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| Mile a Minute blocks laid out |
Sashing
We are going to start the
sashing. I found this to be one of the
most time consuming tasks on this quilt, so we are going to do it over two
weeks.
Depending on what you
have in your stash this might be time to make a trip to the quilt store.
Fabric requirements for
sashing, cornerstones, border & binding:
1.3
meters of sashing material (or 1.42 yards, or 51 inches)
.15 meters of cornerstone material (or .17
yards, or 6 inches) you can use scraps for this
2.1
meters of border fabric (or 2.3 yards or 82 inches)
.5 meters of binding fabric (or .55 yards or
20 inches) – you might want the same fabric as your borders
Cutting
Cut 142 – 6 ½” X 1 ½”
strips from your sashing fabric. A quick
way to do this is to cut five 6 ½” strips and then re-cut them into 1 ½”
pieces.
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| Using 6 1/2" on an extra wide ruler |
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| Using 6 1/2" on your cutting board with a narrow ruler |
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| Re-cut into 1 ½” pieces |
You will need to cut a
couple more 1 ½” strips of the sashing fabric to get all 142 pieces. You will have some fabric left over for the
outside sashing which we will cover next week.
Lay the blocks out
At this point I like to
lay the blocks out to get a visual, and to check that colours are somewhat
evenly distributed throughout the quilt. You should have eight blocks across (columns)
and ten down (rows). See the first image at the top of this blog post.
What I do to help keep
them in this lovely arrangement is to label each row (ten down) with a number,
I use masking tape.
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| Number the rows (click on image to see the numbers on the left side) |
Then starting with number
1, gather each row across (your number should be on top). Until you have ten
stacks of blocks.
You can now stack them
neatly and safely (from pets, little children and maybe even yourself) until
you are ready to sew.
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| One quilt all in a little pile |
Sewing
Sew 7 of your 6 ½” x 1 ½”
strips to the right side of each block in row one – except the last one.
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| Row one with sashing pieces |
Press toward the sashing.
Join all of row one
together, there should be a sashing piece between all the blocks with no
sashing on either end of the row.
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| Row one sashed |
Continue with rows 2
through 10.
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| It’s coming together. |
I
hope you are having as much fun as I am - if you are participating and/or
following please leave a comment or questions if you have any. If you do have a question, it might just be
the answer someone else was looking for.
Next Tuesday we will
continue with cornerstones and sashing between our rows.
