How to Add Sashing to a Quilt

hi thanks for stopping back out at the ranch I'm Marie and this is a red heart quilt today I want to show you how to sash a quilt but before I show you I have a question why do you want a sash a quilt the quilt behind me is called square diamonds we sash this see this is the sashing it's like a window sash in it goes around the blocks I set this quilt because without the Cession the blocks got a little confused the beauty of these blocks I wanted isolated and with the sashing it individualized each block so section was very important on this quilt that's why I stashed it if you're not sure take your blocks put them on top of a piece of fabric that you think you might want to use for stashing and see how it looks the blocks will tell you if they want to be stashed or not once you decide that you want to sash it then I then that's what I'm going to show you is how another reason you might want to sash your block is because you can add size to your quilt top if you put two inch sashing in between and you have ten blocks that's really gonna add a lot to your squill to top size so there's a few different reasons you might want to stash a quilt now let's look at how we're gonna stash a quilt it's nothing easiest thing to do but it's very doable this is my quilt blocks the first thing I'm gonna do is prepare my blocks and then I'm going to suppress my blocks and square my blocks so I'm gonna be starting my quilt top with all my blocks identically the same size let's say 10 inches I am going to then put sashing between each block this is going to be my row you'll notice I have four blocks in a row but I'm only gonna put three pieces of stashing in there so because we just squared up our quilt block and we know remember we say we're gonna make them 10 inches these aren't 10 these are probably about six we're gonna cut some strips of stashing whatever width you want and again you can decide the width that you want by laying your blocks on top the fabric before you even cut it this one we cut one and a half oh we ended up with one inch strips we have some that we cut one inch and end up with a half inch you can cut two and a half inches you're always going to lose a quarter of an inch on each scene that would end up too so you decide what size then we're going to cut our strips the size of our block the length of our block fire block is 10 inches and we have 30 blocks we're going to cut thirty ten inch pieces we know that this is 10 inches so we know if our 10 inch strip is gonna fit there it's gonna be accurate it's gonna keep it very square this is the way I sew a strip I pin both ends and then I pin across here I don't want it to move I want it to end up exactly the width of my block I I don't know why but I always put two pins at the end because for some reason when I'm sewing it tries to slip a little bit and the nature of a sewing machine is to press that top layer if you are not using and a walking foot or you know you're just using a regular foot it's just gonna stand still and the feed dogs pull that fabric through so because this top presser foot is still and you're dragging that fabric through it's gonna tend to stretch the top layer if you have an even feed foot or a walking foot it's always best but a lot of people can't use those a lot of people don't have those for their machines it's not necessary it's just like a little added plus and a lot of times you think you only use those if you're sewing batting and a lot of thicknesses but you can't sell them at any time but because I tend to get a little bit of drag on my top layer I always seem to pen two pins at the end I start sewing here I come down and I'm so with a small stitch I sew with about of two my sewing machine defaults to two and a half every time I turn it on it goes to two and a half I turn it to two if I have two unsung I'm usually not real happy about it because that's a very closed stitch but my stitches don't come apart and my edges of my blocks don't come apart I don't usually have to tack it at the beginning on the end because my stitch is small so that's just me you can sew at any stitch you want make sure if you're sewing with a light and dark fabric that you use the darker of the threads I have a long armor and sometimes I have quilts come in and it'll be a black and a gray or black and white and I see white threads on those blacks it's not nearly as obvious to see a dark thread on a white color as it is to see a life threat on a dark color please try to match your threads to your darker colors a dark grey is a standard thread that I use most of the time unless I'm using a definite darker a different light and that's just my rule of thumb that's just because I don't want twenty thousand different colors of threads I just have a few so we're gonna have our block we're gonna sell across the top we're going to take our pins out see what a tiny little stitch all of you can see that but that's a tiny little stitch then we're going to press it we're not gonna iron this because if we ironed it which if we iron we iron like this that's how we iron blue jeans that's not how we hire we do not iron a quilt block we press acquit look we're nice to our quilt we just press it just like that um that's that our scene then we take this this iron is not on so I'm having it on my mat and we go just like this and open that scene you'll notice because I wanted my seam to go towards the dark I put my dark on the top when I start pressing it makes it a lot easier I'm just gonna finger press this in so now our block is straight at the sides I did not have to trim this I cut it the correct size I panned it on so it would not move i stitched it on and now my block is still straight I've got another one we've already sewn and press I'm gonna sue it to this one so this is this is my first block this way right here I sent the stashing on I have another block I stuffed