{"id":34826,"date":"2016-11-21T05:06:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T12:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=34826"},"modified":"2016-11-20T22:18:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T05:18:21","slug":"qayg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/qayg\/","title":{"rendered":"QAYG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mom wanted to go on a mini-shop hop. She mentioned it a couple of times as soon as she heard about the Jingle Bells (??) shop hop. So, we planned it. Since the shops were kind of limited, I suggested that we visit Friend Julie and add Back Porch Fabrics<\/a> and Hart’s<\/a> to our shop hop. We spent the night with Julie and went to Back Porch in the morning.<\/p>\n

I have spoken\/written about that shop many times<\/a>. It isn’t a large shop, but I love the aesthetic, the light, the colors. Generally I want to buy everything. Some would argue, in this instance, I did. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

That is a topic for another day. On this particular day, Gail Abeloe, the owner was in the shop and she spent a lot of time being friendly and showing us different things. I know she was in top notch sales mode, but I don’t care. It was great.<\/p>\n

\"Quilt<\/a>
Quilt As You Go Made Modern – C&T Publishing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the things she showed was a new (ish??) book called Quilt As-You-Go Made Modern: Fresh Techniques for Busy Quilters<\/em><\/a>. This really caught my attention as I saw, from her brief demo, how I could churn out more fully completed donation quilts. Gail included an additional handout\/tips sheet with the books she sold at her store.<\/p>\n

Almost as soon as I got home, I took some of the red and white donation blocks<\/a> I had been stockpiling along with some leftover batting from recent longarm projects and tried it out.<\/p>\n

\"First<\/a>
First joined\/quilted QAYG blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While I can’t say, I am 100% successful, I only need some practice and refining of the process. I have several blocks quilted and I am in the process of joining them together.<\/p>\n

One of the keys is to join the blocks in such a way that you don’t have to applique a join on a block, which I think was how the original technique was explained.<\/p>\n

One thing I need to do next time is to make the batting pieces larger and trim them after quilting and before joining the pieces.<\/p>\n

It is possible to use this technique along with regular piecing, so I have been making progress on these blocks as leaders and enders while I piece The Peacock<\/a>. It isn’t a quick process and sometimes I feel frustrated, but I remember I am also quilting the quilt at the same time.<\/p>\n

I’d also like to try foundation piecing straight on to the batting – kind of string piecing, but with large-ish strips.<\/p>\n

I never heard of this book and will do a review later, but I do hope to have a quilt top done and “quilted” soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mom wanted to go on a mini-shop hop. She mentioned it a couple of times as soon as she heard about the Jingle Bells (??) shop hop. So, we planned it. Since the shops were kind of limited, I suggested that we visit Friend Julie and add Back Porch Fabrics and Hart’s to our shop … Continue reading “QAYG”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[352,343],"class_list":["post-34826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-374","tag-construction","tag-techniques"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}