Sash As You Go

I am making some headway with the UFO's I happened on a week or so ago.  I think I had planned to make a baby quilt with these blocks, but after laying the blocks out, I decided it would be too large for a baby quilt.  Actually, there were enough blocks to make two baby quilts.  This blog is dedicated to how I sashed these sweet blocks.  But before I begin talking about sashing this quilt, I am going to talk a little bit about self sashing.  Self sashing is not a real quilting term, I just made it up.  It's what I call it when you add sashing as part of your quilt block.  When I made my Tulip Quilt Pattern, I self sashed it.

The directions for the quilt give you a block that looks like this.  The sashing is included in the pattern of the quilt block.  You can see it here on the right side and the top.

When the sashing is part of the block, you don't have to sew all of those pesky sashing strips.  You only sew two sashing strips, one for the left side and one for the bottom.  

So, that is self sashing and sash as you go is quite similar.  Sash as you go is another one of my made-up terms.  Since my blocks were already made, I couldn't sew the sashing as I made the block.  Instead, I sewed the sashing to each block and then sewed the blocks together.

I sewed a 2-1/2" strip to the bottom of every block.

Then I sewed a 2-1/2" square to the end of my remaining 2-1/2" strips.  I sewed these strips to the left side of each block.  I had 24 blocks that looked like this.

When you sew the blocks together, they are sashed!

When you have finished sewing your top, you just have to piece two strips, one for the top and one for the side to finish your sashing.

And, you know, if you add a strip of sashing to the un-sashed side of each set of blocks before you sew the strips of blocks together, you only have to make one sashing strip for the top.

 Maybe next week, I'll have a couple of finished quilts to share.

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