Originally Posted by
Lisa_wanna_b_quilter
I just watched a Judy Martin video on YouTube where she says she cuts all of her strips on the lengthwise grain. According to her, it makes everything more stable and your blocks will come out better. I have never heard of doing it this way. Do any of you do it that way? Do you see a difference if you do?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ULIM...eature=related
Thanks so much for this post! After reading through the comments I feel very enlightened!
The instructor in the one class I took had us cut everything WOF. I am currently working on a quilt that the sashing appears to have stretched in some areas.
I've nearly finished quilting the other parts of the quilt, but not the sashing. I think I'll try using my steam iron held just above it to see if it will sort of "suck back into shape" before I begin quilting that area. (seems to help after hemming a blouse if that area was stretched at all during hemming)
Since I haven't cut the borders yet, from this point on I will be cutting borders AND sashing LOF.