Quilt As You Go Tutorial (QAYG)/Learn how to Quilt As You Go with full instructions

hi everybody welcome to the sewing basket our window on the world of what's happening here at the sewing basket today we're doing our window shopping and our demos we switched we used to do just a sale and buy this and hold things up to you all of that so we decided last month that we were going to switch to more of a lecture demo and show you the products that we're using everything that you see me use today you can get on our website sewingbasket.biz go to the shopping page and the very first category says wise guys windows january 15th so everything that we're showing you is there we appreciate your support if there are some things that you need we hope you'll check out our website for that but we're going to get going in just a second here let everybody kind of hop on if you don't mind put in a little comment that says hi from wherever you're from it's always interesting to see who's where and watching us so what we're going to talk about today is quilt as you go there are many many different ways to do quilt as you go this is one of them this is quilt as you go construction meaning that every seam that you do when you construct the runner becomes your quilting on the back now that i've told you that we're not talking about this today cheryl already did a full video on this quilt as you go runner it is on youtube and it's also on our website sewingbasket.biz on the daily dose page so there's a whole video on how to do quilt as you go as part of your construction there is also a second video up there that is a create your own runner using quilt as you go methods so those two things are already up there and available for you today what we're going to be talking about is quilt as you go using blocks or rectangles where the back of the quilt becomes the sashing i'm going to show you point to just a couple samples here we're going to talk about it then we're going to go to the demo we're actually going to make a little four patch project that shows you exactly what you're going to do i'm going to be at the sewing machine you can see exactly where i sew just where i fold how the whole process works that demo won't take real long i'm doing it on small 7-inch blocks so it'll be quick we're going to again talk for a few minutes here go do the demo and then at the end we're going to do a trunk show we're going to talk about adding more creativity when you think about how to do quilt as you go people sometimes look at a project and say oh that's boring i want to do something else more fun well the old adage you have to crawl before you can walk we're going to teach you how to crawl first thing today how to just make the blocks and put them together once you know that basic technique you can do whatever you want you can change the size you can change what's in your blocks and really have some fun you can also once you know the technique look at patterns that were made as just a regular quilt pattern where you'd sew your top together and turn them into quilt as you go so lots of things to learn today we're going to talk for just a second about why quilt as you go what does that mean it means that i am actually doing the quilting right along the process as i'm making my quilt normally you sew a quilt together you piece your top you have a big giant top then you have a piece of batting and a backing that all have to be layered together and then you have to baste them somehow then you have to do the stitching straight line free motion what are you going to do to quilt that and then you have to bind it all separate steps when you do quilt as you go it all becomes one process so depending on the size of your squares you can actually have some quilts where you don't even have to quilt if your batting has wide enough stitch distance you can actually not quilt the construction of the process will show keep the whole thing together so you also don't have to bind the edge of the backing comes outside the quilt and wraps around again all of these things might sound a little confusing for a minute all of these things we're going to talk about and i'm actually physically going to show you how to do them so don't get lost and remember we're on video that means you can turn me off anytime you want to and turn me back on later when you want to this live video obviously you can't pause but as you're watching this don't try to get every detail just watch the overview while i'm showing you what to do you can always go back later and rewind to watch the step-by-step process in more detail so just kind of enjoy the show watch what we're doing this will stay live we'll post to facebook as a regular video once the live is over it will also be on our youtube channel which is youtube.com the sewingbasket and it'll also be on our website again sewingbasket.biz and uh on our daily dose page so let's get started we're going to talk for just a second this quilt over here is the one we're going to be dealing with today we're going to make a small version of it but this is just a simple block and sashings this one is blocks with no sashing we're going to talk about how to do that too surprise there on the back we'll talk about that this is a pattern called garden party beautiful design it was made as a regular quilt top when i made it i love to do applique and i really like to use my decorative stitches but if i make it in a regular format where i put the whole top together i can't get in there to do decorative stitches i can't turn the quilt to do decorative stitches around things but if i do this one block at a time in a quilt as you go format i can turn that block i can use any of those fun decorative stitches that i want to this one is done simply in rows a different way to do it you can do squares rectangles or full rows we just did a brand new pattern on that that's on the website as well this is one i did quite a while