Thanks everybody for the great answers already! This quilting board is the best place!
There is no longer a picture of the 2009 shop hop quilt anywhere on line, but here is a link to picture of the fabrics:
http://www.yelp.com/events/seattle-w...-shop-hop-2009
The sashing fabric is the periwinkle tonal, and while there are randomly placed ring patterns on the fabric, it does not appear to be directional.
The pattern originally called to cut the fabric into 112 rectangles that are 2" by 8 1/2", however, the original pattern called for 49 blocks (7 rows of 7) and cornerstones. I am making my quilt smaller with only 25 blocks, and I am not doing cornerstones; and since I am doing only 25 blocks instead of 49, I am increasing the sashing to be 2" wide, so I will be cutting the strips 2 1/2" wide. I just didn't want a lot of seams in the horizontal sashings.