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Building a block that has the binding back and batting in each block. Each Block can be unique or put together as a complete patchwork quilt. Arrange the individual blocks to make any pattern you like.
You can use the Blocks literally as building blocks.
Combine the Blocks to form different sized quilts, table runners, or even placemats. Building blocks this way gives you the flexibility to decide what your end product will be. You can build any number of blocks you feel like sewing.
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barbara kelley
Mar 02. 2015
Your quilting so helpful more videos please
keepnuinstitchesquilting
Mar 02. 2015
Thank You Barbara!
We will be posting more videos daily. Be sure to check back often!
judy jones
Mar 04. 2015
This looks like a do-able method for me. Where do I get the fun&done tool? do you quilt it after everything is sewn together?
Thanks for the info. judy
keepnuinstitchesquilting
Mar 04. 2015
Hi Judy,
The tool is called the Batting Buddy it is available on line, I found it on Amazon But it is also available on several websites Just Google Fun and Done. No you do not need to quilt it when it is done. The steps of sewing the pieces on to the batting and backing is the quilting, so when you are done joining the blocks your quilt is complete, you don’t even need a binding!
Thank You
Keeping U N Stitches Quilting
Joan Neeld
Mar 04. 2015
I have made a full size quilt using this method. You quilt each block with the 3 layers stacked. It turned out very nice. I just felt the blocks were smaller than I would have liked. I will use this method again using larger blocks. I will have to measure and cut on my own though.
Tonie Peterson
Mar 06. 2015
thank you that is wonderful! will look for the alternate patterns as well
Chris
Mar 08. 2015
I have done several of these quilt. it is so nice to have it all done where you put the squares together.
keepnuinstitchesquilting
Mar 08. 2015
Chris,
Yes Chris I couldn’t agree more. And what a time saver to do several steps at once, A multi-taskers Dream
Best Stitches
The Staff of Keeping U N Stitches Quilting
Shelley
Mar 11. 2015
It wasn’t completely clear to me if when you are sewing the blocks together into a row you only stitch from corner to corner (marked with the pin) or edge to edge.
keepnuinstitchesquilting
Mar 11. 2015
Hi Shelly,
You do sew the blocks together edge to edge. this will make the outer boarder or the binding in this method pieced so you can fold over twice and sew it down to the block fronts.
Hope this answers your question!
The Staff of Keeping U N Stitches Quilting!
Janice Ness
Mar 12. 2015
Jeri SorensonPallow Lori Nathe Marge Honer
Kathy Lang Buirge
Mar 22. 2015
interesting
Kellie McKinney
Mar 23. 2015
omg, I love this. I have seen other quilt as you go techniques that involve hand s$#%&!@*ching the back, but this is easier and the outlined blocks are so pretty. Thank you for the video. I will be trying this soon.
Sue Piraino
Mar 24. 2015
For Future Reference
Connie Curtis
Mar 24. 2015
I think Jan used to do these…………
Patti Stites
Mar 24. 2015
Leslie Johnston Birmingham… I could do this
Dee Durall Fedor
Mar 26. 2015
Just placed my order. 🙂
Katheryn Becker
Mar 26. 2015
Q for Joan Neeld- is it easier to make a lrg quilt using this method?
Katheryn Becker
Mar 26. 2015
what size of blocks r u using taht it takes 175blocks for your queen?
Sue H
Mar 27. 2015
Is this Susan Nelson’s Prairie Sky Quilting’s pattern? Her patterns that use this technique are called Fun & Done. She also makes the Batting Buddy. Very talented lady.
Sharon Oestreicher
Mar 28. 2015
My Aunt Versa used to do this way back in the 70s.
Maureen Hawks Rosetti
Mar 28. 2015
looks like a way you could QUILT one Corlee Fidurko
Carla Lam
Apr 02. 2015
I like this method
Joan White
Apr 04. 2015
Thank you, I couldn’t figure out how to do that but now I do–great instructions 🙂 🙂
Linda Humberd
Apr 06. 2015
It is also called Lap Quilting and Georgia Bonesteel came out with it many years ago. She has books and has had a TV program for a long time.
Mimi Williams
Apr 08. 2015
When my curser lays on any of your blue areas such as “tools” advertisers have snagged them and a screen pops up before I even click…Kelly Blue Book, Sears, are some of the many as I tried other choices.
