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

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.

This book helped me to understand the QAYG method, different than I thought!! Made doing the border seem simple!! Trying these steps on my next quilt.

Directions were great!

I was new to quilting and had never heard of Quilt as you Go when I watched a video by this author on how to do it. It seemed like a good method for a beginner and I ordered the book so I'd have a good reference guide at my fingertips. This is a great tool to have. It gives you so much reference material on how many blocks you need from baby quilts to king size quilts, what tools you need to get started and a step by step method of quilting. She offers a couple of great instructions on how to join your blocks and some very simple block patterns that even a beginner will find easy to follow. I would highly recommend this book if you're new to quilting or Quilt as You Go. Even though you can watch a YouTube video and find out how to do things, it's no substitute for having this great reference at your fingertips while you're sewing. I completed an entire quilt using the instructions in this book and referred to it several times from start to finish.

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 had wished there was a way to quilt as you go when I first started quilting, 2 years ago. I didn't know it was possible. So glad I happened upon this book and watched a video. I will definitely be using this method in the future. I already had my blocks made for a quilt, so I haven't sewed material to batting as described in the book, yet, but the quilting went much quicker and easier this way. Nothing fancy, but I did nice diagonal quilting on the blocks, sewed them together as instructed and it looks fine. Still constructing so backing isn't on yet. Instructions are explained well with pictures; there is also a video on YouTube. I'm happy to have this book, not only for the method of quilting but for the other projects included.

I highly recommend this book to beginners like me, it explains in detail step by step on quilting, I also love the projects she added in putting together beautiful quilts. she has incredibly good taste in fabrics too! Love her work, love her style.

This is sort of an odd book. I have long ago made my own versions of quilts made block by block and joined in various methods. This book is very forgiving of crooked designs and “cut and paste” versions of any pattern. The benefit is that this book gives permission and encouragement to just start, to try things, do a little when you have a few minutes, and forgive your mistakes by seeing the imperfections as creative choices. The book is not a better way to quilt without a long arm if you are looking for new methods unless you’re very new to sewing and quilting. It has value but it’s not for me