ago those of you who are regulars have seen this for a few years this is all textured these are cuddle fabrics and flannel and corduroy but they're put together quilt as you go and the last one over here we'll talk about a little bit later and that will be part of our end of the process so i'm going to walk over here and get started if you have questions go ahead and type them in and remember to invite your friends in the future so the way that i'm going to demo today is instead of standing back here behind the counter and having you look at me it's easier sometimes to cut and do things as though you're seeing through my eyes rather than in reverse i remember years ago i'm going to show my age now i took a jazzercise class with a friend and the teacher was always facing you and she'd be going one way and we're supposed to go the other way because it's a mirror image i was always lost so i like to be able to have you look at the blocks the same way i am so what we're going to start with is the quilt behind me here on the back wall that was 14 inch squares we're actually going to make it in miniature i'm going to use seven inch squares for the front and we're going to just talk about the process in order to make that quilt it's a nine patch there are just nine squares so i need nine of each piece and by each piece i mean i need nine pieces of backing fabric i need nine pieces of my front fabric and i need nine pieces of batting that are the same size as my front so i can create something on my own just by having those three things these two are the same size the other one is two inches larger so i've got a seven inch square and my back is a nine inch square but i can have those be any size i want just remember i need that inch all the way around so a total difference of two inches so right now we're going to cut some of these i'm going to show you some of the things that i do when i cut this is just about a third of a yard of fabric this is my backing so i need to cut nine inch squares i'm actually going to cut them all at one time if you have not done multiple layers at a time it really isn't hard if you have a new rotary blade a good cutter a good non-skid ruler it is not real hard if you've got enough arm strength so i'm going to just fold this in half and in half again and i have four layers on here i don't have directional fabric so i'm not worried about that one thing i'm going to mention is if i was cutting bigger squares the magic number is 14. my fabric is 42 wide usable space i can get three 14 inch blocks across if i cut it right meaning the one on the fold i can't lose so i cut a 14 inch block i get two and then i open up the one on the fold if i accidentally cut this fold i can't get my three fourteen inch blocks but today right now we're going to deal with seven excuse me nine inch background squares so i've got this folded i have the salvages out so that they're not in my block and i'm just going to take my square up ruler we do have a video out there on how to use a square up when you're using one of these your numbers run you look at the corner you find the one that has both number ones here if you're right-handed if you're left-handed this way but all i'm going to do is put this down and i'm going to clean my two sides first i could have had a little smaller piece of fabric but this way you can see what i'm up to so i'm going to grab my cutter and i'm cutting the top and the side handle it very delicately you want to move it as little as possible which is why i did two sides at once and i kind of had it on an angle if it had been straight to me i try to cut this way in this way it's a little harder on your wrist if i do it on an angle it's a little easier to cut both sides so i cut those two sides i spin all my layers around and i take my ruler again and i'm looking for my nine inch line and my nine inch line and i'm laying that down in this corner along here and along here so i'm looking that this is lined up nice and straight my table's a little wobbly here and i now have four background squares ready to go that works great the only thing you can't do in layers is if you have something directional or that you're wanting to fussy cut that it hits in a certain way then you have to cut individual layers but those are my back squares ready to go the next thing that i'm going to do is cut my front squares my front squares i cut the exact same way just like i did and i will end up with four of those at a time my batting is a great place to use scrap batting this is just some leftover pieces i'm going to cut seven inch batting squares and again i'm going to use my square up ruler and i'm going to line up my seven inch line and i'm leaving a little bit over seven inches here because i want to clean up my edges really well and when i mean that when i say that i mean make a fresh cut so i'm going to cut these two sides and i'm going to spin this around again these were my two clean edges and i'm going to go back to lining up here line that up and then i'm going to clean these two sides and i'm going to cut as many of those batting squares as i need when you're using scrap batting you can use all different scrap just make sure that it's the same type of batting you don't want to mix polyester and cotton or something that is bamboo with wool so if you have batting scraps mark them just stick a little tag on them and write down what they are so that when you've got pieces like this you can reuse all of these batting pieces again so now i have a number of batting pieces and a number of fronts and backs the next step is to fuse my batting onto my front square and i can do that in a number of ways i'm going to this piece is actually fusible batting one side fusible just slide my mat out of the way and i'm going to lay this right on top and get that nice and even the fusible side of the batting is up so the fusible is against the back of my block and i'm going to just