Sashing and Borders
brings your Quilt together
December 22nd...
Now for the Lattice or Sashing and borders.
I cut 3 strips of my black fabric 3 1/2" wide by the width of the fabric. Then I cut those strips into 3 1/2" by 14 1/2" for the horizontal rows of lattice.
Next I cut two strips of checkerboard 3 1/2" wide. From that I cut 20 checkerboard setting squares.
Using 4 checkerboard squares and three black strips, I made the horizontal row of lattice. I needed 5 of these rows in total.
Next I need to add the 16 1/2" black sashing strips to my blocks. I will need four for each row, or a total of 16 strips for this section.Once my sashing strips are attached to the blocks, I sew the blocks into a row. Then I sew together the next three rows.
A picture of the t-shirt quilt without borders....
Now to create the borders...
I cut my borders 6" wide, across the width of the fabric. This means I have to join the strips to make them longer. You can do this with a straight seam, or you can make a diagonal or bias seam. I chose the bias seam method.
By overlapping the two strips at right angles, I can draw a line from corner to corner to guide my sewing. After I sew the line, then I cut away the excess fabric, leaving about 1/4" seam allowance
Cutting away the excess fabric.......
In order to keep the quilt square, I measure through the center of the quilt to find out the length to cut my borders. The length of the two side borders should be exactly the same length as the quilt so far.
After I cut the borders, then I place a pin at the center of the border and the quilt, and pin them together. Then I pin the ends, and add a couple of pins in between and sew it all.
Do the same for the top and bottom borders. I measured through the center of the quilt to determine how long to cut my borders. Then pinned them and sewed them the same as above.
Because this quilt was getting so long, I made the top border narrower than the others.
Tadaaaaaa.......here is the finished quilt top! with the sashing and borders in place.
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