Margaret Rose Langston
Apr 09. 2015
I like this idea. Once you got the hang of it, it seem like you could make all the blocks and then quilting when you want something to pick up at night.
Bonnie Alexander
Apr 11. 2015
Jessica Pariera Borg–maybe you want to try this on the next one
Mary DeVries Greeno
Apr 13. 2015
I’ve do that very thing, it works great!
Alice Price
Apr 14. 2015
Thanks Donna McLean Young. This looks like an easy quilt to make for my sewing guild for lap robes for the elderly. 🙂
Mary Hammers
Apr 15. 2015
Wow, oh Wow! I have so pinned this to my favorites. I have several “quilt as you go” methods in mind, but this is going to be my favorite one. I will be back again and again. I have several quilt blocks done and ma so going to use this method of joining them together. I can see why it is Fun and Done.
Kate Lechert Parks
Apr 15. 2015
Definitely want to try this.
Jeanene Lucille Brough
Apr 19. 2015
LOVE this for so many reasons!!!
Diana Arausa
Apr 20. 2015
Linda Prenger get your sewing area done LOL
Linda Prenger
Apr 20. 2015
Go to you tube it’s on there I just watched it
Agnes Spivey Harris
Apr 23. 2015
I’ve made a few of these. Love doing it this way
Mary Olson
Apr 27. 2015
You are making me like this. I used to do lots of hand quilting, until it is too hard to thread the needles anymore.
Brenda Thompson
May 02. 2015
Good video!
Ann Lamacraft
May 04. 2015
I knew there had to be a way to do it.
Althea Moore
May 04. 2015
Sure a lot easier than trying to learn Free Motion Quilting on a whole Quilt. One of these days.
Mary Williams
May 04. 2015
I love making quilts with this method..
Diana Molly Dunn
May 06. 2015
i do mine like that all the time
Georgia Hooker
May 08. 2015
Or Doll House quilts!
Carrie Weiss
May 08. 2015
following
Charlotte Ann Carmack Howett
May 08. 2015
I tried this and like it. Just need to master it before I make a real quilt.
Terry Elliott
May 10. 2015
Thanks so much Debs! I plan to use it! 🙂
Ann Ritchey Bristow
Aug 09. 2015
This is an interesting technique.
Marion Ripley
Aug 09. 2015
This looks very interesting, may give it a go.
Kathy Zembrowski
Aug 10. 2015
Sherry Zembrowski Horstman let us try doing this together. Just like making pierogies.
Helen Honea Knight
Aug 10. 2015
I need to learn how to do this.
Linda Keeler
Aug 10. 2015
@[100004930383687:2048:Pat Koch] —-
rosa
Aug 10. 2015
what size block does it make. would be nice if DIFFERENT size block options were available to buy for the Batting Buddy
Alice Martin
Aug 11. 2015
This is what I love doing.
Elaine Walrath
Aug 11. 2015
Thanks
Sharon Petterson-Yeo
Aug 11. 2015
Fabulous, looks like a fun project
Diane Schreiner
Aug 11. 2015
I would love a set – 12′, 10′, & 8′. – We could then convert all of our favorite blocks to to fun & done quilts.
Robyn Steedman
Aug 11. 2015
Hey Kylie Francis check this out
Joanne Newton
Aug 11. 2015
@[100002442641526:2048:Lois Stellute Mulrath]
Denise Whitney
Aug 11. 2015
@[1202472014:2048:Barbara Hopkins]
Susan Jones Courington
Aug 11. 2015
Wish we could get together and make this @[100000147715965:2048:Donna Ratcliff Shaw Maynard]!
Donna Ratcliff Shaw Maynard
Aug 11. 2015
Would be fun wouldn’t it. Miss you!
Susan Jones Courington
Aug 11. 2015
We’ve been going to Grace Crossing. Haven’t seen you
Donna Ratcliff Shaw Maynard
Aug 11. 2015
Wish I had known that. We’re coming back life’s been crazy!! Been out of town a lot!
Susan Jones Courington
Aug 11. 2015
Will look for you Sunday. We go to first service then Bible cl$#%&!@*
Norma Speers
Aug 12. 2015
Like this. Where wus u buy these double templates plus?
