Joining Quilt as You Go Blocks

all right so because you wanted to know how I do quilt as you go I'm going to show you using some of the blocks from my spring quilt so as you can see I have a completed block that I have pieced and then sandwiched with my batting and my backing quilted and then trimmed down the size and I trimmed these downs to 9 inch square because you know errors but anyway they're all about 9 inches square so the first thing that you need to do is you need to cut some strips that are 1 inch by however long and you're going to take your strips and you are going to set 1 strip on the front side and you will get a second strip onto the backside like this so you have a strip on each side and then you will pin them in place and then you'll take it to your machine and you will do a nice quarter inch strip seam all the way down the side and when you're finished you will end up with something that looks like this so you will have your nice quarter inch seam you will have a flap of white fabric on the front and you will have a flap of white fabric on the back or whatever color you happen to be using and then what you're going to do is there's actually two different ways that you can do this so I'm going to show you both ways the first way is going to be where you're going to hide your seams when you do this it's easy to set up a situation where your seams will show the only way to avoid that is by hand sewing and so when I do that what you're going to do is you're going to take your block with your fabric on one side and you will take a second block and you will lay it face down so that you have your right sides together so in this case so that when it opens up it opens up and you see your correct sides and you're going to take this and you're going to punch it down and you are going to line up the edge of your fabric strip with the edge of the quilt block like this and you're going to pin it in place and of course I don't have my pins stop and you will take it and you will stretch it into place give it a pin and then check that your blocks are perfectly lined up together if they're not perfectly lined up on these sides when you're done sewing and you open it up you're gonna be crooked and you don't want that so as long as your edges are nice and tidy and neat I usually do about one pin every three inches or so when I'm doing this you can do more or less as you like and of course I love my little sewing clips and then you're gonna take this to the sewing machine and you're going to work this open and I find that this is just wide enough for your sewing machine foot to fit so if you struggle a little bit record it seems that this kind of helps you out a little bit because you're gonna sew exactly a quarter inch seam as long as you've got your needle set in the correct position once you've finished doing that and you have your square inch seam sewn all the way down the side when you open it up this is how it's gonna look on the front so you have a nice neat beautiful little sashing there and then if you flip it over to the back you have a mess what you're gonna do is you're gonna take these and you're gonna kind of mooch them apart and you're gonna kind of press these down together ideally these will fit exactly correct and they will butt right up against each other and then I will take this in the ironing board at this time and I will iron this flat just because I think it makes it life a little easier and then I'm going to take this I'm going to fold this over and I'm going to iron this flap then because this is a nice one that we're going to do that we're gonna hide all our seams we're gonna fold this little edge line it up with your sewing line that you see from when you sewed the Front's together and you will do your preferred method of hand stitching binding basically it's the same thing I do a nice whip stitch that you catch on the bottom there and you're just gonna do that all the way down if you have a light-colored fabric sometimes you can kind of see through it but I find that after I've washed it and it gets that nice crinkly look that's not really a problem anymore okay but I'm not a handsomer so I'm gonna set this aside I'll deal with that later all right so the other option that you have is my preferred option of joining quilts as you go because it doesn't matter if you see your stitches or not the way I do it because I kind of make the stitches a part of it if that makes any sense so when we did the hand stitch to the back we put front to front if you're gonna do my way that I prefer we go back to back okay so that we will instead of the other way that we did it we're going to take our back sides with our fronts on the outside that we can see making it of course sure that you've got them oriented correctly and then we do the exact same thing we'll take this here we'll clip it check our lineman t' do all that good stuff and then take some machine sew it and we end up with this so now our nice neat pretty sashing is on the back side and our miss is on the front and again take these wiggle them together if they don't fit quite sometimes mine overlap because I get a little off on my quarter inch seam I've never found that to be a problem I just make it work get it as flat as I can get this piece curled over and this is the fun part is you have to somehow figure out how to keep this folded exactly on your stitching line while you take this to the Machine and stitch with your preferred stitch I tend to do a blanket stitch because I like the way it runs down and just kind of catches it and I find it's not as obvious it kind of ends up looking like this so you can kind of see I know it's hard because these are white stitches but you can kind of see how they just kind of catch over but again once you've washed it dried it and gets that nice crinkly look to it it's not really that big of an issue anymore but the tricky part is you got to make sure that when you get this fold over that you get right on that stitch line because if you get it right on your stitch line then on the back side you'll be doing right along your stitch line here as well and what that ends up looking like is here on the front I've gone straight down my stitch line right here and then on the back you see because I've got it nice and lined up it shows exactly the same as it does on the front side I don't always get that perfect this was like really made me happy because this is what they normally look like where they kind of wiggle back and forth a little bit but again wash it dry it gets that nice crinkly look and it doesn't really matter anymore and then when you're done trim your edges when you're ready to do these do the exact same method you're just doing it for your rows instead of your individual blocks I hope that made sense if you want to see anyone step in more detail maybe actually watch me sewing it just let me know and I'll be happy to help you alright thank you

Channel: Alisha Williams

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Keywords: QAYG, Quilting, Quilt As You Go, Joining quilted blocks

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Length: 7min 50sec (470 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 29 2019