take my little iron and i'm not sliding it to push the fabric i'm just pressing it and that is going to hold my batting to my front actually to the back of my front just to be confusing so here's my front of my quilt my batting and then i have a background square that it's going to go on okay couple other options for attaching your batting to your block fusible batting this was a single side fusible we also carry a warm and natural double-sided fusible it works well it is poly it's what i used on the the quilt that's in our background here the 14 inch squares i really like it for wall hangings and table runners it's a little bit stiffer than i like for a quilt so i typically won't use a poly in a quilt they just don't breathe quite as well so i'm going to take my next block here and fuse or attach i should say this one in a different way here i'm going to use a product called quilter's free fuse this is a product by alex anderson this is a shakeout product it looks kind of comes out kind of like a little salt shaker and i just sprinkle that on and those granules are the fusible so i sprinkle that on and again i'm pressing i'm not iron if i iron see how i get wrinkles and that just stretched it bigger than i want it to be so i always want to press when i'm attaching things not iron iron is you're sliding back and forth press as i'm picking up and i'm moving to a new spot and this is bonding the fusible to my top so there's another way you can use a simple glue stick if you want to just a few lines of glue stick and it'll stick just fine um the other one that i like is 505 spray the nice thing about the first two methods is there is no scent 505 has a bit of an aroma to it you want to be sure that you're working in a well ventilated area but when i use 505 i line my block up just the way i want it i hold it in place and flip this back should open my can first hold that in place and i just just a tiny little spritz i don't need a lot i'm going to lay that back and you just pat it into place again don't brush it or things will slide just pat it into place and this is the corner i was holding i want to add just a little bit to that and this does not have to be heated up 505 is a wash away so as soon as my quilter project goes through the wash that will all go away but that is held in place here a little bit loose i didn't spray real much there but i really don't need to so those are three different ways that you can um fuse your batting square to your front and i'll show you the easy way that i like the best now that you know different ways if i have fusible batting fusible batting has one of these ends i didn't attach fusible batting has a rough bumpy side that's the side with the fusible on it the smooth side is not what i did here is i took a piece of batting and my piece of fabric and i attached the whole thing i just i already attached this you can see it's stuck the only part i hadn't attached yet is this end and i'm going to do the exact same thing here the advantage of doing it this way is you only have to cut once and your fabric and batting are held together so if i'm going to cut this now it's already fused together sorry about that and i can just take my ruler and i cut my seven inch square and again i'm just cutting both sides [Music] and cut these two sides okay get that batting off of there and so here i only had to actually measure that seven inch square once instead of having to cut my fabric and then cut my batting so that saves me a step in the process if i do it that way all right that is how we cut our squares out and the other thing i do want to mention this is a quilter select ruler really nice they have built-in non-skid on them if you have rulers that don't have non-skid there's a product called grippy spray grippy is it's just an aerosol you spray it on the back of your ruler it'll make the ruler look a little bit cloudy but it will turn the ruler to non-skid it does wash off later if you want to but it stays on for many many uses so it can make your old non-skid rulers or your skidding rulers non-skid all right so my next step once i have my cutting done and my cutting again is a background square a front square with a batting square attached i need one set of these for every block so if i'm doing a nine patch nine of these and nine of these once i have that ready to go i now need to line them up i like a ruler that's like two and a half it oops two and a half or so wide to get a bigger line up or a smoother edge to line against so i'm lining my one inch line up here so there's one inch of batting under backing under my ruler and this is a little one inch ruler so right here i've got the corner this side is one inch this side is one inch and i can pop that line up if i'm careful i can just line that up set it right in there just kind of pat it down and then i can either take this ruler and double check or this is a ruler that i use a lot this is the nancy zieman that seems right these are fun we have these a plastic version of this years ago when i was in high school many many years ago but there's all different measurements on here this corner is all one inch so i can just hold this it's a real easy grab really a handy little product again those are on our website so now that this block is set and ready to go i have to fuse or attach this block to that so again i'm going to just flip this forward and i'm going to just use 505 for this pat pat flip it up spritz spritz and again i'm patting this down i'm not brushing it and sliding it so that one's ready to go and again that process is real simple it's just background square line up your ruler at an inch your other ruler at an inch and put that right into the corner and just double check that you're in good shape all the way around again i could use a glue stick if i wanted to a quick spritz of 505 is what i found to be the quickest and because i'm just doing a little spritz it doesn't get real stinky