It was this particular quilt that started my love affair with QAYG quilts, back in 2006. I spent an evening with friends, who were making quilts for an orphanage in the Ukraine. They were tossing around ideas, that I had long forgotten about....but I went home pumped and decided to make a quilt for the orphanage too. I had some quarter circles that I had been playing with and decided to use them for the center of the quilt. I quilted the center and then added each border and quilted each border, before I added the next one.
If you look at the back of the quilt you can see the center with all the borders. I was having such a blast making this quilt, that I called friend to join me and we have been quilting together ever since ( the BLOCKHEADS...more about them another day). I got her so hooked, that I think, maybe, just maybe, her husband thinks I'm a bad influence in the stash department.....me?.....how is that even possible?
I had so much fun I thought I better do one for home. I was playing with circles at the time so I threw them in there too.
- You don't have to stuff the whole quilt under the machine (there are those of you, out there..and you know who are....Lynne...whoops did I say that out loud???) that get a strange satisfaction out of doing just that. Me, I just get a headache.
- There a number of different QAYG methods ( I do love researching different methods).
- The quilt actually gets quilted....now I know, there are many tops hidden away, never to see the light of day, because they never get quilted I have a few, of those myself.