Quilt As You Go!

You may remember 2 mini pouches I made for our Bee Blessed craft fair.

Well they were made with the leftovers from this ....



I really enjoy the Quilt As You Go (QAYG) method of piecing and quilting all in one go!  It's so satisfying using up scraps and leftover jelly roll strips!  And let's face it, we are always generating more scraps!!

This shopper is of generous proportions, and has an inset zipper closure.  I will be teaching it in class next term, and I'm fairly sure folks will enjoy this technique as much as I do!!



I couldn't resist making a wee matching pouch to go with it! 

And in all the hustle and bustle of the pre-exhibition shenanigans, I completely forgot to tell you that I signed up for Rachael's Low Volume Charm swap!  Here are my submissions, which I got from this lovely lady!

Minimalista (Confetti Watermellon); Comma Nigella Multi

2 yards of loveliness all chopped up and delivered.  Now I just have to be patient and wait for a bundle of low volume goodness to make it's way back across Belfast to me!!

Jxo

QAYG Handbag Class (5 weeks) starting Wednesday 12th February, 7pm.

Crazy Daughter Quilt Take 2!

Okay, so the last one wasn't big enough!

I've added another row and widened it with 2" lilac & 2" white borders - will this be big enough?

Measures 51" x 70"

It gets the thumbs up from my daughter - hooray!

But now I have to quilt it, groan!

Before sewing version 1 altogether, I had contemplated doing a technique called 'Quilt as you go' (quilting each block or row separately, and then cleverly joining each row already quilted), but decided against it because I thought I wouldn't be doing intricate quilting and it wasn't that big (then!).

Now that it is even bigger I wish I had gone with my original strategy!  This is going to be tricky!

I'm going to ponder for a while over the best way to quilt this - I really don't have the patience for rotating a large quilt many times under a small needle space, so any 'easy but stunning' quilting suggestions you may have would be v.welcome!