so i've got two blocks ready to go if i were doing a larger quilt i'd prep all my blocks first so we are going to talk for one more second on i cut some other blocks that kind of coordinate just looking at color and i also cut a block decided i might want to add a border a border is something that attaches just like any other block i'm going to make my little square into a runner when i'm done so i cut what's going to be a border piece these two squares my front squares were 7 inches this is 14 inches by 7 inches and so my back again you add 2 inches this is 14 by 7 my back is 16 by nine so i've always got one inch all the way around and i'll show you how we attach these later but right now we're going to go to the sewing machine and we're going to learn how to put them together kathy's going to spin the camera around for me i'm going to grab my little iron here and it'll take us just one second to get over that way and if anybody's got any questions go ahead and type them in and i'm going to take a camera here and put it in front of the sewing machine it'll take me just a second here to line things up and you're actually going to get a close-up view of what i'm working on here so you can see my foot what i have on is a walking foot if you don't know what a walking foot is or aren't familiar i just did tuesday morning's video was using a walking foot and it shows you the different ways to different types of walking feet that are out there for you and how you connect them that also is right on our youtube page or our daily dose page so my walking foot is on my machine and i now have two blocks back up just one second here i have two blocks that are you see my seam allowance here what i'm going to do is i'm going to take them and flip them over and i'm going to put them back to back so they are lined up just like this i've got one block the other is back to back i can feel on these corners where my batting is on the front and back they should line up nicely there as well i'm going to talk about one of my favorite pins here for a minute quilter select this is a magnetic pin tin these are really sharp and sturdy they're really nice and strong i like these a lot and what i'm going to do on these i can either once you've done this a number of times you can line it up by feel pretty well but if you're new and you're nervous you can take a pin and put it right in at the corner and be sure that it lines up with the corner on the back where that pin comes out i'm not quite lined up there so that is going to line up that's going to tell me that my two squares are nice and straight and i'm going to do that on each end and i'm going to be sewing along here so i'm going to pin and the way i pin i'm going to be sewing from this direction going this way i stick just a couple pins parallel to the edge that i'm going to be sewing because i can pull them out as i go along and i'm going to just stick those three pins in that way so i've got pins across there i'm going to be sewing this way so now as i sew i can pull the pins out as i go and what i have here is my one inch seam allowance is going to come to the front because i have my two back pieces my backs are right sides together and i'm going to line up i'm going to sew from the edge here i'm going to come and i'm going to sew right along the edge of the batting right next to it and i'm going to stitch off this end so this is why i did little blocks so we can do this and just do a little lock stitch and now i'm going to sew across here and i'm sewing let me move a little closer here so you can see real well i'm sewing right at the edge of this batting and as i go along now i'm going to pull out that pin and the pinheads are facing me so they slide out real easily [Music] and i have that walking foot on so it's kind of eating up that pucker as i go along it goes away and i'm stitching and come right off the other end when you do this for the first time and feel awkward remember that elaine said you're not doing it with a camera between you and the sewing machine so give yourself a break i'm going to cut that and i'm going to turn my camera over this way for just a second and so what i have now is that's the seam i just sewed and i'm going to open this up and if i can get my fingers in there so what i have now is a block two blocks with the seam allowance coming up to the front okay so my two blocks are sewn together and i'm going to go to my ironing pad two blocks here i think you can see that okay and i'm going to press this seam open so i grab my little iron and i'm opening that seam completely okay and now i need to roll this edge i need to finish off this edge so what i have here is two raw edges and i'm going to take this and i'm going to roll it under this way and then i'm going to do the same thing on the other side this raw edge hard to hold it and show you here this raw edge is going to turn under that way and i'm going to do that on the ironing board i think you'll be able to see it okay as i go so i'm going to take some best press and just give that a little spray and i'm going to use my fingers and i'm going to just roll this edge underneath so i'm taking this raw edge and i'm rolling it underneath until it hits this center seam i hope that makes sense so i'm going to just roll it underneath and i'm going to grab my little iron and i'm going to press it okay and now i'm going to do that on the other side again i'm just folding it in half till it hits that seam that i stitched and open it up and again press pressing is important it keeps things from slipping okay so now i have my block ready to stitch both of these raw edges are pressed under and now i'm going to come and i'm going to edge stitch from the end all the way along this edge so i'm going to go back to the sewing machine here and get on camera and i'm going to just and when i say edge stitch i usually plant my put my foot down kind of line up where i want to be put