The Sportsball Sashing Sessions
I’ve discovered that sashing is a great way to self-soothe during particularly intense sportsball games, so I’ve taken to coordinating my sashing sessions with sporting events on TV. This sashing […]
Assembly
The Ghost of Quilt Blocks Past
So many mistakes of the past came back to haunt me in this batch of sashing. It was problematic from beginning to end. It started with sashing Block H1. This […]
The Four Score and a Dozen Logs
It’s been a long while since I got out my QuiltCut2 (I think it was when I was cutting out binding strips for the rainbow quilt), but I thought it […]
The Devoted Followers
It turns out sashing is a little bit boring to do at retreat (and also everywhere else), but I’m at a point where I need to be alternating between block […]
The Time Trials
I don’t know what I was thinking, tackling the assembly of a triangle border row right after wrapping up one of the big sashing segments, which could be attached to […]
The Sashing Slog
This started out as a simple task of sashing four blocks together, but then those four could be attached to four other groups of four to form a larger segment […]
The Boring Bit of Sashing
I’ve been working really hard to catch up on my blogging, but I can’t seem to get this article out the door. The problem is, there’s absolutely nothing interesting to […]
The Pink Pearl Hack
While cutting out sashing strips, I was noticing how run-down my cutting mat looked. It had visible gashes from the rotary cutter blade, with little linty bits of (mostly red) […]
The Cranky Quilter
When I finish this quilt and invariably start a more general-purpose quilting blog, it should definitely be named The Cranky Quilter. I’ve got to check if that blog name is […]
The Sashing and the De-Stashing
The Dear Jane quilt is not the only big project I’m working on. I’m also on a mission to “de-stash” my stash of fabrics. My plan to de-stash was formed […]
The Wrong Tool for the Job
Sometimes I don’t realize how challenging a block was to make until I try to attach it to other blocks. Block C7 was definitely the problem block in this batch. […]
The Sashing Prep
I took this bit of sashing on vacation with me, because it doesn’t take nearly as much prep as a block does when I’m scrambling to get out of town. […]