Hi Sewmom, here is the best expalination of Quilt As You Go that I can find. Happy Stitchin'

If you go to YouTube you can watch all kinds of videos to help. Type in domestic machine quilting. Many, many people quilt this way and have won numerous awards at very prestigious awards doing so. I like Leah Day, and Diane Gaudynski the very best..I have a longarm and I quilt for others charging .015 square inch which is quite the norm in my area. The cost goes up for quilting when you do customized work. Contact a local quilt guild and ask for some names of longarm quilters you may find out it does not cost you $200.

You could tie it or make a rag quilt - neither would need a quilting machine. But this is not what you are looking for I know. Just wanted to throw my 2 cents worth in and wish you lots of luck in getting it figured out. I know how ever you decide to do it - it will be beautiful.

If you Google Quilt in the hoop,scroll down to Trish's program is very detailed show's how to do it,Hope this helps.

I use my regular sewing machine to quilt my quilts. It's called free motion quilting. Usually it's stippling. How I wish I had a longarm!!!
Meri

Call me crazy, BUT, I'd be tempted to try to quilt it myself. I would try getting around the stretchiness of the T shirt material by ironing freezer paper to the surface, quilting through it, then tearing off the freezer paper. You iron the shiny side of the freezer paper to the top of your t shirt blocks to stablilize the fabric so it doesn't shift as you machine quilt.

I don't quilt either . I guess I am a want to be quilter., but their expense exceeds my pension. I am tempted to try small projects though. Keep us posted on your progress. kay

Hi sewmon-
I was looking at my helpful hints for something else and came across a helpful hint on quilt-as-you-go. It is from African Sewfari. It gives you the step-by-step instructions as how the pioneer women used to do it on the wagon trains. This might be of help to you, combined with the hints of others - such as the freezer paper ironed on since this is t-shirts. Let us know the method that you end up using and how it turns out. Good luck.

herès my 2cents worth,stabilize your tshirts & leave it on, I dont reccomend using the freezer paper & then removing it becuase then you will be left with flimsy & stretchy not a good combination. Years ago I saw Sandra Betsina do a quilt as you go with her serger very basic. I have tried to locate it but I have been unsuccessful. If you iron light-weight fusable to each t-shirt & then sandwich them with batting & backing of another lwf then you sew a basting stitch all around it then you can quilt it anyway you chose leaving a border of unfinished edges, then you can re-cut to the size you want them to be as quilting will make it smaller.Then you can do a quilt as you go sashing,batting,sashing & then the one side of the back sashing you will have to sew by hand or zigzag it in place. I hope that this is helpful. Hugs Loralye

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