Quilt as you go

Obviously I still don't have any idea how to put the pictures where I want them. But if they stay in the same order I'm seeing them, the one on the left is the scrappy version of a QAYG Rail Fence that we made in our QAYG class. The center one is the QAYG Rail Fence done with three planned colors (although I must have ignored the part about how pink takes over). And, the picture on the right would be the table runner I made using Bonnie Hunter's Boxy Stars pattern and my QAYG techniques.

I originally learned QAYG by making the Fun and Done version of Speedy Stars. In getting ready for this class, I was looking for ways to make it as easy as possible for those doing it for the first time to succeed. So, I picked a rail fence pattern to play with because nothing has to match from one block to the next. Then I had the students strip piece the blocks to minimize cutting
and slipping - and trimming after. I added a step where we baste the pieced block to the batting before we put it with the backing and do the quilting.

Then we talked about doing other patterns with the QAYG method. My class has already done several Boxy Stars quilts and loves the pattern, so I chose that one to make a sample. It became a table runner because I was using scraps and only had enough of the red print for a few blocks.