040 Quilt as You Go ~ Abigail & Mark

Quilt As You Go has intrigued me for a while. 

I'd found a tutorial at Little Island Quilting that I bookmarked as a resource; 

her measurements for the strips are what I used. 

I also found another tutorial at The Quilting Edge .  

While I found her instructions very easy to understand, 

the measurements didn't work for me.

I played around a bit with a few different quilting styles on each block, 

some were better than others...but......

Here it is, done and I like how it turned out.

 The back, better shows the quilting styles.

 "A" quilted on a Hummingbird block....for Abigail

"M" quilted, shown on the back....for Mark

 The measurements for the strips (which look like sashing, but are in fact what hold the blocks together) are: for the front 1 ¾" wide, folded in half, and for the back 1" wide.

 The front sashing and the back sashing are sewn and the back is pressed out.

 I had to go to my Juki to sew this seam because the feet on the Janome were too wide, 

and kept pushing the batted layer away which made for a few 'unsewing' seams.

Back to the Janome to top stitch the front.

I really enjoyed this process, and am currently working on a queen sized Dresden Plate Quilt, 

using the QAYG method.  

Measures 59" x 70"