Sashing advice
11-08-2019, 02:49 PM
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Even when I did have a design wall right next to my sewing machine, it is absolutely amazing how many times I sewed the blocks together on the wrong side or some issue. I think a lot of it is just the style I quilt, it wouldn't make much difference if all my blocks were the same design and same fabrics, but I'm usually alternating blocks or trying to move color through my scraps or some other reason I want to be precise in my layout.
As it is, I have to do my layout on my queen sized bed as my largest work surface, which makes it rather fun to layout a queen sized or larger project!
But with design walls too, I think they work best with consistency, like starting in the top left corner or whatever, helps to keep those blocks from flipping but not as well for me as my labels!
As it is, I have to do my layout on my queen sized bed as my largest work surface, which makes it rather fun to layout a queen sized or larger project!
But with design walls too, I think they work best with consistency, like starting in the top left corner or whatever, helps to keep those blocks from flipping but not as well for me as my labels!
11-09-2019, 03:51 AM
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A tutorial that may help with the step-by step process.
http://www.synthcom.com/~val/Quilts/...ngSashing.html
http://www.synthcom.com/~val/Quilts/...ngSashing.html
11-09-2019, 07:14 AM
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A tutorial that may help with the step-by step process.
http://www.synthcom.com/~val/Quilts/...ngSashing.html
http://www.synthcom.com/~val/Quilts/...ngSashing.html
11-09-2019, 08:04 AM
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Just to clarify, I meant to sew sashing strips on all four sides. Here's one where I sewed 2 sashing strips - one colored strip on all sides, then one black. If you look closely, you can see the seams in the black fabric. Then I sewed the blocks together. It was really easy.
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11-09-2019, 08:08 AM
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11-09-2019, 08:13 AM
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I use my digital camera so that I don't have to spend a great deal of time marking and numbering rows and columns. I just put my blocks on the design wall in the preferred order and take a picture. I can then put the pic on my laptop or print it out and put it on the wall where I can see it. I can refer to the picture for placement and orientation. I find it easier than all the numbering.
11-09-2019, 08:31 AM
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Using corner stones makes the math easy and simple, you determine the width of your sashing and make each side the same size as the block. The corner stone/square is square so you just cut that size and add to one piece of the sashing.
So in my last sashed quilts the blocks were what I think of as non-standard sizes. The block finished to 7" (so, 7.5" raw). Although I wanted to have a finished 2" size sashing, I didn't have enough fabric for that but I had plenty to make a 1.5" finished (2" cut) width.
Getting used to designing your own projects can be a little confusing, some of us think better using the rough cuts and others think of the desired finished size + .5" seam allowance. And thank goodness for programs like Electric Quilt but you can do it all by hand and a pad of graph paper.
But basically, you cut the length you need by the width of your sashing. So for a 7" finished block, that meant my rough size for that side was 7.5". My sashing finished at 1.5". Adding that measurement meant I was basically making an 8.5" finished square, so that meant my longer side was cut at 9" inches (8.5" finished + .5" seam).
If you used corner stones, no math needed, just two pieces 7.5 x 2", plus one square 2". Most people use contrast for corner stones, I try to eliminate excess seams if I can but you could be a glutton for punishment and piece in the corners all out of one fabric should you choose.
When I use corner stones, I do it as a strip piecing method and I still put them on like an L. I cut WoF (width of fabric) the size of the sashing, and the same for the size of corner stones and do a race on my sewing machine to see how fast I can get through it... I press and then I cut the unit at one time the desired width. You get much more consistent results and a much better use of time doing it that way instead of cutting a bunch of tiny little squares and putting them on narrow little rectangles. In my opinion any way! The point is there are many ways to do things and we have to figure out the best way for us to do them.
So in my last sashed quilts the blocks were what I think of as non-standard sizes. The block finished to 7" (so, 7.5" raw). Although I wanted to have a finished 2" size sashing, I didn't have enough fabric for that but I had plenty to make a 1.5" finished (2" cut) width.
Getting used to designing your own projects can be a little confusing, some of us think better using the rough cuts and others think of the desired finished size + .5" seam allowance. And thank goodness for programs like Electric Quilt but you can do it all by hand and a pad of graph paper.
But basically, you cut the length you need by the width of your sashing. So for a 7" finished block, that meant my rough size for that side was 7.5". My sashing finished at 1.5". Adding that measurement meant I was basically making an 8.5" finished square, so that meant my longer side was cut at 9" inches (8.5" finished + .5" seam).
If you used corner stones, no math needed, just two pieces 7.5 x 2", plus one square 2". Most people use contrast for corner stones, I try to eliminate excess seams if I can but you could be a glutton for punishment and piece in the corners all out of one fabric should you choose.
When I use corner stones, I do it as a strip piecing method and I still put them on like an L. I cut WoF (width of fabric) the size of the sashing, and the same for the size of corner stones and do a race on my sewing machine to see how fast I can get through it... I press and then I cut the unit at one time the desired width. You get much more consistent results and a much better use of time doing it that way instead of cutting a bunch of tiny little squares and putting them on narrow little rectangles. In my opinion any way! The point is there are many ways to do things and we have to figure out the best way for us to do them.
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