the sachet on to another block I said that's actually notice I don't understand on the last block because that's gonna have size fashion so we're gonna sew these two together and I said with the sketching on the top we're gonna pin it just like we pin the first piece we're going to sew it just like we said the first piece we're going to press it towards the dark so our seams will be pressed both towards the dark once we get our rows done no matter how many you're going to sell in your row if you have to run a row if you have four if you have 12 it's doing once you sell all your row pieces together and have those pressed we're ready to sew your rows together before we do that we're gonna take a measurement once we have this row pressed any of the rows pressed we're gonna measure from this point to this point so across our finished block from this point to this point that's the measurement that we're going to cut our obsession to go between the blocks and the top and bottom that's our next step so we have one two three four five rows we're gonna cut six pieces of sashing that length one on the top two three four five one on the bottom once we have that cut accurate wait we're going to pen and press just like we did to here to one of the rows see stitch it on press it towards the I'm stashing now we're going to sew two of these rows together this is where the tricky part comes in I don't want to say difficult part because it's not a difficult thing to sew two rows together it's a tricky part because we want to make sure our session is lined up this block needs to be lined up to that block this needs to be lined straight all the way down our block if it's not it's gonna be very obvious sometimes and remember the nature of our presser foot is to slip that fabric a little bit sometimes it will want to move after you have it pinned together the way I try to do that and I have to be honest when I was doing my sample I took once one intersection apart three times it did not want to go together right but I finally got it I pinned my blocks just like this I start by pinning them this way and then I open it up and I make sure this section is straight across from this stashing and I pin it and I leave those pins in there all the way across no matter how many intersections I have then I take them you know I have two pins front and back I pin it to death then you can pan off through here too I haven't but you would you always it doesn't hurt the more pants the better it's gonna stay where you want it to stay I pinned these so I don't have to take my pin out because people that know me know I don't want to take my pin go while I'm sewing of course I will take these out because you never want to sew over a pin it will break your needle it will stow your needle and you'll keep on sewing if it doesn't break it or it could even throw your whole tension off you're so much you got a $150 so machine bill you don't want that it's much easier just to not ever so over a pen if there's a situation where I have to sew over a pin I'm going to walk it over with my little wheel on the side of my sewing machine so once we get this penned we're gonna sew it again we use our small stitch again we're gonna of course use our dark thread I'm gonna open it up and we're gonna have our special all of our rows now things your our blocks these are our roast they have session in between the last step is to sew our session on the two sides in order to do that we have sewn our obsession we have pressed our session we have made our rows we have sewn our stash in between our rows we have pressed that now we're going to measure from this point to this point notice that measure in the middle this site can be a little bit stretchy because the nature of fabric is that has a little bit of give in it so I always so I always measure down the center of whatever I'm sewing something to this now has still stayed very square because we have had a square block that we started with we measured our block and we cut our stashing so that stayed square then we sewed our rows together we cut our stashing that stays square we pinned it so we have a square quilt now we measure this and we cut two pieces one for this side one for this side gonna sew it on just like we did the other one I sewed this in a light thread so you could see it you're gonna press it towards the sashing and our stashing is gonna be done this one you can trim I did not trim this one I didn't cut it I didn't measure and cut it I just sewed it on there which you're not supposed to um so after you have that pressed this stashing can become your first border if you want to it was our first border here are stashing first borders same thing you could also add another border and that's your first border and then your second border third fourth fifth border but in our quilt this is just our stashing this is how you do it good luck with your intersections pin it as much as you have to I hope this has helped you if you're going to try to stash a quilt don't feel bad if you have to take an intersection apart a couple times I find that it's easier to take a big section apart and refit that in rather than just taking the little tiny section like I said I took there one of these came apart three times it was not behaving so if they did get to pick it together okay it might not be absolutely perfect when you're so you're stashing the first few times but do the best you can you've worked very hard for your blocks and you also want to have a beautiful finished product I hope this has helped you with your stashing thank you for stopping in at the ranch if you have a question you can email me my email informations on the website and until I see you again see you back at the ranch thank you bye you

Channel: Red Hart Quilts

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Length: 14min 50sec (890 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 25 2017