Connect the Blocks: Designing Custom Sashings

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Use sashings to add beautiful complexity to your quilt — without adding complexity to your construction!

Plain Sashing With Cornerstones

Meet expert quilter Barb Eikmeier, your guide to designing and creating custom sashings to complement any quilt. Starting with a basic plain sashing with cornerstones, Barb details how to accurately calculate the amount of fabric you’ll need and how to stitch the sashings to your blocks for precise results!

Plain Sashing Without Cornerstones

Plain sashings without cornerstones are a striking way to frame your quilt blocks. Perfect your technique making them with Barb’s guidance! Learn a simple method for marking, pinning and easing the sashing to keep your blocks aligned. Want to add even more visual interest? Barb shows you how to construct a lovely outer border.

Triple Sashing

Learn how to incorporate triple sashings into your projects — an easy and versatile way to increase the size of your quilts. Barb walks through the process of calculating fabric requirements, assembling the sashing and stitching it to the blocks. Plus, discover how to create different sashing designs simply by changing the fabric.

Friendship Star & Ohio Star Sashing

Embellish your sashings with classic designs that will make your quilt tops pop! Get step-by-step instruction on constructing a charming friendship star using half-square triangles and an easy folded-corner technique. Then, practice making a classic Ohio star sashing for an attractive variation.

Sawtooth Star & Garden Maze

Add another star sashing to your toolkit as you construct the popular sawtooth star. Barb demystifies the process, showing you how to piece the units together using the folded-corner technique from Lesson 4. You’ll also discover a shortcut for creating an eye-pleasing garden maze sashing, perfect for appliquéd and embroidered quilts.

Creating Unique Cornerstones

Dress up your cornerstones using two versatile designs that will complement the overall look of your quilts. Learn how to stitch a nine-patch cornerstone, which pairs well with plain and triple sashings. Finish by tackling a graphic square-in-a-square design that makes a striking center for your sawtooth star sashing.

Appliquéd Sashing

Create an elegant framed effect around your quilt blocks with Barb’s scalloped appliqué sashing. In the process, you’ll see how to hand baste the scalloped edge to the sashing strip before turning under the raw edge of the fabric. In addition, learn a simple method for enhancing your sawtooth star sashings with a gorgeous vine and leaf design.