Originally Posted by QuiltingJaguar
Now why don't I think of things like plaids? I am always afraid I can not get the lines running straight. I love the trucks on the white looking background and the plaid is the "pop" in the picture, thanks for telling and sharing this.
Thanks for your kind words! I was worried about the plaids being straight, too...but actually the fabric turned out to be fairly straight, and with some starching, it really was no issue. The other thing was, I measured out a distance that I wanted, and found out which lines I needed to cut to get the right width of sashing, did that the same for each piece of sashing. I then used the line closest to 1/4" for sewing the sashing and squares together...it worked out much better than actual measuring, and wasted very little fabric...it was well worth doing it that way to keep it straight!!