my needle down i do a quick lock stitch and now my needle is about not even an eighth of an inch i'm really close to the edge hence the name edge stitch and i think you can see i'm going to go down just a little bit more here what i'm lining up is this edge of the fabric right here with that edge of the silver on my foot i don't know if you can see it and just use my scissors to point them in it this edge of my foot right here is lined up with this so my needle is actually just offset a little bit so i'm going to stitch right across there and if you're well pressed it stitches really easily you can sew pretty quickly and not bobble and go off like i just did because i hit the camera with my hand we'll pretend that was straight okay and then i'm going to come back flip it to the other side and it should be your stitching should be about this far apart right in here just a little bit over and now i'm going to come back and do the other side and again i'm not real worried that i'm going real straight here because i don't want you guys to have to watch me worry about that okay so that's what it's going to look like both pieces are sewn down and now i'll show you the pretty one that i did later or earlier i should say this is the same thing this will show you kind of where that edge stitch should be you should be able to see that pretty well it's real close to the edge if you're a little in it's not a big deal so what i have now is my two blocks are stitched together and i've got that raw edge all the way around the outside i have the one i just made and i have the one that i made a little earlier so where we go from here if i were making a quilt and i had say four squares across i would keep sewing these pieces together i'm trying to get a little further back here sorry i would keep sewing these pieces i'd add another block add another block and i'd end up with my whole row of my quilt okay right now i'm only doing two patches and once you have your rows done you connect your rows and the rows go together just like the blocks so we're going to pretend that my blocks have or my rows have two blocks so i've got this piece and i'm going to back up just a little bit here so you can see that a little easier thank you i thank you kathy i was trying to do that my fingers were dry and it wasn't working so here i am i have my two blocks and my two blocks that are ready to go together and they go together the same way back to back i've got this one and this one okay and so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna line up the center seam i'm gonna stick one pin in there and again i'm pinning parallel to the edge and i'm using my fingers to feel that batting underneath and i'm going to stick another pin in there and one more down here at the end okay and so now i'm ready to go i'm going to sew this edge from the edge all the way across right across that seam and that's going to connect my two rows and again i'm going to just do that real quickly here and start all the way out at the end a little lock stitch and i'm going to stitch right along the edge of the batting and pull my pins as i go okay and i'm not on the batting at all it's um this is still loose i'm not sewing through that batting if i sew through that batting it makes um the seam a little bit bulkier so you want to try to sew right next to the batting and not through it as you get to the joins just keep sewing right across and my end here i didn't have a pin way at the end so i just want to shift that over a little bit and i'm ready to go and i'm going to go right off the end okay and now what i have is four pieces sewn together right here again all four pieces sewn together this is my first seam that i did this is the seam that holds my row together so i do the exact same thing i press this open give it a little bit of best press press this open and i would be doing this more carefully if i weren't on camera but i want to get that seam pressed open all the way and now i'm going to come back and i'm going to do the same thing i'm going to roll this edge under press it all the way up along that length okay and i'm going to just repeat that whole process so and i'm not going to make you watch me on camera so this is going to roll under this one is going to roll under to the other side so the rows go together exactly like the blocks and then i'm going to edge stitch the whole length here so my four blocks would be stitched together and completed so that's all there is to assembling your whole quilt you put your rows together by joining your center seams excuse me you put your blocks together by joining your center seams and once your rows are done you put your two rows back to back stitch along the edge open it up again press and roll those edges under on both sides and then top stitch so that's all there is to it the last piece that's left is the outer binding this outer edge forms your binding so this just rolls over and again a little best press and i'm rolling that edge over and i bet if i say guess what you do next you'll know this is pressed i turn this under and actually i'm going to actually sew this one so you can see the whole process i'm going to turn that edge under like so and keep that press do you think i need to sew the binding kathy you think they want to see that maybe they'll tell me yes or no while i finish this press here i know we've got that couple minute lag behind what we're doing but so i've got this whole piece pressed and rolled over so i'm going to go back to my machine and now i'm just going to edge stitch along this edge 50 50 all right then i'll go only halfway how's that okay and i'm gonna just stop right there so that is what my binding is going to look like it just finishes off that edge i do my top or side to side and then i come back and do the top and bottom again roll this roll this under and stitch and that's my binding completed on my quilt so all in one step i've got my