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Thread: Sash Or No Sash?

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    lyric's Avatar lyric is offline Senior Member
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    Default Sash Or No Sash?

    Hello fav quilters!

    Your girl, Lyric, just learned of the D9P quilt. (Don'cha just love the abbreviations? Makes me feel like I know something, LOL). Just when I thought I had a fav quilt pattern I find yet another . . . I think what I am going to do is make a list of quilts I want to tackle to bring some order to myself, geesh. The disappearing nine patch will be at the top for sure. Looks to me like one beautiful quilt may be made from it looking laborious but not being so.

    Okay, so one of the quilts here, the quiltist decided to sash it and folk were commenting on how it made the quilt "pop" and other positive comments. Being new to quilting for some reason additing the sash SEEMS a lot of work (but I'll bet it is not).

    So tell me, how do YOU decide when/if to apply sashes to your quilts?


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    I saw your comment on the other thread today and I can't decide what I like better either! I have done two, both baby quilts and didn't sash. here is one.

    Sash Or No Sash?-mia-4.jpg

    There are so many ways to do the d9p patch that I halt and don't start. lol You might want to join the d9p group to check out what other member have done.
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    I usually do sash but. . . If the blocks are supposed to form a secondary pattern then I don't. The first picture is a Periwinkle quilt that I am working on. The colored pieces form one pattern and the white fabrics form a secondary pattern; in this case an octagon. In the second picture, which is NOT my quilt but I am working on one like it, would lose the look it is going for if the blocks were sashed.
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    oops I thought you were just talking about the d9p. I'm a little tired.

    I love that second quilt! I saved a picture similar that I want to do too

    Sash Or No Sash?-strawberries-go-go-1.jpg

    Sorry to hijack
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    Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Depends on the block.

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    I agree with Auntpiggylpn - sashing depends on the pattern. If sashing is going to break up a pattern that I want to see in a quilt then I don't do it. If sashing helps to emphasize the blocks then I use it. I don't think there are any hard and fast rules. Each quilt is a work of art and each artist can be creative and make the quilt just the way they want to. Good luck - please post pictures of your quilt - we'd love to see it.
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    It really does depend on the block and the quilt. The X & O quilt didn't need it and would break up the intended pattern, yet the circle quilt looked better sashed, IMO.
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    Sometimes, (most always IMHO), the pic needs a frame!
    Especially, with a busy block like a DP9!
    But, then again, I'm newish....
    I really need to get off the exclamation point.
    It may give people the idea that I'm bright and cheerful all the time....

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    I am like the others, it depends on the block….. some block have really cool secondary patterns that come out once they are together and sometimes I like to do sashing because it makes the blocks show up.

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    I like them either way.....have not decided yet whether or not I will sash the one I've been working on. If I want it larger, I might.
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