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1. Adding Sashing to Your Quilt
   When you are new to quilting, it is easy to confuse the terms border and sashing. After all, both have a similar purpose. The easiest way to remember the difference is that the border goes around an entire quilt. Sashing creates borders between the individual quilt blocks. This hear ...
2. Add Interest to your Quilt with Simple Sashing
   Your blocks can range from the very simple to the very complex, and they still might benefit from sashing. Sashing is what goes between the blocks in a quilt. Like quilt blocks, sashing can be very simple or it can be as complex as your quilt blocks. And some quilts have no sashing at all. ...
3. What are some sashing styles I can add to a quilt?
   Now You Can Travel and Not Give Up Any Quilting Time Have you ever taken a long car trip, gone on a cruise, or had a bunch of appointments and wished that you had a portable quilting project? Now you can learn how to make a quilt one block at a time while you are traveling, waiting, or just ...
4. How to use Sashing and Cornerstones with Blocks on Point
   Robin's Nest DVD See first-hand the secrets for sewing perfect points on your triangles, adding sashing between the blocks, and my secret for sewing a hanging sleeve that nobody will see (except the person who is hanging the quilt!). This 9 patch block is an origin ...
5. What is sashing with cornerstones?
   Add Sashing to Your Quilt See first-hand the secrets for adding perfect sashing with cornerstones between the blocks, and my secret for sewing a hanging sleeve that nobody will see (except the person who is hanging the quilt!). This 9 patch block is an original design. Read more. . . ...
6. How do I add cornerstones to the sashing in my quilt when my blocks are "on point?"
   Setting your blocks on point and then putting sashing with cornerstones can make a simple quilt design more interesting. In the quilt below, the hearts were sewn onto squares of fabric "on point." That means that the points of the square are on the top, bottom and sides, forming a somewhat diamo ...
7. How can I add sashing using silk ties or using a crazy quilt type of design?
   In the late 1880s and early 1900s, quilters got creatively crazy and began using a variety of different fabric types. Where traditional patchwork quilters had been using cotton and wool for their patchwork, some of the more bold quilters began using fabric such as velvet and silk in their quilts ...
8. How would I make sashing so it looks like stripes in between the blocks in my quilt?
   Your blocks can range from the very simple to the very complex, and they will still benefit from sashing. Sashing is what goes between the blocks in a quilt. Like quilt blocks, sashing can be very simple or it can be as complex as your quilt blocks. And some quilts have no sashing at all. Sashin ...
9. Add Interest to your Quilt with Simple Sashing
   Your blocks can range from the very simple to the very complex, and they will still benefit from sashing. Sashing is what goes between the blocks in a quilt. Like quilt blocks, sashing can be very simple or it can be as complex as your quilt blocks. And some quilts have no sashing at all. In thi ...
10. What are Cornerstones in sashing?
    Simple Sashing with Cornerstones Adds Interest Your blocks can range from the very simple to the very complex, and they will still benefit from sashing. Sashing is what goes between the blocks in a quilt. Like quilt blocks, sashing can be very simple or it can be as complex as your quilt blocks ...