What is “sashing”?

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In many quilt designs, you will see the word “sashing”. What is that?

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What is "sashing" in a quilt?

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“Sashing” refers to strips of fabric that are used between the blocks.

This can be added for design reasons – it gives a break for your eyes and helps define the blocks or it can be added simply to make the quit bigger.

Learn more about sashing in these other tutorials.

How to choose fabric for sashing

Learn how to choose the best fabric to use in sashing.

How to add sashing

See how to add sashing to your quilt.

Quilts with sashing

Not all quilts have sashing, but here are some samples that do. Click the links for more details about these projects.

nine patch sampler quilt in fall colours.

Fall Nine Patch Sampler quilt

Twinkle Sampler Quilt with yellow background and pink and green stars.

Yellow Twinkle Sampler quilt

pojagi inspiration quilt outside.

Pojagi Inspriation in Blues

More Quilting Tips

See more quilting hacks and quick answers to your questions HERE.

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Elizabeth DeCroos is the designer and teacher at Epida Studio. She loves to work with quilting, pojagi and embroidery and teach those techniques to others. Take a class today or get her to visit your group.

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