This week I'm talking to you about how to make and attach sashing strips and cornerstones to frame out each quilt block. I especially enjoy this technique because it's a quick and easy way to add a little more size to your finished quilt top without much extra work!
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| Blocks and sashing on design wall. |
1) minimizes the amount of intersections you need to match up in one seam.
2) allows you to sew fewer units at a time when putting it all together.
3) makes sewing up the quilt top more manageable especially for beginners
4) minimizes the length of each seam you need to sew. The shorter the seams you sew the better
your chances are of matching everything up just right.
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| Placing sashing strips on design wall. |
If you've never added sashing to a quilt consider it! It's fun, easy and a GREAT way to use up any random leftover blocks you have from other projects. Sashing is great for scrappy quilt blocks and sampler quilts.
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great tutorial on sashing and corner stones. I do it a little differently but this was is much easier and nicer so I will be trying it soon.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I changed my blade was about 3 weeks ago and it is time to do it again. I am planning to get a sharpener. Hope it works.
Love to watch your tutorials and I visit your blog often.
hugs from Louisiana
beebee
I'm new to Quilting and luckily found your website!! I really enjoy watching your videos as I think you explain each step very well and don't rush through each step. Thank you! The Victorian quilt series has been very helpful to me and it makes sense! So now I think I'm ready to start my first quilt! Thank you again for your videos! Now I just have to figure out how to use blogs!!
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Halle'
Vanessa, your tutorials are very detailed, methodical and thorough...thank you!
ReplyDeleteThe last time I changed my blade on my cutter was 3 weeks ago. I was cutting out some fun fabrics for a Valentine table topper.
the last time I changed my blades was the last project I worked on, thanks for the sashing info, it really works!
ReplyDeleteI'm fairly new to quilting or at least the doing of it myself and have done lots of crazy quilt style blocks and then had my mother who is an experienced patchwork quilter put things together for me.
ReplyDeleteThough the premiee quilts I make I have done start to finish on my own.
I'll be making a big table in a couple months so that I can do the big quilts myself.
While surfing one nite, just the beginning of this week, I came across your quilt-a-long and was inspired... a nice easy beginner quilt to just use whatever of my fabrics.
Well I ended up using the peach and teal fabrics I had set aside to redo my own bedroom. I've added 4 more blocks (2 of each style) and will be adding borders around for it to fit a double bed.
I was thrilled to see the next video today as I'm about to cut the sashing pieces and I love the way you put it all together.
The last time I changed the blade on the cutter was when I first started to use it. Which was only 4 premiee quilt tops ago. It's one borrowed from my mother so I'll have to one day get myself my own.
Thanks for the sashing info.. I'm off to begin working on putting things all together!
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