Sashing strips
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Sashing strips
Is it allowable to piece sashing strips? This is for a baby quilt....which is 45 inches wide and my fabric is 44 inches wide. Go figure, right? I don't think the baby will mind, but I don't want to do it if it really shouldn't be done. Thanks for your expert advise!
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If possible, I would not seam it together 1" from the edge. If you have enough fabric, I'd probably add on 6.5" and trim -- seaming at a 45 degree angle. It will be much less noticeable than trying to add on multiple seams that are all close to the border. Also, I would alternate whether the short piece is on the right or left side of the quilt to again trick the eye into overlooking it. Of course, as you said, Baby really isn't going to care even if it's seamed on SOG right at the edge.
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I would either use corner stones to avoid this problem. If you don't want to do this I would make sure the diagonal seams appear in different places in the long strip it would be less noticeable.
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