Cutting sashing fabric - across or down?
 

How do you cut sashing fabric?
Do you cut selvage to selvage or down the yardage?
Thanks.

Personally I cut my bindings and sashing lengthwise, but I'm sure that you'll get people that do it selvage to selvage, so I would say it's a personal preference.

I cut bindings selvedge to selvedge to get a bit of stretch without resorting to bias bindings. I'm not too hung up on the weave direction when I cut my sashings. I always use cornerstones, I get much better matching when I do. With the cornerstones, the sashing pieces are going to only be the length of a block. What I do look at is the pattern of the sashing fabric, and decide which way would look best. If it's an obvious directional, I have been known to cut the sashing both WOF and LOF so that the pattern stays consistent.

I prefer to use the length of fabric, because I like the stability of it.

Doreen Speckmann used width of fabric because of the stretch - it was easier to 'fudge' if one needed to.

I am more referring to shot cotton kind of fabric where there is no design considerations.

I am doing (actually just completed) a top that uses kona cotton sashing, and I was pondering if I should cut WOF or LOF.
I decided on LOF as I did not want any stretch.

I think WOF would be good for binding.

Yes, agree with the fudge factor. But that could also be a double edge sword:)

For me it depends if the fabric is directional. To avoid waviness if you have multiple borders, cut all the pieces in the same direction for the border sets.

Cheers, K

Another option - instead of running sashing down the entire quilt, sash each block individually. This makes keeping the blocks lined up SO much easier.

For instance - in this quilt, I sewed short strips of the pale pink fabric to each block, then sewed all the blocks together.
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I've done it either way...depends on my fabric, etc.,...really a personal preference.