How to Simply Sash 5" Squares - Quilting Tips & Techniques 054

hello today I'd like to show you how I simply stash some five inch squares so I'm not actually going to alter the five inch squares I've just got squares here and I'm going to put what we call session in between I have actually done a simple pattern I've done quite a few patterns they're available to purchase and download on my website and this is a 5 inch I'd have done quite a lot of 5 inch square pens and this one is just simply called 5 inch squares cecht squeeze sorry and without altering the 5 inch squares but just sewing so I'm not sure how well you can see this but there's a little strip in between each Square and then a little tiny square at each intersection so the strip in between is the setting and the little square in between is the session posts so and I often put the posts in because it helps keep everything lined up and it's easier to put together at the end so I'll just show you how I do this there's a couple of different ways you can just join a whole little road strip some little squares to go in between and some squares and sashes in a row but I like to attach my settings to my squares or they could be of course piece blocks I would do the same thing for that so because I'm using 5 inch squares I've found that I quite like a one and a half inch finished plant session strip so I'm going to cut my strip so I'm going to session more squares today with some white February my sample or my pattern is very dark but I'm going to do something a little bit lighter and brighter this time so I'm going to cut my using my board to help me mark help me line up my ruler I'm going to cut my session pieces now I've cut my strip off the fabric already that's 2 inches wide because I want it to finish at one and a half inches so I'm just going to trim off the end I've got it folded over in half so it's double drew just trim off the end and then I'm going to come along 5 inches using the markings on my board and I'm going to cut now there'll be five entries because my squares are 5 inches so they need to be the same size as your square so or if you're using a piece block whatever it is in there so I would come along and just cut this whole strip into 5 inch by 2 inch strips so that they're ready to use and I would need of course a few more and work out how many strips I need before I started and then my session posts that's the little squares that go in between where these intersect I'm using this green for and because we've cut the session strips two inches wide we're going to cut the little squares to inches square so I've cut my strip of green it's already two inches wide and again it's folded over it's double and I'm going to cut using the book the board for the help me with the measurements I'm just going to cut along every two inches so that I get my squares ready so I think you've got a hang of that now so those are my little squares and those are my sessions so I'll just quickly run through what I do next and so first of all I've got all my my pile of squares and another head done summer head so I'll show you those but I'll just work on the square here so you can see what I do so I've got my square and my piece of session and I usually work to a system I usually put the session strip on the left-hand side of my block and I'm going to do this onto all of my squares or if they were blocks so I'm going to sew that with a quarter inch seam down one side which will end up being the left-hand side as I put it so just my quarter inch seam and generally I would be doing quite a few but I'm just going to work on one to show you but I would just train piece those through because it's the same it's the same thing for all of the squares now so I'm just going to press that seam so I have them all joined on and then I could take them all to the iron and I could press them and because I'm working with wise I want to press that cent in towards the color so that it's least obvious there will be occasions when you can't help having the seen showing under the white but overall it won't be a problem so I've got my session strip on one side on my left and I would do that as I said with all of my squares so I've just prepared a few ahead here so this would all be done and when you lay them together you can see that you've got this nice strip in between now you could join all these up into a row and then you have to make a narrow strip and I don't really want to do that I'm going to now attach to all of the rest of my session strips which I'll have worked out how many I need I'm going to attach one of my session posts to one end of each of those now so first of all you don't attach your post you put them onto your bigger square then you attach your posts to all the rest of the strips just to one end so we'll just do a couple of these same thing I would train pcs through just your quarter inch seam allowance and continuing on with those and I would press those and again I'll press them into the same into the color because it's a nicer way to do it and it also will allow the seams to just sit snugly together when you come to put the next bit on so just press that seam just into the color okay so what I would do now is I would attach one of those strips to the bottom side so I've already got my strip on the left-hand side of my square and now I'm going to attach one one of these strips with the put setting post onto the bottom there and you'll see because you press those seams both into the color that that seam will just snuggly back together so I'm just going to sew that now with my quarter inch seam allowance so this is quite a fun way to use up some of these and delightful squeeze sometimes you don't want to cut them up they're too nice it also makes a fairly quick quilt if you're looking a court fairly quickly as sometimes we do okay so now over touched that on to there and I'll just take that to the iron and again I'm going to