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Showing posts with label sashing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sashing. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Sashing Prep: Method to My Madness



Basket-weave sashing: 5:x1" and 10" x 1"



















I'm all done sashing my blocks but I wanted to post this info on how I prepare the blocks and sashing before I start stitching them together. While I used a woven pattern, the same prep would be done for regular sashing, too. Before adding the sashing to each row . . .
  • The sashing pieces are cut, seamlines and corners (dots) are marked. The short strips have 4 dots; the long strips have 8 dots. Because I was doing woven sashing, I had short and long strips.
  • The seamlines on every block are checked for accuracy. Some applique blocks start out with no seamlines marked at all!
It's painstaking, but it helps control the wonks. Just look at the "migrating seamlines" in the Row K samples below. That pink block just barely had a seam allowance! It was a real nail biter! I remember when I made it. I had not made a block in many months and forgot many little tricks I had learned along the way....like putting a generous seam allowance around the outside of each block. I got all done, realized my error and just groaned. Luckily, I had enough to join it to its neighboring blocks -- just barely. Click the photos to enlarge them.

4.5" x 4.5" template is key to getting the job done.

Note the migrating seamlines (left and right) and a pink nail-biter (center)!

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    Monday, April 2, 2012

    Repeating Fabrics and Woven Sashing





















    I do repeat fabrics in my Dear Jane quilt but I placed the "repeats" so they are not side-by-side . . . that is, until I discovered this as I joined Row I. Many times, I've fantasized making a DJ quilt entirely from one background fabric and 1-13 other fabrics with great fussy cut options. This might be as close as I get to executing that idea, since I decided to focus on finishing this quilt and do not plan to make a second DJ quilt.

    BTW, this may be one of my best photos showing the woven sashing. It's so subtle; I'm hoping that the quilting will bring it out.

    Sunday, March 11, 2012

    A Poem for Jane

    Rows A-G
    Little by little, I'm (hand) sewing together my square blocks...with a woven sashing. It was on Row E that I decided to write something creative for each row....using as many words as I could that started with the same letter as that row. Here are 4 links to the poems for Rows E,   F,  G,   and H.

    If you don't want to do the clicks, here's the Row H writing:



    Where did it happen?
    Hotel?
    Hospital?
    Hippodrome?
    Hinterland?
    Himalayas?


    Hooey!


    How did it happen?
    Hoping?
    Hovering?
    Harping?
    Humming?
    Hibernating?
    Hocus-pocus?
    Hypnosis?


    Hell no, honey!


    Hallowed helping hands?


    Hardly!

    Here's the humble harvest from the heights of her hasty handstitching habit!
    Hail!
    Row H
    Hip! Hip! Hooray!