Quilt As You Go: A practical guide to 14 inspiring techniques & projects

by Carolyn Forster

Overview

Make a quilt in small manageable sections, with this practical guide to 14 inspiring and budget-friendly techniques & projects for anyone who wants to create simple quilts for family and friends.







If you love to sew and quilt but don’t have a lot of time or space, Quilt As You Go method is a great option because you are working with one block at a time before putting a quilt together. The focus of this comprehensive and inspiring book is its 14 quilt-as-you-go techniques. Each technique is fully photographed step-by-step, and then ideas are given for transforming these completed, discrete blocks into full-size projects. All the templates required are included at full size.

Quilting-as-you-go makes the quilting process simple and manageable and, for hand-sewn techniques, portable. If you are nervous about committing to a full-size quilt, or simply want to be able to take your work with you when you travel, this book will help you achieve remarkable results.
Many people associate quilt-as-you-go with hand-stitched English paper piecing, but there are far more quilt-as-you-go techniques available to you, some of which work better by hand, others with machine stitching. Choose from 14 techniques here, including potholder quilts, stitch-and-flip, envelope quilts, lined circles and cathedral windows.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782219408
Publisher:	Search Press
Publication date:	12/07/2021
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	498,702
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Carolyn Forster started making quilts when she was a teenager and went on to study Textiles at the University of Bath. Since graduating, she has taught patchwork and quilting both in the UK and the USA and has had her quilts featured in a number of books and magazines, including Fabrications, Popular Patchwork and Patchwork and Quilting. Carolyn lives in Tunbridge Wells, UK with her husband and son.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

History 8

You will need 12

Quilting 18

Binding 20

Techniques

1 Quilting on the go 26

Stitching blocks in a row 30

Stitching rows together 32

Turning the blocks into a quilt 34

2 Stitch-and-flip 36

Joining the blocks: method 1 40

Turning the blocks into a quilt 44

Joining the blocks: method 2 48

3 Piecemaker's quilting 52

Joining the strips 54

Turning the strips into a quilt 56

4 Manx log cabin 60

Traditional: by hand or machine 60

Turning the blocks into a quilt 64

Modern Manx log cabin 67

5 Potholder quilting 70

Potholder quilt block pattern: Greek Cross variation 72

Turning the blocks into a quilt 74

6 Japanese reversible patchwork 78

Creating a reversible hexagon 79

Turning the blocks into a quilt 82

Alternative block options 84

7 Envelope quilting 86

Making a QAYG envelope 88

Turning the envelopes into a quilt 90

8 Cathedral windows 92

Making a 4-block mini quilt 94

Turning the blocks into a quilt 96

9 Siddi quilting 100

Working Siddi patchwork 102

Making a Siddi patchwork mini quilt 104

10 Appliqué quilting 108

Making an appliqué quilt block 110

Turning the blocks into a quilt 112

11 Lined circles 114

Making a lined circles mini quilt 116

Turning the lined circles into a-quilt 118

12 Fringed quilting 120

Making a fringed 4-block mini quilt 122

Turning the blocks into a quilt 124

13 Suffolk puffs 126

Key considerations 128

Making Suffolk puffs using a Yo yo maker 129

Turning the Suffolk puffs into a quilt 130

14 Pojabi patchwork 132

Machine-only method 134

Hand-only method 134

Machine and hand method 135

Creating a block 135

Making a Pojabi quilt 136

Templates 140