I am having a problem with top stitching a full size quilt. Therefore I want to learn how to make a large quilt in "sections" and top stitch each section and then sew them all together. I have seen the tuts about "quilt as you go" and just adding pieces, and also the one where you have batting and backing the size of the qi8t and you start in the middle nad add squares/rectangles etc.,, I call those "scrap quilts" and I don't want that at the moment.

I have a quilt with many blocks that have many squares/tris in the block. I don't want to have to stitch around each and every seam of all those squares while dealing with that full size quilt. I can make the section...like a 30x30" section...top stitch them all, leaving the final border/sashing open...and then right sides together stitch the section together and then top stitch those seams.

Am I making this up or could it be a reality? I know the hard part would be matching the seams on the front and back for top stitching them But with a deco stitch, you can cover more "seam" space.

My other problem with top stitching hte entire quilt is keeping the backing flat,straight,even etc so it isn't all rippled up on the back. I just did one and it wasn't to bad, but I know it could be alot better...and my thought is..it'd be alot better if I didn't have to accomodate such a huge foundation/quilt area.

So has any one had any experience in doing this? I saw a Leah Day tut about how she puts together sample sections of stippling etc that she has used as practice and used binding tape to attach them into a quilt..looks nice, but I was hoping to not hhave that obvious attachment "sash". But then agai..sine I am doing them in even square section..the binding might must look like an addition to the quilting.

Any suggestions would be appreciated and pictures if you have them!