Quilt As You Go: Have anyone tried this method?

[1quiltinnana]

Has anyone tried the method of Quilt as you Go? Is it easier than traditional quilting? Recommend it or not?

[sewbug]

I do quilt as you go for a lot of my quilts. There are several methods of doing it. Georgia Bonesteel's way, it looks like you did the quilt whole, seams don't show. Anita Murphy has a very nice quilt as you go using strips to connect the blocks. A new way is Fun and Done and Cotton Theory.

[knitnoid]

I did my Egg Money quilt this way. I wanted to be able to quilt the blocks on my machine 1/4" from the piecing. I never would have been able to do it if I had to get the whole quilt up under the arm of my machine.

[1quiltinnana]

Thanks for the reply. I will give it consideration.

[KATHYSQUILTS]

I did a "quilt as you go" log cabin in flanel. Having hand quilted a flanel
quilt before I did not want to do it again! The book is "Weekend Log Cabin for People Who Don't Have Time to Quilt" by Marti Michell. I hope I can give you a general idea how it is done.

For each block you layer a piece of backing and batting. Put the first two log right sides together and center on batting. Sew it down and flip it open. Put down an other log right sides together. Sew it down and flip. ON and on you go. all the logs are pre cut. I used 1930s fabric so when I had to "hide"the seams after sewing all the blocks together I used a matching reg. cotton fabric on the back.
There is no quilting on the top of the quilt.

I would do it again.....Kathy

[morgans4]

This is how I learned to hand quilt. I think it's much easier than trying to wrestle with a whole quilt. After each square is quilted, you stitch the squares together, right sides together, holding back the batting and backing. Make all the rows. Then, flip it over, loosely whip-stitch the batting together, taking out the excess, then lay 1 backing down, smooth it out, lay the other side over it, smoothing it and turning under the 1/4" and handstitch it down.
Put the rows together the same way. Try to keep all your seams going the same way. I'm left-handed so I smooth out the left side first, lay over it the right side, turn under the seam allowance and do them all the same way. It looks much nicer when finished.
Not hard... time consuming maybe, but beautiful when finished.