Susan Jones Courington
Aug 12. 2015
We sit on the right side about in the middle
Donna Wier Webb
Aug 12. 2015
I have one of these to put together
JayeAnn Remedies
Aug 13. 2015
Have always used the backing as binding..was the way I was taught!
Mary Evelyn Johnson
Aug 13. 2015
Wow this is very pretty….a lot of work!!
Brenda Kramer
Aug 13. 2015
Thank you for posting
Margarita Tagg-Bry
Aug 14. 2015
Beautiful!
Edie Farnum
Aug 14. 2015
Working on one now.
Joy Gardner
Aug 14. 2015
think I want to try this
Joy Gardner
Aug 14. 2015
yes I also want to know where to get template
Marcia Day
Aug 14. 2015
@[1483205019:2048:Dale-Pam Hyde Smith]
Mary Hammers
Aug 15. 2015
I love this way of quilting and finishing and joining blocks together.
Carolyn Davis Gilreath
Aug 15. 2015
I made two of these, fun
Debi Yakel
Aug 15. 2015
I am working on one like this right now, anxious to see how it turns out. my blocks are looking pretty good
Vanessa Baird
Aug 15. 2015
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Bernice Van Damme
Aug 15. 2015
This is a quilt that I made using this technique, but made scrappy 11″ log cabin blocks. I really enjoyed seeing this quilt, it was easy to handle, and the best part…it gets finished. Gave it to my daughter in law and she loves it!
Beverley Lee McGrath
Aug 16. 2015
@[1550334787:2048:Pat], sounds good to me!
Christine Roots
Aug 16. 2015
Nice!
Vicki Walker
Aug 16. 2015
Will definitely be making this one. I found the Batting Buddy on sale at this site for less than $20 (it was over $40 on amazon).
Carol Miller
Aug 16. 2015
@[100003386075556:2048:Rosslyn Taylor]
Carolyn Cox
Aug 16. 2015
Interesting
Lorna Stevenson
Aug 17. 2015
Oh! I Want to Make This One!!!
Suzanne Bowman
Aug 17. 2015
This is exactly what I did few months ago. This is a king size quilt for my bed. It took me some time to make it and even it is a quilt as you go, you still need some big muscles to move that “thing” around. I couldn’t chose smaller to start? no! why make simple when you can make complicated!
Elizabeth A Hughes
Aug 17. 2015
Beautiful…
Vicki Walker
Aug 17. 2015
http://patternbarn.com/fun-and-done-batting-buddy-template-set-by-prairie-sky-quilting.html?language=en¤cy=USD&gclid=Cj0KEQjw6cCuBRCh4KrGoJ6LoboBEiQAwzYsdASJZNIdhymCwTzIqB1LgerhR0JozQF3R8D_gP0IfmsaAsyt8P8HAQ
Edna Bungay McCann
Aug 18. 2015
Will try this!
Betty Jessee
Aug 18. 2015
Amy Otoupaulik – this will be helpful.
Julie Johns
Aug 18. 2015
Lovely xxx
Felecia Finley
Aug 18. 2015
@[1470240656:2048:Carolyn Moore Finley Throop]
Marilee Matz
Aug 18. 2015
We did this a few years ago
Lisa-Marie Rohlf
Aug 19. 2015
Is yet another ruler really necessary? The lady using the batting buddy ruler placed the batting in the ruler insert to perfectly center the batting and when she removed the ruler the batting moved so she set the batting in place without the ruler. LOL
Tanya Henrie
Aug 19. 2015
Love this idea. Good way to use scrapes
Robin Beaver Klass
Aug 20. 2015
definitely want to try this
Robin Beaver Klass
Aug 20. 2015
where do I get the batting buddy?
Marsha Halsey
Aug 20. 2015
I have done a few this way. I think it goes quicker and easier.
Christina Olivarez Price
Aug 21. 2015
Love this, <3
Jan Clink
Aug 21. 2015
going to try this!!
Sharon Knudsen
Aug 21. 2015
I have got to try this – looks so much easier than backing & binding a big quilt.
Dianna Siewert
Aug 21. 2015
I would like to try this sometime 🙂
Rosemary Gilbert
Aug 21. 2015
Would love to try that.
Peggy Ferguson
Aug 21. 2015
looks amazing
Connie Brown
Aug 21. 2015
Just got this pattern!