backing my binding everything ready to go that's the process of quilt as you go the funny thing is you didn't see me quilt anything the reason that i didn't quilt is because the batting that i used if you watch your batting package it will tell you quilt up to so many inches apart the batting that i used said i can quilt up to 10 inches apart meaning i only need a row of stitching if i have a 10 inch space with no quilting in it my blocks are only seven inches so i actually do not have to put any quilting in here at all i could if i wanted to i could go around these flowers i could do beautiful free motion quilting i could use my embroidery machine and quilt in that space but i don't have to unless i want to so the quilting remember keep your bobbin thread matching your back and your top thread matching your front and then you won't if you want your quilting to show you can if i'm quilting and i don't know pink thread and i want it to show on the back i can do the bobbin and top the same for quilting but this allows me to do a lot of different things with having with being able to do very little quilting which in my book isn't a bad thing because i'm not the world's best free motion quilter question a lot of people want to know what you do with the corners if there's anything special at the corner yep there is absolutely nothing special with the corner but i will show you so this is the piece that i already stitched i remember i stopped part way here so it's not completely done you'd stitch the whole length and this edge is rolled over okay these would have been rolled over and finished as well on the sides all of those seams would be done so here's my corner all that i'm going to do is again press it just like this and then this is going to roll under and i'm going to just you can see that i'm going to just use my little iron here i am going to press this edge just like we have right along and now i'm going to take this edge and fold it under just like i had been okay and i'm going to give it a spritz it always holds better if you give it a spritz of best press love that stuff keeps everything sharp so here is this corner was already stitched this i fold like so and then i fold it under so this is just like any of your other edges the raw edge folds under and now i'm going to pretend i'm going to stitch i'm going to pretend i'm stitching here this side is already done i'm going to come back to the sewing machine here and if this were my binding i would be stitching along here i'm going to just pop in at this point and what i want to do is wrap get close here so i'm coming along when i get to the corner i've got some little fuzzes here i want to snip out of the way and a lot of times i'll just use a pin all right actually i really like the curved all that we have but i don't have one up here i'm going to just hold this in place as i'm stitching i'm ed stitching along and what i want to do is not make sure that this is nice and smooth that i've folded it so i don't have something that looks like that it's sticking out see that hard to see but i want this to be nice and smooth and i just stitch right off the very end and i'll take it out in just a second i get to the end and i'm just doing a lock stitch and so your corners just overlap okay so this was sewed down first this was sewed down second so i've got just a nice the back is just a square snip my little threads off there that's what the back looks like and somebody's going to say can you miter your corner yes you can miter your corners but that's um that's once you've learned how to walk first you learn how to crawl square corners square corners are crawling learn that process first to do a miter you actually fold this under on a diagonal and then you roll but we're not really going to talk about that today but if you really want to do it that's the tip you fold that corner down on a 45 degree angle and then you again fold and fold but today we're doing square corners and they work just great and they look just fine if i were now wanting to add my border i'm going to just go over to my side here for one moment my square would be looking like this but all my pieces would be done and i would have a raw edge looking like this ready to join my next row this piece was the piece i cut for my border piece one big piece goes together just like the rest of the process one second here i've got this piece face down my border piece so they're back to back right sides together i line those up nice and straight i sew this edge and that seam allowance comes to the front so that i've got my blocks and then my border is attached with that seam allowance coming to the front where i'm going to roll it again so a border goes on exactly like you're adding another row to your quilt so it's really a simple process it's a little bit putsy when you get started the more you do it the easier it becomes it is a fun way to make a quilt without having to do a lot of quilting i'm going to spin around and talk about some other samples here so give me just a second i'm going to keep talking while kathy moves the camera for me and um a couple things i didn't mention i do like um to use these numbered pins they have numbers right on the pins they're really nice for keeping track of your blocks if i'm doing a row i stick pin number one in the first number two in the second so if i've got a nine patch i've got one two three four five six seven eight nine and that way if my blocks get mixed up i always know where they go i always pin in the top left corner and then i always know also what direction my blocks go in so that works great kathy you okay with camera you wanna i'm gonna we got just a second to get our legs out here so that we don't make you seasick all right and um just thinking if there's anything i forgot about now that you know the process of how to just put squares together this quilt was got your leg okay moving in on you all right this