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Quilt As You Go – joining the blocks

Today Leanne from she can quilt and Marci from Marci Girl Designs are blogging together as a guest post on Lily's Quilts. All the pictures in this post were taken by Marci and you can view them on her flickr page here.

ET phone home - the quilt block template

You remember this block? It is 12" square finished and is foundation paper pieced in 8 templates which are sewn into pairs then those pairs sewn into pairs then the two halves sewn together to make one block. If you make this block, I'd love to see it in my Flickr group.

Well here is the template. It is printable onto A4 paper. Anyone with US letter size paper, let me know if it prints to size or if I need to make a US letter paper version. To access the template, click through to the google docs hosted version. Set your printer so it does not scale. I set mine to "A4 borderless", print and check that the triangle on the left is 6" tall. And thank you to Sandi from piecemeal quilts who very kindly stopped to explain that for those who need to print it on US 8 1/2" x 11" paper, you can download the file (click File and then Download) to save it on your computer, then open the file. This way you're looking at it in Adobe Reader where you hav…

Quilt Math 2 - calculating sashing

And now the second post in the Quilt Math series. Calculating sashing. How much fabric do you need to sash your quilt? Before we get started, here's a button for your blogposts or sidebar.
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I am going to show you the process of calculating sashing on a simple quilt and you can use the same process for any quilt. I should say that I always use WOF strips for sashing and do not cut strips from the length of the fabric. Some quilters prefer to use the length of the fabric for the final sashing on a quilt as it is less stretchy and so less likely to become flappy. But my calculations are all based on sashing u…

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