Hi, it’s Jenny from the Missouri Star Quilt Company. Back in 2011, I did a tutorial on
this Flower Garden quilt right here. And it’s, it’s just a really great little pattern.
But, we added some sashing with cornerstones and we’ve been getting a lot of questions
about sashing. So, over here, this quilt right here, we remade the quilt, but we put a sashing
and a cornerstone in there. So, that’s what we’re going to talk about today.
When I made this quilt, I used “This and That” charm pack from Nancy Halverson--
this one right here behind me. And it’s made using three charm packs. Now, remember,
how many charm packs you use is going to change the size of your quilt. One makes a baby,
two makes a crib, three makes a lap, four makes a twin. So that just gives you a general
idea of how many you need to use to make a quilt. When you add a sashing in here, in
between, which are the strips that go in between, your quilt’s going to get even bigger, faster.
So, you can get a really big quilt really fast with the sashing.
So let me go through this block just generally, quickly, to show you how we did it. And if
you need more info, you can check back with that other tutorial. It’ll be in the description
below if you need to go to that. So, to make this quilt, what you’re going to do is,
you’re going to take four charm packs that are like colors, you know, like this right
here. And you’re going to put them together.
The first thing you have to do is, each charm pack, you’re going to snowball three corners.
So you have your charm pack right here, you’re going to take your little, I used inch and
a half squares, and you’re going to put them on three of the corners, just like this.
And you’re going to sew diagonally, corner to corner. You can mark that if you want or
press it. And then you’re going to sew, three --er-- four of those together.
So I have one here, right here. This has all the three corners sewn right here, you can
see. And I just sewed on the line and trimmed off this little edge back here. And then you’re
going to put four of those together, so I have some over here that are cut. And of course
yours will be matchers, mine are leftover pieces. But, when you put them together, just
like this, it will form a four-patch. So, let me scoot this down here so make sure you
can see it. So, you’ll sew these two together so you’ll match color to color, white to
white, color to color, white to white, on all four sides, just like this. And you’ll
sew these two like this, quarter inch seam, then these two like this, a quarter inch seam.
And so then you end up with a block and your block is going to look like this.
So now what we’re going to talk about is the sashing. Sashing really can make a quilt,
and it can be any size that you want it to be, and it just really is up to personal preference.
Right here, in between our squares, we’ve used a 2 ½ inch sashing. And let me show
you how you figure that out.
So, whatever size your block ends up being, and this works for any size blocks, on any
quilt, you’re going to measure that block. My block measures to be 9 ½ inches. So what
I’m to do then is, I’m going to decide how wide I want my sashing, and this is a
2 ½ inch strip, and I’m going to cut my strips at, at 9 ½, the exact same length
as my square. So let me go ahead and do that. And then, I’m going to attach this sashing
right here, quarter of an inch, in between every block. So, let me put a row of these
out and show you how this is going to look.
So see how we just keep adding a sashing and a block, and a sashing and a block. Now when
you’re ready to do your second row, your in between row, right here, that has this
little cornerstone right here? Your sashings are going to be the same size. They’re still
going to be 9 ½ because your block is square, but then you need that little cornerstone.
Now, the cornerstone is going to be the same width as your sashing, it’s just going to
be a square. So ours is 2 ½ and so we’re looking for 2 ½ inch squares. So what I’m
going to do right here is, I’m going to take some of my leftover charm packs, and
I’m going to cut this in half, both directions, and that’s going to give me four, 2 ½ inch
squares. So, just like that, there we go. Now what we’re, what we’re going to do
now is we’ll take our... we’re going to make our row again, just like that. And then
we’re going to get ready to put our sashing here. So what we’ll do is we’ll take our
sashing piece, and again, they’re the same size as your blocks, put our little square
in, put another sashing piece in and it’s as easy as that. So let me show you, I’ve
got one cut here that I’ve done.
So, see how these line up? Your sashing, your sashing is going to line up row to row, like
this. But we then have our long, middle strip, right here, and it will go just like this
and it will fit in here. So just to recap on this, when you have your block finished,
you’re going to measure it. That is going to give you the length of your sashing. Your
sashing is going to go in between the blocks. So you’re going to go block, sashing, block,
sashing and that’s how you’re going to make your rows. And then when you go to put
your rows together you’re going to make a sashing strip. The sashing strip is also
going to be the same width as your block with a little cornerstone that is the same size,
the same width as your sashing strip, only in a square. So we’ve got 2 ½ inch strips
and 2 ½ inch squares. And that goes in between your rows. And that’s going to give you
this great look right here that’s just going to pop your squares. Sashing is awesome for
setting quilt blocks and just making them just pop. And it’s also good for making
your quilt a little larger if you need to. So, we hope you enjoyed this tutorial on sashing
from the Missouri Star Quilt Company.