Betty Newman Janney
Aug 22. 2015
@[1404365929:2048:Doris Newman Wortham]
Mavis Ellis
Aug 22. 2015
You don’t need another ruler. Just measure carefully.
Donna Cost
Aug 22. 2015
Neat technique. May try it someday.
Shirley Thomas
Aug 22. 2015
Must look at this later…
Jessie Bye
Aug 22. 2015
I like doing this quilt. Uses up a lot of pieces.
Diana Webb Smith
Aug 23. 2015
I love this method!
Janet Young
Aug 23. 2015
I did this about four years ago . I wanted to use up some of
my mom material I love it .the guilt was done in .no time
Sharon Moore
Aug 23. 2015
@[1386480133:2048:Hannah Moore Wheeler]
Janet Umstead
Aug 23. 2015
I have been working on this pattern for my boys, it is so very fun.
Ursula Hulme
Aug 23. 2015
Am I able to get the batting buddy in the UK or is there an equivalent?
Jean Sloboda Ramelli
Aug 23. 2015
Love to do this!
Bev Allen
Aug 23. 2015
LIKE!!
Sherry Tavernia Cutliff
Aug 23. 2015
@[1316855216:2048:Cindy James Turner]
Barbara G Dowdy
Aug 23. 2015
Beautiful quilt!! Will be happy when I finally get mine finished…taking a while, doing it by hand, when travelling and at bedtime. I think a lot of my strings are smaller than the ones pictured here 🙂
Judy Weible
Aug 25. 2015
Looks familiar
Jennifer Dennis Martin
Aug 25. 2015
I LIKE this! No more cutting and sewing of joining pieces! I’m in the process of finishing a QAYG, just got all my joining fabrics cut last night. I could have been through by now using this method. Definitely going to try this next time.
Linda Marshall
Aug 25. 2015
Absolutely beautiful!
Marguerite Arrington
Aug 25. 2015
i did this 8 yrs ago dreamed how to do it
Suzanne Moffitt
Aug 26. 2015
I like this method
Theresa Wood
Aug 26. 2015
I’m with you. Just think when you finished it you were able to enjoy looking at it on your bed. My very first quilt was a king size because I wanted to use it for our bed. It took me a year to finish free motion quilting it but I did it and now it’s my pride and joy of all my quilts since. I too have since learned to QAYG, which I like but I also make quilt tops that I need to quilt.
Peggy Randol
Aug 26. 2015
Am doing this now Bert.
june springer
Aug 26. 2015
Where do I get the video for the quilt, you are talking about.
keepnuinstitchesquilting
Aug 26. 2015
Hi June, From the Facebook page Click on the Picture of the quilt. That will open a new page with the same Picture. Below that picture you’ll see where it says to SCROLL DOWN & Find “Next Page” Highlighted In Color. If you Scroll Down or swipe up on a tablet, or drag the scroll bar down on the right side of the page. You will see the words Next Page Highlighted in Slightly Larger GREEN Test. Click on the Words Next Page. You will now see a similar page with the words SCROLL DOWN TO SEE THE VIDEO. Drag the Scroll Bar Down the on Right side of your page until you see the Video. At the Bottom of that Video is another Video you can also watch using the same method of Clicking on the words “Next Page” Highlighted in Green Text. It all sounds very complicated but once you see the words Next Page highlighted in GREEN that’s where you Click to see additional Video’s.
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Marge Kommer Porter
Aug 26. 2015
Want the pattern, how do I get it?
Marilyn Underhill
Aug 26. 2015
@[100008198985159:2048:Anita Watson] Marilyn Underhill
Chris McAnally
Aug 27. 2015
A quick car quilt made on the weekend.
Sherry Magee
Aug 27. 2015
I’ve made one of these and they do go pretty quickly
Donna Holzman
Aug 27. 2015
Think there 9 inch
Lee Ann Gatewood
Aug 27. 2015
@[1851280537:2048:Cindy Roggow] @[100000301121667:2048:Sheri Lucas] check this out
Joyce Mirow
Aug 27. 2015
@[100001349094275:2048:Sunnie Regnier Hall] – look at this ….
