One reason I have chosen to make this years BOM a QAYG project is because a lot of people have asked me how to join QAYG blocks over the years ....
but also because a lot of our wonderful 2020 BOM'ers are relatively new to the Darkside and the one thing everyone wants to do when they start P&Q is to make something substantial .... like a double bed quilt! ... I know I did (waaaaay, waaaay back in the mid nineties ... and we know what a nightmare that became!)
The trouble with that is, for a newbie, a double quilt is almost designed to put them off ... even with 7 years of experience now, I could not quilt a double bed top in one piece on my machine, its too big, unwieldy and frankly beyond me.
With QAYG you can twiddle a 12" block around under your presser foot to your hearts content and with a lil care achieve some really lovely results ... True... towards the end of assembling the quilt, it can be a bit unwieldy (double bed sized) but it is still achievable.
And with the size of quilt we will have made at the end of this year, 36" x 48" unless you want to add a border, everyone will have something lovely, finished and usable.
You are far more experienced than some of our BOMers Lowena, and can also hand quilt beautifully ... so you finish your quilt as you wish .. In fact maybe you could make a Hand Quilting tutorial for later this year???
I hope everyone is ok with Mays blocks? and also the layering and quilting process shown at the end of the tut.