Hello my quilting friend! Do you like Quilt-As-You-Go, ? I love this technique for connecting blocks after they are quilted because it makes piecing and quilting on a home machine much easier.

Today I'm chatting with Jenedel Wilcox, a hobby quilter who uses a really cool 3 Step Quilt-As-You-Go technique to make her quilts.

We collaborated on a little quilt project and I sent Jenedel nine embroidered / quilted blocks from the Marvelous Modern embroidery design collection and she connected them together to create this fantastic mini quilt! 

She also sent me the hexagon pictured on the right which was created by connecting three 60-degree triangles. Super cool!

I love quilt as you go because it makes quilts so much more manageable on a small home machine and it allows you to quilt intricate designs over blocks that might be really challenging to quilt otherwise. Jenedel not only shares this technique in the podcast, she also typed up a little info sheet that you can download too.

On Monday we started our third quilt along project this year, the Prism Path baby quilt. This baby quilt is very fast to piece and even faster to machine quilt.

Find the quilt pattern for Prism Path in the book Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day.

The download digital version of the book is currently on sale for $19.99.

For Prism Path, we are using a collection of rainbow batik fabrics which tend to bleed dyes more than solid or print fabrics which means prewashing is very important here.

Many quilter’s skip this step and rush straight to piecing because washing, starching, and pressing fabric can takes extra time.

But if you want to make a baby quilt that can actually be USED by a real baby which means being covered in spit-up, peed on, drug around the house, stomped on the floor, etc., then it will need to be washed.

If you want to wash your quilt with confidence and never have to worry about the dyes bleeding or fabrics going weird, then you must wash your fabric before cutting it into pieces for your quilt.

Several months ago I had an idea to print Twisted Squares, a free motion quilting design, on fabric. I wanted to try quilting a quilt upside down with the printed backing fabric face up, and a scrappy quilt face down.

This method of quilting in reverse really worked well and I'm already planning more prints that can be used as a guide for quilting. Sometimes it's just nice not to have to think about the quilting design too much and Twisted Squares was perfect because all I had to do was quilt on the straight lines.

And yes, the Slice quilting ruler I used in this tutorial is coming soon cut for both home machines and longarms. Make sure to check the newsletters this month for news about these new quilting rulers.

So that's it for this week. I've had such a blast sharing these tutorials on Twisted Squares, Prism Path, and learning Jenedel's Quilt As You Go technique. Find all of these tutorials, plus hundreds more right here at LeahDay.com

Let's go quilt.

Leah Day