Quilt As-You-Go Made Modern: Fresh Techniques for Busy Quilters

This book was fun to look through.

I liked some of the ideas but it isn’t truly a quilt as you go book because you don’t do top, batting and backing at the same time like I was expecting.I used one of the patterns as a guide for how much fabric the quilt would need and it gave me the confidence to just do it! But I found a video to follow with all three parts together like a real quilt as you go quilt.

I used this technique to complete a baby quilt for a friend. In terms of the quilt I knew what I wanted to do and had all the fabric, but didn't relish the thought of machine quilting even a small baby quilt by pushing the entire thing through my machine as I've done before with other quilts. I remember either watching a TV quilting show, or reading a different book, about how to quilt in small sections, but that technique included keeping the backing seam allowances open as you quilted the backing at the same time as the front and batting, and then hand stitched the backing seams together. Something like that anyway.With "Quilt As-You-Go Made Modern", leaving the backing off helps tremendously. Of course you don't necessarily get the same quilted "look" as with traditional techniques, but there has to be some compromises if you want the project to be simpler and faster.I sewed four 6"x6" quilt pieces together and then placed them on top of a 12"x12" cotton batting square and then quilted them using freestyle machine quilting, rather than sewing the 4 pieces directly onto the batting. This was a personal choice and had more to do with the exact placement of the pieces within the quilt as I was able to chain sew them together and keep better track of them. I used solid colors and didn't want 2 pieces of the same color to end up right by each other.Then I sewed the 12"x12" quilted pieces together, then the border with batting, and then the backing. Then I safety pinned everything together and quilted the border portion with all 3 layers together and sewed a wavy line down between each square. Yes, this included pushing the entire quilt through my machine, but wavy one direction lines are certainly easier than freestyle quilting. The binding itself probably took about as long as the rest of the quilt did as I hand stitched the back.So, not including the binding, this quilt was by far the fastest quilt I've ever sewed, and it looks just as nice and I didn't start to resent it as it wasn't around long enough. The friend I gave it to absolutely loves it and asked me about the technique so I dropped the book off at her house a few days later. Hope she starts her own project soon!This technique can be used for long rectangular pieces as well, not just squares. Diagonal pieces too. I have a diamond quilt top started that's been sitting in a storage bin for far too long that I may have another go at with this technique.

I am not a quilter but I would like to be so I ordered this Quilt As You Go book and was very pleased with it. The instructions are easy to follow and are accompanied by a lot of photos of work in progress. I haven't started a quilt yet but with these instructions I feel like I am able to create a wonderful simple quilt.

I have a lot of leftover fabrics and a lot of leftover batting. This book teach a new method of quilting for me and that method is excellent for use that leftover batting and fabrics. Good book. Very recommended.

This is a great book for quilting. It gives you step by step instructions. What I love most is how she wants you to think out of the box. Nothing has to be perfect. Have fun. Make something unique that is your own. I would recommend this book.

Great book, just didn't realize you still need to quilt the back of the quilt together with the top. I thought you'd be able to sew the top to the backing right sides together and not have to struggle with feeding the whole quilt through the machine to quilt the two sides together. Its an awful lot of extra work quilting each square as you go when you still have to quilt the top to the back. This method has a lot of value but it still doesn't eliminate the need to quilt the back to the front. She does say you can use tack stitches at the corner of each block where they join, like the "tying" method, but I'm not confident that would hold up in the wash with such a heavily quilted top. Also, I just wonder how secure those 1/2" sashing/joining strips are going to hold up in the wash as well. You will definitely want to have them gently cleaned I would imagine if you use the sashing/joining strip method for joining your pre-quilted blocks together. Also, when sewing to quilted squares together (the other joining method) this can be really hard on your sewing machine. You need to make sure you are using a really strong needle like a denim needle. My machine broke when I was making a rag quilt where you have to sew quilt sandwich blocks together and it cost $200 to fix. I didn't see anything in the instructions about how to avoid that from happening. And my machine is a Bernina, a good, solid machine, very heavy weight and built for hard work.

I was a little reluctant to purchase this book because I wanted to make sure I was buying something I would use. I have been so pleased with the ideas contained in the book, and I have been motivated to be more creative in my quilt-making. I have already made a quilt using one of her patterns in the book, and everyone that has seen it thinks it's so cute. It was easier to make than traditional quilting is, and even though I was concerned about the back of the quilt looking odd when it is not quilted at the same time as the top of the quilt blocks are, that was not the case at all. For me, it seems easier to keep the quilt squared up when using QAYG. I went ahead and bought her 2nd book and am crazy about it too. I can't wait until her third book comes out. I would highly recommend both this book and the QAYG Made Vintage and think they are well worth the money spent. Instructions have been clear for me, but I already had some quilting experience, so that was a plus for me.

Pelas avaliações que eu tinha visto, achei que seria um livro bastante interessante. Mas achei fraco em conteúno. Não acrescentou muito ao que eu já tinha visto gratuitamente pela internet. Confesso que achei que poderia ter aplicado melhor os valores que investi nesta compra.

Conteúdo interessante, com instruções transmitidas de modo simples e claro. Apresentação de uma nova técnica de quiltar, bastante facilitadora àquelas pessoas que têm dificuldade de lidar com peças grandes.

Várias dicas úteis para quem quer se aventurar no mundo do patchwork/quilt.Pena que não tem uma versão em português :(

.Ótimo livro para iniciantes e também para as mais experientes. Explicado nos mínimos detalhes, este livro foi feito com muito carinho pela autora!

Gostei muito do livro. Explica de forma clara e sucinta o assunto. As seções são bem divididas. Pena não ter a versão em português.