like to add kayaking
 to that list . . . we'll see :)

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This is how I learned this method
and she does a better job of explaining
the method with her great video.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji8BLS2rNHA

You will notice that she puts the folded
strip on top, and the one inch on the bottom.

Just opposite of my way.

That is because she does hers all on the machine. 
I just think that hand hemming the back
is prettier,

but I have done both.  

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Thank you for visiting. . .

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Keep Smiling!

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Your blogging sister,

Connie :)