Originally Posted by BlueChicken
Originally Posted by bchuggins
I'm jumping ahead with this question - How are the sashing strips sewn on. In long strips across the entire row? I was thinking it might be easier to sew the strip on the bottom and along the right side of each block... then when we sew the blocks together the sashing will already be done for most of the quilt. We would still have to sew the top row of sashing and the first block of each row would need one strip on the left side. Does this babbling make sense?
For a plain sashing, I would sew only on one side of each block at this point, say the right side. Then when you sew each block together you can add the bottom sashing in one long piece. It would save a bit of fabric.
But... what you have suggested is correct, if you do the bottom and right side on each block, at the end you'll just be sewing them together. I'm doing a pieced sashing and am doing exactly that for several reasons.... so I don't have a huge pile of sashings to make at the end, and so I'm forced to take my time doing just a couple with every block. When I start chain piecing and doing huge numbers I stop concentrating and start rushing.
Yours is going to be just beautiful! I think I want to have a little square at the corners separating the 1/2 inch sashing strips so I might try adding the right and then bottom sashing with the square. I'm so comfortable with paperpiecing the squares that I don't want to screw up with the sashing.