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Here are a few ideas for you. 1. Make a Pillow One option is to create a pillow. This is just 4 of the blocks sewn together and quilted. The size of your pillow will depend on the size of the blocks you begin with. You can also add borders and sashing to the blocks if you ...
Assembling the Quilt Top When your individual quilt blocks have been assembled it is time to sew the whole quilt top together. Find out how to use sashing to bind your quilt blocks together. How to Choose Quilt Batting Several different types of material can be used as the batting or bulk...
For this particular quilt, I chose to add a swiss dot sashing after we finish our last block, I’ll share directions to do that along with other block assembly ideas and techniques. Natalia Bonner of Piece N Quiltdid the machine quilting and did a fantastic job as usual. She never ceases...
How to Make a Perfect Maple Leaf Quilt Block While all seasonal colors are appropriate for the Maple Leaf design, autumn red, oranges, and browns are particularly popular. The pieced blocks can be joined with plain blocks or sashing can be used to create a lovely Quilt Top. Materials Orange...
I want to make my strips wider to make it look like sashing between the blocks. How do I do that? Honestly, I'm still working out a good method for that. The benefit of the method I've taught here in the video is the edges of the quilt are butting up against one another inside...
If the quilt is to be use for everyday use or will be moved around and sat on a lot then you must make sure the knots are evenly spaced and reasonably close together.When deciphering where the knots should go, you can either use a grid lock situation where they are an even distance ...
Most of the quilts that I make are the 12 squares all boxed in with sashing and lots of love. Sometimes I get to be a bit more creative with the layout. I have developed this layout- that I am going to step you through here. I use 3, 6, and 9 inch squares in an irregular la...
OK, Are you ready to finish your quilt? Let’s start with some additional fabric cuts: For Sashing Cut: 16 pieces each 2 1/2” x 15 10 pieces each 2 1/2” x 27” For Backing cut: 2 pieces 63” x 40” (or width of your fabric) ...