New QAYG Experiments

QAYG is short for quilt-as-you-go, the quilting term we use for connecting quilted blocks together. I’ve been playing around with machine embroidery this week and decided it was also time to experiment with some new quilt-as-you-go methods.

I’m giving myself permission to play and not worry about turning these into real finished projects. I’ve played around with these quilt-as-you-go techniques before, but never really gave them a chance.

Either I’m very practical or super lazy because once I found my favorite quilt-as-you-go method, I pretty much stuck with that ever since. But I’ve gotten a lot of requests lately for more techniques, specifically for connecting blocks together without binding.

I’m also trying to come up with methods that require less…precision. That’s kinda tricky since cutting and piecing accurately is a cornerstone of quilting, but stitching a quilted project together makes that a lot more challenging.

Quilting shrinks the quilt, sometimes in inconsistent ways that make trimming down the edges a real chore. I was comparing methods yesterday and no matter what I tried and played with, the results were always a bit squishy. Mostly because the quilt squares were squishy! LOL!

So I’m hoping to figure out some new QAYG methods to share with you soon along with a new embroidery collection with the designs in the pictures above. A faster connection method will definitely come in handy if we want to make something in time for Christmas!

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day