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3 Comments Fun & Done Quilt Patterns
Fun & Done Quilt Patterns from Prairie Sky Quilting are just that. Fun to make – you can see you quilt come together right before your eyes. And they are Done before you know it. Finish the top and you are Done!
If you stopped at Prairieland Quilts during the shop hop that’s going on now, then you may have seen Suzanne demonstrate this easy quilt-as-you-go method. (And there’s still time! The shop hop is going until the end of the day tomorrow.)
The Batting Budding is a template that will make the process easier but you can make one of these quilts without it, too. Use the outer template to cut your backing; use the inner template to cut your batting. Lay down your backing, then use the outer template again to help center the batting on the backing.
Then start sewing your top pieces on. There are templates included in the patterns to get you started. After you complete one block, you trim the top and the batting; you’ll have backing extending beyond the block. The excess backing will be use to sew the blocks together.
After you have a row of blocks sewn together the backing between the blocks is folded over to each side with the raw edges under the fold and these pieces are top-stitched down.
See? Almost done! The rows are sewn together. The backing is brought around to the front all along the edges, turned under and topstitched to create the binding. And now you ARE done!
Here’s a finished Fun & Done Quilt . . .
If you’re ready to try this there are a dozen patterns from which to choose.
I have been trying to find the fun & done or some said it was the quilt as you go .
What is the correct term and is there a pattern that you leave the seams showing and cut the 1/2 ‘ ‘ seams with a special fringing scissors?
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Both terms are correct. “Fun & Done!” is the name Susan Nelson of Prairie Sky Quilting has given to her patterns with her particular method of constucting and quilting as the same time. “Quilt As You Sew” is what Sondra Davison of Out Of The Blue calls her method. And then others use “Quilt As You Go”. You might want to try a few methods to see which works best for you.
I’ve never tried it but I think the 1/2″ seams that are left with raw edges are usually flannel quilts. Then you wash them and dry them several times to get all those edges to fringe. But it’s really hard on your dryer! There’s LOTS of lint build up and I’ve heard you need to clean out the lint trap every few minutes.
I made a fun&done quilt in a weekend, it was very easy