And before you start sweating bullets over the math of this part of quilting, allow me to let you in on a little secret:  Most of the time this comes naturally to people that deal with design work and quilters fall into this category. You truly are a good person. For the strip with the stone, I would have cut a 2 1/2″ WOF and a 14 1/2″ WOF and sewed them together. I think sewing the sashing by block makes for a more stable and accurate quilt. Then repeat on the opposite side of the block with the other setting triangle. The sashing is pieced so that it makes a secondary small star as the cornerstone. Row 5: Nine blocks, a triangle unit B on the right and a triangle unit C2 on the left. And as intimidating as that factor can seem, it really is not that difficult to deal with, and we will do just that in a later blog. Goose in the Pond Block - Blue & White Sampler, La Passacaglia Quilt: Ten Rounds Complete. Row 9: Thirteen blocks, a triangle unit C1 on the right and a triangle unit D on the left. You have mini-star sashing! The wider sashing gives these blocks room to “breathe” –  there’s enough space between the blocks that even if the colors don’t exactly coordinate, the wider sashing along with some colorful border fabric will work to pull the quilt top together. I like quilts set on-point, with or without sashing. This method is good if you want to alternate on point blocks with square blocks like in this post! Sara demonstrates how to do this while keeping an accurate quarter inch seam allowance outside of the points on a churn dash block. This unit will be used on the upper left corner of the quilt. Yesterday I was up at Thimbles & Things in Orillia teaching my Animal Party quilt. The first thing to consider is that the quilt’s border(s) will change. For example, the sashing would have a light-color rectangle the width of the quilt block sewn right next to it on one side, followed by a dark one on the perpendicular side. The number of patches you cut depends on the number of blocks you use in your quilt. Sashing can range very simple to very complex and opens a new world of … Three strips of fabric form the vertical sashing and some of the cornerstones are tiny nine-patches that work with the pieced sashing to form a secondary pattern on the quilt. Farmer's Wife Quilt Assembly: Blocks on Point with... Cut triangles with red lines along the grain, Sashing - strips that go in between the blocks (I'm using white), Posts - small squares that sit at the corners of the blocks - not shown in the layout above - where the sashing intersects (I'm using blue), Triangles - around the edges (Mine are green). If the blocks are similar – either the same pattern or similar patterns – and your color palette is limited (my rule of thimble is three or less), a narrow sashing works well to unify the quilt. Warm Warm Company Batting The blocks are bigger and quick to sew. Olfa 60mm rotary cutter 4. I can see your eye roll from here…You’re asking yourself, “What in the world does this have to do with quilt blocks and sashing?”  In a nutshell, folks like architects, artists (da Vinci was a big fan of the Golden Ratio), musicians (yup, it’s used there, too) and designers have used the formula to develop pleasing designs. However, if you’re just starting out, there’s this little equation called The Golden Ratio you may want to brush up on. I think the off-white sashing is a good idea, because it will calm everything down and the 2 1/2-inch sashing will give the blocks enough space to “breathe” and for the eye to rest before it moves onto the next block. It’s the little extra steps like these that really make a quilt top not only sing but sing in harmony! For the sake of ease, we cut it down to 1.618. The real magic happens when we add sashing and cornerstones and set our blocks on point with big setting corners. The math isn’t hard, and the golden ratio is also used to figure border width, as well as the best width and length of the quilt center. I could go through the entire formula (and the physics teacher in me is just raring to do that), but I don’t want to lose anyone at this point. At this point, I always stop and think that on one hand, the quilt designer has put a lot of time and effort on the quilt and there are probably good reasons why the designer has come up with those particular sashing dimensions. For example: If your block is 12 1/2″ square, you multiply 12.5 x 1.414235 = 17.6779, and round to 17 3/4″. (sherriquiltsalot@gmail.com). It is also called the golden mean. Between the two extremes – the widest sashing  being 3 ¼-inches wide and the narrowest at 1 ¼-inches wide (finished) sets the stage for all the options of the sashing width. And the sashing is pieced! She has them on her website, as well as detailed instructions on how to use them. Row 14: Three blocks, a triangle unit C1 on the right and a triangle unit A on the left. The limited color palate is no longer as appealing as it was with the narrower sashing. The sashing can act as a frame for the