Quilt As You Go with No Sashing Part 1

hi there I'm candy Gunn Denning from candy fabrics calm and what I'm going to do in this video is show you a way that I do free motion machine quilting of big quilts and I kind of quote as I go and I don't have sashing strips in between the blocks so there's a lot of different ways to quilt as you go I'm having invented this method I'm sure other people do it this way as well but I know that a lot of people when they do quilt as they go they quilt each individual piece of the quilt as you know it by itself and then they put together all the pieces at the end with sashing and so that sashing step is a little fussy and it also adds a design element that you may not always want to use so I this is the way I do it and I snap some pictures when I did it similar quilt to what's on the wall behind me and people were really interested in how I did this so I decided to I'm making another another one of these quilts and I thought I would kind of take you through the process with the video because videos are very helpful teaching people what to do okay and so what I've got here is a pretty it's a twin size quilt and it's I have sewed together the columns of these blocks already so it's four columns long and each and each column is a total of five blocks and you know as you see the design the way I've designed it there's no sashing in between now if you actually wanted to have blocks that had sashing you could have the sashing between the blocks and you could actually have you know have those sashing strips already sewn on okay but the goal is we're going to be quilting one column at a time and we're only going to have the bulk of 1 columns worth so this is what 16 inches or so underneath um our quilt our sorry our sewing machine at a time so this is really awesome for those of us that don't have a great big long arm or you know some other sort of sit-down long arm sort of thing so we can quilt with minimal bulk underneath the quilt okay and so what I wanted to start with is just to show you that I have individual columns and what I'm going to do is I'm going to set up I'm going to sandwich this first column with batting and backing with a little bit of extra all the way around and I'm going to quilt it and when I quilt it on this edge which is the outside edge I'm going to make sure to quilt all the way to the edge the way I want but this edge here where we're going to add the next column to I am NOT going to quilt all the way to the edge I'm going to because I'm using an all-over design I'm going to quilt it so sometimes I go close to the edge and sometimes I kind of leave some space so that in the next round when I add the second column I when I start quilting I will go back and forth across this line here with my overall design and I'll end up with what I hope is a quilt that doesn't arm automat you know does it look like it's been sewn together in columns now I'm going to do free motion you could be quilting you know just straight lines or little wavy lines with a with a foot with a walking foot as well and you know if that's the case if you wanted to do just straight lines up and down there you could just you know quilt to almost the edge but anyways that the point of all of this is we're going to quilt with just one columns width of quilts underneath the sewing machine all the time so let me get that first column all quilted up and then I will come back and show you what I think is the part that is confusing to some people how I add the second column complete with the fabric and the batting in the backing to the first okay so I hope this is going to be helpful alright my friends first of all don't freak out I've gotten also iron so it's supposed to be like that I've also turned it off for this video what but so it's here to tell you about the batting that I'd prefer I use fusible batting it's this particular brand is fuse abou so it's a bamboo cotton blend and I get it at you know big box sewing stores and so I love fusible batting I won't because I hated pin pin basting and when they started using those spray glues I use those but gosh they're um they're hard to deal with inside on because they because of the residue on the floor so when I discovered that I believe Hobbes was the first brand that I used and now I use the fuse aboot really because it's easier for me to get anyway I love fusible batting you don't need it but there's a step later on where it's it really helps me out so anyway I'm using fusible batting so this little sandwich has already been ironed together and I'll probably press it one more time because I see that there's some bubbles here that I'm I need to get down but anyway now that I've talked to about the fusible batting I wanted to show you so this is the first column the leftmost column of the quilt and so I'm going to be adding to this edge and so what I wanted to show you is that I have a border of backing and batting that's bigger on this side than this side because this is the outside edge of my quilt so I'm going to be quilting all the way to the edge you know up at the top and up at the bottom I'm going to be quilting all the way out there so you need to have a good amount of batting and backing at the very edge so you your hands have something to hold while you're quilting I'm got a lot of experience machine quilting so this is enough for me more beginning students I suggest even having more having a strip about maybe even four inches big because you want to lay your your hands flat and quilt all the way to the edge now on this side I don't have as much of an overhang because as I said before what I do in this method with this particular quilt style because I want to have an all-over pattern I am NOT going to be quilting eggs all the way to the edge I'm going to leave an uneven margin not quilted on this pass so that when I add a strip here when I add a strip here I will be quilting you know something that's that's not even attached yet and then I'll come back and forth and I'll fill in the uneven edge here and I'll quote a lot over this particular seam so just to to eliminate the linear nests of the the structure of how we're actually doing that now and again a lot of quilts your quilting pattern may really fit having some linear nests and you know you really may want to have them that goes right to the edge and so in that case if you're doing that I would just suggest having a border a bigger border on this side of the quilt as well so you can quilt all the way to the edge but for this particular project I want to minimize that I'm quilting in columns and so I'm going to give myself some space here okay so I'm just going to go ahead and quilt this first column and then I will come back and show you the most important step which is how to get this all put together when you now work when you add the next set of backing back and quilt top okay I have now quilted this the first column of my quilt and I want to show you a couple of things again don't freak out my iron is a automatic lifter here okay so this is the outside edge with the extra batting and backing so I could quilt right to the edge all along the way and then on this side this is the side that is going to get trimmed and I'm going to add the next column of blocks too and so I've left you know unquoted parts here so it goes in here comes out a little bit here so when I come back and do the next row I'm going to be quilting across this border here so you know I just talked to you about the the fusible batting um the fusible is very in it's not it releases quite easily and so I actually stopped at one point during quilting and ironed it and ironing it again because the edges are quite puffy right now and I want them as flat as they possibly can be so um I just wanted to point that out to you that you know feasible batting is it's very repositionable and it also means when you're quilting it you it loses its stickiness after a while so you may want to put a few pins along the edge anyway so that you don't have your back right see how your backing is very loose here so you don't have your backing flip over and you quilt it in which I'm sure if you've quit machine quilted at all I'm sure this has happened to you at least once okay so what I'm going to do is I'm going to iron this whole strip and then I am going to trim this even right so I'm going to whack off the batting in the backing so this is completely even and this edges this is the outside edge it's going to get trimmed later on but I'm going to leave it um I'm going to leave it for now so that I don't at some point in a dazed dazed and confused State somehow attach the wrong column to the alongside so I leave this as a reminder that that's an outside edge so I'm going to trim this and then I'm going to pin the both the backing and the the next column of blocks to this and I will come back and explain to you exactly how that works you

Channel: Candy Glendening

Views: 391,544

Rating: 4.3039722 out of 5

Keywords: free motion quilting, quilt as you go, QAYG, quilting

Id: L_b9WjeP0mU

Length: 11min 47sec (707 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 13 2014