Carol Engeron
Aug 27. 2015
OK, this is just a variation of the “Cotton Theory” way of creating a block and “quilt” all at one. I WILL NOT PURCHASE another “gadget” as it isn’t necessary. NOTE If you embroider/applique/create a different block for the BACK instead of using a plain piece of fabric you will end up with a reversible quilt. This is how Betty Cotton does her quilts and it is amazing.
Melba
Aug 28. 2015
The one sold at http://patternbarn.com/fun-and-done-batting-buddy-template-set-by-prairie-sky-quilting.html?language=en¤cy=USD&gclid=Cj0KEQjw6cCuBRCh4KrGoJ6LoboBEiQAwzYsdASJZNIdhymCwTzIqB1LgerhR0JozQF3R8D_gP0IfmsaAsyt8P8HAQ
states that the inner square is 7 1/2″ so the finished block would be 7 1/2″ since the backing folds over the top without a seam allowance being taken away. Only 7″ would be showing, the other 1/2″ would be covered by the folded over backing.
Dolly Pokorny
Aug 28. 2015
You remembered!
Debbie Diggs Verberne
Aug 28. 2015
fun way to use up the remnants of material
Sherri L Cook
Aug 28. 2015
I’m learning how to quilt with jelly roll strips @[100000429308080:2048:Frankie Martin]… I’m making that one called Summer in the Park… I sure hope you’re feeling better hon! ❤️❤️❤️
Flo McConville
Aug 30. 2015
Like.
Dolores DiLeo Demko
Aug 30. 2015
Interesting
Pat Burden
Sep 01. 2015
Check this out @[548943896:2048:Michelle Burden]
Rena Monholland
Sep 01. 2015
I am doing one of these now.
Dianna White
Sep 01. 2015
I like! Working on a couple too. King size bed too.
Merrilyn Glynn
Sep 03. 2015
I would love to learn this
Deb Muncy Henderson
Sep 05. 2015
Beautiful! Which pattern is that?
Deb Muncy Henderson
Sep 05. 2015
Just got mine for $29 on Amazon with free shipping
Deb Muncy Henderson
Sep 05. 2015
$29 with free shipping at Amazon works out to be about the same as Patternbarn.com
Suzanne Bowman
Sep 07. 2015
s@ Deb: same one than above, it is just the placement/cut of fabric that makes the design. You just cut strips of fabrics
Donna Carlyle
Sep 08. 2015
I am fixing to start a queen size quilt I think I am just going to jump in with both feet an learn the quilt as you go. Lord have mercy on my arms. I also have a friend who is bringing me some (30) of her Hubby’s ties she wants to make into a quilt for him…
Your quilt is Beautiful I can only pray mine turns out that beautiful . How long did it take you to make it??
Suzanne Bowman
Sep 08. 2015
approx 2 months but don’t you worry about it, it is very easy to do. You don’t have to worry about points, seams allowances, just cut and sew together!
Betty Burdick
Sep 08. 2015
I just watched a video on this. I’ll find it for you. I think it was called fun & done.
Mary Lamantia
Sep 10. 2015
My first quilt and excited to make more…
Marcy Crossman
Apr 26. 2016
How much bigger is the backing? I have 8 1/2″ blocks and need to know what I need on each side
Viola Brown Swain
Apr 26. 2016
love it
Lecia Tinsley Porter
Apr 26. 2016
I’ve used this technique a couple of times. It’s great!
Lecia Tinsley Porter
Apr 26. 2016
Amanda
Robyn Wilson
Apr 26. 2016
Lol….sweet
But dont they mean…
Top
Middle
Bottom….lol
Robyn Wilson
Apr 26. 2016
& it looks like a scrap quilt too…:-)
Jan Daniels
Apr 27. 2016
Love this tip! Would like to try it!
Sharon G. Logan
May 15. 2016
Brenda Moody Kempton
Paula Myers
May 22. 2016
Leanna McLemore Wanona Lanier Yates Marci Estep Carolyn Beene…..
Janice
Jun 11. 2016
I loved this technique! I figured her finished block is 16 1|2 in and her backing was 20 in I would need at least 3 inches on all sides. It might be done with less for a smaller binding / sash.
Linda Compher
Feb 11. 2017
Sally Rathkamp
Becky Russell Hall
Feb 11. 2017
None of the links y I have have shared have opened for me!