quilt is what we just did front squares our backs are all one fabric they roll to the front our binding is all the same color so this is 35 blocks if i remember rightly went together very quickly so i'm cutting 35 front squares these were 7 inches 35 back squares or 9 inches and my batting again same size as my front do all the squares just like we showed you that's this quick little baby quilt again you can make those squares any size that you want to also these are all one fabric we have the option of doing a lot of different fabrics and different fabrics on the back this one that we just talked about just a simple nine patch this my back is all good i knew that was going to happen all different colors and my pin cushion is i'm going to just take it down it'll be just as easy this way kathy thanks so this is the front of my quilt this is the back of my quilt so i have a different color backing on each piece i call that a scrappy backing it's all mixed up what that gives me is on the front my sashings are all two colors whatever color is on the back rolls to the front so i've got two color sashings wherever that back rolls to the front hope that makes sense to everybody so think about your back again the blue one all of the squares were turquoise the back squares were turquoise so my sashing is all turquoise time for a sales pitch this is our new instruction sheet the video that you're watching is free shows you everything you need to do but a lot of people say i still want a pattern so we did do a pattern this again is on sewingbasket.biz on our shopping page it's called quilt as you go create a quilt tips it gives you the cutting instructions for the quilt that i just held up and it gives you tips and instructions on how to do different things as well and we also did a pattern for this one quilting in rows that is a new pattern also with full instructions on how to make a row quilt quilt as you go i'll give you a tip it's done the same way as a square it's just a rectangle the other thing that we talk about in the pattern is if you have a quilt what if i want a quilt but i don't want any sashing on the front can you do that with this method yes you can that's what this is okay no sashing guess where the sashing is the sashing rolls to the back so you have to think a little bit in reverse whatever when we were talking previously the smaller square was always the front on this the smaller square is the back the small square still has the batting to it but the piece that technically is my larger piece the back goes on this side so you make it the exact same way it's just that this side is now the front could you call this side the front you sure could if you wanted to i could embroider in there it's kind of pretty this way seeing the sashing but if i am doing something where i don't want to see the sashing i just do it in reverse the larger square becomes my front the smaller square becomes my back this is actually our mix-6 table runner and placemat pattern which looks like this this was not designed quilt as you go it is a regular pattern that says cut these squares three and a half by seven and a half it tells you the size pieces that you're cutting that's the size um the lost the process of my thought there for a second um in quilt as you go there are no seam allowances because the pieces butt together there are no seam allowances so when you calculate what you're doing when you're doing things quilt as you go if these pieces were seven and a half by three and a half the finished size is actually going to be seven by three so that piece is going to be seven by three if the piece you're working with is seven by three the opposite piece has to be nine by five always adding two inches but you take out the seam allowance we're not going to spend a lot of time on that it's a little bit confusing because you're all still crawling okay and also there's no reason you can't just cut some squares the size that you like that is perfectly fine you can also use what i call leftovers this is a block and if we can walk over by this or spin over by this one this one i didn't show you too much of right away this was a quilt that was an applique quilt these blocks you made 12 applique blocks and then it was pieced in between i decided to do a quilt as you go so i took my applique block and then i added other pieces to it to create blocks this size each of these blocks fits into that quilt this one i set them kind of offset them so it didn't look just like three by four blocks it looked a little bit more interesting and in here i used all the same backing but it's multi-color it's brown and black so the back is the big paisley print and that paisley is what's wrapping to the front so it gives you a a sashing that looks like you put in a paisley sashing again it's the back wrapping to the front and i picked that because i wanted the sashing to fade away i didn't want a solid line separating all my blocks so you kind of think about what your back is remembering that's going to create your sashing so you can make blocks on the little sample that we just did all my blocks were the same fabric i can use different fabrics i can use pieces that i have left over i could put a quilt block here and add some more pieces my front is the same side as my batting and my back is an inch bigger all the way around so that's the formula it's easy to do one thing that i'm going to mention is when i worked on garden party i left my i made my backings bigger sometimes if you're going to do a lot of quilting you know how your quilt can shrink a little bit i left my batting excuse me my backing big i'll trim this down to an inch when i'm done i'll do all my quilting then i'll trim this off rather than doing the cut right at the beginning it gives me a little more flexibility also sometimes when i'm quilting around applique i'm turning my block things are moving it might shift and get just the tiniest bit cockeyed