press it mostly towards the color at this stage a little bit of the seam will be under the white but that just can't be hoped so I've done all my squares with one strip on them and then I'm going to put this next strip on the bottom of all my squares so I've just done a few here so you can see how we're coming together now so you can see they're going to get joined together as squares rather than long skinny strips of the session and posts so so continuing on doing all the blocks like that and but we still when we when we've drawn them all up for a quote we're still going to find that we've got to join on some say around the outside that's because I have cecht completely around all the squares rather than leaving the outside without stashing so having got all our squares in this form where we've got the session on two sides of one post I will now come along and for all the ones that are up the side of my quilt I'll be putting another setting and post onto the side so leaving the top row will do those ones in a minute so coming up the side row will pop this one on here I hope this is all making sense it's really quite straightforward when you go to do it and I found it just makes it much easier than having to join up lots of rows of skinny bits so I'm just going to press another one ok so now we've got all these ones and I've just done some ahead again so that you can see coming up the side here you can see now that that's becoming quite complete in the way it looks by bringing those that's on the edge there and it's just all joins up nicely then we've still got the top row so the top row is very much like the side row you're going to be joining another another patch on one of this we better come this way a little bit all right bring all these down so to go along the top edge now because we've worked out how to do this we're going to join another one of our strips along the top of each block and so so you're getting the hang of it now so we've got the three sides on so the side blocks and the top blocks actually look the same as if you've got a one-way fabric you might want to keep an eye on which way they're going but otherwise that's the same process so we've started off doing just the one side then we put the two sides on now we've got three sides on just for the top and the side not for the majority of the blocks most of your blocks in there you won't be doing that too now we then got one small problem at the end we've got to work out how to get this last square on the end so one one piece of your session so you've done them all this way with one post on the very last one has a post on both ends so we'll pop one on the end here and that just finishes off that last corner it's seeming towards the color and that's going to go on on the last square so the look very nice block I've done my got my session ready with the post on the end so this is the very last book it's going to be the last one in the top corner but it needs to have a little session post up here so I'm going to show that last one on so this is the only block that has the only square that has the session all the way around it is the very last one that you put in so just press that and then you'd be ready to join up your rows of them all your squares so you can see when you when you place that one in there that just completes it now presumably you would mob quite likely you would have more squares it would be a bit bigger quilt but we started off we just put the strip on the one side then we put the post onto the strip like this and then we pop that onto the bottom side so I work on the left side then coming along and doing along the bottom side and then for the for the side row we put one up the other side and for the top row we've placed one along the top and the very last square we've got one on that side and there but we've got the extra square sewn onto the session there so and then then they're quite manageable now you can just join up your rows of squares rather than having these long skinny strips to place between rows which I've always found quite to manage and by popping the session post in you get all your corners nice and everything matches and if you don't pop put the post in and you just have really long strips there's the opportunity for things to maneuver a bit and they things won't be lined up in just the same way and of course quite possible but this is just a fun way of doing it sometimes when I don't want to another color I'm in the posts I might even still put the session post in but in the same fabric as my session so it won't really show when it's all quilted and everything but it just helps me keep everything lined up which I quite like to do and so I've had made a quilt and or a couple of cuts using this method so I thought I might quickly show you those so I have made a quilt from this pattern that I showed you when it's just here behind me then these are obviously much darker colors but still quite delightful and it's just the five inch squares done with the session just the way I've shown you and then I've got another quilt the same at a much much larger quilt and and then all in delicious blues so you can get an idea of just using one color but variations of it and all the Cession of the border are the same and this time with a little flashing post so I have used a little stripe and I've used it on the binding as well and so I have kept my stripe that's ready a little stripe that's in those posts all going the same way so that would be just something to keep an eye out for if you were using one way fabric in there somewhere so hopefully that will help somebody use up some of their five inch squares and or maybe you don't need to use them up you just want to use them so the great idea for a quick session and a delightful quilt at the end thank you

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Length: 14min 43sec (883 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 22 2013