The Rough Draft
Some of the blocks in this batch of sashing were done so long ago, when I was so unskilled, that I feel like they are rough drafts of the blocks. Block I11 […]
Assembly
The Self-Care
I finished the third corner block at 9:45 PM on July 31st, and still needed to complete my sashing goal for the month. Knowing I was very short on time, […]
The Triangulation
I stupidly started this triangle border assembly process with BR1 (the first triangle I did, and re-did, and re-did). All I had to do was stitch a solid red triangle […]
The Outer Limits
Finishing my block goals on the next to last day of the month, I had to look to the outer limits of the quilt to find some sashing that I […]
The Things to Talk About
I keep thinking there’s going to be nothing interesting to talk about on these sashing articles, because the sashing process is pretty much the same for all the blocks, but […]
The New Year
This little bit of sashing was completed in December, and at that time, I was already thinking ahead to my 2024 quilting goals. For the last few years, I’ve been […]
The Long View
Now that the center 5×5 section of the quilt is sashed together, I had originally planned to start putting together my first triangle row, but I don’t have quite enough […]
The Uncertain Center
This was supposed to be the big reveal, where the 5×5 grid of blocks in the center all came together. It was supposed to go much more smoothly than it […]
The Gap
You may notice a gap between these two sections of sashed together blocks … there is actually another column of three blocks that is supposed to go between these two […]
The Over-Under Set
I’ve been splitting each set of four sashed blocks across two months. Usually I complete the bottom two in the sashing set first, and then in the following month I […]
The Carbon Dating
As I’m starting to sash blocks together that I’ve made at various points over the last almost-seven years, I’m noticing that I can guess at when I made each block based on […]
The Unfussy Quilt
Earlier in the process of sashing together blocks, I was just picking out fabrics for the cornerstones when it was time to sash each block. There was no master plan, […]