EQ8 Tutorial Tuesday- sashing blocks

I’ve been doing these tutorials for so long that sometimes it’s hard to come up with ideas, sometimes I get inspired, sometimes it’s because someone emailed me and asked about something, this time it’s from the EQ Facebook group, a question was asked about how to add blocks to the sashing, and I don’t know if this will answer it, but it’s just fun

Here I have a chunky pinwheel layout with 9” blocks in a 4×6 layout

under the layout tab it’s easy to add sashing and chose if you want the sashing to be equal and if you want it to include the border too, here I chose a 3” sashing with border option

I just colored bold to show everything better

Now in the block library I usually stick with some of the top options and never go much further, but at the bottom in section 9 and 10 are border and sashing blocks

one fun section is the flying geese

I added a few different ones into the sketchbook

and stripes

Striped may look “boring” but here I saved the one with 3 stripes and one with 6 and 9, since the sashing is 3” x 9”, the math just works well with that

I put the 3 stripes block into the sashing and then found out that my block didn’t look good with it, so I changed to a simple nine patch

here’s the 6 stripes in the sashing

Now if I made the sashing wider to 6” look what it looks like now

look what a flying geese block looks like

and with some borders and other fabrics, it’s a cute layout

Now I think the FB question was to about adding a block in the middle of the sashing, so how about modifying the 3 striped block, here I changed it to the dimensions it’s going to be in the quilt, so I think 3” x 9” is better

and then how about I just add a little X block in the middle

now it looks like a little bowtie

and in the block it looks like a fun layout, creates a secondary layout

after coloring that and removing the drawing lines, it looks fun!

a bit smaller is easier to see

Now if you want to have some fun, try the serendipity tool!

in the block worktable

go to block, serendipity and merge blocks

and the blocks you have in the sketchbook that can be merged are on the sides, scrolling down a bit I found the 3 stripes blocks and it merged the nine patch first

you can click any part of the middle block and it moves the block over, don’t forget to add to sketchbook

this would be the same block I just created before

It helps to have a lot of simple blocks in the sketchbook and play around with them

here’s the nine patch sashing block in the quilt layout

it’s a mommy and me nine patch! ha ha

sashing blocks and merging in serendipity is fun, hope it helps