quilt blocks, or the sashing itself can be pieced and used as part of the quilt design. If you’ve purchased the blocks with the goal of setting them in a top for a charity cause or a child’s play quilt, you may not want to go through all the trouble of piecing the sashing and cornerstones. Let’s say the pattern calls for 2 1/2-inch sashing strips, unfinished, meaning that when the strips are set into the quilt, they will measure 2-inches. The wider sashing also gives the illusion that the blocks are kind of floating. Set that issue aside and let’s just zero in on the sashing. To square it up to fit the quilt, you will sash 4 setting triangles and sew them onto the sides of this Center Medallion. To add the sashing and cornerstones you'll need additional patches. Partial blocks used for setting components must be drafted especially for their spot in the quilt. When you sash blocks on point, it’s the same process as if you were sashing quilt blocks into rows, except that you will also need some triangles at the ends to make the quilt top square. What a wonderful idea! Quilters sometimes opt to sew partial quilt blocks to use as setting and corner triangles. But if you piece your sashing and have cornerstones, that’s really a great size to work with. The sashing is considered to be part of the block when calculating the side and corner triangles. How many sashings , corner-stones or setting triangles does this Quilter need for these kind of layouts? But what would happen if we used a wider sashing? In my opinion, the blocks lose their effectiveness with a wider width of sashing. Eight will have the strip added to one side of the triangle and the other eight will have the strip added to the other side of the triangle. So you'll need a collection of plain strips and a collection of strips with the post attached. If you’ve ever been intimidated to try making a quilt on point, let me help you get over that. They will either need to be larger or smaller than the pattern calls for. Row 12: Seven blocks, a triangle unit C1 on the right and a triangle unit A on the left. They are squares the same size as the width of the vertical sashing. Having those blocks pivot on point allows you a triangle shape sashing that enlarges the original quilt block. No color runs through the blocks. Last week we began a discussion on sashing – the strips of fabric between the blocks and rows of a quilt. Sewing them onto your quilt. If you’re using a quilt pattern that has sashing, the pattern will tell you how wide and long to cut your strips. This design choice would entirely up to you. Repeat for each set of sashing … See more ideas about quilts, quilt patterns, quilt piecing. The diagonal lines are a little more dynamic and visually interesting. For each block, you'll attach one sashing strip along one side, then attach a sashing strip with one post attached to an adjacent side (see image below). But if math is just not your thing, Jinny Beyer sells a wonderful tool called the Golden Gauge Calipers that takes all the math-ing out of the design work. Take a look at this quilt top: This is a pattern I came up with using Electric Quilt 8. Block Setting Options. They are pieced into the horizontal sashing to meet up with the corners of the blocks. These are the cutting charts for those alternatives. As we were putting the blocks up the regular way, Susan said they would be gorgeous on point!! So…where do you start when you have a stack of blocks you’re not sure what to do with? This meant I actually had to do some MATH! Quilters have been no different. I miscalculated my sashing requirements and after adding sashing to one side of all my blocks I realize I do not have enough to do the vertical rows. It forms the top part of the next row of blocks. The corner setting triangles (the purple ones in the illustration above) are also cut so the bias is on the inside and the straight of grain is along the edges, but since they include a … The fabric is discontinued. Please let me know what you decide and send me a picture if you don’t mind. Remember this little quilt that we talked about earlier this year? The sashing is considered to be part of the block when calculating the side and corner triangles. This does not mean your sashing is 13-inches wide. C1 and C2: Sixteen of the large triangles will have one sashing strip added, with the corner post attached; these will be along the side edges of the quilt. I am a beginner and that helped me a lot. It can run across an entire quilt top as one piece, or be sewn into rows with sashing squares located at the corners of each block. Setting Triangles: Sashing and Attaching . Then assemble the rows together like normal, and voila! This is very clever and shows some advanced quilting techniques. What about the sashing on the back what size would I make that and how do i calculate it. It’s a sweet quilt top that uses two or three colors well and the narrow sashing shows this off very effectively. 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