Keep Blocks Perfectly Aligned When Attaching Sashing
| July 13, 2017 | Quilting How-To
No More Wonky Tops with Misaligned Blocks!
It can be a challenge when putting a quilt together to attach long strips of sashing. While it’s easy stitching, the challenge comes with keeping the blocks, and connecting sashing strips, aligned with each other. If they’re off, by even a quarter inch, the whole quilt seems a bit off.
In the following video from QNNtv you’ll learn a handy trick for making sure all the blocks are perfectly aligned with each other.
It will take a bit longer than just sitting down and sewing but the results are worth it. Each block will line up perfectly with those next to it, as will the sashing strips between blocks in each row.
Click here to watch the video at YouTube if it doesn’t play on your device.
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Good tip looks easy to do
Cool idea. What if you just sewed the strip to one set of blocks, then marked it, using the blocks as your guide? Instead of sewing a long strip in between, I actually piece my sashing strip in as a border around the block. That way I have the seam to match up points to. Course if you don’t want seam lines in your sashing strips, you wouldn’t want to do it this way.
This is a good tip as long as everything is squared up nicely, the fabric does not stretch, etc. It’s not alway a perfect world in Quilt Land – the next row of blocks may be just a bit off. But, all in all, it’s not a bad tip. Done this before.
Thank you for the awesome tip, I used it today and my blocks are lined up perfectly!!!