while i'm stitching if i leave myself that extra space i can still get that one inch all the way around even if things shift on me a little bit then let's get to playing with some fun stuff years ago and before i talk about this this panel is no longer available we had ordered this panel and when the rep came they showed it to us on paper and when the fabric came it was a different color we would not have ordered the pepto-bismol pink butterflies so we had the panels here for a number of months and none of you bought a single one so it's like what are we going to do with that panel so i thought well if i take this panel and i cut out the pink the best that i can in any way that i can let's see what happened so i made the back scrappy which tells you what tells you that my sashing is going to be to color and then i took my blocks my butterflies were i don't know about a seven inch block i decided i want them wanted them bigger so i made my blocks i think those are 12 inch blocks and this is what we did and so where i had this butterfly he had a pink background i cut them out and i applicate them onto this i also used my fabric to my advantage this looks like i actually pieced these things in it nicely had a blue border all the way around and i had enough room that when i cut this out i left myself a quarter inch of blue all the way around and then i just applicate it on top of this green square so each of these was just a little creation two fabrics sewed them together applicate this down this one again two fabrics so you can see how those blocks were made and i'm going to just show you the back on this up close a little bit you can see some of my quilting stitching on here does that look okay kathy can you see that just some decorative stitches and some applique stitches so this was created it's just a simple nine patch just like the quilt i showed you first nine pieces of fabric make your back whatever size your back is your front is two inches smaller all right we do have a number of panels on the site yet because everybody says don't you have those butterflies no we don't have those butterflies anymore because as soon as we made that they went they sold but this is another butterfly panel again we have a panel category on the website lots of things that you can cut up and make interesting designs from this one is a newer panel all the birds this would be really fun to put into a quilt as you go pattern and then we're going to talk about just other projects for a minute or two this one cheryl did thought hmm i wonder how small i can make this the backing squares were five inches the front were three inches this were a little bigger it would be a great doll blanket again the back is all one color so the sashing is all one color this one was again a panel we had a while ago the back all one fabric so my sashing has my circles and my twists on it and this is just a simple runner this was a panel what size did i cut the block exactly the size i needed for my panel if i have a six inch panel i can cut my blocks at six inches a ten inch panel i can cut them at ten whatever size you want them to be the one thing that you need to watch is remember that edge rolls onto the front of your block so you're going to lose about a half inch around the outside of your design so if your panel has a design right up to the edge maybe give yourself a little extra scrap when you cut that out so that that edge doesn't cover the absolute edge of the design that you want to see this one was just four different blocks the back of this one was pink the back of this block was brown the back of this black pink back of this black brown so if you get two color sashing and it starts to form a design so if this quilt were bigger and i did every other one pink brown pink brown my squares would all be have different sashing around them if i put the pink squares on a diagonal you would see pink sashing moving through the quilt on a diagonal the pattern has a couple pictures showing different sashings as well so that's just a simple little piece and then once you've created blocks you can do lots of things this is just three blocks it was three blocks in a row i took the bottom block and flipped it up and i took the top and flipped it down i added little handles and it becomes a purse so if you think of those blocks as building blocks there's just all kinds of fun stuff that you can do kathy can you think of anything i forgot no if you would we really appreciate it if you give us a thumbs up make a positive comment give us a heart or a like we really appreciate that and one last question for you do you have a favorite tip what was your favorite thing about the video today that you learned please write a comment and give us your thoughts we really appreciate the feedback and the input it helps us prepare our next projects and demos again we do tuesday mornings at nine is now our weekly wise guys so we'll be back with you tuesday morning and third friday now each month at three o'clock we'll be doing our window shopping with the wise guys which is an event like this evening which is in the ballpark of about an hour we appreciate your time and really look forward to seeing you again this was our first time where we were working with the sewing machine in the camera we'll work on getting that smoother every time we do but hopefully you were able to see everything up close and get a good feel for what we were making appreciate your time we'll see you soon bye

Channel: The Sewing Basket

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Keywords: Quilt As You Go, QAYG, qyag quilt, qayg tutorial, quilt as you go tutorial, how to quilt as you go, how to qayg with sashing, how to qayg no sashing, learn to qayg, learn to quilt as you go, quilt as you go pattern, quilt as you go instructions, qayg pattern

Id: T3uB_i7nI6k

Length: 64min 44sec (3884 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 17 2021