I just finished a project that I prepped earlier this year for the quilting retreat. It is a potholder quilt (45" 57") that my Mom started when she moved to the lodge and in the end was having trouble quilting the images in the middles so when she passed I inherited it. She had wanted it to go to a great grandchild and so I will now see about getting it to its new home.
This is a quilt as you go technique where you cut a front, batting and then a larger backing. You layer the front and batting centered on the backing and quilt a design to secure all the layers. Once your pieces are all ready to go you sew two pieces to each other by layering the backings to each other and sew a line near the edge of the front/batting layer. Then, you iron the large allowances flat, fold them in half and sew them down to the fronts. You can stitch together as many in a row as you wish and then as many rows as you wish. The rows are connected in the same manner as the individual squares. Finally, you fold over the edges and sew them to the quilt and you are finished!! I stitched a variety of images usually with one line though a few have overlaps or backstitching to line up the piece. It was fun to stitch stars, butterflies, balloons, houses, flowers, trees, kites, boats, muffins, light house, drum, swirly heart, leaf, bonnet, etc.
It is a great technique for building a quilt a few squares/rectangles at a time. This quilt is made from polyester cotton fabrics and flannel squares as batting. Therese
